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College Relations helps create productive, engaging, and even inspiring connections among ag-related businesses and organizations and our faculty, staff, and students. We convene around important topics, advocate for the college’s research and extension efforts, and create shared knowledge about college programs, activities, and opportunities.

College News

March 14, 2025

Virtual lecture to explore the importance of maintaining healthy ecosystems

Erika Ganda, an assistant professor in Penn State’s Department of Animal Science, will shed light on the essential role microbes play in maintaining healthy ecosystems and ensuring food safety in the next Virtual Speaker Series from the Penn State Alumni Association on March 25.

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March 13, 2025

Threatened by warming waters, brook trout may be able to adapt to hotter weather

Brook trout may have a genetic trick up their scales when it comes to adapting, with limitations, to heatwaves that threaten their existence. A novel study led by researchers at Penn State suggests that brook trout — an iconic coldwater fish species native to streams and lakes in the eastern United States and Canada — are capable of mounting a protective genetic response to thermal stress that can be passed on from one generation to the next. 

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March 12, 2025

Master Watershed Steward Dean Neely takes a hands-on approach to conservation

For Dean Neely, preserving Pennsylvania waters, forests and lands for future generations is a priority. He has completed more than 1,000 volunteer hours as a Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward, removing invasive plants, planting riparian buffers, maintaining trails and monitoring streams.

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March 10, 2025

Analyzing genetic ‘signatures’ may give insight into what stresses wild bees

A new method of examining gene expression patterns called landscape transcriptomics may help pinpoint what causes bumble bees stress and could eventually give insight into why bee populations are declining overall, according to a study led by researchers at Penn State.

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