Schreyer Scholar works to develop sustainable solution to food insecurity

October 11, 2021

Schreyer Scholar and biological engineering major Vancie Peacock, pictured at the Student Farm, helped establish the Schreyer Pocket Garden, a pilot program between the Student Farm Club, the Lion's Pantry and the University Park Undergraduate Association.

Institutes of Energy and the Environment Director Tom Richard to step down

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.

USDA grant supports Penn State research on mushroom industry automation

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.

Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering marks 100-year anniversary

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.

Loggers, landscapers face deadly danger felling trees in forests and urban areas

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.

Summer 2021 ABE Graduates

August 21, 2021

The ABE Faculty and Staff wish to congratulate our Summer 2021 Graduates.

Agricultural safety specialists will hold two rescue demonstrations during APD

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