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Jean Paul Allain poses outdoors with an award plaque.

Engineering professor receives DOE Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award

September 18, 2026

The tower of Old Main, partially blocked by trees with orange and red leaves.

Oct. 15 symposium to explore AI's role in life sciences research

September 17, 2026

One Health Microbiome Center Leadership Presenting Awards

One Health Microbiome Center announces 2026 award recipients

September 17, 2026

gears on a blueprint background with text, A Comprehensive Blueprint for Mentoring Graduate Students at Penn State, on it

Fox Graduate School creates Mentoring Blueprint to support student success

September 14, 2026

Old main with trees in shadows

NSF STAIR curriculum expands Penn State’s ACES research administration program

September 10, 2026

A person looks through a slit in a white translucent. well-lit box while a screen above displays an image of the veinous structure of a placenta

‘Ex-Utero’ project uses art, science to explore regenerative medicine

September 10, 2026

two children smile over shared laptop

Peer-led computing camps engage children, study finds

September 09, 2026

cacao tree with seed pods

Could plant scientists breed heavy metal contamination out of cacao?

September 09, 2026

A diagram showing the walking styles of a chimpanzee on all fours, an early human walking upright and a modern person walking heel-to-toe.

‘Heel-strike’ allowed early humans to walk farther at cost of high impact forces

September 08, 2026

Penn State Provost Fotis Sotiropoulos speaking at the Huck Institutes' 30th anniversary event.

Huck Institutes mark 30 years of interdisciplinary life sciences research

September 04, 2026

Corn plants in a field

Specific cover crops may help attract insects that target harmful pests

August 27, 2026

Neela Yennawar, director of instrumentation grant initiatives at the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences

Neela Yennawar named Huck director of instrumentation grant initiatives

August 27, 2026

researchers at microscope

Mixture of traditional edible plants inhibits fungus growth in corn, study shows

August 27, 2026

A 3D visualization of blood moving throught the body, with some cells appearing as infected cells among the standard red blood cells.

New approach cuts sepsis diagnosis from days to hours, researchers report

August 26, 2026

small brown bat sitting on a rocky surface

The secret to bats’ longevity linked to immune response to viruses and cancer

August 26, 2026

Audience members watching a speaker at the 2023 Neuroscience Institute retreat

Penn State Neuroscience Institute announces fall 2026 speakers

August 25, 2026

Cover of the CTSI 5-Year Impact Report featuring external advisory board members and partner representatives

Penn State CTSI releases 5-year impact report

August 25, 2026

study first author

Adaptation and a ‘Noah’s Ark for trees’ offer hope for endangered black ash

August 25, 2026

Jonas Rubenson crouches beside a treadmill. On the treadmill is the metabolic chamber, a Lucite box with tubes for airflow.

Bird bulking: Exercise in youth decreases energy used for moving as an adult

August 24, 2026

a golf course with green grass

After 30 years of research, Penn State startup reinvents the putting green

August 20, 2026

A 3D rendition of color-coded RNA

Messy life-producing cellular process caught in action for first time

August 20, 2026

Facility director recognized for metabolomics work

August 18, 2026

A research figure shows a photo of the team's spheroids arranged in a specific grid pattern inside of a microgel scaffold

Genetic ‘switches’ could program 3D-printed bone tissue for blood vessel growth

August 18, 2026

A researcher figure showing six microscopic images of cell clusters, or islets. The top three images show islets with a relatively smooth texture, while the bottom three images show cells with a rough texture as a result of the team's new research development

Cell ‘invisibility cloaks’ could offer side-effect-free diabetes treatment

August 14, 2026

NSF CAREER Award: Understanding how the brain learns complex skills

August 12, 2026

Andrew Patterson named H. Thomas and Dorothy Willits Hallowell Chair

August 11, 2026

2 researchers with plants

Soilless farming system design can determine microbial growth, impact on crops

August 04, 2026

White, brown, and black chickens walking through folliage.

How does a deadly chicken virus escape vaccines designed to slow it?

August 03, 2026

Amir Sheikhi holding an award plaque

Chemical engineering professor honored for work on plant-based tissue scaffolds

July 31, 2026

Graduate student shoveling soil.

