Penn State Cooperative Extension and Outreach

Barbara Christ, professor and head of plant pathology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, has been named senior associate dean in the college, effective Jan. 1. Christ replaces Paul Wangsness, who retired earlier this year after serving the college as a faculty member and administrator for 37 years....

To address the opportunities and challenges of exploring for natural gas in the Marcellus shale in much of Pennsylvania, Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences and Penn State Cooperative Extension will offer a six-part series of online seminars starting this month and running through May 2009. The webinars will cover a variety of topics ...

Michael Messina, professor and associate department head for undergraduate programs in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management at Texas A&M University, has been named director of Penn State's School of Forest Resources, effective Jan. 5....