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  • U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack learns about Penn State biofuels research in a College of Agricultural Sciences greenhouse.

    Agriculture is key to prosperity, security

    U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack's visit highlighted Penn State's education and research excellence in areas such as food science and biofuels.

  • A leader remembered

    John Waldhausen, pioneer in medicine and founding chair of the Department of Surgery at Penn State Hershey, has died at age 82.

  • State sales-tax data suggest that business districts in counties with significant Marcellus Shale development, like this one in Wellsboro, Tioga County, are benefitting from the natural-gas boom.

    Tax revenues up in Marcellus Shale counties

    Natural-gas development appears to be having a positive effect on the local collection of state taxes in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale region, researchers say.