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Nutifafa Doumon and Souk Yoon “John” Kim found that adding a chemical derived from hydrogen and carbon may help organic solar cells become a more viable alternative.

A team led by Penn State researchers reported a novel material made of cheap, commercially available plastics that can handle four times the energy of a typical capacitor at temperatures up to 482 F.

Venkatraman Gopalan, professor of materials science and engineering, has been named a distinguished professors for 2026.

Four doctoral graduate students in Penn State’s Department of Geography will deliver research talks as part of the department’s Graduate Student Coffee Hour series.

 Penn State’s Department of Geography is launching a new major in sustainability, society and environmental geography.

Ann Ehrlich is currently pursuing an Integrated Undergraduate-Graduate (IUG) degree and will graduate from Penn State with her bachelor's degree in geography, a master's degree in spatial data science and a graduate certificate in remote sensing and Earth observation.

Barbara Arnold, chair and professor of practice of mining engineering in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, was elected to National Academy of Engineering.

Gregory Jenkins, professor of meteorology and atmospheric sciences, will give the talks "West Africa poised for late 21st century climate injustice: Modeling increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) and changes in Saharan mineral dust."

 James Sears, an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University, will give the talk, “How Much More Price-Fluid are Utility Customers in the Long-Run? An Application to Urban Water Demand."

William Brune, distinguished professor of meteorology and atmospheric science at Penn State, was awarded the 2026 Warren Washington Research and Leadership Medal.