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SROP students practicing team leadership

March 20, 2022

2022 Summer Research Opportunities Program is Seeking Faculty Mentors
Students from David Geiser’s lab in the Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology visited the Nittany Lion Shrine in July 2019. From left, back row, are Benedicta Swalarsk-Parry and Shawn Chang. In the middle row are Jane Ramaswe, Terry Torres Cruz, Emma Wallace and David Geiser. In front are Daniela Chacon and Chyanna McGee. Ramaswe and Swalarsk-Parry were part of a student exchange program with the University of Pretoria’s Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology. Credit: Penn State / Penn State. Creative Commons

March 18, 2022

Alliance between College of Ag Sciences, University of Pretoria yields benefits
The Changing Microbiomes Symposium will bring together researchers working at the bleeding edge of the transition to functional and process-driven microbiome research. These discoveries transcend systems; therefore, the symposium will span terrestrial and aquatic contexts and host-associated and free-living microbial communities. Credit: Penn State / Penn State. Creative Commons

March 18, 2022

Microbiome Center to host ‘Changing Microbiomes’ symposium in early June

March 18, 2022

How will we know the COVID pandemic is over? And how do we get there?
Inhalable aerogel triggers immunity to COVID-19 in mice, may block transmission

March 17, 2022

Inhalable aerogel triggers immunity to COVID-19 in mice, may block transmission
Five new research collaborations between Penn State and minority-serving institutions selected to receive seed funding via the Inter-Institutional Partnerships for Diversifying Research program

March 16, 2022

Huck Students Receive Alumni Awards

March 15, 2022

Rise in COVID cases abroad, presence of omicron subvariant may foreshadow increase in US: Experts

March 15, 2022

Rise in COVID-19 infections overseas may foreshadow increase in US, experts say
Credit: Brennan Dincher / Penn State. Creative Commons

March 14, 2022

New art installation reflects Penn State research on energy and environment

March 13, 2022

How in the World Did We Get Venus Flytraps?
New study of the relationships among members of the largest subfamily of grasses reveals gene-duplication events (represented by colored boxes) that contributed to the adaptation of the plants to cooler temperatures. Credit: Lin Zhang. All Rights Reserved.

March 10, 2022

How grasses like wheat can grow in the cold

March 09, 2022

EPA Expected to Extend Use of Bee-Killing Pesticides

March 09, 2022

How Carnivorous Plants Evolved

March 08, 2022

Fears for bees as US set to extend use of toxic pesticides that paralyse insects
Lance Lian

March 07, 2022

Studying diseases with better delivery of gene-editing tools

March 07, 2022

COVID-19 has now been found in 29 kinds of animals, which has scientists concerned

March 05, 2022

Will COVID Mutate in Animals and Jump Back to Humans?
Qingguang Zhang, assistant research professor in engineering science and mechanics, is one of the Penn State researchers who developed a set of tools and methods for monitoring and analyzing brain activity, which they then published as a how-to guide Credit: Kelby Hochreither/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

March 03, 2022

Researchers publish how-to guide for monitoring and analyzing brain activity
Two graduate students in Penn State’s Department of Animal Science, Sophia Kenney, left, and Emily Van Syoc, center, have received recognition for their research. They are shown with Erika Ganda, assistant professor of food animal microbiomes. Credit: Contributed photo. All Rights Reserved.

March 02, 2022

Students in Department of Animal Science receive accolades for research

March 02, 2022

How plants turned predator
Artist’s depiction of several important crop plants in the grass family — the fifth largest family of plants with about 11,000 species, including wheat, corn, rice, sorghum, millet, sugarcane and bamboo. A massive new study clarifies the evolutionary relationships in the grass family tree and provides insight into the evolution of a type of photosynthesis — known as “C4 photosynthesis”—in grasses that allows the plants to harness the sun’s energy in hot, dry climates while conserving water. Credit: Yiyong Zhao. All Rights Reserved.

March 01, 2022

A new molecular family tree of grasses
Side by side comparison of two microscope images.

February 25, 2022

Repurposing FDA-approved drugs may help combat COVID-19
Greg Ning portrait.

February 25, 2022

Microscopy director propagates new discoveries and new scientists
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February 22, 2022

Penn State establishes the Geroscience and Dementia Prevention Consortium