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An innovative community service-learning course, "Community Engaged Learning with Pennsylvania Farmworkers," offered by Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, brings students of all disciplines together to teach and engage with immigrant farmworkers living in Centre County. Kathleen Sexsmith, assistant professor of rural sociology, and Adrian Barragan, assistant clinical professor of veterinary and biomedical sciences, are co-teaching the course. The three-credit course exposes students to immigration and local agricultural and labor issues through a language partnership with Spanish-speaking immigrants on local dairy farms.

Department of Animal Science students placed second overall at the 67th National Poultry Judging Contest at Louisiana State University.

Animal Science students placed second in national contest for the second straight year. Joshua Cassar was first place overall individual.

Penn State students excel at the 66th National Poultry Judging Contest held at Louisiana State University.

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Emma Rosenthal and Ilsa Huerta, both graduate students in the College of Agricultural Sciences, began working together in 2017 because of a shared realization. Across the state, Penn State has a community of people "engaged with the Latinx community," according to Rosenthal. “What we wanted to do was bring all of these people who were working in all of these different areas together so that we could have some sort of unified goal and make sure that everyone is addressing the Latinx community to the best of their ability," Rosenthal said. After two years, Rosenthal and Huerta have done just that.

Penn State's Poultry Judging team placed fourth overall, second in Egg Production and Quality division and fourth in Broiler Selection and Carcass Quality Division.

A technology patented by a Penn State researcher to enhance the capabilities of the genome-editing tool known as CRISPR/Cas will have potential commercial applications as the result of a recently signed licensing agreement.

4-H is a community of young people across America who are learning leadership, citizenship and life skills.

This unit is one of 40 Fish and Wildlife Research Units associated with land-grant universities across the country. They are cooperative ventures of the U.S. Geological Survey, state natural resource agencies, and the Wildlife Management Institute.

The Pennsylvania School for Excellence in the Agricultural Sciences offers a four-week summer residential program held on University Park campus for academically talented and gifted high school students (rising seniors) from throughout Pennsylvania.

Assists counties with the evacuation and care for animals in emergency situations.

The Timber Show is a great opportunity to learn about the industry and network with forest product companies in the leading hardwood producing state in the nation.

Visit Penn State's performance management website for everything you need to know about participating in the performance management program.

Visit HR Services for step-by-step instructions and a detailed timeline for completing the performance management process.

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today unveiled new data from the 2013-2014 school year showing gaps that still remain too wide in key areas affecting educational equity and opportunity for students, including incidents of discipline, restraint and seclusion, access to courses and programs that lead to college and career readiness, teacher equity, rates of retention, and access to early learning.

The spotted lanternfly is native to China, India, Japan, and Vietnam and has been detected for the first time in the United States in northeastern Berks County, Pennsylvania.

“Conserving nature and fighting cancer are two big reasons I’m in Pharmacology and Toxicology.” – Tricia Hojnowski

Research Team: DeShawn Douglas, Joshanae Montgomery, Keyana Thomas, Ceyana Thomas, Kevin Johnson, Starsheya Taylor, Kim Bryan

Research Team: DeShawn Douglas, Joshanae Montgomery, Keyana Thomas, Ceyana Thomas, Kevin Johnson, Starsheya Taylor, Kim Bryan

Phomopsis cane, leaf spot, and fruit rot are widely distributed in vineyards. The disease can weaken vines, reduce yields, and lower fruit quality.

The Phytobiomes vision is a​​​n effort to increase interest and funding in phytobiomes research and application of the knowledge to promote food, feed and fiber production.

Team Leader, Associate Professor, Food and Resource Economics; and Center for Latin American Studies - Dr. Useche is an applied economist with expertise in international development and sustainable agricultural economics, who has extensive research and field experience in the Latin American region.