Eberly Alumna Selected to Receive Alumni Achievement Award

The Alumni Achievement Award recognizes alumni 35 years of age and younger for their extraordinary professional accomplishments. This year, Eberly alumna Leah Liu was one of seven alumni chosen by the Penn State Alumni Association to receive the award.

Leah Liu is currently associate director of target biology at Korro Bio, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she leads a team responsible for applying new genetic technologies for the treatment of liver diseases. Korro Bio uses the cell’s natural RNA editing machinery to correct disease mutations and enhance protein function without permanently altering the genome. Read more.

Alumni Society Board Provides Gift to Chemistry Department

The Alumni Society Board recently voted to give a portion of their endowment funds to the chemistry department for equipment upgrades. The department used the funds to repair an inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES) that had been damaged from a water leak. Read more.

Dean's Climate and Diversity Awards Ceremony

The Dean's Climate and Diversity Awards Ceremony was held on Thursday, January 26, 2023. The ceremony is supported by the Santacroce Family Climate and Diversity Fund in the Eberly College of Science. View all of the photos.

Black History Month Keynote Lecture: "Diversity in STEAM from a Real-Life Guardian of the Galaxy"

Black History Month Distinguished Speaker Moogega Cooper, trailblazing engineer of the famed Mars rover Perseverance mission for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will present “Diversity in STEAM from a Real-Life Guardian of the Galaxy” on at 5:00 p.m. on February 23. Register for this virtual event. 

In celebration of Black History Month, the Eberly College of Science will feature Black in STEM, which is led by the Eberly College of Science Climate and Diversity events subcommittee in collaboration with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Office of Communications, featuring stories from the college’s Black students, faculty, and alumni.

2023 Science-U Registration Opening

Registration for the 2023 Science-U summer camps will open at noon on February 7. Camp offerings and the registration form can be found at 
https://science.psu.edu/outreach/scienceu/2023. 

Please note that camp offerings, as well as dates, times, and costs, are subject to change between now and the start of registration.  

Registration Now Open for ENVISION: STEM Career Day Supporting Young Women

ENVISION: STEM Career Day Supporting Young Women is coming up on February 25, and the Office of Science Outreach would like to make others aware of the opportunities for students (girls and boys) in grades 6–12 to be on campus for the day, gaining knowledge and experience about the research being done at Penn State.

Information for this event is at bit.ly/ENVISION2023 and participant registration is open as of January 24.

If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Carol-Beth Book or Tim Gleason in the Office of Science Outreach.

Call for Signatures: Advocate Penn State Petition

If you have not yet signed the Advocate Penn State petition calling for increased support of Penn State’s 2023–24 state appropriations request, I encourage you to take a moment right now to do so. Your voice matters!

Penn State’s appropriations request to the Commonwealth this year is historic, and should we be successful in securing greater funding from the state, the impact on our budget could be transformational for the university and our students. But for us to be successful in Harrisburg, it will require a strong effort on behalf of all Penn State stakeholders to show that our students, faculty and staff, families, and the Penn State community at large are engaged in this issue and willing to speak up for Penn State.

The Pennsylvania General Assembly will not easily be swayed, but Penn Staters have the passion and the ability to make our voices heard if we “Raise the Song” in unison. This petition is Penn State’s first advocacy engagement with more than 50 new members in the House and Senate, along with a new governor’s administration.

More than 5,600 proud Penn Staters have signed to show support. Don’t be left out! Please add your name now.