Penn State News

Graduate students in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences contributed to the first complete genome sequence of a harmful plant pathogen from an ornamental Prunus host through an active-learning activity in a plant disease diagnosis course.

Penn State researchers have spent more than a decade making central line placement safer for patients. Now, a $3.7 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute will allow the researchers to expand their system and further reduce complications, infections and other injuries for patients receiving central lines.

Penn State will honor service members, veterans and military families with events Nov. 7-14 during its 15th annual Military Appreciation Week, commemorating the 35th anniversary of the end of the Gulf War.

Xiaojun “Lance” Lian, associate professor of biomedical engineering and of biology at Penn State, will contribute to a nearly $20 million project, funded as part of the Genesis Mission initiative, that seeks to create biocompatible liver tissue for transplants using bioprinting.

"The Wiz" at University Park, a collaborative poetry experience at Lehigh Valley, and fall and Halloween-themed events at multiple locations are among the University's cultural highlights this weekend and next week.