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Jul 26, 2023
HGSAC looks to raise the bar with election of new co-chairs
HGSAC students elected Avery Sicher and Jessica Walnut to serve as the graduate co-advisors to the Huck Institutes for the upcoming 2023-24 academic year.
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Jul 26, 2023
Workshop empowers beekeepers to breed more resilient honey bees
Honey bees are crucial for pollinating crops, but in Northeastern states, according to Penn State researchers, more than 40% of honey bee colonies die each winter partly due to susceptibility to parasites and pathogens.
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Jul 26, 2023
Second species of ramp, or wild leek, documented in Pennsylvania
The presence of a second species of ramp, Allium burdickii—commonly known as narrow-leaved wild leek—has been documented in southwest Pennsylvania by a team of Penn State researchers in a new study.
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Jul 24, 2023
Spurge purge: Plant fossils reveal ancient South America-to-Asia ‘escape route’
Anyone who has taken a long road trip or bike ride has used a product of the spurge plant family — rubber.
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Jul 20, 2023
NIH grant to facilitate high-speed bioprinting of bones, tracheas, organs
Developing technology to quickly and efficiently bioprint human tissues at scale is the goal of a new project led by Penn State researchers. When fully developed, the technology will be the first to enable the fabrication of scalable, native tissues such as bones, tracheas and organs.
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Jul 20, 2023
USDA grant funds study of effectiveness of vegetation to curb water pollution
At a time when Pennsylvania is actively working to achieve water-quality improvements to meet the state’s obligations for cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay, a multidisciplinary Penn State research team is studying whether agricultural pollution-prevention devices called riparian buffers are working properly.
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Jul 19, 2023
Crop physiologist to study phosphorus availability and storage root growth
A researcher in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences has received a $650,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to lead a multi-university team in a study focused on the anatomical, physiological and genetic factors underlying phosphorus-stress-induced reprogramming of storage root architecture.
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Jul 19, 2023
Penn State researchers examine how environmental chemicals affect gut microbiome
Worldwide, high rates of obesity and other inflammatory conditions are associated with increased risk for cancer, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
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Jul 18, 2023
Some corals may survive climate change without paying a metabolic price
If, as the saying goes, "nothing in life is free," then corals might pay a price for being resilient to climate change.
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Jul 18, 2023
Two honored with Eberly Distinguished Faculty Mentoring Award
Two members of the Eberly College of Science have been selected to receive the college's Distinguished Faculty Mentoring Award in 2023.
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