News For October 2006

• Distinguished Animal Science Professor, Gabriella Varga, Wins Nesbitt Award
  Friday October 27, 2006

  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Gabriella Varga, Distinguished Professor of Animal Science, has been selected for the second consecutive year as the recipient of the Arthur W. Nesbitt Faculty Program Development Award in the College of Agricultural Sciences.

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• New Book Helps You Shape Your Backyard Environment
  Friday October 27, 2006

  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Would you like to see more natural beauty and less manicured lawn surrounding your home? A new book co-authored by a Penn State forest expert can help you rebuild your backyard environment. "The Woods in Your Backyard: Learning to Create and Enhance Natural Areas Around Your Home" is a 138-page combined book and workbook written specifically for people who live on one to 10 acres of land that is forested or that has natural unmowed areas, and for those who want to turn a mowed area into a natural one. "Since assistance from public forest managers is not available in most states to people in this situation, our book will be an especially important resource," says Jim Finley, professor of forest resources and state extension forester.

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• Fund-Raising Campaign Will Enhance Pasto Agricultural Museum
  Wednesday October 25, 2006

  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State's Pasto Agricultural Museum has for 27 years aimed to help the public understand and appreciate the way farming life used to be. However, the museum's contents have outgrown its space, according to museum curator Darwin G. Braund. Currently, only about 35 percent of its collection can be displayed at any given time.

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• Kleiner Named Southeast Region Cooperative Extension Director
  Friday October 20, 2006

  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- William Kleiner, extension director in Adams County, has been appointed director of Penn State Cooperative Extension's Southeast Region, effective Jan. 2, 2007. As regional director, Kleiner will provide administrative and programmatic leadership for cooperative extension in the region's nine counties: Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia and Schuylkill.

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• Penn State Creates Biomass Energy Center To Better Coordinate Green Fuels Research
  Friday October 13, 2006

  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- In an effort to enhance coordination and collaboration among the many and varied green energy research projects under way and planned across the university, Penn State recently createdthe Biomass Energy Center.

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• Penn State Helping Penndot Deal With Invasive Roadside Weeds, Trees
  Thursday October 12, 2006

  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has earned an international reputation for cutting-edge research revolving around growing beneficial plants -- ranging from genetic work with cocoa in South America and developing bean varieties that can flourish on infertile soils in Africa to developing blight-resistant potatoes and tomatoes for the northeastern United States.

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• Penn State Farms Manager Honored For Being 'Biofuels Pioneer'
  Friday October 06, 2006

  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A Penn State team led by Glen Cauffman, manager of farms and facilities in the College of Agricultural Sciences, was recently honored by PennFuture at a Philadelphia luncheon for converting the college's farm equipment to biodiesel fuel -- made from soybean oil.

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• Ukrainian Scholars Program Launched In College Of Ag Sciences
  Friday October 06, 2006

  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- During a September visit to Ukraine to receive an honorary degree, the dean of Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, Robert Steele, announced a new joint program to encourage scholarship and professional development among faculty at Ukrainian agricultural universities.

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