Upcoming Events

Penn State Extension will offer 29 live webinars during the virtual show, aimed at agricultural producers, families, homeowners, forest landowners and others. Webinars will cover a variety of topics, such as risk management for beginning farmers; ticks, mosquitoes and other disease vectors; solar energy and agriculture; raising poultry; food preservation, food safety and nutrition; water quality, pond management and stormwater management; forest and woodlot management; managing household insect pests; and other subjects.

Masai giraffes live only in Tanzania and Kenya, and their numbers are falling fast. Habitat loss and illegal hunting have caused Masai giraffe numbers to decline over 50% in the last few decades! Our conservation science research is discovering where Masai giraffes are doing well, where they are not, and why, so that giraffes and people can thrive together. We study wild Masai giraffes using each animal’s unique spot pattern as identification along with big data tools to document births, deaths, movements, and behavior of thousands of individual giraffes.

We invite you to join us for the first Penn State Cooking Classic– a series of hour-long programs that aim to bring Penn State alumni together to learn valuable cooking and related life skills by tapping into the talents across our community. Some of the things you can learn are about smoking meats, coffee, healthy foods, specialty chocolate and wine, and more during the programs hosted by various colleges and campuses. In addition to bringing together Penn State alumni, we are also bringing awareness to food insecurity experienced by students across the Penn State system. Whether or not you are able to join us for these unique programs, please consider supporting Penn State students by making a gift to support one of the Penn State food pantries. Every $5 provides 20 or more meals and other necessities (e.g. toiletries, paper products). Donate here. https://give.communityfunded.com/o/annual-giving/i/pennstate-crowdfunding/s/cooking-classic

Fake news can be deadly. During the pandemic, false information about causes, spread, and cures related to COVID-19 have shaped actions, at both individual and institutional levels. In places like India, scores of innocent people have been lynched by vigilante mobs after false rumors of child kidnappings and organ harvesting spread in the form of doctored videos shared via the WhatsApp encrypted message system. Dr. S. Shyam Sundar, with funding from WhatsApp and the National Science Foundation, has been investigating the psychology of our susceptibility to online misinformation and working on solutions to address this scourge of modern media.

We invite you to join us for the first Penn State Cooking Classic– a series of hour-long programs that aim to bring Penn State alumni together to learn valuable cooking and related life skills by tapping into the talents across our community. Some of the things you can learn are about smoking meats, coffee, healthy foods, specialty chocolate and wine, and more during the programs hosted by various colleges and campuses. In addition to bringing together Penn State alumni, we are also bringing awareness to food insecurity experienced by students across the Penn State system. Whether or not you are able to join us for these unique programs, please consider supporting Penn State students by making a gift to support one of the Penn State food pantries. Every $5 provides 20 or more meals and other necessities (e.g. toiletries, paper products). Donate here. https://give.communityfunded.com/o/annual-giving/i/pennstate-crowdfunding/s/cooking-classic

The 2021 Ice Cream 101 course has been postponed due to Covid-19. The next Ice Cream 101 course will be held January 28-30, 2022. Registration will be available in June 2021.

We invite you to join us for the first Penn State Cooking Classic– a series of hour-long programs that aim to bring Penn State alumni together to learn valuable cooking and related life skills by tapping into the talents across our community. Some of the things you can learn are about smoking meats, coffee, healthy foods, specialty chocolate and wine, and more during the programs hosted by various colleges and campuses. In addition to bringing together Penn State alumni, we are also bringing awareness to food insecurity experienced by students across the Penn State system. Whether or not you are able to join us for these unique programs, please consider supporting Penn State students by making a gift to support one of the Penn State food pantries. Every $5 provides 20 or more meals and other necessities (e.g. toiletries, paper products). Donate here. https://give.communityfunded.com/o/annual-giving/i/pennstate-crowdfunding/s/cooking-classic

We invite you to join us for the first Penn State Cooking Classic– a series of hour-long programs that aim to bring Penn State alumni together to learn valuable cooking and related life skills by tapping into the talents across our community. Some of the things you can learn are about smoking meats, coffee, healthy foods, specialty chocolate and wine, and more during the programs hosted by various colleges and campuses. In addition to bringing together Penn State alumni, we are also bringing awareness to food insecurity experienced by students across the Penn State system. Whether or not you are able to join us for these unique programs, please consider supporting Penn State students by making a gift to support one of the Penn State food pantries. Every $5 provides 20 or more meals and other necessities (e.g. toiletries, paper products). Donate here. https://give.communityfunded.com/o/annual-giving/i/pennstate-crowdfunding/s/cooking-classic

The AHR Symposium has been rescheduled to June 19-23, 2022 due to Covid-19. Registration for the 2022 Symposium will be available in November 2021.