How does conservation agriculture impact farm workers?
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An interdisciplinary team in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, in collaboration with the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, a conservation nonprofit working with farmers, has received a $250,000 grant from the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program.
Q&A: How better climate data supports smarter environmental decisions
Accurate measurements are the foundation of effective environmental management and decision-making.
Finding new ways to measure the local sustainability of rural tourism
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Tourism affects local populations differently in counties across the U.S., but measuring these effects may now be easier thanks to a new tool developed as part of a study by researchers at Penn State.
Gugino named associate dean for research operations and graduate education
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Longtime faculty member and college leader Beth Gugino has been named associate dean for research operations and graduate education in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.
Newly rebranded research integrity program offers expanded resources
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The Scholarship and Research Integrity Program will now be known as the Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research (RECR) Program. RECR will expand its offerings for research ethics compliance and asks graduate programs to submit an updated RECR Plan.
Penn State announces non-tenure-line faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2026
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Penn State has announced non-tenure-line faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2026.
Penn State announces tenure-line faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2026
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Penn State has announced academic promotions for tenured and tenure-line faculty members at Penn State, effective July 1, 2026.
$1.3M NSF grant to expand statewide cyberinfrastructure for researchers
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The Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, in collaboration with five other institutions in Pennsylvania, received a two-year, $1.3 million U.S. National Science Foundation Campus Cyberinfrastructure (NSF CC*) award to build upon prior efforts to expand the foundation for a statewide network that transforms science-driven research and education at under-resourced or non-research institutions of higher education.
PA State Data Center to host Data User Conference on June 4
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Data users from across the commonwealth are set to gather at Penn State Harrisburg for the Pennsylvania State Data Center's annual Pennsylvania Data User Conference on June 4. Registration is now open.
Rwenzori Mountains’ first major fire in 12,000 years marked new era for climate
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Researchers have made a surprising discovery in sediment core samples from lakes in the East African Rwenzori Mountains: A 2012 wildfire that ravaged 16 square miles of the forest and alpine landscapes at more than 13,000 feet above sea level was unprecedented in at least the last 12,000 years.
New Beescape updates include county-level plant recommendations for pollinators
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Penn State’s Beescape tool is gaining a new feature that allows users to download county-specific lists of pollinator-attractive plants, offering a more localized approach to improving pollinator habitats across Pennsylvania.
Students partner with local businesses to address challenges around sustainability
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How can a small business be more sustainable? A group of students and two community partners sought to answer this question during the Common Intellectual Experience, an initiative that teams Penn State Lehigh Valley students with local small-business owners to address challenges around sustainability and reducing their carbon footprint.