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Insect Specimens, Frost Entomological Museum, Penn State

Insect Biodiversity Center to promote insect conservation, healthy ecosystems

A honey bee visits a spiderwort flower. Spiderwort is one of the native perennial varieties chosen for a pollinator-friendly habitat at the Penn State Orchard Road solar array.  IMAGE: ERNST CONSERVATION SEEDS

Pollinator project supports biodiversity at Penn State Orchard Road solar array

Northeast Drought Could Threaten Penn State Fall Foliage Display

PSU sees 174 new COVID cases this week

Penn State University To Consider A Switch To Remote Learning

Penn State considering switch to all-online learning as cases rise

Penn State’s main campus sees 174 new COVID-19 cases this week prior to Labor Day weekend

The Gene that Makes Female Birds Drab

IMAGE: PENN STATE SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT

School of Hospitality Management develops profit planning tool for restaurants

Dry conditions affecting harvest sizes, foliage

Lauren Randolph. IMAGE: IMAGE PROVIDED BY LAUREN RANDOLPH

Biomedical engineering graduate student receives Blue Flame Award

Scientists Explore Why Some People Are Able To Live With An Infection Unscathed

Fall foliage expert offers bleak outlook for some of Pennsylvania this fall

Small-scale poultry farming is practiced by millions of Vietnamese households and by millions more throughout southeast Asia, mostly on a scale of fewer than 100 birds per farm. IMAGE: MACIEJ BONI, PENN STATE

Vietnam farmers' poultry sales during outbreaks may increase virus transmission

Facing Overloads, CDC Restricts COVID-19 Testing to Those With Symptoms

https://news.psu.edu/story/629613/2020/08/25/earth-and-environment/penn-state-black-walnut-trial-turns-40-now-ideal

Penn State black walnut trial turns 40, now ideal climate-change experiment

Measles is a major cause of child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, responsible for about 62,000 deaths in the region in 2017. IMAGE: ANNA PSIAKI / CC BY-SA

Measles outbreaks in Niger linked to rainfall and temperature, study finds

A switchgrass field near the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs, about 10 miles southwest of University Park.  IMAGE: PENN STATE

Advanced biofuels show promise for replacing some fossil fuels

Why Do Some People Weather Coronavirus Infection Unscathed?

With a $1.2 million grant from Fondation Botnar, an international team of researchers will assess the feasibility of creating and launching a global-scale artificial intelligence (AI) app for mobile devices that diagnoses diet-related problems and offers nutritional advice to adolescent girls living in urban settings in Ghana and Vietnam. IMAGE: COURTESY: PHUONG NGUYEN, IFPRI

Grant to enable creation of AI tools to improve adolescents' diets and nutrition

Nita Bharti, assistant professor of biology at Penn State. IMAGE: PENN STATE

Faculty funded to study how people's movement impacts COVID-19 transmission

Carolee Bull, professor and head of the Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology. IMAGE: PENN STATE

Bull elected fellow of American Phytopathological Society

Acroporid corals IMAGE: ILIANA BAUMS, PENN STATE

New tool for identifying endangered corals could aid conservation efforts

A new study reveals specific livestock husbandry practices — including attendance at seasonal grazing camps and introduction of sheep and goats to the herd — associated with increased risk of transmitting the livestock disease PPRV.IMAGE: PXHERE

Reducing transmission risk of livestock disease