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Forty Penn State graduate students were named recipients of Penn State’s most prestigious annual graduate student recognition awards, administered by the Graduate School in collaboration with several Penn State units. The awards recognize…

Before the evolution of legs from fins, the axial skeleton — including the bones of the head, neck, back and ribs — was already going through changes that would eventually help our ancestors support their bodies to walk on land.…

More than half of the estimated 374 million new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in 2020 were either chlamydia or gonorrhea, which are often asymptomatic and co-occurring, according to the World Health Organization. Despite…

Most near-Earth-sized planets travel around their host stars on nearly circular orbits, and the more small planets there are orbiting close to a star, the more nearly circular their orbits are. These are just two of many findings based on a…

The first full sequence of the last human chromosome — the Y chromosome — to be assembled is complete, thanks to an international collaboration that includes Penn State researchers. The new sequence, which fills in gaps across more than…

Penn State has once again earned a spot on Campus Pride’s “Best of the Best” LGBTQ-friendly College and Universities list, achieving an overall 5 out of 5 stars in the Campus Pride Index for 2023. Institutions are evaluated on eight…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has named Penn State as the lead institution for one of five new Vector-Borne Disease Regional Training and Evaluation Centers. These centers are aimed at enhancing national efforts to…

Penn State Behrend Chancellor Ralph Ford shared the college’s Open Lab philosophy and highlighted the opportunities it creates for students, faculty members and community partners during the University’s Board of Trustees meeting today…

Construction of the Susan Welch Liberal Arts Building at Penn State's University Park campus marked another significant milestone this week.The University held a “topping out” ceremony at the construction site on Wednesday, July 26,…

Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine are strengthening their commitment to curing childhood cancer by bringing Dr. Giselle Saulnier Sholler, an internationally known physician-scientist, and her research consortium to…