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August 02, 2023

Erica Smithwick: A practical, financially helpful way to fight climate change
Carolee Bull, top center, will serve on the presidential lineage of the American​ Phytopathological Society until 2027. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

August 02, 2023

Penn State faculty member elected to plant pathology society leadership
Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology Nina G. Jablonski has been named an Atherton Professor. The newly created professorship is reserved exclusively for retiring Evan Pugh professors in recognition of their exemplary research and creative accomplishments, teaching and learning, and service over the course of their careers, and allows for the continuation of these activities to the benefit of the University community. Credit: Heidi Lynne . All Rights Reserved.

July 31, 2023

Anthropology faculty member Nina Jablonski named Atherton Professor
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July 31, 2023

Penn State CTSI announces seven Bridges to Translation pilot funding recipients

July 29, 2023

Your body can build up tolerance to heat. Here’s how.

July 27, 2023

Spider bites sleeping man's throat: 'I woke up choking and couldn't breathe'

July 26, 2023

New study aims to help Pennsylvania dairy farmers develop 'climate smart' practices
A photo of (L-R) Jessica Walnut, Alenka Hafer (front), Troy Ott (rear), Corrine Smolen, and Avery Sicher

July 26, 2023

HGSAC looks to raise the bar with election of new co-chairs
Kate Anton instructs a participant during the recent honey bee instrumental insemination workshop at University Park. Anton is a research technologist in the Department of Entomology and Center for Pollinator Research in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. Credit: Robyn Underwood. All Rights Reserved.

July 26, 2023

Workshop empowers beekeepers to breed more resilient honey bees
Cassie Stark, who spearheaded the study as a master’s degree student, studied four populations each of Allium tricoccum and Allium burdickii in southwestern Pennsylvania, and compared and contrasted the habitats where they were found. She is shown in a population of Allium burdickii — commonly known as narrow-leaved wild leek Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

July 26, 2023

Second species of ramp, or wild leek, documented in Pennsylvania

July 26, 2023

Climate change could wipe out more than 700 plant and lichen species

July 25, 2023

Masai giraffes at increased risk after subspecies divides into two
A 52-million-year-old compound infructescence fossil showing preserved fruits and seeds attached to branches, collected by the late Rodolfo Magín Casamiquela from Laguna del Hunco, Chubut province, Argentina. The plant's characteristics — such as the terminal fruit (tf), axile seeds (sd) and plumose stigma (st) — are only found today in the Macaranga-Mallotus clade of the spurge family. Credit: Photo provided by Peter Wilf. All Rights Reserved.

July 24, 2023

Spurge purge: Plant fossils reveal ancient South America-to-Asia ‘escape route’

July 23, 2023

These are the 10 most educated cities in the US: study

July 23, 2023

There is still hope for coral reefs amid record-warm sea surface temperatures, studies show

July 21, 2023

Heat can kill on the job, and these workers are dying
The study will include both field studies and computer modeling and will be focused on two small stream basins that are heavily influenced by agriculture as case study watersheds. The researchers will measure and analyze riparian buffer performance in the headwaters of Mahantango Creek in Dauphin County and in the Halfmoon Creek watershed in Centre County. Credit: Tyler Groh/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

July 20, 2023

USDA grant funds study of effectiveness of vegetation to curb water pollution
Ibrahim Ozbolat, professor of engineering science and mechanics, biomedical engineering and neurosurgery at Penn State, leads a lab that specializes in 3D printing to create a range of tissues for use in human health. Credit: Patrick Mansell/Penn State / Penn State. Creative Commons

July 20, 2023

NIH grant to facilitate high-speed bioprinting of bones, tracheas, organs

July 20, 2023

Why Nutritionists Want You To Eat Salmon Skin & The Best Ways To Prepare It

July 19, 2023

As heat records fall, how hot is too hot for the human body?

July 19, 2023

Penn State study aims to help Pa. dairy farmers cut methane — and show carbon offsets are real
Harvested sweet potatos showing storage root variability. These were grown at the Russell E.Larson Agricultural Research Center ar Rock Springs, Pennsylvania. Credit: Luis Duque/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

July 19, 2023

Crop physiologist to study phosphorus availability and storage root growth
Andrew Patterson, professor of molecular toxicology and the John T. and Paige S. Smith Professor in the College of Agricultural Sciences, received a $7 million award from the National Institutes of Health to study how environmental chemical exposure impacts the gut microbiome to exacerbate chronic diseases. Credit: Courtesy Andrew Patterson. All Rights Reserved.

July 19, 2023

Penn State researchers examine how environmental chemicals affect gut microbiome

July 19, 2023

Corals and symbiotic algae thrive despite heating, offering hope for reef survival