Increased human activity around one of Africa’s most iconic ecosystems is “squeezing the wildlife in its core,” damaging habitat, and disrupting the migration routes of wildebeest, zebra and gazelle, according to an international study that included a researcher at Penn State.
Penn State researchers have joined forces with the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization to release the first app, called Nuru, to help African farmers recognize fall armyworm — a new and fast-spreading crop pest in sub-Saharan Africa — so that they can take immediate steps to destroy it and curb its spread.
Parks and People: Conservation of Nature in Community in Mang’ula, Tanzania, provides students of all majors the ability to discover more about the world and themselves through an international field research experience.
Measles is preventable through vaccination—if health organizations can get the vaccine to the children who need it. In areas where people migrate with the season, it is often hard to know how many doses will be needed, where, and exactly when. Two Penn State biologists have developed a way to predict seasonal migrations in the African country of Niger using satellite images of the glow of cities at night.
Several classics of African cinema have been lost, discarded or forgotten. MaryEllen Higgins, associate professor of English at Penn State Greater Allegheny, attended the Africa in Motion Film Festival in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland, where she presented on the importance of restoring Africa’s cinema archives.
William J. Dewey, associate professor of art history in Penn State's College of Arts and Architecture and director of the African Studies Program in the College of the Liberal Arts, is part of a curatorial team that received a $250,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant for a UCLA Fowler Museum exhibition on African blacksmithing, which opens in June 2018.
A special friendship between a teacher at Penn State's Child Care Center at Hort Woods and her former classmate is bridging an 8,000-mile gap between University Park and the tiny kingdom of Swaziland in southern Africa.
The Global Health minor, offered through the Department of Biobehavioral Health and open to all Penn State students, includes a capstone six-week field work requirement in Senegal, South Africa, or Tanzania.
Protecting the landscape may also help protect people from some infectious diseases, according to Erica Smithwick, associate professor of geography. Smithwick and her colleagues have been investigating how land use has affected the spread of two diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.
Students from sub-Saharan Africa will receive full scholarships to study science, technology or business at Penn State thanks to a new philanthropic partnership between Penn State and the Botstiber Foundation of Philadelphia.
Anthropologist Nina Jablonski has spent two decades exploring—and sharing—the fascinating story of human skin.
Lee Ann De Reus, an associate professor of human development and family studies and women’s studies at Penn State Altoona, and her daughter, Arianna De Reus, will draw on their experiences working in Africa to inform students on how to create sustainable, meaningful change — both globally and in their own backyard — during a lecture Nov. 17 on the University Park campus.
As part of an ongoing partnership, Penn State College of Medicine library staff recently loaded two, 40-foot containers with donated materials bound for Mountcrest University College in rural Ghana.
At 12:30 p.m. Oct. 12, Maria Olaussen, professor of English literature at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, will present “Helpless against the tides: The Spirit of the Times in Doris Lessing’s Autobiographies,” in 102 Kern Building.
A portable, lightweight wind turbine to assist with energy demands during a natural disaster; an on-campus food bank for hungry, food-insecure students; greenhouse technology to help small share farmers in Africa grow their own food and diversify their diets; and thousands of photographs taken to document the transformation in our local communities resulting from the Marcellus Shale boom. These are the creations of Penn State students with a passion for addressing sustainability issues — locally, regionally and across the globe — with assistance from the Reinvention Fund.
