What is Mole Day? 🧪
Scott Showalter, assistant dean for graduate and postdoctoral affairs and professor of chemistry, explains how we can use Avogadro's Number (6.02 x 10²³) to measure molecules in a liquid.
#PennStateChemistry@psu_chemistry
Geneticist and @PSUScience professor of biochemistry and molecular biology @girirajan16 explains nonverbal learning disability, or NVLD. Thank you, Santhosh, for sharing your expertise. #PennStateBMB
Almost 3 million children and adolescents in North America have the learning disability NVLD. It affects spatial-visual skills and has nothing to do with speaking abilities. https://t.co/NS6BwcfRWX
The tailgate will be held on Friday, Sept. 6 from 5 to 7 p.m. in front of the Millennium Science Complex, rain or shine.
Registration is open until Wednesday, Sept. 4 at https://t.co/1gVUGjiQ6G
Looking good, Benkovic Building 🤩
The new sign has arrived and is on display! We are so proud to have the Chemistry Building now be named the Benkovic Building to honor renowned chemist Stephen Benkovic and his wife.
Be sure to check it out next time you're on campus!
I was so excited to hear @PSUScience alumna @alastanford on @nprfreshair this afternoon WHILE driving to pick up her new book, “Take Care of Them Like My Own.” What an inspiration & true leader. I can’t wait to dive into this book! Check out her interview: https://t.co/WDj3OIfylA
This is going to be my favorite story of the Olympics.
They keep this Penn State engineer in the back until the very end when he comes out, measures and adjusts the pommels, takes off his black-framed glasses and then squinting, brings home the spot on the podium. Magical.
“Last year was incredibly off the charts in terms of wildfires,” said Miriam Freedman (@miriam_freedman), @PSUScience professor of @psu_chemistry and @PSUEMS. “I was really amazed to see the mountains around State College disappear.”
Read more in today's @PittburghPG article:
Julia Kregenow, teaching professor of astronomy and astrophysics, is here to debunk some misconceptions about astronomy, such as: there isn't gravity in space.
It's #InternationalAstronomyDay, so what better way to celebrate than to share why these misconceptions aren't true?
Congratulations once again to @janerrigby for receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom!
When Rigby returned to her alma mater, we had the opportunity to sit down and talk about her time at #PennState, her path to NASA, and her work with the James Webb Space Telescope.