Courtesy of University of Alberta News Seeing the Forest for the Trees Hayley Carlson makes no bones about it. She wants to save the world. So much so that the very first thing she saw every morning she woke up during the last two years of her undergraduate degree was a collection of big and [...]

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300,000 students from 120 colleges and universities competed this year in The National Wildlife Federation‘s Campus Conservation Nationals. This initiative was the largest electricity and water use reduction competition in the United States, and accomplished an impressive reduction of 2,114,844 kilowatt-hours of electricity— 2,426,040 lbs of CO2. Water savings tapped 1,681,241 gallons, equaling 11,208 hours of showers. [...]

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Courtesy of Penn State News Changing the way a plant forms cellulose may lead to more efficient, less expensive biofuel production, according to Penn State engineers. “What every biofuel manufacturer wants to do is to get to the sugars,” said Jeffrey Catchmark, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering. “But the structure of cellulose itself [...]

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Darcy McKinley Lester does not like baked beans and spaghetti on toast for breakfast, but she said that dish is hard to avoid when you study abroad in Australia. The Mechanicsburg, Pa., native studied at the Australian National University in Canberra last spring. Now a senior studying forest science, Lester wanted to travel to Australia [...]

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Courtesy of Penn State News By Hannah Lane Laura Davis had dreamed of traveling to Africa for years. So in May 2012, she jumped at the chance to embark on a journey to South Africa and Mozambique offered through a Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences natural resources embedded course. The trip was a life-changing experience. [...]

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Courtesy of Ohio State University An Ohio State University statistician says that the natural human difficulty with grasping probabilities is preventing Americans from dealing with climate change. The situation is not hopeless. Instead of taking an extreme all-or-nothing view about climate change, we can think of it as a spectrum of possible problems, and look [...]

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Courtesy of UBC – By Salina Marshall Katie O’Callaghan never imagined that her graduate studies in community and regional planning would involve police car chases. “It was exciting,” she says of riding in a squad car alongside officers. But the University of British Columbia student wasn’t in it for the action. Rather, she was interested [...]

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Courtesy of ASU News Faculty and students in ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration are collaborating with artists of an upcoming exhibition centered on the issue of limited earth materials, specifically copper, on view Feb. 8 through May 11 at the ASU Art Museum. The exhibition, titled “Cu29: Mining for You,” will explore the [...]

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Courtesy of Penn State Live Ever since she was little, Jeanette Blank dreamed about traveling to Australia. After years of dreaming, Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences helped her get there at last. When she finally arrived, she was determined to learn as much as she could and take any opportunity presented to her. “Before [...]

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Courtesy of Penn State University Live Turns out, watching ants is actually pretty entertaining, according to Spencer Malloy. Good thing for him, because it was one of the most important parts of his job last summer. The Penn State senior with a double major in agroecology and philosophy recently completed an internship at the University [...]

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