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September 24, 2022

Spotted lanternflies are thriving in the Northeast. Scientists fear they could spread farther

September 22, 2022

The secret, lucrative world of Pennsylvania’s wild ginseng diggers
The researchers sampled soils under cover crops belonging to three plant functional types at plots that are part of a long-term cover-crops experiment at Penn State’s Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center in central Pennsylvania. Credit: Michael Houtz/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

September 21, 2022

Mixed cover crops capture carbon in soil, could help mitigate climate change
Sarah Bordenstein, director of "Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project," and associate research professor in the Eberly College of Science at Penn State. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

September 20, 2022

Heard on Campus: Sarah Bordenstein, The Wolbachia Project
After U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack (center) announced funding for USDA’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities initiative, Armen Kemanian, professor of production systems and modeling (second from left), discussed a Penn State-led collaboration with dairy industry groups and producers that was funded to develop climate-friendly practices and commodities in dairy. Credit: Michael Houtz, College of Agricultural Sciences. All Rights Reserved.

September 19, 2022

Penn State awarded grant to help dairy farmers develop climate-smart commodities
Nicole Lazar (left), and Laura Weyrich

September 19, 2022

Lazar, Weyrich selected as inaugural Huck Leadership Fellows
A session of the Millennium Cafe

September 16, 2022

Millennium Café series to feature special editions in October, November

September 15, 2022

Does squishing invasive lanternflies really help stop their spread?
HGSAC student leaders

September 14, 2022

Huck graduate students elect co-chairs for new academic year
Penn State researchers will study the monkeypox virus to understand the potential for it to spill over from humans to animals, as well as its pathogenesis — or disease development — in animal and human cells in vitro. In addition, they will study potential targets for therapeutics to treat the monkeypox disease. Credit: Getty Images | kontekbrothers. All Rights Reserved.

September 13, 2022

What are potential animal reservoirs for monkeypox?
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September 13, 2022

Microbiome Center announces inaugural Interdisciplinary Innovation Fellows
Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute welcomes its new class of TL1 scholars. Top row from left to right are Aarti Bhat, Rachael Bishop, Janhavi Damani and Zachary DiMattia. Bottom row from left to right are Sara Mills‑Huffnagle, Makenzie Nolt and Rhea Sullivan. Credit: Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute. All Rights Reserved.

September 12, 2022

Six graduate students begin Translational Research Training Program

September 09, 2022

Penn State-led team develops more efficient system for delivering CRISPR to stem cells
Sweet Frogs Team photo

September 09, 2022

Penn State team wins Global Frog Discovery Challenge
Tracking Traits logo. Credit: Michael Tribone. All Rights Reserved.

September 08, 2022

Podcast explores the tension of teaching evolutionary science in public schools
water irrigation on dry field.

September 08, 2022

COVID-19 drugs persist in wastewater, may pose risk to aquatic organisms

September 07, 2022

Sweating keeps you cool, but climate change is making it harder
Researcher working with equipment.

September 07, 2022

New approach more than doubles stem cell editing efficiency, researchers report

September 06, 2022

Human skin stood up better to the sun before there were sunscreens and parasols – an anthropologist explains why

September 05, 2022

A boy’s backyard discovery two years ago uncovered an incredibly intricate insect-plant interaction

September 02, 2022

Internationally Acclaimed Scientist Named To Lead New Invasion Science Research Institute
Metabolomics researchers.

September 02, 2022

Metabolomics Core Facility continues to expand while pushing scientific bounds
Screenshot of gall wasp on red oak leaf.

September 01, 2022

Boy’s discovery reveals highly complex plant-insect interaction
Penn State researchers have received a new grant to analyze the factors underlying measles and Ebola outbreaks in the Équateur province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their tools will allow researchers to assess vulnerability to a variety of disease outbreaks in other areas of the world. Pictured here, a health care worker in DRC vaccinates a man who has been in contact with someone affected by Ebola Credit: World Bank / Vincent Tremeau. All Rights Reserved.

August 31, 2022

Penn State team awarded $2.3M to assess disease vulnerability, improve response