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The trip was a part of an embedded course offered at University Park and is the first Penn State class to include a trip to Antarctica within its curriculum.

The Earth and Environmental Systems Institute's EarthTalks series returns and will explore the development of solar energy through multiple, and intersecting, lenses. The fall series resumes on Sept. 19 and continues through Nov. 14. Talks will take place at 4 p.m. on Mondays in 112 Walker Building.

Darcy Gray, a graduate student in Penn State's intercollege graduate degree program in ecology, has received a Fulbright Study/Research Award to help beekeepers by examining how habitat and weather patterns drive bee migration and honey production in Kenya.

In mid-October, a delegation from La Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá, Colombia, visited Penn State to participate in a week-long WEF-Nexus (water-energy-food nexus) Colombia Partnership Meeting.

Kaitlin Fischer, a doctoral degree candidate in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, is supporting research designed to help women farmers in Ghana. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Research Award and Africana Research Center grant.

Kaitlin Fischer, a doctoral degree candidate in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, is supporting research designed to help women farmers in Ghana. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Research Award and Africana Research Center grant.

After his plans to serve with the Peace Corps were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Manny Catala pivoted quickly to continue his service to students abroad. Catala, a 2019 graduate of Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, will teach in Ghana this year as part of the International Agricultural Education Fellowship Program.