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Apr 01, 2019

Huck Institutes Seeks Assistant Director of Graduate Education, Training, and Diversity

The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is seeking an energetic Penn State tenured graduate faculty member with a proven background in teaching and mentoring graduate students to serve as the Assistant Director of Graduate Education, Training and Diversity.

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Increased human activities around the boundaries of the Serengeti National Park and Maasai Mara National Reserve in East Africa have damaged habitat and constrained the area available for the migration of wildebeest, zebra and gazelles. IMAGE: ANNA ESTES, PENN STATE

Apr 01, 2019

The Serengeti-Mara squeeze: One of the world's iconic ecosystems under pressure

Study finds increased human activity around East African reserves disrupting wildlife, damaging habitat

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Beescape.org provides a tool for beekeepers, gardeners, growers and land managers to assess the quality of their landscapes for supporting managed honey bees and wild bees. IMAGE: PIXABAY

Apr 01, 2019

Introducing Beescape: A new online tool and community to support bees 1

A new online tool and community, called Beescape, enables beekeepers, or anyone interested in bees, to understand the specific stressors to which the bees in their managed hives, home gardens or farms are exposed, according to researchers at Penn State.

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From left to right: Glen Gifford, Charge de Mission (OIE); Harsh Vardhan, honorable minister, Ministries of Science and Technology; Earth Science; Environment, Forest and Climate Change; Renu Swarup, secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology; Purvi Mehta, head, Asia, Agriculture (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation); S.R. Rao, senior adviser, Department of Biotechnology; and Shri Tarun Shridhar, secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, at the One Health India Conference 2019. IMAGE: IMAGE PROVIDED

Mar 28, 2019

India launches One Health Initiative with help from Penn State's ABRL

Penn State’s Applied Biological and Biosecurity Research Laboratory (ABRL), together with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United States Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Biological Threat Reduction Program, recently worked with India’s Department of Biotechnology within the Ministry of Science and Technology to help the Indian government launch its complex and ambitious One Health Initiative at the One Health India Conference 2019.

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Mar 28, 2019

Zydney named ACS Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Division Fellow

Andrew Zydney has been named a Fellow of the Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society. Zydney's research focuses on membrane science and technology, and has greatly impacted the design and development of important commercial membrane processes for the purification of monoclonal antibodies, which are used in treating cancer and other immunologic disorders.

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Microbiome research in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences is featured in a new report from the Supporters of Agricultural Research Foundation and its FedByScience initiative. IMAGE: SUPPORTERS OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Mar 27, 2019

Penn State research featured in new report on supercharging U.S. ag science

A new report issued today (March 27) shows how U.S. farmers — facing a surge of weather events and disease outbreaks — can increase production and revenues with innovations produced by federally funded agricultural research, including studies performed in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.

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Mar 27, 2019

Physio Student Kelly Ness Publishes Paper in American Journal of Physiology

Ness, who previously served as Graduate Adviser to the Huck Institutes, simulated a seven-day working working week to study recovery of insulin sensitivity.

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David Toews, assistant professor of biology at Penn State, has been selected as the recipient of an early investigator award by the American Ornithological Society, an international society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of birds. IMAGE: PENN STATE

Mar 26, 2019

Toews receives early investigator award from American Ornithological Society

David Toews, assistant professor of biology at Penn State, has been selected as the 2019 recipient of the Ned K. Johnson Early Investigator Award by the American Ornithological Society (AOS), an international society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of birds.

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Molly Hall, assistant professor of veterinary and biomedical sciences. IMAGE: MOLLY HALL

Mar 26, 2019

Hall, Brent to receive Roy C. Buck awards during annual celebration

Two faculty members in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences have been named the recipients of the 2018 Roy C. Buck Faculty Award, which recognizes exceptional articles accepted or published by refereed scholarly journals in the social and human sciences within the past two years.

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Mar 26, 2019

CBIOS Trainee Hillary Koch Awarded NIH Fellowship

Koch's dissertation proposal, "Statistical Methods for Differential Peak Detection in Hi-C Data," was funded upon its first submission to the National Human Genome Research Institute.

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