Recent News

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.