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Graduate Assistant Stipend tables with rates for Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 are available in GURU.

The agricultural biosecurity and food defense course work can be completed in just over a year and demonstrates to your employer your commitment to a deeper understanding of the vulnerabilities and protection of our food system. The 12 credits earned with the graduate certificate may be applied to the Master of Professional Studies in Homeland Security Agricultural Biosecurity and Food Defense option.

Provides a broad training in the field of agricultural biosecurity with courses that cover animal and plant health and food defense aspects of agricultural biosecurity.

The Graduate Certificate in Community and Economic Development provides students with curriculum which introduce concepts and practical strategies useful to those new to community and economic development professions, or those who have experience working with community or development related institutions and want to gain additional knowledge and skills. The program also meets the needs of those who are considering a career in community and economic development and want to find out if this profession is right for them.

Builds a basic knowledge of concepts and strategies required for practitioners to address the important issues in community and economic development.

Take a quantitative approach to the monitoring and management of ecosystems by learning how to use statistics, spatial data, and geographic information systems to support decision-making. The credits earned in this program may be applied to the MPS in ecosystem management.

Learn core ecosystem economic concepts and environmental law while you build a foundation in the leadership, conflict management, and communication skills necessary to effectively interact with diverse groups. The credits earned in this program may be applied to the MPS in ecosystem management.

Builds expertise in understanding consumer preferences and linking them to product development with courses that prepare graduates to collect, analyze, and describe product and consumer insights, provide clear recommendations, and help companies position products for market success.

Financial aid and support is available through the University, college, research assistantships, and governmental fellowships.

A research team developing artificial-intelligence-based solutions for diagnosing and managing threats to crop health has received a grant to expand the technology to assist more smallholder farmers around the world.

Provides a wide range of pre-award and post-award services including, but not limited to proposal preparation and submission, subcontracting advice, grant account management, and much more.

Penn State is committed to developing and sustaining a green campus. As such, all new buildings will utilize green technologies and many will have green roofs.

Tyson and the Agricultural Sciences and Industries (ASI) Buildings have greenhouses for use in teaching and research activities. The College of Agricultural Sciences provides these greenhouses and controlled-environment plant growth facilities to researchers and instructors.

2020 Research Innovator Awardee

The tree fruit team works with stakeholder advisors to implement research-based programs to ensure a production-to-consumer system that is environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable.

Bill Lamont, Penn State professor of vegetable crops, offers advice to growers on salvaging produce after the storm.

This guide covers how to identify barriers to STEM, modify STEM activities for students with disabilities and encourage STEM education at home. With support and cultivation of interest from a young age, people with disabilities may be able to benefit from a more fair footing in terms of pursuing a STEM career.

A guide or a publication could be as simple as a pamphlet, or as complex as a several hundred page manual. Guides and publications could be hard copy or digital products.

As the pollination season approaches in Pennsylvania and the Northeast, scientists at Penn State and elsewhere continue to seek answers to the decline of the nation's honeybees and other pollinators, which are critical to the production of $15 billion worth of crops in the United States. To assist in this effort, a major ice cream brand has stepped up to support honeybee research and education in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.

Last year, Penn State and all-natural, superpremium ice cream manufacturer Haagen-Dazs teamed up to investigate Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a mysterious ailment that has decimated honeybee colonies across the United States. This year, Haagen-Dazs has expanded that partnership with a second gift of $125,000 to support ongoing and additional research and educational programs related to honeybees.

Cookbook in English and Spanish containing 5 recipes: English Muffin Veggie Pizza, Fruit Kabobs with Yogurt Dip, Orange Cow, Peter Pumpkin Squares, Roasted Pumpkin Seed Snack Mix. Can be printed in color or black and white, or recipes can be printed out individually.

A Penn State center that helps ensure sound stewardship of privately owned forestland in Pennsylvania will enhance its programming, thanks to a gift from a foundation created by a Penn State alumnus and benefactor. The Hamer Foundation, founded by Donald Hamer, of Bellefonte, has committed $500,000 over five years to support the Center for Private Forests housed in the College of Agricultural Sciences.

Penn State alumnus and fund-raising volunteer Earl K. Harbaugh and his wife, Kay Harbaugh, have given $250,000 to create the Harbaugh Endowment for Entrepreneurship in the College of Agricultural Sciences. The endowment will fund the Harbaugh Entrepreneurship Forum, which will bring successful entrepreneur leaders to the University to meet with students and faculty and to participate in a biannual lecture series focusing on current and future opportunities for national and international economic investment and growth in the food and fiber business sector.

The H.J. Heinz Co. Foundation has given $250,000 to Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences for a state-of-the-art sensory analysis center in the new Food Science Building on the University Park campus. The new center will be named the H.J. Heinz Laboratory for Sensory Evaluation in recognition of the foundation's gift and will provide University scientists and food industry experts with expanded space and upgraded equipment for food preparation, testing and analysis. Sensory analysis uses human senses to measure such food characteristics as taste, texture, smell and appearance consistently in a controlled environment. The information thus collected assists the food industry in addressing consumer demands and introducing new and improved products. The new Food Science Building will replace Borland Laboratory as the home of the Department of Food Science and the Creamery. The building is scheduled to be completed in June.

Penn State has received $50,000 from Delroy and Jacqueline Heiser to establish the Heiser Family Trustee Matching Scholarship in the College of Agricultural Sciences. The Heisers created the scholarship, which will give first preference to undergraduates majoring in horticulture, to honor the memory of Matthew Hill, their grandson.