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Penn State Berkey Creamery celebrates 'White Out' with new flavor

9/24/18

Penn State Berkey Creamery's new ice cream flavor will have football fans celebrating even more when Penn State hosts Ohio State on Sept. 29. "White Out" — a sweet blend of popcorn-flavored ice cream and white chocolate chips — is now available for scooping at the Creamery.

Apple orchard

Fruit research and extension projects receive funding from industry groups

9/21/18

The State Horticultural Association of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Apple Program recently awarded nearly $233,000 in funding to support new and ongoing fruit research and extension projects in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. The grants will support projects aimed at enhancing pest management, production efficiency and fruit quality.

Mark Guiltinan

Plant science faculty member named Styer Professor

9/21/18

Mark Guiltinan, professor of plant molecular biology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, recently was named the J. Franklin Styer Professor of Horticultural Botany. The Styer Professorship is intended to supplement departmental support for outstanding faculty and further the scholar's contributions to teaching, research and service.

Andrew Read

Andrew Read named director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences

9/20/18

Andrew Read has been appointed director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State effective Jan. 1, 2019. Read is an Evan Pugh University Professor of Biology and Entomology, Eberly Professor of Biotechnology and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics.

CHAPS open house

Penn State Horse Barn Open House welcomes football fans Oct. 13

9/19/18

The sixth annual Penn State Horse Barn Open House, hosted by the Collegiate Horseman's Association at Penn State and the Penn State Equine Research Team, will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 13, prior to the football game against Michigan State. The open house complements Celebrate Ag Day at Beaver Stadium, an event designed for Penn Staters to honor the agricultural roots and history of the University.

Loyalsock Creek with trout inset

Few hatchery brook trout genes present in Pa. watershed wild fish

9/18/18

Despite many decades of annual brook trout stocking in one northcentral Pennsylvania watershed, the wild brook trout populations show few genes from hatchery fish, according to researchers who genotyped about 2,000 brook trout in Loyalsock Creek watershed, a 500-square-mile drainage in Lycoming and Sullivan counties celebrated by anglers for its trout fishing.

Great Insect Fair 2018 - girls and insect collection

Penn State's Great Insect Fair celebrates insects in pop culture

9/17/18

Appreciating insects' influence in popular culture will be the focus of Penn State's 2018 Great Insect Fair, scheduled for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 22 at the Snider Agricultural Arena on the University Park campus. The event is sponsored by the entomology department in the College of Agricultural Sciences.

Seed grants to support opioid research announced

9/13/18

Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute, in collaboration with the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, has awarded over $200,000 in funding to support 10 new interdisciplinary teams of Penn State researchers whose work is aimed at combating the opioid epidemic.

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