Beating Bed Bugs

“They don’t just live in your bed. They hide behind light switches and power sockets and in between the cracks of the baseboard and underneath your carpet. No hotel, however clean or expensive, can prevent its guests from checking in with bed bugs.” ~ Nina Jenkins

Boosting Nutrition

“AvoColor has been shown to have excellent color yield in a wide variety of food products, including confections, juices, and baked goods, and is stable to light, oxygen, and temperature.” ~ Gregory Ziegler

Creating Better Foods

“This technology holds promise for precision breeding of crops with many desirable traits, such as low levels of food allergens or toxins, disease resistance, drought tolerance, and efficient nitrogen and phosphorus utilization.” ~Yinong Yang

Enhancing Dairy Profitability

“Once commercialized, these diagnostics tests will have important economic and social benefits in Pennsylvania and throughout the dairy industry.” ~Troy Ott

Greening Food Packaging

“These barrier coatings have numerous other applications ranging from water-resistant paper, to coatings for ceiling tiles and wallboard, to food coatings for keeping taco shells crispy. The adhesive properties are useful for packaging as well as other applications such as formaldehyde-free wood fiber composites for construction.” ~Jeffrey Catchmark

Healing Wounds

“It started off as a Styrofoam replacement, but now it’s medical material. This is the beauty of biological materials—they can be used for lots of different applications.” ~Jeffrey Catchmark

Increasing Harvest Efficiency

“Intensive fruit production offers both economic and horticultural benefits and must be adopted in order for the Pennsylvania tree fruit industry to thrive in a challenging landscape.” —Paul Heinemann

Protecting Water

“The ability to seed a cover crop while also side-dressing the standing corn with fertilizer and spray herbicide is a huge money saver, potentially improving returns by over $100 per acre." ~ Greg Roth

Treating Obesity and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

“What is exciting about this study is that we feel like we are taking another small step in shedding some light on how diet and drugs can modulate bacteria and how these organisms modify their environment.” ~Andrew Patterson

Office for Research and Graduate Education

Address

217 Agricultural Administration Building
University Park, PA 16802-2600

Office for Research and Graduate Education

Address

217 Agricultural Administration Building
University Park, PA 16802-2600