Doctoral student leads grain processing project for Team Pennsylvania

July 29, 2026

Life Sciences Building

Huck Institutes announces recipients of nine interdisciplinary seed grants

July 28, 2026

IIF Three Recipients

One Health Microbiome Center awards Interdisciplinary Innovation Fellowships

July 28, 2026

Many honey bees on honey comb

Diets high in a particular type of fat help protect bees against pesticides

July 28, 2026

Zika grant Jason Rasgone

NIH grants $2.8M to develop tools for study of mosquito-microbe interactions

July 24, 2026

Headshots of Erika Ganda, Jasna Kovac, and Wenrui Hao

Ganda, Kovac and Hao named Huck chairs

July 20, 2026

Dawn Witherspoon, CERAP co-director, welcomes attendees to the CERAP Summer Institute while standing behind a podium.

Community-engaged research unit awards seed grants

July 20, 2026

A sample of a microbe collected on campus grows on an agar plate.

$2.8M NIH grant to study effect of PFAS on the gut microbiome

July 20, 2026

headshots of thirty six Fox Graduate School scholarship recipients

Fox Graduate School awards 36 graduate students Fox scholarships

July 14, 2026

A close up shot of a bioelectrode painted to look like a shark on the side of a researcher's curled fist

Paintable electrodes could power creative and colorful wearable sensors

July 13, 2026

Master Gardener at Ag Progress Days

Penn State Master Gardeners to share gardening expertise at Ag Progress Days

July 10, 2026

A professor of chemical engineering receives his award from the director of NIIMBL.

Team led by Penn State researcher receives national biopharmaceutical award

July 07, 2026

The Nittany Lion mascot

Sending a 'We Are!' to these Penn Staters — July 6

July 06, 2026

Postdoctoral Researcher Gwendolyn Burgess

Postdoctoral fellow earns NIH award to study neurological effects of alcohol

July 06, 2026

researchers in Chile

Newly discovered corn trait may help improve crop drought tolerance

June 25, 2026

Evelyn Mastaglio stands in a hallway

Q&A with Penn State neurobiology student Evelyn Mastaglio

June 24, 2026

A view of Old Main in summer.

GAP funding awarded to 12 Penn State research commercialization projects

June 22, 2026

A monarch butterfly on a flowering plant.

Penn State Master Gardeners support pollinator research across Pennsylvania

June 22, 2026

Huck administrator earns international recognition

June 17, 2026

Close-up image of comfrey, a purple flower in a field of green

Q&A: What does science say about plants as medicine?

June 16, 2026

Person stands in a greenhouse, holding a plant.

Q&A: Can plants help reverse climate change?

June 16, 2026

Portrait of Jacques Ravel next to a photo of the Microbiome Medal

Microbiome pioneer Jacques Ravel named 2026 Microbiome Medal Laureate

June 16, 2026

A triptych of headshots showing the 2026-27 Huck Institutes leadership fellows: Joshua Kellogg, Andrew Deans, and Le Bao

Huck names Leadership Fellows for 2026-27

June 10, 2026

man wearing a dark shirt with a blurry background

$2M NIH grant to support study of how the brain and body acclimate to stress

June 09, 2026

Close-up view of sensors and radar on roof of black autonomous driving vehicle (self-driving car or driverless car).

Artificial eyes could bring human-like sight to self-driving cars, robots

June 09, 2026

Materials lab in national program to develop wearable eye health system

June 08, 2026

Jessica Thompson, a chemistry graduate student, gestures to a display during her 2025-26 assistantship with the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility.

Huck seeks grad students for immersive facility assistantships

June 04, 2026

Photo of a heath aster taken at a field research station at Harner Farm in Centre County, PA

Q&A: New text to serve as reference for advances in plant development

June 01, 2026

The picture shows a hand holidng a gas pump and pumping gas into a car.

Q&A: Are plants the key to solving energy and food crises worldwide?

June 01, 2026

Big data visualization with blue lines.

Four researchers win data harmonization competition

June 01, 2026

Sally Assmann speaks at RNA symposium

Third Center for RNA Molecular Biology Symposium brings together researchers

May 29, 2026

Quinn Burnett standing at a podium and speaking at the conference.

Penn State student wins international award for sourdough microbiome research

May 28, 2026

Gia White presenting with a microphone at a conference

STAIR Leadership Summit aims to fill unmet need in research administration

May 27, 2026

Close-up photo of many dried soybeans on a flat surface

Common protective soybean seed treatment may not increase profitability

May 27, 2026

Q&A: Ebola outbreak and public health emergency

May 22, 2026

Indira Mysorekar poses for a professional portrait with arms crossed in an indoor setting.

College of Medicine appoints Indira Mysorekar to vice dean role

May 22, 2026

A diseased, withered bunch of purple grapes hangs on what appears to be a healthy grape vine

Q&A: What can plant evolution teach people about breeding better crops?

