Recent News

March 17, 2025

Auja Bywater, a doctoral student in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, has been awarded second prize in the Global Challenges University Alliance (GCUA) 2030 research competition for her work titled “Improving Food Safety in Controlled Environment Agriculture Systems.”

February 17, 2025

The Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization, the most prestigious in the field of international education, is awarded to up to five universities per year.

February 17, 2025

Noel Habashy, assistant teaching professor of international agriculture and development at Penn State University Park, recently completed an Experiential Digital Global Engagement (EDGE) project with students from his course, INTAG 100N: Everyone Eats: Hunger, Food Security and Global Agriculture, and partners from Riga Stradiņš University, Latvia.

February 17, 2025

Fish farming is key to food security in Africa; study shows that optimized agricultural resource management helps fish farmers in Zambia

February 17, 2025

Microorganisms collected from the material in which button mushrooms are grown may benefit the development of future fungi crops, according to a study led by researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences and published in the journal Fungal Biology.

January 17, 2025

The Global Teach Ag Network (GTAN) at Penn State has been awarded the Bringing the World to Pennsylvania: K-16 Collaboration Award from the Pennsylvania Council for International Education.

January 17, 2025

PlantVillage, a Penn State-based research lab, is working with smallholder farmers in Africa, Asia and the Americas to adapt to climate-related challenges. To guide its expansion and commercial efforts, PlantVillage participated in the Invent Penn State NSF I-Corps regional short course, which helps researchers start on the path toward commercializing their innovations.

January 5, 2025

As a second-year master’s degree student in rural sociology in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, Zoe Chambliss seeks ways to expand her knowledge in the role of women in agriculture and rural development.

December 20, 2024

In a study recently published in the Journal of Melittology, an international team of researchers looked at the heat tolerance for a variety of species of bees and flies in tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas. Their findings suggest that rising temperatures pose a greater threat to flies than bees, as bees can tolerate much higher temperatures than flies and have a wider habitat range.

December 16, 2024

A team of researchers has found that farm women experience a “triple burden”: simultaneously juggling different roles on- and off-the farm, often handling the invisible labor of caring for their households, children and farms. Their new study, recently published in the Journal of Agromedicine, revealed a significant portion of stressors these women face are mostly invisible, such as the mental load of childcare, researching farm needs, working off the farm, planning meals, organizing medical appointments and more — in short, all of the things needed to make a household and farm run.