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![Having a regular, age-appropriate bedtime and getting sufficient sleep from early childhood may be important for healthy body weight in adolescence, according to researchers at Penn State.](https://www.huck.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_600x600_crop_center-center_80_none/GettyImages-912588394.jpg)
Dec 05, 2018
Regular bedtimes and sufficient sleep for children may lead to healthier teens
Having a regular, age-appropriate bedtime and getting sufficient sleep from early childhood may be important for healthy body weight in adolescence, according to researchers at Penn State.
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![Graduate students in the EGR training program’s inaugural group. Credit: Penn State](https://www.huck.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_600x600_crop_center-center_80_none/egr_students.jpg)
Dec 03, 2018
Training grant supports graduate students studying gene regulation
A new $2.4 million-dollar program to train graduate students in the area of eukaryotic gene regulation (EGR) has been established at Penn State with funding from the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and from Penn State matching support.
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![Penn State has become the 55th educational institution in the nation to be certified as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, designed to marshal the strength of educational campuses for the benefit of pollinators.IMAGE: PENN STATE](https://www.huck.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_600x600_crop_center-center_80_none/4947731346.jpg)
Dec 03, 2018
Penn State earns 'Bee Campus USA' certification
Penn State has become the 55th educational institution in the nation to be certified as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, designed to marshal the strength of educational campuses for the benefit of pollinators. The University Park campus joins more than 100 other cities and campuses across the country united in improving their landscapes for pollinators.
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![Lizards increasingly rely on camouflage to avoid predators as you move southward across their range, but the presence of invasive fire ants reverses this pattern. IMAGE: LANGKILDE LAB, PENN STATE](https://www.huck.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_600x600_crop_center-center_80_none/Langkilde_LR.jpg)
Nov 29, 2018
Lizards quickly adapt to threat from invasive fire ants
Some lizards in the eastern U.S. have adapted to invasive fire ants — which can bite, sting and kill lizards — reversing geographical trends in behavioral and physical traits used to avoid predators.
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![A blue Acroporid coral in Lizard Island lagoon off the coast of Australia. New research shows that corals and their microbiomes have coevolved for hundreds of millions of years. IMAGE: F. JOSEPH POLLOCK, PENN STATE](https://www.huck.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_600x600_crop_center-center_80_none/GCMP_5_0.jpg)
Nov 29, 2018
Corals and their microbiomes evolved together
Corals and the microorganisms they host have evolved together for hundreds of millions of years. Understanding this long-term relationship could add fresh insight to the fight to save the Earth’s embattled coral reefs, the planet’s largest and most significant structures of biological origin.
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![Jordan Hughey has been awarded a scholarship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Minority Ph.D. (MPHD) program.](https://www.huck.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_600x600_crop_center-center_80_none/Jordan-Hughey-2018.jpg)
Nov 28, 2018
BG Student Wins Sloan Foundation Scholarship
Jordan Hughey has added the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Minority Ph.D. award to an impressive list of accolades.
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![Farmers in Angonia, Mozambique, happy with the performance of new varieties of common bean developed by an international partnership of plant scientists that included researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, pose among plants in a bean field. Plant breeding field trials have been conducted with bean growers in multiple regions of the country in southeast Africa. IMAGE: JIMMY BURRIDGE](https://www.huck.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_600x600_crop_center-center_80_none/Mozambicans-with-bean-plants.jpg)
Nov 28, 2018
Penn State root research results in breeding of improved bean plants for Africa
In the culmination of more than a decade of research on root traits conducted by Penn State plant scientists, about three tons of seed for common bean plants specifically bred to thrive in the barren soils of Mozambique will be distributed there Dec. 11.
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![Katriona Shea Named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science](https://www.huck.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_600x600_crop_center-center_80_none/k-shea.jpg)
Nov 27, 2018
Katriona Shea Named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Katriona Shea, professor of biology and Alumni Professor in the Biological Sciences has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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![Jian Yang with Ph.D. student Chuying Ma displaying a bendable citrate-based material for bone repair. IMAGE: WALT MILLS / PENN STATE](https://www.huck.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_600x600_crop_center-center_80_none/DSC_0003_3.jpg)
Nov 26, 2018
Citrate-based biomaterial fuels bone healing with less rejection
A material based on a natural product of bones and citrus fruit, called citrate, provides the extra energy that stem cells need to form new bone tissue, according to a team of Penn State bioengineers.
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![Wood frogs rely on sound to find mates and reproduce, but many breeding ponds are located near noisy roads. A new study reveals that traffic noise is stressful to frogs and impairs the production of antimicrobial peptides — an important defense mechanism against pathogens like the chytrid fungus. IMAGE: LINDSEY SWIERK](https://www.huck.psu.edu/assets/uploads/news/_600x600_crop_center-center_80_none/wood-frog.jpg)
Nov 21, 2018
Traffic noise stresses out frogs, but some have adapted
Frogs from noisy ponds near highways have altered stress and immune profiles compared to frogs from more quiet ponds — changes that reduce the negative effects of traffic noise on the amphibians.
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