May 22, 2026

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Jean Paul Allain poses outdoors with an award plaque.

Engineering professor receives DOE Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award

September 18, 2026

The tower of Old Main, partially blocked by trees with orange and red leaves.

Oct. 15 symposium to explore AI's role in life sciences research

September 17, 2026

One Health Microbiome Center Leadership Presenting Awards

One Health Microbiome Center announces 2026 award recipients

September 17, 2026

gears on a blueprint background with text, A Comprehensive Blueprint for Mentoring Graduate Students at Penn State, on it

Fox Graduate School creates Mentoring Blueprint to support student success

September 14, 2026

Old main with trees in shadows

NSF STAIR curriculum expands Penn State’s ACES research administration program

September 10, 2026

A person looks through a slit in a white translucent. well-lit box while a screen above displays an image of the veinous structure of a placenta

‘Ex-Utero’ project uses art, science to explore regenerative medicine

September 10, 2026

two children smile over shared laptop

Peer-led computing camps engage children, study finds

September 09, 2026

cacao tree with seed pods

Could plant scientists breed heavy metal contamination out of cacao?

September 09, 2026

A diagram showing the walking styles of a chimpanzee on all fours, an early human walking upright and a modern person walking heel-to-toe.

‘Heel-strike’ allowed early humans to walk farther at cost of high impact forces

September 08, 2026

Penn State Provost Fotis Sotiropoulos speaking at the Huck Institutes' 30th anniversary event.

Huck Institutes mark 30 years of interdisciplinary life sciences research

September 04, 2026

Corn plants in a field

Specific cover crops may help attract insects that target harmful pests

August 27, 2026

Neela Yennawar, director of instrumentation grant initiatives at the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences

Neela Yennawar named Huck director of instrumentation grant initiatives

August 27, 2026

researchers at microscope

Mixture of traditional edible plants inhibits fungus growth in corn, study shows

August 27, 2026

A 3D visualization of blood moving throught the body, with some cells appearing as infected cells among the standard red blood cells.

New approach cuts sepsis diagnosis from days to hours, researchers report

August 26, 2026

small brown bat sitting on a rocky surface

The secret to bats’ longevity linked to immune response to viruses and cancer

August 26, 2026

Audience members watching a speaker at the 2023 Neuroscience Institute retreat

Penn State Neuroscience Institute announces fall 2026 speakers

August 25, 2026

Cover of the CTSI 5-Year Impact Report featuring external advisory board members and partner representatives

Penn State CTSI releases 5-year impact report

August 25, 2026

study first author

Adaptation and a ‘Noah’s Ark for trees’ offer hope for endangered black ash

August 25, 2026

Jonas Rubenson crouches beside a treadmill. On the treadmill is the metabolic chamber, a Lucite box with tubes for airflow.

Bird bulking: Exercise in youth decreases energy used for moving as an adult

August 24, 2026

a golf course with green grass

After 30 years of research, Penn State startup reinvents the putting green

August 20, 2026

A 3D rendition of color-coded RNA

Messy life-producing cellular process caught in action for first time

August 20, 2026

Facility director recognized for metabolomics work

August 18, 2026

A research figure shows a photo of the team's spheroids arranged in a specific grid pattern inside of a microgel scaffold

Genetic ‘switches’ could program 3D-printed bone tissue for blood vessel growth

August 18, 2026

A researcher figure showing six microscopic images of cell clusters, or islets. The top three images show islets with a relatively smooth texture, while the bottom three images show cells with a rough texture as a result of the team's new research development

Cell ‘invisibility cloaks’ could offer side-effect-free diabetes treatment

August 14, 2026

NSF CAREER Award: Understanding how the brain learns complex skills

August 12, 2026

Andrew Patterson named H. Thomas and Dorothy Willits Hallowell Chair

August 11, 2026

2 researchers with plants

Soilless farming system design can determine microbial growth, impact on crops

August 04, 2026

White, brown, and black chickens walking through folliage.

How does a deadly chicken virus escape vaccines designed to slow it?

August 03, 2026

Amir Sheikhi holding an award plaque

Chemical engineering professor honored for work on plant-based tissue scaffolds

July 31, 2026

Graduate student shoveling soil.

