The recent Authentic Plant Pollinator Landscape Research for Educators Workshop at Penn State attracted 13 kindergarten through 12th grade educators from across Pennsylvania and beyond, and it allowed educators to work closely with members of Penn State’s College of Education's Center for Science and the Schools and Center for Pollinator Research.
Hui Yang, Harold and Inge Marcus Career Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to study exactly how a process called glycosylation can cause proteins to disrupt the harmony of cell activity.
Despite the buzz in recent years about other invasive insects that pose an even larger threat to agriculture and trees — such as the spotted lanternfly, the stink bug and the emerald ash borer — Penn State researchers have continued to study another damaging pest, the Asian longhorned beetle.
Alana Iturralde was awarded the residency as part of Gasworks’ partnership with the Caribbean Art Initiative, which was established to highlight and further-develop Caribbean artists.
"Research to Action: The Science of Drawdown," which takes place from Sept. 16–18 at The Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center, will feature climate solutions experts from around the globe, including 15 members of the conference's steering committee.
Two new associate professors have joined the Department of Political Science in the College of the Liberal Arts as part of the college's African American and African Diaspora Life and Culture Cluster hire.
When people overuse electronic devices, it could lead to weaker activity in areas of the brain that are key to understanding scientific texts, according to a team of researchers.
Nineteen Nittany Lion student-athletes were approved to participate in summer 2019 commencement ceremonies on the University Park campus. Penn State Athletics saw a record number of graduates, 188, for the 2018-19 academic year.
The HUB-Robeson Galleries will present "A Meditation on this Age of Struggle and Strife," a solo exhibition of drawings and sculptures by Penn State Associate Professor of Art Rudy Shepherd, in Art Alley on the first floor of the HUB-Robeson Center. The exhibition runs through Nov. 10.
Elected officials and leaders of government agencies will use the opportunity afforded by Penn State's Ag Progress Days, set for Aug.13-15, to inform — and get feedback from — the public and industry stakeholders about agricultural programs and policy priorities at the state and federal levels.
Community Connection events at Penn State Abington include entrepreneurship and a history of the Philadelphia Phillies.
A team of astronomers has announced the likely discovery of a highly obscured black hole existing only 850 million years after the Big Bang, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This is the first evidence for a cloaked black hole at such an early time.
For Penn State Shenango alumna Erica Meszaros, an internship at Sharon Regional Medical Center — combined with dual degrees in human development and family studies and from the occupational therapy assistant program — opened the door to a rewarding position with Sharon Regional Medical Center’s behavioral health inpatient unit upon graduation.
Research from Penn State suggests that “freedom songs” could have also helped empower black women to lead others when formal leadership positions were unavailable.
The unique teaching methods and studio culture created by the late artist and educator Robert Reed inspired thousands of students during his 50 years in higher education. One of his former students, who is now a faculty member in Penn State's Stuckeman School’s Department of Architecture, was so moved by Reed’s passion and approach to teaching, she has set out to share his life, his work and his pedagogy with a whole new generation of students.
