Student Stories: Wood Products grad building furniture, future
Recent Penn State graduate Michelle Myers built some strong relationships while at Penn State, but she also built a passion to create enduring furniture. (more)
Still Life
Old Main clock faces installed
New carillon, restored clocks being installed
Joe Paterno's funeral procession
Joe Paterno through the years
Thousands mourn Paterno's passing
We ... are Penn State (December 19, 2011)
Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone
Researchers use balloons to unlock mysteries posed by dying stars
Everyday virus proves potent against cancer cells.
College of Agricultural Sciences
Budget proposal provides level funding for ag research and extension
Funding for Penn State agricultural research and extension programs would remain at 2011-12 levels under Gov. Tom Corbett's proposed state budget for 2012-13, unveiled Feb. 7. "Considering the current economic realities in Pennsylvania, this is excellent news," said Bruce McPheron, dean of Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. (more)
Center for Private Forests created by College of Ag Sciences
Nearly two-thirds of Pennsylvania is covered by forests, with more than 70 percent of those woodlands privately owned. Recent estimates indicate Pennsylvania has more than 600,000 private forest landowners, representing about one out of every nine households.
To better serve these landowners and advise them about forest conservation, Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has created the Center for Private Forests.
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Student Stories: Whirlwind African tour leaves CED major wanting more
Jacqueline Bates was happy as a Penn State economics major, but she couldn't help feeling like there was something missing in her academic life -- she wanted to find a way of applying her major in a more meaningful way. During a meeting with her Division of Undergraduate Studies advisor, she discovered the Community, Environment and Development major. "I thought it was the perfect combination of my interests in economics, society and the environment," she said. As a part of her new major in the College of Agricultural Sciences, the State College, Pa., resident elected to take an Ag2Africa course. The class required her to visit Africa, so she spent a week and a half last May studying bean crops in Mozambique. (more)
Video: Faculty collaboration leads to possible leukemia cure
Penn State scientists in the College of Agricultural Sciences have developed an inspiring collaboration that may cure leukemia. Sandeep Prabhu, associate professor of immunology and molecular toxicology in the Department of Veterinary and Medical Sciences, specializes in the health benefits of fish oil. Robert Paulson, associate professor of veterinary and biomedical sciences, is studying the stem cells that cause leukemia. They connected their seemingly separate study areas during a weekly faculty lunch. The result? A possible cure for leukemia. To watch the video about their inspiring collaboration, visit http://live.psu.edu/youtube/r-1VmeJAtWI online. To read more about their collaborative work, visit http://live.psu.edu/story/56944 online. (more)
Cattleman's College to host Beef Quality Assurance recertification
The Pennsylvania Cattleman's College on March 10 at the Pennsylvania Livestock Evaluation Center will offer recertification in the Beef Quality Assurance program.
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Webinar to examine Marcellus development impacts on transportation
A Web-based seminar sponsored by Penn State Extension will examine how Marcellus shale natural-gas development in Pennsylvania is affecting transportation patterns in the state. (more)
Probing Question: What is the sandwich generation?
The recipe for this kind of sandwich consists of three generations, with elderly grandparents as one slice of bread, dependent children as the other, and, in the middle, Baby Boomer parents who are spread thin trying to be caretakers for all their loved ones. Increasingly, this caregiving is taking place under one roof, says Matthew Kaplan, intergenerational specialist in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. (more)
Cattleman's College March 10 to feature sire-selection workshop
A sire-selection workshop for cattle breeders will be held March 10 at the Pennsylvania Cattleman's College at the Pennsylvania Livestock Evaluation Center. The facility is on Route 45, about 9 miles southwest of the Penn State University Park campus, near the Ag Progress Days site at Rock Springs.
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Effort to establish blight-free American chestnut tree switches gears
The three-decades-old initiative to restore American chestnut trees back into forests in the eastern United States has entered a new phase, according to an expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. The primary focus of the project has transitioned from cross-breeding to testing and reintroduction into forests, noted Sara Fitzsimmons, northcentral region science coordinator for the American Chestnut Foundation and a research support technologist in Penn State's School of Forest Resources. It may take centuries until American chestnut again grows wild across its original range -- from Maine to Georgia and west to Indiana and Michigan, she said. Still, Fitzsimmons envisions a day when the huge trees again will dominate the forests of Pennsylvania and other states. (more)