Studies the size, composition, and distribution of the population; changes in these characteristics; processes that determine these changes; and their social, economic, and cultural causes and consequences.
This colorized form is a comprehensive list of departmental contacts and budgets. Send revisions to kjc22@psu.edu
Provides deployable field sampling equipment all calibrated and maintained by laboratory personnel and made available for pick up from the Materials Research Laboratory upon request. (Institutes of Energy and the Environment/Energy and Environmental Sustainability Laboratories)
Developing Successful Farmers focuses on starting farming, production, and topics to help make beginning farmers more successful. Join the Penn State Extension New and Beginning Farmer Team for informal educational conversations with educators, industry experts, and Penn State faculty and research. Each week we will cover topics that will help new and beginning farmers become more aware of the resources to assist their journey to enter farming. Guests will provide information within their field of expertise and provide tips to help make your start-up more successful.
A list of food banks across the state. Share with participants who may move to another county after finishing their class series (for example Pyramid Health groups)
Senior Cultural Affairs Specialist at U.S. Embassy, Bogota
Powerpoint slides from intro lesson that walk a participant through filling out the diet recall form. Includes portion sizes. Can be printed out as a self-paced notebook.
USDA Dietary Guidelines tip sheets on various nutrition topics. Due to space, only funding statements have been added. Updated 2019, Will add more as completed. If you do not find the tip sheet you need here, contact the State Office.
Digital Education designs and manages online learning for the College of Ag Sciences, both credit courses for Penn State students and non-credit courses for Extension.
North Carolina Cooperative Extension offers disaster-related information on topics from food safety to animal care.
It is important for caregivers to be attentive and responsive to children during uncertain times and natural disasters.
Fostering diversity has been recognized as a core value of the academic and outreach mission, and a priority of the College. The Diversity Council meets 4-6 times per year and is composed of members representing faculty, staff, administration, extension educators and students.
by Dr. Patreese Ingram
by Dr. Patreese Ingram Completion of this module is equivalent to 5 hours of training for extension educators.
We aspire to give voice to people from the broadest possible array of backgrounds and perspectives.
Programs that develop and encourage entrepreneurship and innovation in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences will receive a boost as a result of a gift from an alumnus of the college and his wife. William and Margaret Donley, of Pittsburgh, targeted their $50,000 gift to an existing endowment that provides programmatic support for the college's Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program.
A Penn State alumnus and his wife have leveraged the Pennsylvania State University Charitable Gift Fund (PSUCGF), a donor-advised fund, to enhance an entrepreneurship faculty member's efforts in the College of Agricultural Sciences. The $200,000 gift from longtime donors and volunteers Earl '61 and Kay Harbaugh will create the Harbaugh Entrepreneurship Scholar to support Dr. Mark Gagnon, whose work includes entrepreneurship research and student entrepreneurship education.
Downy mildew, Plasmopara viticola, can infect berries, leaves and young shoots. It occurs wherever it is wet and warm during the growing season.
This podcast focuses on providing timely commercial tree fruit production advice for beginning industry professionals and seasoned growers. Educators from Penn State Extension and faculty from Penn State University’s horticulture, entomology, and plant pathology departments drop in to give insights and observations about what is going on in the orchards.
The Dry Pilot Plant is designed for processing products in an environment of low relative humidity, with an emphasis on powders and confectionery products.
University Park, Pa. -- Several Penn State academic units will benefit as the result of a gift from the future estate of Penn State alumni Frank J. and Janet Glasgow Dudek. The couple has committed approximately $2.5 million to create endowments in support of scholarships and fellowships, graduate and faculty research, and laboratory enhancements in the College of Agricultural Sciences, the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, the Eberly College of Science, and the Institutes of Energy and the Environment. The endowments will be named for the donors in recognition of their generosity.
This center, housed in the Department of Food Science, holds the largest repository of E. coli strains in the United States, which can be utilized for epidemiological studies, antimicrobial resistance, relatedness between strains, and molecular tracking.
The Center is the largest repository for E. coli strains in America. It holds more than 70,000 strains collected over the last 50 years from animals, humans, birds and environment.
The E. coli Reference Center is the largest repository for E. coli strains in America. It holds more than 70,000 strains collected over the last 50 years from animals, humans, birds and environment.
Affiliated with IEE and operating under the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, this institute brings together scientists from across the University to engage in transdisciplinary research related to our environment and how humans interact within it.
Curriculum for middle school and high school. Approved for SNAP-Ed, but also may be used for EFNEP older youth.
Link to recorded training and update on new Eating for a Better Start (EFABS) pregnancy curriculum. Presented by Mary Ehret and EFABS workgroup on 2-17-21.
Information Technologies
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Information Technologies
Address
401 Ag Administration BuildingState College, PA 16802
- Email agcompsupport@psu.edu
- Office 814-865-1229
- Fax 814-863-2662