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Flooded corn field

Increasing riparian buffers to improve state's water quality

12/11/18

To identify sound scientific methods to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, Penn State researchers led a Pennsylvania watershed workshop that explored ways to increase the number of riparian buffers in Pennsylvania. Riparian buffers have been used to improve water quality in both local streams and in larger watersheds.

Grant AgED2Malaysia

Project brings together agriscience educators from U.S., Malaysia

12/7/18

Preservice teacher candidates and current teachers from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan learned about agriculture and agricultural education in July as part of the AgEd2Malaysia Human Development Project, a collaborative effort among Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, and the Global Agriculture Learning Center at Hawkeye Community College in Waterloo, Iowa.

Alan Sam, environmental coordinator for State College Borough, speaks with students about their Sustainable Communities Collaborative project at the Fall 2018 Sustainability Expo

Sustainability Expo highlights Penn State’s leadership in engaged scholarship

12/4/18

Nearly 300 Penn State faculty, staff and students along with local community members turned out for the biannual Campus and Community Sustainability Expo on Nov. 29. The expo celebrated students working on 18 projects with the Sustainable Communities Collaborative this fall to provide background research and design ideas for 11 municipal, campus and non-profit community partners.

Soil Generation Community Action Meeting PS Philadelphia

Study Away students experience firsthand look at urban sustainability

12/4/18

Penn State World Campus students Jamie Parke and Yolanda Jackson are experiencing their possible career paths in urban sustainability through Penn State’s Study Away program. The program is facilitated through Penn State’s urban centers in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Study Away is designed to give students a real-world experience in an urban setting prior to their degree completion.

A honeybee pollinating a flower

Penn State earns 'Bee Campus USA' certification

12/3/18

Penn State has become the 55th educational institution in the nation to be certified as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, designed to marshal the strength of educational campuses for the benefit of pollinators.

Field of corn next to the field's drainage system ditch

First-year students develop solutions that will clean up vital watersheds

11/30/18

To help address the damage caused by agricultural discharge, first-year engineering students at Penn State have been tasked with designing an agricultural drainage system to filter out contaminants from storm water runoff before it travels to a waterway. The project is supported by Imerys, a world leader in mineral-based specialties for industry.

Community takes center stage with Brandywine's Thanksgiving food drive

11/30/18

When Penn State Brandywine received a PepsiCo-funded Sustainable Communities Collaborative grant in 2017, the campus outlined local food insecurity as an issue it hoped to address. Most recently, students, faculty and staff banded together to combat food insecurity through the campus’ second annual Fixings for Thanksgiving Club Challenge.

A blue Acroporid coral

Corals and their microbiomes evolved together

11/29/18

Corals and the microorganisms they host have evolved together for hundreds of millions of years. Understanding this long-term relationship could add fresh insight to the fight to save the Earth’s embattled coral reefs

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