Materials Panel Missing in Blender

I am trying to add a material, but after selecting the object I want to add the material to (or selecting anything for that matter), and I click on the materials tab in the properties view, nothing is listed. The entire window is completely blank.

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Scroll up. Occasionally, the material panel is scrolled down by default, hiding all the options, as can be seen on the scroll bar in your image.

Full credit to DJK for this; I just put it in answer format.

I found that I changed blender render (drop down at the top of the screen) to Cycles Render and it showed up

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