Eight graduate students in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences are among the 101 recipients of fellowships from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
Zachary Dashner, a doctoral student in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, has been invited to take part in the U.S. Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security in June at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
College of Information Sciences and Technology doctoral student Jun Xu recently was named a recipient of the 2018 Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award and Distinguished Doctoral Scholar Medal. He is one of 14 Penn State graduate students to receive the award, which is considered one of the most prestigious awards that a Penn State graduate student can receive.
Penn State Extension organized a recent trip to study state-of-the-art crop management in Brazil — one of the world's leading producers of soybeans — for Pennsylvania soybean growers and industry representatives.
Emma Rosenthal, a doctoral student in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, will be able to advance her research interests in plant pathology after receiving a grant from the National Science Foundation. The funding will support Rosenthal's research on bacterial leaf spot, a disease that infects lettuce plants.
Two educators in the Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences recently received recognition for their teaching.
The dates, times and locations for the Penn State graduate student union election have been released by the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board. All eligible graduate students are encouraged to educate themselves on this topic and vote in the election, which will take place over six days in April at Penn State University Park, Harrisburg and the College of Medicine in Hershey.
Faculty and graduate students in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences illustrated how their research touches every corner of the world during the inaugural Global Gallery, a symposium hosted by the International Agriculture and Development dual-title graduate program and its student association.
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On Feb. 19, officers from the University Faculty Senate will meet with members of the Graduate and Professional Student Association, one of the official representative bodies of graduate and professional students at Penn State, as part of ongoing efforts to discuss topics related to graduate education.
Faculty in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences are spearheading an initiative that will provide selected doctoral students with the opportunity for extensive study in the emerging field of agricultural microbiome research.
Five students enrolled in College of Agricultural Sciences programs will represent Penn State at the 2017 Borlaug Dialogue, one of the events planned during the annual World Food Prize International Symposium.
The University Fellowships Office will host a dual Graduate School and STEM theme week Oct. 2-6, with programming available to undergraduate students from a wide variety of academic disciplines.
Beginning Sept. 5, the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board will hold hearings related to the petition filed by the Pennsylvania State Education Association to unionize Penn State graduate students. The hearings are scheduled for Sept. 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 13 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel.
A new, lightweight composite material for energy storage in flexible electronics, electric vehicles and aerospace applications has been experimentally shown to store energy at operating temperatures well above current commercial polymers, according to a team of Penn State scientists. This polymer-based, ultrathin material can be produced using techniques already used in industry.
