IN THIS ISSUE

Research Rundown

• Study Shows Sailing Helped Insects Develop Wings for Flight
• Lean Genes Could Help Birds Fly
• Closest Relative of Bizarre Bird Revealed by DNA Research
• New Method for Probing Pulsars
• Hubble Space Telescope Peers Deep into the Heart of the Densest Known Star Cluster
• Astronomy Rocket Experiment Launched from Australian Outback
• Number Theory Counts
• Is Self-Organized Criticality Truly Self-Organized?

• Donner Foundation Gives Grant to Penn State for Science BS/MBA Program
• Pfizer Supports Public Lectures on the Frontiers of Science
• First Balog Faculty Fellow Appointed
• Joanne T. Cahill is New Director of Development and Alumni Relations

Honoris Causa

• Wolszczan Honored by American Astronomical Society
• Henderson Named Sloan Foundation Fellow
• Zhang Receives Dreyfus Award
• Indian Academy of Sciences Awards Honorary Fellowship to Ashtekar
• Rao Honored Worldwide
• Gramila and Pullin Get NSF Early Career Development Awards
• Research Corporation Honors Gramila

• Jay S. Patel

• Alumni Society Board of Directors Named
• Outstanding Science Alumni Award Established
• New Alumni Society Endowment
• National Service Week Set for May 13 to 19
• Lion JobLine: 814-863-JOBS
• Your "OnLion" Connection

• Allen W. Scholl
• John W. Richards
• Levonna Horwin Herzog

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