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October 9, 2026

The Penn State Perreault Fellows Program helps Penn State students hone their global leadership perspectives. The centerpiece of this highly competitive program is an international internship. Liam Abbey, a plant sciences major in the College of Agricultural Sciences and one of 2026's Perreault Fellows, spent his summer internship in Sydney, Australia.

October 9, 2026

A team led by a Penn State professor and doctoral student have compiled a checklist documenting the bee species in Colombia — the first of its kind for any country in the Western Hemisphere.

October 6, 2026

Since the 1990s, the Woskob family of State College has supported the college's engagement with Ukraine, most recently through the Woskob New Century Fund. Over the last 12 years, the fund has brought 25 faculty members from Ukraine to University Park.

September 9, 2026

The findings — published in Plant and Soil — may be an early step toward breeding cacao that accumulates less cadmium, according to the collaborators from Penn State and Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria–AGROSAVIA (the Colombian Agricultural Research Corporation).

August 27, 2026

Researchers demonstrate that plants long used by smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to fight the growth of mold in their stored grain actually do have antifungal properties.

July 17, 2026

A longstanding relationship between Pennsylvania and the Baltic nation of Lithuania is expanding through a newly formalized partnership between Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences and Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.

June 17, 2026

Penn State Extension webinars on animal health and dairy production are now available in Ukrainian, opening a new channel for agricultural education in a country where war has made travel and in-person training increasingly difficult.

May 26, 2026

An international project led by a Penn State team is helping to identify how community-based bioeconomies — economic systems that use renewable biological resources like plants and microorganisms to produce food, energy and industrial goods — in the Brazilian Amazon can support forest conservation while increasing income opportunities for the traditional and Indigenous communities that protect and manage these landscapes.

May 26, 2026

Estelle Couradeau, College of Agricultural Sciences, receives NSF's most prestigious award for early-career faculty to uncover the fate of the biocrust microbiome under growing temperature fluctuations

May 26, 2026

Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences welcomed a delegation from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, or FAO, to University Park last week to mark the first anniversary of the World Food Forum Youth Food Lab North America at Penn State partnership and to explore opportunities to deepen collaboration on global agrifood systems, innovation and education.

May 7, 2026

The Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences honored four alumni with 2026 Outstanding Alumni awards in a ceremony on April 15 in State College.

April 23, 2026

The security of every nation faces an increasingly severe and frequent threat: disruptions to nature. According to Bradley J. Cardinale, professor in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management

April 17, 2026

Long before she led reforestation efforts in her native Lebanon, Maya Nehme was a graduate student in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, researching ways to combat invasive species threatening forests.

April 13, 2026

Tara Felix, associate professor of animal science and beef cattle extension specialist, developed the embedded component of ANSC 399: Beef Cattle Production in Brazil in 2025. She said she chose Brazil as the focus because, for the first time in history, Brazil surpassed the United States in pounds of beef production.

April 9, 2026

Alejandra Armesto Gómez, a graduate student in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, received a 2025-26 Ardeth and Norman Frisbey International Student Award at a recent ceremony hosted by Penn State Global. The award honors one undergraduate and one graduate international student for contributions to international understanding through academic, athletic, extracurricular and/or community involvement.

April 9, 2026

Daniel Foster, associate professor in the College of Agricultural Sciences and co-founder of the Global Teach Ag Network, received the Excellence in Global Education Award. This award recognizes innovative teaching pedagogies used by outstanding faculty when teaching global and international content with excellence.

April 3, 2026

On a recent episode of "Growing Impact," Penn State researchers discussed their Institute of Energy and the Environment seed grant project studying groundwater governance in India and the impacts of a large-scale, community-based water management initiative.

March 30, 2026

A group of students from the College of Agricultural Sciences and School of International Affairs (SIA) spent their spring break in Costa Rica, learning about sustainable agricultural production, agroforestry systems, rural development, and Costa Rican history and culture.

March 23, 2026

Penn State Global has announced the 2025-26 recipients of its annual awards that recognize the outstanding contributions of individuals and academic programs at the University that have contributed to advancing its global engagement goals.

March 6, 2026

The inaugural Penn State-Ghana Research Partnerships Seed Grant Program has awarded nine projects that aim to fuel global impact, including crop disease surveillance, removing heavy metals from mining wastewater and understanding multimodal traffic streams.

February 26, 2026

On Valentine's Day, the Palmer Museum of Art became a tasting room and a classroom all at once. "The Art of Chocolate: A Guided Tasting Experience," presented by the Arboretum at Penn State, invited guests to explore chocolate as both science and story, pairing research with sensory discovery and chocolate with cheese.

February 9, 2026

Noel Habashy, associate teaching professor and coordinator of the international agriculture minor in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, was a recipient of the 2025 United States Department of Agriculture Excellence in College and University Teaching in Food and Agricultural Sciences Award in the regional category.

January 30, 2026

Advising, coursework, and an array of minors helped her explore that path, she explained, while the INTAG minor still shapes how she approaches her work.

January 23, 2026

Acknowledging women's vital contributions to food production and stewardship, Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences is joining the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in marking 2026 as the International Year of the Woman Farmer.

January 22, 2026

Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has awarded bridge funding to four faculty members to support research collaborations addressing soil fertility, public health, climate resilience and agricultural trade. The awards, administered through Ag Sciences Global, range from $5,000 to $15,000 and are intended to build bridges and address temporary funding gaps. Projects will run 12 to 24 months and involve partners in Tanzania, Belize, Mexico, India, and the United States.

January 16, 2026

Penn State's global engagement was highlighted through the Global Teach Ag Network (GTAN), which curated a global learning pathway for the more than 1,200 secondary agriculture educators attending NAAE.

January 16, 2026

Attendees identified high-priority action areas for investing in youth empathy work — Penn State, led by Brennan, is very active in this space, one example being the Youth-as-Researchers program — and shared personal experiences about their work with both formal and non-formal empathy education.

January 16, 2026

In early November, Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences and the College of Engineering partnered to host a BUILD Night at the Penn State Learning Factory. Attendees worked in teams to map challenges, brainstorm solutions, and build prototypes to combat food insecurity by reducing post-harvest waste.

January 16, 2026

Penn State graduate student Zilfa Irakoze conducted research on fungal contamination in food crops and sustainable biocontrol strategies during a study abroad trip to the Ivory Coast.

December 15, 2025

Wesley Doll, Grace McCarty, Samantha Angelucci, Keira Mull and Anna Shaffer — all agricultural and extension education majors — participated as part of the Global Orientation to Agricultural Learning (GOALs) program, an initiative of the Global Teach Ag Network.