August 27, 2025
More than 20 high school educators recently visited Penn State’s University Park campus as experiential learners for a new program focused on one of Pennsylvania’s highest-producing agricultural commodities: mushrooms.
August 27, 2025
The Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness at Penn State has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation to evaluate two innovative employment programs aimed at reducing underemployment among military veterans.
August 15, 2025
For the newest generation of U.S. veterans, transitioning to civilian life can pose profound challenges. According to Penn State researchers, post-9/11 veterans are younger and more diverse, and they face rising rates of trauma, mental health conditions, underemployment and service-connected disabilities. To help veterans tackle these hurdles, researchers have created an online assessment tool that assists veteran-serving organizations in identifying individualized risks and providing targeted, evidence-informed support.
August 14, 2025
Penn State Extension will present a free, four-part webinar series this summer, fall, winter and spring to help community members, families and professionals address substance use in rural communities, support youth well-being, and learn strategies for assisting individuals affected by substance use disorder or opioid use disorder.
August 5, 2025
A Penn State Extension webinar series is aimed at helping community leaders navigate land-use challenges, with topics ranging from small farm economics and green infrastructure to solar development trends and artificial intelligence in planning. The Summer/Fall 2025 Land-Use Webinar Series begins Aug. 6 and runs monthly through November.
August 4, 2025
Olivia Murphy-Sweet, the 2025 Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences’ Outstanding Recent Alumni Award recipient, returned to campus this spring and shared her academic and professional journey with students.
July 11, 2025
A faculty member and a graduate student in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences received recognition at the 71st annual North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture conference in Alberta, Canada.
July 2, 2025
In early June, Bogotá, Colombia, became the center of global páramo research as faculty and students from Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences joined forces with international partners to host the landmark Páramos 2025 Symposium.
July 2, 2025
On the latest episode of “Growing Impact,” the podcast hosted by Penn State's Institute of Energy and the Environment, researchers discussed their project that looks to inform lawmakers with actionable insights to protect pregnant women and infants — populations particularly vulnerable to extreme heat.
June 25, 2025
Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has awarded funding to six faculty members across three teams to support the development of innovative curricula through the college's Harbaugh Faculty Scholars program.
June 25, 2025
Eight students from Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences moved forward into their futures at the 39th Annual Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences Training Conference and Career Expo, held in April in Memphis, Tennessee.
June 25, 2025
Future agricultural science teachers studying in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, at the University of Idaho and at 1890s land-grant universities, taught in classrooms across the country as part of the fourth cohort of the U.S. Department of Agriculture-supported Global Orientation to Agricultural Learning, or GOALs, program.
June 23, 2025
Penn State recently held a seminar titled "Empathy and Engaged Youth Citizenship: What it Means and Why it Matters," presented by international visiting scholars Pat Dolan, professor and UNESCO Chair Emeritus at the University of Galway in Ireland, and Sean Campbell, CEO of Foroige, the largest youth development organization in Ireland. Mark Brennan, professor and UNESCO Chair on Global Citizenship Education for Sustainable Peace through Youth and Community Engagement at Penn State, hosted the event.
June 18, 2025
Businesses that take a strategic approach to design are up to eight times more likely to develop innovative products than those that don't, according to a study by scientists from Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.
June 17, 2025
During her years at Penn State, recent graduate Olivia Karoly did more than complete a degree in community, environment and development. From dancing at THON to presenting research at the Undergraduate Exhibition, Karoly embraced a variety of opportunities.
June 12, 2025
Hazel Velasco Palacios, a doctoral candidate in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, has been awarded a writing fellowship to help support her research on health care access for Pennsylvania farmworkers in the mushroom and dairy industries.
June 6, 2025
Veterans may carry a sense of isolation and the painful belief that their presence is a burden to those around them. When these thoughts persist over time, they could contribute to an increased risk of suicide, according to a new study by researchers at the Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness at Penn State.
May 30, 2025
Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences was represented on the global stage as faculty and students participated in the United Nations’ 10th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals, held at U.N. headquarters in New York City earlier this month.
May 29, 2025
What started as free tickets to see a flamenco fusion band in Spain turned into an unexpected research opportunity for a team of researchers at Penn State, who discovered a unique example of the power of music to bridge generational divides.
May 19, 2025
Penn State’s Cocoziello Institute of Real Estate Innovation has awarded seed grants to five interdisciplinary research projects. These grants support collaborative projects led by Penn State faculty who aim to generate innovative solutions to complex challenges in real estate and the built environment.
May 19, 2025
The Burl H. Burleigh Scholarship in the College of Agricultural Sciences provides 30 percent of in-state tuition per year for each student recipient. The scholarship is open to full-time undergraduate students in the college who are graduates of a rural public high school in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and who have demonstrated financial need.
May 19, 2025
Increasing renewable energy may not reduce the use of fossil fuels in the United States, according to a study by Ryan Thombs, assistant professor of rural sociology in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.
May 13, 2025
A Penn State Extension webinar on June 18 will offer insight into kinship care through the lived experience of someone raised in a kinship family: Troy Ott, dean of Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.
May 7, 2025
Conservation programs aimed at boosting environmentally friendly practices by incentivizing farmers may get more bang for their buck by targeting rural farms rather than more urban ones, according to a study led by researchers at Penn State.
April 29, 2025
Graduate students in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences were recognized for their accomplishments during the 2025 Graduate Student Award Celebration, hosted by the Office for Research and Graduate Education and held recently on the University Park campus.
April 22, 2025
Twelve educators from across the country had the opportunity to explore one technology — artificial intelligence — during a recent immersive workshop at Penn State University Park.
April 15, 2025
The Penn State chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta, the agricultural honor society, recognized faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars and students from the College of Agricultural Sciences during its annual meeting April 3.
April 14, 2025
The Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness at Penn State has received $1.4 million from the U.S. Air Force for a major initiative to expand access for airmen and their families to evidence-informed parenting programs to strengthen military family resilience and well-being.
April 14, 2025
Penn State students had the opportunity to showcase their entrepreneurial aspirations at the 2025 Ag Springboard student business pitch contest, which took place earlier this month in State College.
April 3, 2025
Eight accomplished young alumni who have made remarkable impacts in their professional fields received the prestigious Alumni Achievement Award during a ceremony held by the Penn State Alumni Association on March 28. The event took place at the Hintz Family Alumni Center on Penn State's University Park campus.
