Penn State helps growers prepare for new regulations
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.
Capturing the energy of slow motion
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.
Alumna traveling the country, working for peanuts
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.”