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Professor and Department Head, Ecosystem Science and Management

Earl Casida, Penn State professor emeritus of microbiology, and his wife, Veronica, of State College, have given $100,000 to establish two scholarships in the College of Agricultural Sciences. The L. Earl and Veronica Casida Scholarship will benefit undergraduates who have outstanding academic achievement or promise. First preference will be given to students majoring in plant pathology. The L. Earl and Veronica Casida Graduate Scholarship in Plant Pathology will benefit academically outstanding graduate students.

Delivers hands-on training in mammalian cell culture to students, faculty, staff, and external personnel, while providing researchers across numerous Penn State disciplines access to a twenty-first-century lab environment. (The Huck Institutes)

Jointly supported by the Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE) and the Huck Institutes, this center brings together expertise in plant biology, genomics, microbiology, chemistry, materials science, chemical engineering, bioengineering, and other fields.

This center of excellence, housed in the Department of Entomology and affiliated with the Huck Institutes, brings together researchers in complementary disciplines to explore the role chemistry plays in predator-prey, parasite-host, herbivore-plant, virus-vector, and intraspecific interactions.

In 2005, Penn State researchers and facilities united as a center of excellence to promote collaborative research and graduate education in chemical and molecular ecology.

This applied research center, housed in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, is dedicated to strengthening local and regional development in Pennsylvania and beyond through timely short reports, economic impact analyses, and series projects.

Penn State's Center for Economic and Community Development helps create new opportunities for people living throughout Pennsylvania.

This center, housed in the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, focuses on molecular nutrition studies, including the development of new nutritional recommendations, dietary intervention, and supplements.

The Center for Green Infrastructure and Stormwater Management is one of two EPA-funded centers in the Chesapeake Bay region conducting research on community-based approaches to stormwater management using green infrastructure.

This interdisciplinary center under the Huck Institutes encompasses expertise across the University in both basic and applied fields to provide insights into how to prevent or reduce infections.

Our work involves evolutionary biology, ecology, parasitology, microbiology, genetics, and immunology.

Housed in the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, this center conducts research to develop practical dairy herd preventive medicine programs, safe and effective animal health products, and improved management techniques for the dairy industry.

The Center for Mastitis Research conducts innovative mastitis research aimed at developing practical dairy herd preventive medicine programs, safe and effective animal health products, and improved management techniques for the dairy industry.

This center, housed under the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences and affiliated with the Huck Institutes, promotes collaborative work to discover mechanisms that contribute to disease and develop novel therapeutic strategies.

Our mission is to promote interdisciplinary research and education in the areas of Immunology and Infectious Diseases.

This interdisciplinary center, housed in the Huck Institutes and also supported in part by the IEE, brings together researchers from across the University to understand toxic effects of compounds at the molecular and biochemical level.

The Center was formed in 1997 to develop and expand programs in toxicology and carcinogenesis at Penn State. Over the past ten years the Center has fostered the development of graduate and undergraduate programs in toxicology.

CNS has taken a complex, multidisciplinary approach to problem solving, developing an innovative, diverse and highly collaborative research team of soil scientists, agronomists, animal scientists, agricultural engineers, watershed managers, resource economists, policy specialists, landscape architects, geospatial analysts, hydrologists, aquatic ecologists, modelers, information technology experts, and community outreach specialists.

This center is formed under the Huck Institutes and supports the integrative studies of parasitic and carnivorous plants at multiple levels of organization: molecular, cellular, genomic, evolutionary, and ecosystems.

This center is housed in the Department of Food Science and focuses on discovering the potential of foods from plants and mushrooms to improve human health, including studying the health benefits of foods for reducing the risk of chronic degenerative diseases and the nutritional and medicinal properties of numerous cultivated mushrooms.

The Center for Pollinator Research is committed to developing and implementing integrative, multidisciplinary approaches to improving pollinator health, conservation, and management for ecosystems services through research, education, outreach and policy.

This center, housed in the Department of Entomology and affiliated with the Huck Institutes and SAFES, develops and implements integrative, multidisciplinary approaches to improving pollinator health, conservation, and management for ecosystem services.

The Center for Pollinator Research at Penn State is committed to developing and implementing integrative, multidisciplinary approaches to improving pollinator health, conservation, and management for ecosystems services through research, education, outreach and policy.

The center focuses on applied research, education and outreach to students, forest landowners, the forest-products industry, loggers, conservation districts, agencies, land trusts, nongovernmental organizations and the public.

Home of "Teach Ag!" at Penn State and housed under the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, this center is committed to a comprehensive program of professional personnel development for career and technical education.

Home of "Teach Ag!" at Penn State, the center is committed to the operation of a comprehensive program of professional personnel development for career and technical education.

Houses a state-of-the art General Electric v|tome|x L300 nano/microCT that offers high-resolution imaging with feature detectability of 1 micron and 1,200millimeter maximum sample height. (Institutes of Energy and the Environment/Energy and Environmental Sustainability Laboratories)

This center, organized under the Huck Institutes, provides a forum for faculty to engage in research on the basic mechanisms involved in normal function of reproductive cells and tissues, as well as regulation of reproductive functions in health and disease.