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The study focused on the horned-face bee, which helps pollinate crops like apples and blueberries, and the alfalfa leafcutting bee, which pollinates alfalfa. Credit: Alain C./Flickr. All Rights Reserved.

January 06, 2025

Quantity over quality? Different bees are attracted to different floral traits
The Penn State Neuroscience community kicked off their 2024-25 seminar series with presentations by the second-year doctoral students in the Huck Neuroscience Program. The 2024 Big 10 Neuroscience Annual Meeting will provide similar events for student presentations and networking and will feature presentations from all career stages. Credit: Dan Levy and Keith Hickey/Huck Institutes. All Rights Reserved.

January 03, 2025

Fourth annual Big Ten Neuroscience Symposium to convene at Penn State

January 03, 2025

Some bees value quality over quantity in flower selection
The January episode of “Growing Impact” discusses cement replacements made from leftover agricultural materials that could be more environmentally friendly. Credit: Brenna Buck. All Rights Reserved.

January 02, 2025

'Growing Impact' examines sustainable cement replacements

January 01, 2025

Regular Bedtimes Help Kids Regulate Their Emotions

January 01, 2025

Alcohol and Sleep: How Drinking Affects Your Brain's Ability to Rest

December 27, 2024

Pet dogs often overlooked as spreaders of antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella
Salmonella infections in dogs may be an overlooked transmission vector to humans, researchers reported in a new study. Credit: SeventyFour/Getty Images. All Rights Reserved.

December 23, 2024

Pet dogs often overlooked as spreader of antimicrobial-resistant Salmonella
Flies play a crucial role as pollinators, second only to bees in terms of the volume of crops and habitat they pollinate. Pictured here is a blue fly pollinating common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca). Credit: Martha B. Moss/Penn State Extension Master Gardener / Penn State. Creative Commons

December 19, 2024

Pollinators most vulnerable to rising global temperatures are flies, study shows
Students collaborating at the Inaugural Huck Institutes T32 Summit.

December 19, 2024

New Annual Summit Focuses on Graduate Student Resiliency
A led by Penn State researchers compared two treatments for a common uterine infection, called clinical metritis, that can lead to serious health problems for dairy cows. One treatment was based on antibiotics and the other was not. Both treatments had a similar clinical cure rate in mild cases of the disease. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

December 18, 2024

New treatment for dairy cows could help fight antibiotic resistance, study finds
This image depicts a conceptual mobile application designed to empower health care providers to capture and analyze placenta images at birth for immediate diagnostic insights. Credit: Sonhita Chakraborty / Penn State. Creative Commons

December 17, 2024

Placenta assessment tool aims to improve neonatal, maternal care
Phil Choo, professor of graphic design, had his self-funded work designing postal stamps for all 63 U.S. national parks on display at Seoul National University of Technology in October. Credit: Provided. All Rights Reserved.

December 17, 2024

Stuckeman graphic design professor’s work showcased at exhibition in Seoul
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December 17, 2024

New program aims to transform research administration with $5.1M NSF grant
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December 17, 2024

Penn State Herbarium adds historic perspective to modern research
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December 16, 2024

Two Huck graduate students receive American Heart Association fellowships
New research finds sex-specific regions of the brain can relieve the detrimental effects of chronic stress in male and female mice. Left: Schematic showing a cortical microcircuit with three types of interneurons expressing somatostatin (SST), parvalbumin (PV) or vasointestinal peptide (VIP) and their distinct patterns of innervation of glutamatergic output neurons (PNs), with thin lines representing axons that send chemical signals and the thicker lines of PNs representing dendrites that receive information. There is selective innervation of the distal ends of PN dendrites by axons of SST neurons. Right: Increased activity of SST neurons by genetically induced disinhibition, on top right, or by chemogenetic activation of SST neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex, on bottom right, leads to stress resilience and facilitates the reversal of the detrimental behavioral effects of stress exposure in male but not female mice. Credit: Bernhard Lüscher / Penn State. Creative Commons

December 16, 2024

Brain regions that relieve effects of chronic stress in mice differ based on sex
In his research, Xiaogang Hu, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Neurorehabilitation and an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, focuses on creating wearable assistive robotic systems for people with limited use of their limbs, especially their hands, with the goal of the user intuitively controlling the systems and devices on which they rely. Credit: Kate Myers/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

December 16, 2024

Person-centered, bio-inspired research leads to improved control of prosthetics
Nate Carey is a native of Chesapeake Beach, Maryland. Credit: Sean Yoder / Penn State. Creative Commons

December 16, 2024

Penn State undergraduate Nate Carey earns Marshall Scholarship

December 16, 2024

Penn State awarded grant for workforce development for Spanish-speaking farmers
A team led by Penn State researchers used principles of pulse monitoring in traditional Chinese medicine to design a pressure-sensing platform to identify the optimal pulse signal, which they combined with a machine learning model to also predict blood pressure. Credit: Provided by Huanyu "Larry" Cheng. All Rights Reserved.

December 13, 2024

Old wisdom meets new tech: Traditional Chinese medicine inspires pulse sensors

December 13, 2024

8-year-old boy’s discovery rewrites 100 years of insect and plant knowledge

December 12, 2024

Testing milk for bird flu begins nationwide. In PA, it's happening at Penn State
The genomes of Kirtland’s warblers show extensive signs of inbreeding, according to a new study, which could guide continuing conservation efforts for the once-endangered songbird. Credit: Nathan Cooper. All Rights Reserved.

December 11, 2024

Once-endangered Kirtland’s warblers show extensive signs of inbreeding in genome