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12/12/2025
Penn State nuclear engineering professor Stefano Terlizzi was named to the 2025 ANS 40 Under 40 list, recognizing rising leaders shaping the future of nuclear science and technology.
12/10/2025
Camila López Pérez, a doctoral student in nuclear engineering, received the Dr. Robert A. Ellis Fellowship to support her research on improving materials for fusion energy reactors. Her work focuses on advancing lithium coating techniques and testing new plasma-facing materials to help make fusion energy more efficient and sustainable.
12/5/2025
The Penn State Learning Factory will host its biannual end-of-semester showcase for engineering students to present their cornerstone and capstone design projects. The in-person showcase will take place from 1:00-3:00 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 11, at the Bryce Jordan Center, while a virtual showcase will take place on Friday, Dec. 12 through Friday, Dec. 19. Both versions of the event are free and open to the public.
11/21/2025
Dipanjan Pan, Chair of the Nuclear Engineering Graduate Program and Huck Chair Professor at Penn State, has been appointed to a four-year term as a standing member of the NIH Innovations in Nanosystems and Nanotechnology (INN) Study Section, recognizing his national leadership in nanotechnology research. This prestigious role involves reviewing cutting-edge biomedical proposals and shaping the future of nanoscale innovation in medicine.
11/21/2025
Elia Merzari, professor of nuclear engineering, has been appointed to serve as an associate editor for the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer beginning in January 2026. In this role, he will help guide the journal’s review process and contribute to maintaining its high scientific standards.
11/12/2025
Penn State will celebrate its eleventh GivingTuesday on Dec. 2 — and the College of Engineering invites alumni and friends to be a part of the event by making a gift to support engineering student success.
10/29/2025
The same reaction that fuels stars, known as nuclear fusion, could be used to produce a clean, powerful and abundant source of energy, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, which recently awarded $128 million to seven teams researching how to harness the reaction. As part of a project led by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, researchers at Penn State, led by Xing Wang, assistant professor of nuclear engineering and Martin Nieto-Perez, associate teaching professor of nuclear engineering, received more than $1 million to address key challenges in the construction of devices that make nuclear fusion possible.
10/17/2025
Five years ago, the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation established the A. James Clark Scholars Program, a comprehensive scholarship and curricular support program for exceptional Penn State engineering undergraduates who demonstrate financial need. Now, with an additional $11 million investment, the Clark Foundation renewed its support for the program, ensuring that 10 new undergraduate engineering majors at Penn State will receive full tuition, fees, room and board, and curricular enrichment support each year in perpetuity.
10/1/2025
The Penn State Alumni Association celebrated some of its best and brightest during the 2025 Alumni Fellow Awards ceremony on Sept. 17, where 12 Penn State alumni — two of whom are College of Engineering graduates — received the Alumni Association’s most prestigious honor.
8/27/2025
Aiden Ochoa, a nuclear engineering doctoral student at Penn State, has been awarded a prestigious University Nuclear Leadership Program fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy, providing $175,000 over three years to support his graduate studies and research. The fellowship aims to develop future leaders in the nuclear energy sector through advanced research aligned with DOE priorities.
8/26/2025
Elia Merzari, a leading expert in reactor thermal-hydraulics and associate professor at Penn State, has been named associate department head of the university’s nuclear engineering department. In this role, he aims to support faculty, advance research and education and guide strategic growth amid expanding national and global demands for nuclear energy.
7/22/2025
Penn State Professor Dipanjan Pan and his group developed a proof-of-concept device capable of detecting HMGB1, a protein implicated in endometriosis development and progression, in menstrual blood with 500% more sensitivity than existing laboratory approaches.
6/24/2025
Five research teams from Penn State's College of Engineering have been awarded seed grants through the Institute of Energy and the Environment’s 2025 Seed Grant Program to pursue innovative projects in sustainable energy, materials, and infrastructure. These interdisciplinary efforts aim to advance technologies such as CO? recycling, smart windows, and hydrogen storage, while positioning teams for future external funding.
6/9/2025
Nuclear engineering graduate students Carolina da Silva Bourdot Dutra and Logan Hiland were recognized by the American Nuclear Society, with Dutra receiving a Student Section Committee Commendation for her service and Hiland earning Best Graduate Student Presentation in Thermal-Hydraulics. Their awards highlight excellence in leadership and research within the nuclear science community.
6/4/2025
As biomedical challenges grow more complex, Penn State’s Dipanjan Pan is pioneering a multifaceted approach to nanomedicine that spans basic research, clinical translation and entrepreneurial deployment.
5/6/2025
The Penn State College of Engineering has named its student marshals for the spring 2025 commencement ceremony, which will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, May 9, in the Bryce Jordan Center at University Park.
5/1/2025
In the United States, syphilis cases rose by nearly 80% between 2018 and 2023, with 209,253 cases reported in the latest year of data. The infection, which can be transmitted sexually or passed from mother to infant during birth, is curable but only if diagnosed quickly. Left untreated, syphilis can progress from painless lesions to brain and cardiovascular damage. Despite the first recorded outbreak of syphilis occurring more than 500 years ago — with some researchers theorizing that it has plagued humans for thousands of years — there still isn’t a way to quickly and reliably test for active syphilis infection, according to Penn State Professor Dipanjan Pan.
4/24/2025
The Penn State College of Engineering will recognize 21 alumni with the 2025 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award and Early Career Award in a ceremony on April 24 in the new Engineering Collaborative Research and Education (ECoRE) Building.
4/23/2025
The Penn State Learning Factory will host its biannual end-of-semester showcase for engineering students to present their cornerstone and capstone design projects from 1-3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 29, at the Bryce Jordan Center. The?virtual showcase?will take place Wednesday, April 30, through Friday, May 9.
4/1/2025
Six nuclear engineering researchers in the Penn State Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering were recently awarded Nuclear Energy University Program grants from the U.S. Department of Energy.
3/31/2025
A multi-institutional team led by Dipanjan Pan, the Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Chair Professor in Nanomedicine at Penn State, recently received a four-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop the next generation of synthetic blood.
3/27/2025
The Penn State College of Engineering has added 25 faculty members since February 2024. The four tenure-line faculty and 21 professional track faculty represent 10 units and departments.
3/24/2025
The Penn State College of Engineering’s Office of Corporate and Industry Engagement
invites engineering faculty to I-CONNECT: Intellectual Property and Innovation. The event will take place virtually and on campus at 504 Engineering Collaborative Research and Education
Building (ECoRE) from 12:30 – 2 p.m. ET on April 2.
3/10/2025
Kenan Ünlü, director of the Radiation Science and Engineering Center and professor of nuclear engineering, has been named a member of the Laboratory Assessments Board by the National Academy of Sciences for Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Center for Neutron Research.
3/5/2025
A partnership between Penn State and Westinghouse Electric Co., a leading producer of nuclear
technology, was recently featured on several media outlets, including Interesting Engineering, Axios Pittsburgh and World Nuclear News.
3/4/2025
Drawing on strong heritages of innovation to meet the renewed interest in nuclear energy, Penn State and Westinghouse Electric Co. are partnering to unlock the potential of the industry-leading eVinci microreactor by engaging with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to develop a new nuclear research facility at the University Park campus.
1/28/2025
Photon-counting CT scanning is the next-generation of computer tomography diagnostics, providing precise, multi-color imaging to simultaneously track biological processes.
