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August 02, 2025

New graphene-based sensor can help diagnose diabetes and prediabetes based on a breath sample
Student award winners.

August 01, 2025

HGSAC co-chairs recognized for symposium success
Donna Korzick

August 01, 2025

Redefining graduate education through mentorship and innovation
Sibel Irmak, left, research professor of agricultural and biological engineering in the College of Agricultural Sciences, recently was honored by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

August 01, 2025

National society honors ag and biological professor for inclusion efforts

August 01, 2025

Nuclear war would cripple Earth's food supply
Visitors browse the displays in the College of Agricultural Sciences Exhibits Building

July 30, 2025

Ag Progress Days displays showcase advanced technology, animal health, invasives
Five new research collaborations between Penn State and minority-serving institutions selected to receive seed funding via the Inter-Institutional Partnerships for Diversifying Research program

July 28, 2025

College of Ag Sciences names first cohort of Land Grant Research Impact Fellows
Sophia Mucciolo, a graduate student in ecology and her adviser Sara Hermann

July 28, 2025

Huck student receives U.S. National Science Foundation fellowship
Using AI-driven pattern recognition, TalkingSick analyzes short voice recordings to detect deviations from a user’s healthy voice baseline. These deviations could signal potential respiratory illnesses before physical symptoms appear. The startup team participated in the NSF I-Corps National Teams program, which they completed in June. The program requires teams to complete at least 100 customer interviews in just seven weeks. Credit: Provided by TalkingSick. All Rights Reserved.

July 25, 2025

Startup works to detect respiratory illnesses through vocal patterns

July 25, 2025

How Worried Should You Be About Ticks?
Predicting vaccination levels without accurate or timely vaccination data

July 25, 2025

Predicting vaccination levels without accurate or timely vaccination data
Group photo of Forest Genetics 2025 attendees standing on the steps of Penn State's Agricultural Science and Industry building

July 24, 2025

Huck Students impress at Forest Genetics conference

July 24, 2025

Multistate study targets herbicide-resistant weeds in soybeans
Seasonal flu immunity protects against severe illness from bird flu in ferrets

July 23, 2025

Seasonal flu immunity protects against severe illness from bird flu in ferrets
device is similar to a pregnancy test, showing two lines if the biomarker is detected in the sample.

July 22, 2025

Next-gen tech can detect disease biomarker in period blood
Microbiome researchers Jasna Kovac, left, and Seth Bordenstein, right

July 22, 2025

$2.6M NIH grant to fund new microbiome sciences training program at Penn State

July 22, 2025

How small temperature shifts lead to more blooms and bees
A grant from the Morris Animal Foundation will support research at Penn State on the health of amphibians. Credit: Contributed photo. All Rights Reserved.

July 22, 2025

National foundation grant to support study on amphibian health at Penn State
The researchers simulated corn production in 38,572 locations under the six nuclear war scenarios of increasing severity. Because of the crop’s global significance, the researchers chose to model corn’s collapse in a nuclear winter to represent the expected fate of agriculture overall. Credit: crisserbug/Getty Images. All Rights Reserved.

July 21, 2025

Simulating the unthinkable: Models show nuclear winter food production plunge
Figure: MRI of an avocado. (A) Photograph of dissected fruit showing fleshy pericarp and stony seed. (B–F) Internal structure of the fruit as visualized by MRI; (B, E) distribution of water shown in longitudinal and cross-section; (C, F) distribution of lipid (given in color-code (C) or in gray scale (F)); (D) visualization of the vascular system in the seed and the fruit. Abbreviations: vse-vascular system of embryo (fragment), vsp-vascular system of pericarp (fragment), vssc-vascular system of seed coat.

July 16, 2025

MRI advancements herald new possibilities for plant imaging
Nanyin Zhang, the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Chair in Brain Imaging and professor of biomedical engineering, of electrical engineering and of engineering science and mechanics; Patrick Drew, professor of engineering science and mechanics, of biomedical engineering, of neurosurgery and of biology; and Nikki Crowley, associate professor of biology and of biomedical engineering, Huck Early Career Chair in Neurobiology and Neural Engineering and director of the Penn State Neuroscience Institute at University Park, received a three-year, $1.2 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to gain insight into the purpose of dreams. Credit: Keith Hickey/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

July 16, 2025

When dreams turn dark: Neuroscientists to study nightmares and mental health
Matt Langland, who recently graduated from Penn State with a bachelor’s degree in environmental resource management, examines salt-encrusted soils in New Mexico's migratory bird habitats. Credit: Contributed photo. All Rights Reserved.

July 16, 2025

College of Ag Sciences grant program supports student learning, experiences
Credit: Sharon Siegfried / Penn State. Creative Commons

July 15, 2025

Grant to help establish AI, health research lab at Harrisburg
Credit: Keith Hickey / Penn State. Creative Commons

July 15, 2025

Optical tweezers help elevate single-molecule research at Penn State