Still Life
Commencement across Penn State: Spring 2012
Spring commencement 2012 under way
Penn State, Moroccan students problem-solve together
Finals Week Spring Semester 2012
Children explore career options at University Park
Painting the Lines at Beaver Stadium
Did They Get It Right? - RedTails
Iconic Penn State elm taken down over spring break 2012
We ... are Penn State (December 19, 2011)
Disease stricken matching elm tree slated for removal
Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone
Penn State's Pasto Agricultural Museum will present a special exhibit of old, manual gardening tools, to debut in conjunction with the Master Gardener Garden Fair and Plant Sale, May 19.
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A faculty member in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has been recognized for her outstanding efforts to help students with their academic and career goals. Nancy Dreschel, instructor in companion animal science, received the college's 2012 Excellence in Academic Advising Award.
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A new, free publication offered by Penn State Extension examines how water is used and affected during production of natural gas from deep shale formations.
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Natural-gas development appears to be having a positive effect on the local collection of state taxes in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale region, according to a report by researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. "Marcellus Shale and Local Collection of State Taxes: What the 2011 Pennsylvania Tax Data Say" is a white paper published by the Penn State Center for Economic and Community Development. (more)
A reorganization of Penn State Extension that has been under way during the last two years has taken additional steps toward completion. In a move to implement a new model of program delivery, the organization has appointed program leaders who will spearhead development of statewide educational programming that is structured around expertise and focused on addressing the needs of key industries and audiences. In addition, to streamline the administration of offices statewide, Extension has named 19 district directors -- each of whom will oversee two to five county offices -- as well as two directors who will manage the offices in the urban counties of Allegheny and Philadelphia. (more)
Penn State Extension Master Gardeners of Centre County will hold their annual Garden Fair and Plant Sale, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 19. The event will take place at the Ag Progress Days grounds at Rock Springs, 2710 W. Pine Grove Road, Pennsylvania Furnace, Pa., 9 miles southwest of State College on state Route 45. (more)
A commonly held belief that college students are only interested in courses where they can earn an "easy A" is not supported by a Penn State research study. What college students really value is how much they feel they learn in a course, according to recent findings from a survey.
"In our surveys of students at University Park, we found the single best predictor of how much students liked and positively evaluated the quality of instruction in courses was how much they had learned," said Fern K. Willits, distinguished professor emerita of rural sociology in the College of Agricultural Sciences, one of the members of the research team. "The belief that difficult courses and too much classwork will result in low student ratings is not supported by our data." (more)
A one-day conference in Lehigh County, sponsored by Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, will provide a comprehensive overview of using natural gas as a transportation fuel in Pennsylvania and the mid-Atlantic region.
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A parasite that fights the zombie-ant fungus has yielded some of its secrets to an international research team led by Penn State's David Hughes. The research reveals, for the first time, how an entire ant colony is able to survive infestations by the zombie-ant fungus, which invades an ant's brain and causes it to march to its death at a mass grave near the ant colony, where the fungus spores erupt out of the ant's head. "In a case where biology is stranger than fiction, the parasite of the zombie-ant fungus is itself a fungus -- a hyperparasitic fungus that specializes in attacking the parasite that turns the ants into zombies," Hughes said. (more)
Jan. 10 was like any other Tuesday at the Penn State Meats Lab, where animals raised on the University's farms are brought to harvest and processed, with the finished products available for sale on Friday.
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