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Kevin Luhman is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics from Pennsylvania State University who discovered both the third-closest stellar system, Luhman 16, [1] and the fourth-closest stellar system, WISE 0855−0714, [2] to the Sun.
The Black Moshannon Observatory (BMO) was an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Pennsylvania State University. Established in 1972, it was located in the central part of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania in Black Moshannon State Park, approximately 17 kilometers (11 miles) northwest of State College. [1]
The Summer Science Program (SSP) is an academic summer program where high school students experience college-level education and do research in celestial mechanics by studying the orbits of asteroids, biochemistry by studying the kinetic properties of enzymes, genomics by studying antibiotic resistance, or synthetic chemistry by studying macrocyclic catalysts.
Jason Thomas Wright is an American astronomer. He is a professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics in the Eberly College of Science at Pennsylvania State University, where he also serves as director of the Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center.
That shortfall is partly why Penn State’s board of trustees approved varying tuition increases for the 2022-2023 academic year, 5% for the average in-state University Park undergrad and 6% for ...
In January 2016, she started working as an assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University. [4] She was named the Shaffer Career Development Professor in Science in October 2020 [5] and was promoted to the rank of associate professor in July 2021. [6] She left Penn State for NASA in 2024. [7]
Jane C. Charlton, professor of astronomy and astrophysics; Dennis S. Charney, Dean of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City; Bin Chen, Material scientist at NASA Ames Research Center; John Call Cook, played a crucial role in establishing the field of ground-penetrating radar; [57] received the first PhD in geophysics at Penn State in 1951
He subsequently moved to the United States, where he earned a doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Florida in 2006. Mahadevan remained at the University of Florida until 2009 for postdoctoral research purposes, then joined the Pennsylvania State University faculty in 2009. In 2023, Penn State named Mahadevan the Verne M. Willaman ...