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Arsenic occurs in groundwater in Pennsylvania from both natural sources and manís activities. It is present naturally in certain rock types that are especially common in the western United States but also occur sporadically in parts of Pennsylvania.

An examination of school district data in the state of California shows the statewide suspension rate for Native American children and youth is more than double the statewide suspension average. A report released this week by the Sacramento Native American Higher Education Collaborative (SNAHEC) and the Community College Equity Assessment Lab (CCEAL) at San Diego State University documents inequities in suspensions and expulsions of Native American students. The California statewide suspension rate for Native Americans in K–12 is 7.2 percent versus the statewide suspension average of 3.5 percent.

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Effective December 31, 2014, the Pennsylvania Child Protective Services Law will require employees who have been identified as authorized adults and have contact with minors in youth programs sponsored by PSU to obtain the following background clearances: 1. Pennsylvania State Police Criminal Background Check (SP4-164) 2. Pennsylvania Child Abuse History Clearance Form (CY-113) 3. Federal (FBI) Fingerprint Criminal Background Check (Criminal History Report) Please note that these clearances are in addition to the standard background check that has already been completed by Penn State. Click the link for instructions on obtaining the required background checks.

Learn more about the integrated work helping Pennsylvanians across the Commonwealth.

Step-by-step assistance in moving your research from the drawing board and laboratory to the marketplace.

Janelle Thompson has found her niche at Penn State with the help of the opportunities she has had through undergraduate research. The junior is majoring in biorenewable systems with a minor in sustainable leadership focusing on environmental justice.

Researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences have developed a robotic mechanism for mushroom picking and trimming and demonstrated its effectiveness for the automated harvesting of button mushrooms.

Coverage of an EFSNE community-based event that took place in Dover, DE on April 5, 2016.

Riparian buffers are one solution for protecting Pennsylvania's waters. This brochure explores the problem, the riparian buffer solution, streambank fencing, fence with vegetation buffers, and the gold bar; forested riparian buffers.

A world-class high-performance computing system for carrying out advanced simulation and statistical modeling, data analysis, data mining, machine learning, and more. (Institute for Computational and Data Sciences)

Professor and Department Head, Food Science

Students in the College of Agricultural Sciences who have a demonstrated financial need are the beneficiaries of a new scholarship endowment created by a Penn State alumnus and his wife. William and Teresa Robinson, of Freeburg, created the William D. and Teresa L. Robinson Trustee Scholarship. First preference for funds will be given to students enrolled in the Poultry and Avian Science minor.

Affiliated with IEE and operating under the College of the Liberal Arts, this multidisciplinary and intercollege institute promotes engaged ethics research, ethical leadership, and literacy within Penn State, and public outreach to address today's moral challenges.

Addresses rural societal organization, including social change, community structure, population, rural community development, the structure of agriculture, natural resources, and the environment.

Students in the College of Agricultural Sciences who have a demonstrated financial need are the beneficiaries of a new scholarship endowment created by two Penn State alumni. With a $50,000 gift, Jay and Joyce Rush created the Jay V. and Joyce H. Rush Family Trustee Scholarship.

This document is intended to facilitate and implement anti-discriminatory practices in an unbiased manner to promote a safer and more inclusive community in the field. We describe the increased risk to researchers (or anyone conducting fieldwork) of at-risk identities, and provide strategies so that researchers, supervisors, and institutions can mitigate such risk. By sharing this document, supervisors and institutions show that they promote diverse and inclusive discussion and engagement in a safe space for all, irrespective of professional status.

Guidance from the Food and Drug Administration for growers, food manufacturers, food warehouse managers and transporters of food products.

A reference center for internal and external users as well as a facility where students, faculty, and external personnel have access to hands-on training in cell cultures, providing direct experience with the technologies and processes used in current, sophi sticated biotechnology settings. (The Huck Institutes)

A new scholarship created by an alumnus of Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences and his partner will benefit students in the college with demonstrated financial need. Mark Saunders and Lynn Walker, of Shelburne, Vt., provided a $50,000 gift to establish the H. Mark Saunders and Lynn M. Walker Trustee Scholarship.

November 24, 2014 Cathy Bowen PhD at Penn State's College of Ag Department of Economics, Sociology and Education shares step to saving for retirement, what we should be doing now to be ready for the future.

University Park, Pa. -- Retired Penn State faculty member Dennis C. Scanlon and his wife, Janet Scanlon, of State College, have given $50,000 to the University to create a Trustee Scholarship for students in the College of Agricultural Sciences who have financial need. First preference for the scholarship, which will be named for the couple in recognition of their generosity, will be given to students majoring in Agricultural and Extension Education.

The Schatz Center's state-of-the-art facilities provide the capacity for high-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing, genotyping, plant tissue culture, and fluorescence microscopy.