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May 02, 2019
Alumna Laura Russo receives Robert May Prize from the British Ecological Society
PSU alumna Laura Russo has been selected to receive the Robert May Prize from the British Ecological Society, the oldest ecological society in the world. The prize recognizes the best paper by an early career researcher in the society’s scientific journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
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May 01, 2019
How The Bumble Bee Got Its Stripes
Researchers have discovered a gene that drives color differences within a species of bumble bees. This discovery helps to explain the highly diverse color patterns among bumble bee species as well as how mimicry — individuals in an area adopting similar color patterns — evolves.
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May 01, 2019
Squire Booker Elected as Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Squire J. Booker, professor of chemistry and of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State, Holder of the Eberly Distinguished Chair in Science, and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Apr 30, 2019
Five Huck Researchers Featured In Penn State's "Impact" Campaign
The Huck Institutes is well-represented among this collection of exciting work being done by members of the University community.
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Apr 30, 2019
NIH Grant Funds Research to Pinpoint Natural Selection’s Influence on Genomes
With a $1.7 million grant through the National Institutes of Health, researchers led by Michael DeGiorgio will begin to tease apart individual forces to understand how much influence natural selection has had on our evolutionary path.
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Apr 29, 2019
'Right' Cover-Crop Mix Good for Both Chesapeake and Bottom Lines
Planting and growing a strategic mix of cover crops not only reduces the loss of nitrogen from farm fields, protecting water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, but the practice also contributes nitrogen to subsequent cash crops, improving yields, according to researchers.
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Apr 25, 2019
Food Scientist Kovac Receives Young Investigator Award
Jasna Kovac, assistant professor of food science in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, recently was named recipient of the Institut Merieux Young Investigator Award in Antimicrobial Resistance from the International Association for Food Protection.
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Apr 25, 2019
Bacteria uses viral weapon against other bacteria
Bacterial cells use both a virus — traditionally thought to be an enemy — and a prehistoric viral protein to kill other bacteria that competes with it for food according to an international team of researchers who believe this has potential implications for future infectious disease treatment.
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Apr 24, 2019
Songbird-body changes that allow migration may have human health implications
Songbirds that pack on as much as 50 percent of their body weight before migrating and that sleep very little, exhibit altered immune system and tissue-repair function during the journey, which may hold implications for human health, according to Penn State researchers.
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Apr 24, 2019
Ehau-Taumaunu awarded newly established Phytobiomes Fellowship
Hanareia Ehau-Taumaunu, doctoral candidate in the Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, has been selected as the recipient of the Phytobiomes Fellowship for the 2019-20 academic year.
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