Doctoral student leads grain processing project for Team Pennsylvania

July 29, 2026

Life Sciences Building

Huck Institutes announces recipients of nine interdisciplinary seed grants

July 28, 2026

IIF Three Recipients

One Health Microbiome Center awards Interdisciplinary Innovation Fellowships

July 28, 2026

Many honey bees on honey comb

Diets high in a particular type of fat help protect bees against pesticides

July 28, 2026

Zika grant Jason Rasgone

NIH grants $2.8M to develop tools for study of mosquito-microbe interactions

July 24, 2026

Headshots of Erika Ganda, Jasna Kovac, and Wenrui Hao

Ganda, Kovac and Hao named Huck chairs

July 20, 2026

Dawn Witherspoon, CERAP co-director, welcomes attendees to the CERAP Summer Institute while standing behind a podium.

Community-engaged research unit awards seed grants

July 20, 2026

A sample of a microbe collected on campus grows on an agar plate.

$2.8M NIH grant to study effect of PFAS on the gut microbiome

July 20, 2026

headshots of thirty six Fox Graduate School scholarship recipients

Fox Graduate School awards 36 graduate students Fox scholarships

July 14, 2026

A close up shot of a bioelectrode painted to look like a shark on the side of a researcher's curled fist

Paintable electrodes could power creative and colorful wearable sensors

July 13, 2026

Master Gardener at Ag Progress Days

Penn State Master Gardeners to share gardening expertise at Ag Progress Days

July 10, 2026

A professor of chemical engineering receives his award from the director of NIIMBL.

Team led by Penn State researcher receives national biopharmaceutical award

July 07, 2026

The Nittany Lion mascot

Sending a 'We Are!' to these Penn Staters — July 6

July 06, 2026

Postdoctoral Researcher Gwendolyn Burgess

Postdoctoral fellow earns NIH award to study neurological effects of alcohol

July 06, 2026

researchers in Chile

Newly discovered corn trait may help improve crop drought tolerance

June 25, 2026

Evelyn Mastaglio stands in a hallway

Q&A with Penn State neurobiology student Evelyn Mastaglio

June 24, 2026

A view of Old Main in summer.

GAP funding awarded to 12 Penn State research commercialization projects

June 22, 2026

A monarch butterfly on a flowering plant.

Penn State Master Gardeners support pollinator research across Pennsylvania

June 22, 2026

Huck administrator earns international recognition

June 17, 2026

Close-up image of comfrey, a purple flower in a field of green

Q&A: What does science say about plants as medicine?

June 16, 2026

Person stands in a greenhouse, holding a plant.

Q&A: Can plants help reverse climate change?

June 16, 2026

Portrait of Jacques Ravel next to a photo of the Microbiome Medal

Microbiome pioneer Jacques Ravel named 2026 Microbiome Medal Laureate

June 16, 2026

A triptych of headshots showing the 2026-27 Huck Institutes leadership fellows: Joshua Kellogg, Andrew Deans, and Le Bao

Huck names Leadership Fellows for 2026-27

June 10, 2026

man wearing a dark shirt with a blurry background

$2M NIH grant to support study of how the brain and body acclimate to stress

June 09, 2026

Close-up view of sensors and radar on roof of black autonomous driving vehicle (self-driving car or driverless car).

Artificial eyes could bring human-like sight to self-driving cars, robots

June 09, 2026

Materials lab in national program to develop wearable eye health system

June 08, 2026

Jessica Thompson, a chemistry graduate student, gestures to a display during her 2025-26 assistantship with the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility.

Huck seeks grad students for immersive facility assistantships

June 04, 2026

Photo of a heath aster taken at a field research station at Harner Farm in Centre County, PA

Q&A: New text to serve as reference for advances in plant development

June 01, 2026

The picture shows a hand holidng a gas pump and pumping gas into a car.

Q&A: Are plants the key to solving energy and food crises worldwide?

June 01, 2026

Big data visualization with blue lines.

Four researchers win data harmonization competition

June 01, 2026

Sally Assmann speaks at RNA symposium

Third Center for RNA Molecular Biology Symposium brings together researchers

May 29, 2026

Quinn Burnett standing at a podium and speaking at the conference.

Penn State student wins international award for sourdough microbiome research

May 28, 2026

Gia White presenting with a microphone at a conference

STAIR Leadership Summit aims to fill unmet need in research administration

May 27, 2026

Close-up photo of many dried soybeans on a flat surface

Common protective soybean seed treatment may not increase profitability

May 27, 2026

Q&A: Ebola outbreak and public health emergency

May 22, 2026

Indira Mysorekar poses for a professional portrait with arms crossed in an indoor setting.

College of Medicine appoints Indira Mysorekar to vice dean role

May 22, 2026

A diseased, withered bunch of purple grapes hangs on what appears to be a healthy grape vine

Q&A: What can plant evolution teach people about breeding better crops?

May 22, 2026

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