Recent News

July 11, 2024

Food Science/Horticulture 499: Comparing the Science and Business of Wine in the U.S. and Italy, was held in the spring semester and led by Ryan Elias, professor and associate head of food science; Kathy Kelley, professor of horticultural marketing and business management; and Michela Centinari, associate professor of viticulture. The curriculum covered topics such as grapevine physiology, vineyard management, wine chemistry and production, Italian wine styles, and consumer interactions with wine.

July 9, 2024

The U.S. Department of State has commended the Ag Sciences Global office in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences for its exceptional commitment to organizing the 2024 Gilman Global Food Security Seminar Series. This recognition underscores the college’s dedication in successfully coordinating a virtual speaker series this past spring and an in-person meeting — the Gilman Foreign Policy in Focus: Global Food Security Seminar — in early June in Washington, D.C. These events provided a platform for meaningful discussions and knowledge sharing.

July 9, 2024

A team led by researchers at Penn State has created a genetic information resource to help plant breeders develop resistant strains of cacao that can be grown sustainably in its native Amazon and elsewhere, such as the tropical latitudes of Central and South America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia.

July 9, 2024

Growing up in a small village in Nepal, a country in South Asia, Dibyajoti Burlakoti vividly remembers her family’s financial struggles after a herd of greater one-horned rhinos roamed through her family’s banana farm, consuming and trampling the family’s crop.

July 9, 2024

New research from an international team, including a Penn State researcher, demonstrates — for the first time — the use of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in kissing bugs and opens the door to research on applied strategies for Chagas disease control.

July 9, 2024

Penn State’s Climate Consortium announced the awarded workshops from its Climate Solutions Accelerator program. Eleven Penn State researchers were awarded funding to hold workshops in spring 2024 designed to engage a wide range of participants in creating and deploying climate change solutions.