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  • Penn State President Barron and the Nittany Lion in the front seat of a car

    Happy Holidays!

    VIDEO: Wherever you go this holiday season, keep the Penn State spirit with you.

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  • Huitting Zhang, a Ph.D candidate at Penn State studying plant biology, examines samples of parasitic plants in the research team's laboratory.

    Cultivating Resistance

    A research team's genetic studies may lead to developing plants that resist parasitic weeds. The team's work ultimately could contribute to reducing crop loss.

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  • Three women wear yellow pollinator hats and pink dresses.

    Be the Bee

    What made these women strap on bee bonnets and venture into the world of another species? An undergraduate research project examines the sting of undervalued gender-related labor.

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  • The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ Center for Advanced Undergraduate Studies (CAUSE) class visited the Mendenhall Glacier ice caves after hiking the West Glacier Trail near Juneau, Alaska.

    CAUSE and Effect

    Students were on the front lines researching climate change this summer as part of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' 2016 Center for Advanced Undergraduate Studies (CAUSE) course.

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  • Silhouetted people stand near lit jack-o-laterns and a glowing orange tree on a dark night at the Arboretum at Penn State.

    Haunted Penn State

    An exploration of the legends and lore that are part of the University's hallowed halls on Halloween.

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Penn State helps growers prepare for new regulations

12/21/16

Pennsylvania produce growers, food processors and animal-feed producers striving to navigate the federal Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) now have new educational resources to help them determine what their farms and businesses must do to comply with new regulations. Penn State Extension recently launched a new FSMA information website and will be organizing several FSMA educational workshops throughout the state during 2017.

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Research

Capturing the energy of slow motion

12/21/16

A new concept in energy harvesting could capture energy currently wasted due to its characteristic low frequency and use it to power next-generation electronic devices, according to a team of Penn State materials scientists and electrical engineers.

Katie Byrne with Mr. Peanut

Alumna traveling the country, working for peanuts

12/16/16

For the past six months, Katie Byrne has been traveling the United States in a giant peanut, where the smiles are big and peanut puns are abundant. It’s an experience she describes as, well … “nutty.”

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