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This large American Elm tree stands on the Penn State Beaver campus near the Laboratory Classroom Building. American Elm trees are now considered rare after its population was ravaged by Dutch elm disease. Credit: Kristen Doerschner / Penn State Beaver / Penn State. Creative Commons

August 12, 2025

Tree inventory creates map of campus foliage at Penn State Beaver

August 11, 2025

Firefly sightings increase, but experts warn of global insect decline
Recently identified and long-lasting type of protein misfolding — non-native entanglements — observed in all-atom protein folding simulations. Representative misfolded conformations of the small proteins, Ubiquitin and λ-repressor, exhibit gains-of-entanglement in all-atom folding simulations and are shown alongside their native structures. In the misfolded states, non-native entangled loops are highlighted in red, with yellow spheres marking loop closures and blue segments indicating threading through the loop. Credit: O’Brien Laboratory / Penn State. Creative Commons

August 08, 2025

New class of protein misfolding simulated in high definition

August 07, 2025

Key Traits Identified in Predicting Disease Emergence in New Populations

August 06, 2025

Human eggs don't accumulate as many mutations with age as we thought

August 04, 2025

Bird Flu May Be Airborne on Dairy Farms, Scientists Report
David Puts is a professor of anthropology at Penn State

August 04, 2025

Huck names new associate director for graduate education

August 04, 2025

Research need inspires student opportunity

August 02, 2025

New graphene-based sensor can help diagnose diabetes and prediabetes based on a breath sample

August 01, 2025

HGSAC co-chairs recognized for symposium success

August 01, 2025

Redefining graduate education through mentorship and innovation

August 01, 2025

National society honors ag and biological professor for inclusion efforts

August 01, 2025

Nuclear war would cripple Earth's food supply

July 30, 2025

Ag Progress Days displays showcase advanced technology, animal health, invasives
Five new research collaborations between Penn State and minority-serving institutions selected to receive seed funding via the Inter-Institutional Partnerships for Diversifying Research program

July 28, 2025

College of Ag Sciences names first cohort of Land Grant Research Impact Fellows

July 28, 2025

Huck student receives U.S. National Science Foundation fellowship
Using AI-driven pattern recognition, TalkingSick analyzes short voice recordings to detect deviations from a user’s healthy voice baseline. These deviations could signal potential respiratory illnesses before physical symptoms appear. The startup team participated in the NSF I-Corps National Teams program, which they completed in June. The program requires teams to complete at least 100 customer interviews in just seven weeks. Credit: Provided by TalkingSick. All Rights Reserved.

July 25, 2025

Startup works to detect respiratory illnesses through vocal patterns

July 25, 2025

How Worried Should You Be About Ticks?
Predicting vaccination levels without accurate or timely vaccination data

July 25, 2025

Predicting vaccination levels without accurate or timely vaccination data
Group photo of Forest Genetics 2025 attendees standing on the steps of Penn State's Agricultural Science and Industry building

July 24, 2025

Huck Students impress at Forest Genetics conference

July 24, 2025

Multistate study targets herbicide-resistant weeds in soybeans
Seasonal flu immunity protects against severe illness from bird flu in ferrets

July 23, 2025

Seasonal flu immunity protects against severe illness from bird flu in ferrets

July 22, 2025

Next-gen tech can detect disease biomarker in period blood

July 22, 2025

$2.6M NIH grant to fund new microbiome sciences training program at Penn State