April 15, 2022
A Penn State Extension webinar will focus on current issues affecting farmland preservation efforts in Pennsylvania’s agricultural communities. The 90-minute webinar will take place at noon April 28.
April 15, 2022
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.
April 14, 2022
A Penn State plant scientist has received a $650,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to lead a team studying how changes in temperature associated with climate change affect the establishment, persistence and performance of perennial forage crops and their associated weedy plant communities in the U.S. Northeast.
April 14, 2022
The 2022 Undergraduate Exhibition for Research, Inquiry, and Creative Activity earlier this month featured the hard work of 282 undergraduate researchers from across Penn State.
April 13, 2022
After being introduced to the national Cultivating Change Foundation, Penn State alumnus and supporter Jeff Conrad offered the University’s chapter, Students for Cultivating Change in the College of Agricultural Sciences, an opportunity not only to develop valuable professional skills but also secure a $10,000 gift to support their goals.
April 13, 2022
Dan Sanchez, an extension specialist who runs the Carbon Removal Lab at University of California Berkeley, will discuss the emergence of a carbon-negative bioeconomy at 3 p.m. on April 14 in 213 Ag Engineering.
April 13, 2022
PlantVillage has been awarded $300,000 from the Cisco Foundation to promote regenerative agriculture on African farms to help them adapt to climate change.
April 13, 2022
In a video series titled “Perspective: Leaders at Penn State,” Richard Roush, dean of Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, reflects on his passion for fishing as an opportunity to continue to explore and ask questions about the natural world.
April 12, 2022
To protect the integrity of research, Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences is issuing a reminder that entry into the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs is limited to authorized personnel only.
April 11, 2022
Laura Leites, associate research professor of quantitative forest ecology in the College of Agricultural Sciences, is the recipient of the 2022 Rosemary Schraer Mentoring Award.
April 11, 2022
Six University faculty members have received 2022 Faculty Scholar Medals for Outstanding Achievement.
April 11, 2022
The sentiments and emotions expressed in tweets on Twitter can be used in real time to assess where supply chain disruptions due to a pandemic, war or natural disaster may lead to food shortages, according to researchers at Penn State and the Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar.
April 8, 2022
After two years of holding an online-only auction, the Penn State Equine Science program will host the 20th annual Equine Science Showcase and Quarter Horse Sale in a new, hybrid format Saturday, April 30.
April 7, 2022
Exploring the emergence, spread and control of animal infectious diseases such as avian influenza was the focus of the inaugural Emerging Animal Infectious Disease Conference held Nov. 29-Dec.1, 2021, at Penn State. It was hosted by the College of Agricultural Sciences, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and Penn State’s Center for Security Research and Education.
April 7, 2022
A Penn State Extension webinar on April 20 will focus on how community planners and other local leaders can utilize U.S. Department of Agriculture agencies, including the Natural Resources Conservation Service and USDA Rural Development, for community plan creation and implementation.
April 7, 2022
Congratulations to the 2022 Director's Award Winners!
April 6, 2022
Sixty-eight Penn State graduate students received awards for their research and creative scholarship in the 37th annual Graduate Exhibition. A complete list of winners is available below.
April 6, 2022
Horticultural experts from Penn State Extension will help central Pennsylvanians get ready for this year’s gardening season when WPSU’s “Conversations LIVE: Get Your Garden On!” airs on Thursday, April 14, on WPSU-TV.
April 5, 2022
The Penn State chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta, the agricultural honor society, recognized Penn State faculty and students during its annual meeting, which was held March 31.
April 4, 2022
New mutations occur at increasing rates in the mitochondrial genomes of developing egg cells in aging rhesus monkeys, but the increases appear to plateau at a certain age and are not as large as those seen in non-reproductive cells, a fact that could indicate a protective mechanism in reproductive cells.
April 4, 2022
Pennsylvania farmers markets generate an estimated $100 million in sales each year, according to a new Penn State Extension analysis that provides a snapshot of farmers markets' contribution to the local food economy in the commonwealth.
April 4, 2022
Reducing tariffs on imported goods is meant to remove trade barriers, but it doesn’t seem to be helping the seafood industry, which has experienced the same — if not more — import rejections and notifications at borders, according to research guided by an agricultural economist at Penn State.
April 4, 2022
The online bachelor’s degree program in agribusiness management is using open-education resources, or OER, to replace textbooks, case studies and other materials students in the major previously had to buy.
April 1, 2022
This project explores the development of nitrous oxide monitoring system for soil emissions in an effort to mitigate its impacts on climate change and improve soil health.
April 1, 2022
For almost 40 years, Rob Crassweller, professor of horticulture and extension tree-fruit specialist in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, has made impactful contributions. He is passing the mantle to a new generation of scientists and extension educators as he embarks on the next chapter of his life — retirement.
March 31, 2022
Promoting early season plant cover, primarily through the use of cover crops, can be more effective at reducing pest density and crop damage than insecticide applications, according to a Penn State-led team of researchers.
March 31, 2022
An interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers was awarded $40,000 as a recipient of the Skidmore Owings & Merrill Foundation 2021 Research Prize for a project that explores mycelium-based and knitted textiles to form a sustainable building material.
March 30, 2022
Penn State Graduate School alumna Judi Wangalwa Wakhungu is the recipient of the 2022 Graduate School Alumni Society Humanitarian Award.
March 29, 2022
Effects of a nuclear winter or other sky-darkening global catastrophes on farming and agriculture make it "imperative that we better understand our food production, supply and value chains to make them less vulnerable and more adaptable in times of crises," according to Penn State researchers who recently published a timely study on "Food Resilience in a Dark Catastrophe."
March 29, 2022
Penn State Extension will hold a workshop titled “It’s a Wormy Deal” at three locations this spring for sheep and goat producers.
