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In the Math for Sustainability general education course—currently taught by Assistant Teaching Professor of Mathematics Russ deForest—students learn a variety of quantitative skills that they can use to be active and engaged citizens. Credit: Michelle Bixby / Penn State. Creative Commons

November 14, 2022

Using sustainability to make introductory STEM courses meaningful
A new statistical method called CLIMB provides a more efficient way to uncover biologically meaningful changes in genomic data that span multiple conditions—such as gene regulation across tissue types. CLIMB first conducts a series of pairwise analyses. Then, it starts to construct “association vectors” that include all possible combinations of a subject’s status across each condition. Then, CLIMB eliminates any combination from the association vector that the pairwise analyses in Step 1 do not support. Finally, CLIMB performs a joint analysis, clustering together subjects that follow the same pattern across conditions. Credit: Qunhua Li research group / Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

November 14, 2022

New statistical method improves genomic analyses

November 12, 2022

Climate change prompts Pa. farmers to adapt crops and businesses
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November 11, 2022

Penn State community grieves loss of biomathematician Howard Weiss
Nikki Crowley Credit: Penn State / Penn State. Creative Commons

November 10, 2022

New research on effects of binge drinking earns biologist early career award
Wenyu Tu, co-author on the eLife paper and doctoral student in neuroscience in the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, sets up a functional MRI experiment. Functional MRI was used in conjunction with neuronal electrophysiology to identify a link between respiration and neural activity changes. Credit: Kelby Hochreither/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

November 10, 2022

Breathing may measurably modulate neural responses across brain, study finds
Bordatella bronchiseptica shedding on BG-blood agar petri dishes. Examples of (a) supershedding event and (b) average shedding event. Credit: Isabella Cattadori, Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

November 09, 2022

Gut parasites may increase onward transmission of respiratory bugs in rabbits
Old Main on Penn State's University Park campus. Credit: Laura Waldhier / Penn State. Creative Commons

November 09, 2022

Penn State ranks 38th in new 'QS World University Rankings: Sustainability'
Retired Penn State faculty Robert and Peggy Schlegel, pictured here during a recent trip to campus, have endowed an early career professorship to attract researchers and teachers to the University. Credit: Michelle Bixby / Penn State. Creative Commons

November 09, 2022

Schlegels endow Early Career Professorship in biochemistry and molecular biology
Left: Todd LaJeunesse collecting fragments of coral from a shallow reef flat in Palau. Right: Caleb Bulter (center) with colleagues from University of Alabama, Birmingham processing coral samples in the Rock Island habitats of Palau. Credit: Credit: Kira Turnham (left) and Todd LaJeunesse (right). All Rights Reserved.

November 08, 2022

Professor of biology awarded Maskalick Biodiversity Seed Grant
Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences faculty and staff were lauded for their work during the college’s inaugural Research Awards Ceremony. Front row, from left, are Karen Fisher-Vanden, Suresh Kuchipudi, Calvin Norman, Melissa Kreye and Jasna Kovac. Second row, from left, are Christina Grozinger, Michael Peck, Brian Thiede, Christopher Scott, Suat Irmak, Claudia Schmidt, Jason Rasgon and Jonathan Lynch. Credit: Rachel Unger / Penn State. Creative Commons

November 08, 2022

Faculty in College of Ag Sciences recognized for research achievements
Lead researcher Sarah Nilson, assistant professor of biology at Penn State Beaver, shows a ramp. Ramps are valued for their strong garlic-like aroma and delicious onion-like flavor. Credit: Penn State. Creative Commons

November 08, 2022

Ramped up: Higher demand for wild leeks has foragers overeager, threatens plant
Randall McEntaffer, head of Penn State's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, makes adjustments to the flight electronics and power supply of the X-ray spectrometer that he and his team built for a September launch with NASA. Credit: Patrick Mansell / Penn State. Creative Commons

November 08, 2022

Penn State’s $1.034B in research expenditures has broad, wide-ranging impact
New software being developed by a team of researchers at Penn State aims to prevent many of the hundreds of thousands of deaths suffered each year around the world by women during or after childbirth. Credit: Getty Images - FatCamera. All Rights Reserved.

November 08, 2022

High-tech tool to perform low-cost health screening for newborns and mothers

November 07, 2022

How many calories are in a strawberry? Here are all the health benefits of strawberries

November 07, 2022

Stock up on this 1 fruit if you're trying to lose weight

November 07, 2022

Postdoctoral Research Symposium to be held Dec. 9

November 07, 2022

Center for Human Evolution and Diversity accepting grant applications

November 04, 2022

Back to black? Canine Distemper Virus outbreaks influence North American wolves’ coat colors
After a nearly two-year hiatus, study abroad programming has returned to the Eberly College of Science. The first to return was a trip to Costa Rica as part of the Tropical Field Ecology course. Credit: Provided / Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

November 03, 2022

Study abroad returns to the Eberly College of Science

November 02, 2022

Peculiar Plant Virus Causes Bugs To Live Longer

November 02, 2022

How to Use Ventilation to Make Indoor Hangouts a Little Safer
In the Alzheimer’s affected brain, abnormal levels of the beta-amyloid protein clump together to form plaques (seen in brown). In a first of its kind virtual trial, two drugs that target the proteins were tested head to head. Researchers found both drugs had a large and sustained effect on removing beta-amyloid plaques, but had a small effect on slowing cognitive decline in patients. Credit: National Institute on Aging, NIH. All Rights Reserved.

November 02, 2022

Two Alzheimer’s drugs tested head-to-head in first-ever virtual clinical trial
Several types of techniques are utilized at Penn State’s Flow Cytometry Facility to analyze various parts and processes of cells, according to Mani. Some of these techniques include, immunophenotyping, cell cycle/DNA ploidy analysis, apoptosis assays, imaging flow cytometry, and cell sorting. Credit: iStock. All Rights Reserved.

November 02, 2022

Flow Cytometry Core Facility provides cell analysis expertise to scientists