October 4, 2021
Richard will continue to serve Penn State as a professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and will lead IEE until a new director has been identified.
September 28, 2021
A nearly $4 million grant awarded to Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences will support an interdisciplinary, multi-university team of researchers as they investigate technologies designed to address labor shortages on mushroom farms.
September 20, 2021
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering has its roots in a global pandemic and will mark its centennial anniversary amid another — a unique organization bookended by unfortunate circumstances.
September 20, 2021
“This was the first research to look at commercial logging and landscaping services together,” said Judd Michael, Nationwide Insurance Professor of Agricultural Safety and Health and professor of agricultural and biological engineering, College of Agricultural Sciences. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration calls logging “the most dangerous occupation in the United States.” The fatal injury rate for loggers is more than 30 times the rate for all U.S. workers. Tree-care workers such as this one also encounter hazards at rates much higher than the average employee.
August 21, 2021
The ABE Faculty and Staff wish to congratulate our Summer 2021 Graduates.
August 3, 2021
There will be six total demonstrations — at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday — showing how incidents can be avoided and presenting best practices for injury prevention for both ATVs and UTVs
June 22, 2021
A new study by Penn State researchers, who looked at emergency room admissions across the U.S. over a recent five-year period in a novel way, suggests that the agriculture industry is even more dangerous than previously believed.
June 7, 2021
The ABE Faculty and Staff wish to congratulate our Spring 2021 Graduates.
June 1, 2021
Researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences have developed a robotic mechanism for mushroom picking and trimming and demonstrated its effectiveness for the automated harvesting of button mushrooms.
May 26, 2021
Vancie Peacock, a Schreyer Honors College Scholar studying biological engineering, was encouraged to apply for the Cargill program because of her interests in sustainable agriculture and food insecurity.
May 10, 2021
Check out the Spring 2021 Sustainable Communities Collaborative Campus & Community Expo showcasing students’ engaged scholarship projects from the past semester.
April 28, 2021
Biological Engineering student marshal Jaime Burdette
April 26, 2021
Daeun “Dana” Choi, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering and a researcher involved in CAFE, adjusts a drone for monitoring an apple orchard using artificial intelligence.
April 15, 2021
Wayne Kober, a 1973 graduate of the Environmental Resource Management program in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, held environmental program leadership positions in the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. In 2000, he transitioned to national transportation environmental consulting as president of Wayne W. Kober, Transportation and Environmental Management Consulting.
April 7, 2021
Suat Irmak, Harold W. Eberhard Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been named head of Penn State's Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, effective July 1.
March 29, 2021
In an effort to optimize Penn State's hand sanitizer management and maintenance operations, a team of engineering researchers designed, developed and installed a wireless sensor system on the hand sanitizer stations found in Hammond Building.
March 26, 2021
Agriculture industry group announces safety leaders. Awards were presented at North American Agricultural Safety Summit, March 22-24.
March 24, 2021
While urban agriculture can play a role in supporting food supply chains for many major American cities — contributing to food diversity, sustainability and localizing food systems — it is unrealistic to expect rooftop gardens, community plots and the like to provide the majority of nutrition for the population of a metropolis.
March 15, 2021
The Board of Trustees is bestowing the Distinguished Alumni Award, the University's highest alumni honor, to eight individuals.
February 19, 2021
Kelly Chege, a doctoral candidate in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, has been selected as a member of the inaugural class of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition’s Next Generation Global Leaders Network.
January 31, 2021
Research carried out by faculty in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences is helping commercial poultry operations — some with multiple buildings each housing between 20,000 and 50,000 hens — convert from traditional caged housing to noncaged systems while safeguarding animal and employee safety.
January 26, 2021
Thirteen Penn State students have been selected as College of Agricultural Sciences Alumni Society 2020 Internship Award winners. Congratulations to one of our BE seniors, Jamie Weikel, who won an internship award.
January 18, 2021
An innovative assessment of food waste at a U.S. school by an international team of researchers suggests that American school cafeterias waste more food than those in other developed countries, and the true costs extend well beyond just the weight of food not eaten.
January 18, 2021
Novel decontamination method can be used with both table and hatching eggs
December 14, 2020
The vast majority of nutrients and sediment washed into streams flowing into the Chesapeake Bay are picked up by deluges from severe storms that occur on relatively few days of the year. That is the conclusion of a new study led by Penn State researchers, who say it offers clues for cleaning up the impaired estuary.
December 10, 2020
December 2, 2020
Shipping pallets — often used as display platforms in retail settings or seen as raw material for household projects — were responsible for sending more than 30,000 people to the emergency rooms of U.S. hospitals over a recent five-year period, according to a new study by a Penn State researcher.
December 1, 2020
Best management practices for reducing runoff and other nutrient losses in agriculture have been difficult to implement, according to Penn State researchers. The team is hoping that duckweed could help make money for farmers and land managers while limiting nutrient pollution into the environment.
November 16, 2020
Biochar — a charcoal-like substance made primarily from agricultural waste products — holds promise for removing emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals from treated wastewater. That’s the conclusion of a team of researchers that conducted a novel study.
October 29, 2020
In response to complaints about misleading packaging and fraudulent behavior by some producers of bagged landscaping mulch, Penn State researchers conducted an investigation and devised a process to determine the wood species included in the products, and at what percentage.
