Stephen Schaeffer's retirement party will be tomorrow, May 10th from 1-3 PM on the 3rd floor Huck bridge! Thank you Steve and enjoy your retirement 🎉 🚲

I am delighted to announce the Center for RNA Molecular Biology symposium at Penn State (May 10). Many great speakers.

Congratulations, Réka Albert, for receiving the Pough University Professorship, the highest honor of Penn State!!!
Needless to say, that is so well deserved!
Networks coming of age!
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With super stars of my department!

From today’s promotion and tenure celebration Penn State BMB with Santhosh Girirajan Moriah Szpara is at BlueSky @szparalab.bsky.social Joyce Jose Emily Weinert #tenure

With Steve Schaeffer. An inspiring teacher and mentor for 36 years at Penn State. Such an honor to have worked with him!

So proud of you Karthik Karthik Ramanadane!

We have four faculty members who were inducted into the Penn State Emeritus Academy this spring. Congratulations to Abhay Ashtekar, James G. Ferry, Ross C. Hardison, and Nicholas Winograd!

Read more about them at buff.ly/3W8BFfi

Two new chapters from my open-access textbook in human population genetics are now online:
- Population structure: I. Ancestry estimation
- Population structure: II. More about admixture
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A huge congratulations to my colleague, Ross Hardison Ross Hardison, on being elected AAAS fellow. Penn State Eberly College of Science Penn State BMB

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Venkatraman Gopalan, professor of materials science and engineering and of physics, led an international team whose research suggests that materials commonly overlooked in computer chip design actually play an important role in information processes.

Read more about this research at buff.ly/3xJEx7S

Tom Stewart, assistant professor of biology, was part of a research team that completed a new reconstruction of the skeleton of Tiktaalik, the 375-million-year-old fossil fish that is one of the closest relatives to limbed vertebrates.

Read more at buff.ly/3U60Xcc

Very sad news. Such a clear thinker. Darwin's Dangerous Idea ranks alongside The Extended Phenotype as essential reading for anyone interested in evolution. And Consciousness Explained remains the most coherent discussion of that topic that I have read.

Link to our latest work mapping genetic modifiers of #Dravet syndrome in #Scn1a KO mice. High priority candidates include Nav2, Ptpn5, Ldha, Dbx1, Prmt3, Slc6a5 and Psd3. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Tracy Langkilde, Verne M. Willaman Dean of our college, was featured by @gamedaycouture1 during Women's History Month! The piece focuses on her history in exploring nature and leading research programs and efforts to increase diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.

Congratulations to Scott Showalter, professor of chemistry and of biochemistry and molecular biology, for being one of only two #PennState faculty members to receive the 2024 Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching!