Master Watershed Steward’s decade-long service demonstrates impact
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Geoffrey Selling has spent the past decade volunteering with Penn State Extension’s Montgomery County Master Watershed Steward program, dedicating more than 3,000 hours to service projects, both as a project manager and program leader.
Nakamura to discuss barriers to accessing environmental public benefit programs
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Shotaro Nakamura, assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education at Penn State, will give the talk “Monetary and non-monetary barriers to accessing environmental public benefit programs: experimental evidence from California,” at noon on Friday, Sept. 25, in 157 Hosler Building on Penn State’s University Park campus.
Sept. 25 talk to highlight importance of resilient water infrastructure
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Roberto Fernández, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Penn State, will give the talk “Living with Water” on Sept. 25 in the Earth and Engineering Sciences Building at University Park. The talk will also be available via Zoom.
Flight of imagination
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An array of Penn State alumni, faculty, and students have played an essential role in NASA’s upcoming Dragonfly mission, a groundbreaking exploration of Saturn’s largest moon in search of a new understanding of the origins of life on Earth.
Biobehavioral health professor Keith Aronson to retire after 25 years at Penn State
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After 25 years at Penn State, Keith Aronson, associate director of the Social Science Research Institute, director of the Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness at Penn State and research professor in the Department of Biobehavioral Health, will retire at the end of the year.
College of Agricultural Sciences hosts Ukrainian scholars
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Managed by Ag Sciences Global in the college, the Woskob International Research in Agriculture Scholar Program is the Woskob New Century Fund’s flagship educational exchange program. It covers visiting scholars’ travel and living expenses. The program gives Ukrainian instructors a semester-long opportunity to expand their knowledge and expertise by attending classes and working with the college’s faculty.
Penn State Sustainability to screen 'Hungry to Learn' on Wednesday, Sept. 30
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Penn State Sustainability’s Intersections Film Series will launch its 2026-27 season with a screening of “Hungry to Learn” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 30. The film highlights the widespread issue of food insecurity among college students and its impact on student success, while also spotlighting emerging solutions.
Pollard Lecture set for Oct. 8
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Dorothee Kern, from Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Scripps Research, will present the 2026 Ernest C. Pollard Lecture in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, titled “The Protein Dance: From Experiments to AI Predictions,” at 12:10 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8, in 008 Mueller Laboratory at Penn State University Park. This free public lecture is sponsored by the Penn State Eberly College of Science.
One Health Microbiome Center announces 2026 award recipients
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The One Health Microbiome Center recognized five Penn State researchers and trainees with its 2026 awards for contributions to microbiome science, leadership, community engagement, creativity, research and mentorship.
Tiny wrinkles bend physics to change how electricity moves through graphene
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Small bends in graphene’s two-dimensional, or one-atom-thick, structure can change the material’s electrical properties, according to a new study. Harnessing this property may allow scientists to one day power more responsive sensors and ultrathin electronic devices.
Oct. 15 symposium to explore AI's role in life sciences research
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The ICDS/Huck AI Symposium, hosted by the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences on Oct. 15, will bring together researchers from across Penn State and beyond to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming the life sciences.
Coffee Hour talk to explore urban expansion in the Amazon
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Roberta Mendonça De Carvalho will discuss how decades of urban growth and the creation of new municipalities have reshaped the Brazilian Amazon and its environment on Sept. 18 at University Park.