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Penn State welcomed the TEDxPSU Endeavor event at 1 p.m. Sunday in Schwab Auditorium with a diverse group of speakers from the Penn State community.

Studying Sea Slugs When you hear the word “sea slug,” you might start regurgitating whatever you ate for lunch. But it turns out, sea slugs are way cuter and cooler than you might think. Photosynthetic sea slugs, like this Felimare, teach us about ecology. Photo courtesy of Michael Middlebrooks Just ask Michael Middlebrooks, assistant professor of biology, who published five papers on sea slugs in 2019 and 2020. He mostly studies one particular species called Elysia crispata or lettuce sea slugs, photo­synthetic slugs that live throughout the Caribbean. If the term “photosynthetic”...