Administrator | Penn State Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Maziar Montazerian, assistant research professor of materials science and engineering at Penn State and managing director of the Center for Glass Research, received the Tadashi Kokubo Award at the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) annual meeting held Oct. 4-7, in conjunction with the Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) conference.

Penn State Professor Susan Trolier-McKinstry has been named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania, one of 10 inductees included in the class of 2026. She was recognized by Gov. Josh Shapiro and First Lady Lori Shapiro at the Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania’s annual luncheon held in the Governor's Residence in Harrisburg on Oct. 7.

Yinming Shao, Downsbrough Early Career Professor of Physics at Penn State, will present “Confining light and matter in van der Waals quantum materials” at 3:05 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29, in 10 Sparks Building on the University Park campus.

A group of mining engineering students meeting.

Penn State has received a $1 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a workforce pipeline for the critical minerals and materials used in batteries, magnets and other advanced technologies.

A material thinner than a human hair may foster faster computing devices that demand less energy and store more data, according to a multi-institutional team led by researchers in the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).

Adrianne Rosales, associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, will give the talk “Multiscale control of dynamic covalent hydrogels for bioinspired applications” at 3:05 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, in 10 Sparks Building on the University Park campus.

A new pilot rapid test for syphilis from a team led by Penn State researchers integrates two blood tests into one and detects bacteria at very low levels to detect the disease in its earliest stages.

Penicillin has cured syphilis cases since 1943, but symptoms for the sexually transmitted infection, known as "the great imitator," mimic many other diseases and can come and go without treatment while the infection keeps causing harm. If it remains undetected, it can spread to partners and to babies during pregnancy, causing lifelong effects.

Stephanie Law, associate professor of materials science and engineering and new director of the Two-Dimensional Crystal Consortium-Materials Innovation Platform, in a research laboratory in the Millennium Science Complex.

Stephanie Law, associate professor of materials science and engineering at Penn State, has been named director and principal investigator of the Two-Dimensional Crystal Consortium-Materials Innovation Platform, or 2DCC-MIP, a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported national user facility within Penn State’s Materials Research Institute (MRI).

Tohoku University and Penn State have longstanding partnership spanning nearly four decades.

Three Penn State undergraduate students majoring in material sciences and engineering were selected to participate in the Tohoku University STEM Research Internship Program, known as T-SRIP, located at Tohoku University in Japan. In this six-week program, students gained hands-on experience working in assigned labs based on their preferences. At the conclusion of the program, students compiled the results of their research into a final presentation.