Relay For Life of Penn State will hold its annual walk-a-thon benefiting the American Cancer Society from noon to midnight on Saturday, April 6, at Medlar Field. This year’s event theme is “Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back.”
Dairy farmers in the Northeast can improve water quality and boost the profitability of their operations by changing the timing and method of applying manure to their fields in the fall, along with planting rye as a cover crop between corn crops — or by double-cropping rye and corn, according to Penn State researchers.
The round goby — a small, extremely prolific, invasive fish from Europe — poses a threat to endangered freshwater mussels in northwestern Pennsylvania's French Creek, one of the last strongholds for two species of mussels, according to researchers.
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.
An Earth Day celebration at Penn State DuBois will feature educational exhibits and programs on topics such as sustainability, clean water and air, and more. The public is invited to attend, free of charge, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24, in the Multipurpose Building Gymnasium on campus.
Every day is a chance to make a difference in the life of a child for recent Penn State World Campus alumna Abby Keizer.
Beescape.org provides a tool for beekeepers, gardeners, growers and land managers to assess the quality of their landscapes for supporting managed honey bees and wild bees. It was developed through a partnership led by Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, Center for Pollinator Research and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
A new genetics and genealogy curriculum co-developed by Nina Jablonski, Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology and director of the Center for Human Evolution and Diversity in the College of the Liberal Arts, will be featured on PBS' "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr." on April 9. The State Theatre in State College will host a local celebration on April 7.
Penn State Health today (March 29) celebrated the start of construction on its third adult acute care hospital, the 300,000-square-foot, three-story Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center in Cumberland County.
April 1, 2019, marked the 185th anniversary of the founding of Dickinson Law. Today, 185 years later, while much has changed in the world, the foundational approach of Dickinson Law has stayed largely the same.
Penn State Abington student Kira Charles is a survivor, overcoming many obstacles, including coping with a disability and a near-fatal illness. The Penn State Abington junior wants to support others with disabilities by changing public policy.
Abdulla Puckett, a doctoral student at the University of California at Los Angeles, addressed a group of nearly 140 individuals who gathered for the Penn State Prison Education and Reentry Summit on March 29-30 at the Nittany Lion Inn.
The Penn State Hotel & Restaurant Society Hospitality Executive of the Year event will be held on April 3 at the Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus. The event will include the presentation of the Hospitality Executive of the Year Award, to be presented to Dawn Sweeney, president and CEO of the National Restaurant Association.
Farm managers, crop consultants and producers looking for the latest, research-based information on crop production and soil health can turn to the 2019-2020 edition of the Penn State Agronomy Guide, now available for purchase from Penn State Extension.
Penn State’s Applied Biological and Biosecurity Research Laboratory, together with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United States Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Biological Threat Reduction Program, recently worked with India’s Department of Biotechnology within the Ministry of Science and Technology to help the Indian government launch its complex and ambitious One Health Initiative.
