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Suat Irmak named fellow by leading world science society

April 03, 2025

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New course helps students plan and design conservation structures on farms

April 02, 2025

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Penn State’s Agribot Club: Where technology meets agriculture

April 02, 2025

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Four Penn State faculty elected AAAS Fellows

March 27, 2025

Landis Crawford stands in front of Schreyer Honors College sign

Schreyer Scholar sows passion for agricultural leadership 

March 26, 2025

'Counting Winter' wins 2025 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award

March 25, 2025

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New computer vision system can guide specialty crops monitoring

February 27, 2025

College of Agricultural Sciences student selected as Farm Foundation Cultivator

February 04, 2025

Emily Stapleton

Cycling and sustainability go hand-in-hand for College of Ag Sciences student

January 09, 2025

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‘Triple burden’ of invisible labor major stressor for farm women, study finds

December 12, 2024

Research awards lined up on a table with a blue tablecloth

College of Ag Sciences celebrates faculty, staff achievements in research

December 10, 2024

Faculty in College of Ag Sciences lauded for teaching, extension excellence

December 06, 2024

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Researchers to study how to make carbon-storing product safer, more sustainable

November 26, 2024

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Alternate stream water-testing method detects emerging contaminants

November 22, 2024

Research team gets grant to study precision chemical thinning of apple blossoms

October 25, 2024

Juliana Vasco-Correa, right, receives an award

Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences faculty honored by national society

October 09, 2024

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Nine researchers named Institute of Energy and the Environment Fellows

September 12, 2024

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USDA grant to fund project developing AI-powered database on water quality

August 26, 2024

fields of small fruits

USDA grant to fund robotic precision pesticide sprayer development

August 21, 2024

Ag Sciences researchers win award for ‘superior’ paper from engineering society

August 07, 2024

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Farm families’ childcare challenges impacting farm businesses, research suggests

July 30, 2024

Two individuals pose outdoors for a portrait.

Q&A: Achieving energy literacy through decarbonization research

July 30, 2024

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Lots going on at the Crops, Soils and Conservation Area at Ag Progress Days

July 24, 2024

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Solar farms with stormwater controls mitigate runoff, erosion, study finds

July 18, 2024

farm kids Ag Progress Days

ATV hazards to be the focus of Ag Progress Days farm safety demonstrations

July 17, 2024

Dennis and Christy Murphy

Passion for agricultural safety leads to bequest by professor emeritus

June 12, 2024

Becot named Nationwide Insurance Early Career Professor of Agricultural Safety

May 08, 2024

Britta and Evan stand in front of a sign that says Steller Floors

Tyrone wood floor manufacturer utilizes OriginLabs prototyping facility

April 23, 2024

LEAD21 Penn State

College of Ag Sciences faculty, extension leader engage in leadership program

April 22, 2024

NSF CAREER Award enables Penn State scientist to study new 3D printing materials

April 16, 2024

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2023 Pennsylvania farm fatality report calls attention to agricultural hazards

March 19, 2024

Teaching excellence recognized in College of Agricultural Sciences

March 07, 2024

Penn State Biorenewables Symposium to unveil new opportunities, April 18-19

February 26, 2024

Feb. 21 webinar to focus on harnessing photosynthesis to address climate change

February 09, 2024

Research Awards College of Ag Sciences

College of Ag Sciences recognizes faculty, staff for research achievements

November 21, 2023

Button mushrooms in a wicker basket on a table

$7M grant funds project to develop new ways to protect mushroom crops

November 16, 2023

A person in front of a microscope and computer screen with a tray of plants

$1.45M NSF grant to fund new research into how grasses thrive in dry climates

November 14, 2023

Schreyer Scholar Vancie Peacock at Student Farm

Penn State senior selected as Marshall Scholarship finalist

November 08, 2023

irrigating cornfields

Predicting nationwide crop water availability by understanding soil influences

October 24, 2023

Two grad students in lab

Replacing 3D printing plastics with plant-derived materials

October 20, 2023

Students gathered around a water sampling device that is on the ground outside

Penn State partners with Monash University for Australia water quality research

October 04, 2023

Penn State work featured in upcoming long-term Franklin Institute space exhibit

September 29, 2023

Tractor pulling competition underway in a dirt arena

Penn State Pullers engineering design team wins two international awards

August 03, 2023

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USDA grant funds study of effectiveness of vegetation to curb water pollution

July 20, 2023

APD 2021 ag rescue demo

Ag Progress Days farm safety demonstrations focus on ATV hazards

July 05, 2023

Portrait of Vancie Peacock

Penn State junior Vancie Peacock named 2023 Udall Scholar

May 01, 2023

Extension experts release guidelines to increase safety of manure-storage

April 17, 2023

Stronger paper bags, reused repeatedly then recycled for biofuel could be future

April 11, 2023

A group of award winners

Penn State Global announces 2022-23 faculty, staff, student awards

April 07, 2023

A tractor fertilizing a field with manure in a big, long spray

‘Manureshed’ management in Susquehanna River basin key to Chesapeake Bay cleanup

March 22, 2023

Homepage for virtual farm website, featuring a picture of a cow and the text "Explore systems and components that make up modern dairy farms."

Interactive ‘virtual farm’ website expands access to dairy sustainability topics

March 10, 2023

making pallets of water

Workers moving products in the U.S. food supply chain at high risk of injury

February 24, 2023

Biorenewable systems major selected as a USDA Future Leader in Agriculture

February 13, 2023

gad student researcher

Machine vision system developed capable of locating king flowers on apple trees

January 26, 2023

Internships earn awards for College of Agricultural Sciences students

December 02, 2022

old tractor with ROPS

New grant to save lives by funding devices to prevent tractor rollover deaths

November 14, 2022

Penn State student Divya Pant stands with Waste to Energy founder Robin Pant

Penn State student competes to expand sustainable agriculture efforts abroad

November 01, 2022

Spray irrigation of farm field

‘Forever Chemicals’ persist through wastewater treatment, may enter crops

October 26, 2022

Living Filter site, spray irrigation

COVID-19 drugs persist in wastewater, may pose risk to aquatic organisms

September 08, 2022

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Penn State’s sustainability efforts in Beaver Stadium suites lauded

September 08, 2022

Penn State Fayette installs Pennsylvania Environmental Monitoring Network weather station

Penn State Fayette weather station will benefit campus and community

September 07, 2022

A graphic of three stages of ground tree pulp, cotton, corncobs, and tomato peels.

Compost to computer: Bio-based materials used to salvage rare earth elements

August 18, 2022

Grad students to aid Chesapeake

Penn State students aiding project to reduce plastics and support Chesapeake Bay

August 18, 2022

A woman sorts sweet potatoes on a conveyor line

Pulsed light technology effectively kills harmful pathogens in new study

August 16, 2022

Agricultural engineers design early step for robotic, green-fruit thinning

July 18, 2022

livestock facility

Researcher gets grant to study biofilters to reduce livestock facility methane

July 11, 2022

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