Life Sciences

Undergraduate Gwen Yetter honored with Cooperative Education Student Achievement Award
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Gwen Yetter

BS/MBA student Gwen Yetter received the Cooperative Education Student Achievement Award from CEIA for her internship at Merck.

Kelling Recieves 2022 Alumni Association Graduation Dissertation Award
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Claire Kelling
Booker receives Hans Neurath Award from Protein Society for contributions to protein research
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Squire Booker with lab equipment
Microbiology major recognized with 2022 Outstanding Adult Student Award
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adult learner award recipients at a reception

Microbiology major Katrina Bynum has been honored with the Penn State Outstanding Adult Student Award.

BMB undergraduate nominated for Astronaut Scholarship
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Ellie Kim wearing floral shirt
PlantVillage receives Cisco Foundation grant to help communities capture carbon
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woman planting a tree

PlantVIllage receives grant to plant trees in Africa adapt to help mitigate climate change and draw down carbon

Biology major recognized for ethical leadership by Rock Ethics Institute
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three winners wearing black

Biology major Jake Snyder has received a 2022 Stand Up Award from The Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State.

First European farmers' heights did not meet expectations
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Drawing of a scientist working with human skeletal remains
First round of funded projects announced from the Benkovic Research Initiative
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Woman wearing mask looking through microscope.

The first four projects funded by the Patricia and Stephen Benkovic Research Initiative at Penn State have been announced.

Are egg cells in aging primates protected from mutations?
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Graphs showing increase in mutation frequency in mitochondrial DNA in aging rhesus macaques

Mutations in the mitochondrial DNA in developing egg cells increase less with age in rhesus macaques than in other tissues

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