November 5, 2025
Siblings and Schreyer Scholar Alumni Anton and Lindsay Aluquin are facing the challenges of medical school together.
November 5, 2025
Starting from a humble interest in gardening and preserving the integrity of a stream on their property, Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward program volunteers Jane and Erich Neal, of Doylestown, have taken that interest and applied it to improving Doylestown’s Central Park.
November 5, 2025
Shotaro Nakamura, an assistant professor of agricultural economics at Penn State, will deliver a free talk titled "Beliefs, Signal Quality, and Information Sources: Experimental Evidence on Air Quality in Pakistan" at noon on Wednesday, Nov. 12, in 157 Hosler Building on the University Park campus. The talk is hosted by the Initiative for Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy.
November 5, 2025
Rural and agricultural community members, Medicare recipients, and health and social service workers interested in understanding changes to health insurance coverage in 2026 are encouraged to attend a Penn State Extension webinar, “Health Insurance Coverage Updates: A Panel Discussion,” from noon to 1 p.m. Dec. 4.
November 5, 2025
Students from Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences participated in the World Food Forum, held Oct. 10-17 at the Food and Agriculture Organization headquarters in Rome, Italy.
November 4, 2025
From sourdough starters to kombucha brews, Penn State’s Fermentation Science Club is giving students across campus a taste of hands-on fermentation.
November 3, 2025
A novel technique developed by researchers at Penn State has revealed that activity matters more than abundancy for which soil microbes can help plants with nutrient uptake and disease resistance.
October 30, 2025
In poultry houses where broiler chickens are grown, feed is delivered through long feed lines, which are mechanized systems that automatically deliver feed from storage silos to feeding pans. Nutrients becoming unevenly distributed can lead to inconsistent feed quality, which can affect bird growth and health. To help the poultry industry determine the extent of this problem, researchers at Penn State conducted a study of how nutrient distribution affects broiler chicken performance, processing yields and bone mineralization.
October 30, 2025
Penn State doctoral candidate Sahil Pawar studies how environmental stressors, primarily salty soil — a problem often overlooked in agriculture — affect the relationships between plants and insects.
October 29, 2025
The Penn State Mont Alto Woodsmen's Team won first place in the 35th Annual John G. Palmer Intercollegiate Woodsmen’s Meet in October.
October 28, 2025
Community development and planning professionals looking for a practical introduction to generative artificial intelligence can attend a Penn State Extension land-use webinar at noon Nov. 19 — regardless of prior experience with AI.
October 27, 2025
Spotted lanternflies may season themselves to the distaste of potential bird predators, according to a new study led by entomologists in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.
October 27, 2025
In the age of social media, the battle against invasive species in nature is increasingly unfolding online. A new study analyzing over 500,000 tweets posted between 2006 and 2021 found that that mammals, especially urban pests like cats, pigs and squirrels, dominated online conversation with aquatic habitats and island ecosystems as frequent backdrops for viral posts.
October 22, 2025
Solving real-world problems with innovative and interdisciplinary plant research is exactly what the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences aims to achieve by introducing a new seminar series: "Plants for the People," beginning this Friday, Oct. 24.
October 22, 2025
Growing winter wheat for both grain and straw production is common in poultry farms in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region, where grain is used for feed and straw is used for animal bedding. Grain yield can be improved by spraying plants with a regulator that halts vertical growth and makes them less prone to falling over, a phenomenon farmers call “lodging” that can greatly reduce grain yields. A team of researchers at Penn State investigated the effect of a growth regulator on straw yield and quality.
October 21, 2025
A free talk by doctoral candidate Tiemeng Ma — “From Local Shocks to Regional Impacts: Economic Consequences of Public Safety Power Shutoffs in California on Western U.S. Residents and Sectors” — is set for Oct. 29. She will discuss her study on electricity shutoffs in California, as well as a framework that captured direct costs and indirect effects.
October 20, 2025
New research shows that veterans’ mental health after leaving the military is shaped by more than just combat, with childhood trauma, deployment experiences and gender all influencing post-9/11 veterans’ well-being, according to a team at Penn State.
October 20, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered precision agriculture tools can help growers better manage their orchards by reducing waste, increasing resilience and helping guide decisions about water use, fertilizer application and pest control, according to researchers at Penn State. However, the team said, not enough agricultural scientists are trained to develop and use these tools in real-world farming situations. An project underway in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences aims to ease that shortage by training three doctoral degree students.
October 20, 2025
Agricultural leadership took the spotlight at the Penn State Ag Council’s fall meeting in State College, where the council honored the recipients of its 2025 Leadership Awards.
October 20, 2025
A researcher at Penn State investigates how online grocery shopping is affecting food choices, household waste and nutritional disparities. In this Q&A, she discussed how online shopping affects what lands in our grocery carts — and what ends up in the landfill.
October 17, 2025
The Center for Faculty Development and Advancement invites program chairs, graduate program chairs, program directors, professors in charge, and others within the Penn State community who carry responsibilities in academic leadership to a session focusing on "Managing Challenges: Addressing Student Concerns," scheduled for Oct 23 from 1 to 2 p.m.
October 17, 2025
Brandon Bixler, a 2024 graduate of Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, has launched a new agricultural and environmental sciences program in the Career and Technical Education Department at McCaskey High School in Lancaster.
October 17, 2025
Four Penn State researchers have been selected as 2025 IEE Fellows for their efforts to significantly advance energy and environmental research.
October 16, 2025
Graduate assistants across multiple Penn State campuses will soon vote in a unionization election, following an order issued by the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board. All students are encouraged to make a thoughtful, informed vote, and can find information on how unionization would affect them at gradfacts.psu.edu.
October 16, 2025
Through a $50,000 gift and the support of her extended family, including her nephew, Joe Walker, Maureen Bail has created the Helen M., Ignatius J., and Joseph A. Bail Scholarship in Forest Ecosystem Management.
October 14, 2025
Penn State University Libraries will observe GIS Day, an annual event celebrating the technology of geographic information systems, on Nov. 17. This year’s activities focus on geospatial presentation, networking opportunities and student engagement through trivia games and résumé reviews.
October 14, 2025
In spring 2026, the College of Agricultural Sciences’ Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering will launch ABSM 497: Conservation Management, a course designed to help students understand natural resource concerns across Pennsylvania’s landscape, with an emphasis on soil and water conservation.
October 13, 2025
In September, turfgrass students from Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to volunteer at the 2025 U.S. Mid-Amateur Golf Championship.
October 10, 2025
Power plants may emit higher amounts of pollution during lapses in federal monitoring and enforcement, such as during a government shutdown, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State.
October 9, 2025
Penn State researchers studying declining populations of sundial lupines in the eastern part of the United States are closer to determining how an understanding of the plant genetics could be used to inform reseeding strategies to help with conservation efforts.
