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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.

June 4, 2025

For 40 years, the international agriculture minor in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has enhanced students' understanding of agriculture on a global scale by exploring diverse countries, addressing real-world issues, and engaging with local communities at home and abroad.

May 14, 2025

Forty members of the Dairy Science Club in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences traveled to the Netherlands during spring break to learn more about global agriculture and explore a new culture.

May 14, 2025

Twelve educators from across the country had the opportunity to explore one technology — artificial intelligence (AI) — during a recent immersive workshop at Penn State University Park.

May 14, 2025

Penn State Global has announced the 2024-25 recipients of its annual awards that recognize the outstanding contributions of individuals and academic programs at Penn State who have contributed to advancing the University's global engagement goals.

April 9, 2025

Eight accomplished young alumni who have made remarkable impacts in their professional fields received the prestigious Alumni Achievement Award during a ceremony held by the Penn State Alumni Association on March 28.

April 9, 2025

While rural areas are more dependent on manufacturing than their urban peers, they are less likely to participate in global markets. Researchers at Penn State have identified several factors that explain why

April 9, 2025

Penn State is one of nine Big Ten schools providing an academic lifeline to scholars in war-torn Ukraine.

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.

December 12, 2024

Penn State tied for No. 2 among 237 ranked universities in the United States in the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability for 2025, released Dec. 10. Internationally, the University rose 18 places in this year’s rankings to tie for No. 19 out of 1,743 participating institutions worldwide. Penn State also ranked at No. 1 among Big Ten institutions and No. 2 among all U.S. public universities.

December 4, 2024

delegation of Penn State faculty and graduate students attended the 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP16) in Cali, Colombia. The delegation, registered as official observers, included Mónica Medina, professor of biology; Siela Maximova, research professor of plant biotechnology and director for Latin America and the Caribbean for Penn State Global; Margarita Lopez-Uribe, associate professor of entomology; Estelle Couradeau, assistant professor of soils and environmental microbiology; Camila Gonzalez Arango, a doctoral student studying agricultural and biological engineering; and Julian Prieto, doctoral student studying education policy and leadership. Medina, who led the delegation, participated in more than a dozen COP16 events, including leading panels on the preservation of coral reefs and associated ecosystems in the International Coral Reef Initiative Pavillion, hosting a public screening of a feature-length documentary on the decline of the world's coral reefs and a follow-up panel discussion, and launching the "SciArtsSymbiosis" initiative, which brought together scientists and artists to work together toward biodiversity conservation.

December 3, 2024

Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences’ Global Teach Ag Network is launching a new program focusing on professional development for teachers in agriculture, thanks to new funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The program — called Educators Empowering Educators, or E3 — will gather master educators from across the nation passionate about expanding global agricultural literacy as framed by USDA’s six Agriculture and Food Research Initiative priority areas: plant health and production and plant products; animal health and production and animal products; food safety, nutrition and health; bioenergy, natural resources and environment; agriculture systems and technology; and agricultural economics and rural communities.

December 3, 2024

In recognition of Penn State’s impactful contributions to cacao and chocolate research — spanning the improvement of the chocolate tree, the social and ecological impacts of cacao cultivation, chocolate manufacturing and marketing, and health benefits — the government of Ecuador presented the University and its College of Agricultural Sciences with a replica of an ancient ceramic vessel.