Winter/Spring 2023

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Ruairidh Sawers, assistant professor of plant abiotic stress

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Liana Burghardt, assistant professor of plant science

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Nanopore Sequencer

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Kevin Hockett, assistant professor of microbial ecology and Lloyd Huck Early Career Professor

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E. coli in an agar plate

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Predictably Unpredictable

Building resilient crops for a changing world

A Passion for Plants

Cultivating the future of plant science

A Force of Nature

Ag Sciences leads the new Center for Plant Excellence

Shaping the Future of Agriculture

New Dean's Leadership Council to help guide future in the College of Ag Sciences

The Interview

The Interview: Sam Gruneberg

As greenhouse manager for the Mendel's Way plant research facility located near Bellefonte, Sam Gruneberg helps create a space where research can grow into real solutions for today's agricultural challenges.

The Last Word

Innovation to Application

Lancaster County center eases technology adoption

Snapshot

The First Degrees

Against a backdrop of fall color, a campus sign commemorates Penn State's roots—chartered in 1855 as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania and, by 1861, the first university in the nation to award baccalaureate degrees in agriculture.