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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 23, 2025

The course will take place as a trip to Taiwan from May 14 to June 3, 2026, and is available to students at all Penn State campuses.

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.

December 2, 2025

A Penn State delegation, led by College of Agricultural Sciences Dean Troy Ott, recently took part in high-level meetings and collaborative activities in Kazakhstan — the world's ninth-largest country — to strengthen academic, research, and international partnerships.

November 18, 2025

Penn State undergraduate Emma Chaplin has been named a finalist for a 2026 Rhodes Scholarship, one of the most selective postgraduate awards for U.S. students.

November 18, 2025

Leaders from Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences helped to lead discussions on rebuilding Ukraine's agricultural sector during the 2025 World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue, held October 19-25 in Des Moines, Iowa.

November 11, 2025

Attending the 2025 World Food Forum gave Auja Bywater and Alejandra Armesto-Gomez, graduate students in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, a firsthand look at how the pursuit of sustainable food connects people globally.

October 27, 2025

Brandon Bixler, a 2024 graduate of Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, has launched a new agricultural and environmental sciences program in the Career and Technical Education Department at McCaskey High School in Lancaster.

September 16, 2025

Zinc enrichment and light intensity affect the nutritional composition. The researchers found that high light intensity decreased the production of plant-defense compounds while it increased the production of antioxidants.

September 16, 2025

Study shows plants adapted to farming and irrigation with root changes that helped corn adjust to low nitrogen and deeper water, making them key to the success of its domestication

August 18, 2025

Olivia Murphy-Sweet, of Spokane, Washington, who holds a bachelor’s degree in agricultural and extension education with a minor in international agriculture, is the executive director of Field of Hope, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving agricultural education and building resilience in the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Uganda.

August 6, 2025

Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences and AgroParisTech in France have reaffirmed their long-standing partnership with the virtual signing of a new agreement, expanding opportunities for student research and global engagement in agricultural innovation.

August 6, 2025

Researchers use Penn State's Cycles agroecosystem model to predict how nuclear war ramifications would impact crops; recommend preparing 'agricultural resilience kits'

August 6, 2025

In early June, Bogotá, Colombia, became the center of global páramo research as faculty and students from Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences joined forces with international partners to host the landmark Páramos 2025 Symposium.

August 6, 2025

A faculty member and a graduate student in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences received recognition at the 71st annual North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) conference in Alberta, Canada.

June 4, 2025

Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences was represented on the global stage as faculty and students participated in the United Nations' 10th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals, held at U.N. headquarters in New York City earlier this month.