Some deer are more susceptible to chronic wasting disease that is spreading through herds of white-tailed deer across much of the United States, according to Penn State researchers, who have identified a panel of genetic markers that reliably predict which animals are most vulnerable to the contagious neurological disorder.
Sarah Nilson, assistant professor of biology, and Amy Camodeca, assistant professor of psychology, will present their research when the Penn State Beaver Academic Affairs Faculty Speakers Series returns to campus Feb. 27.
Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School teachers, students and their parents visit a Penn State Beaver biology lab to participate in a hands-on, blood-typing experiment.
Beaver Assistant Professor of Biology Sarah Nilson has received more than $15,000 from Duquesne Light to conduct a genetic study of Dicentra eximia, or fernleaf bleeding heart, a plant that's considered endangered in some parts of Pennsylvania.
More than 70 students from four Beaver County school districts participated in W.I.S.E. UP, Penn State Beaver's day of STEM-related workshops and panels for seventh-grade girls.
Two fifth-graders from Baden Academy turned to leading bat expert, Penn State Beaver Associate Professor of Biology Cassandra Miller-Butterworth, for help in writing a book about bats.
Sarah Nilson, a botanist who received her doctorate in plant biology from Penn State University, will join the Beaver faculty as an assistant professor of biology in the fall.
Anthropologist Heather Garvin was part of a team of scientists that, in 2013, discovered 1,500 fossils from a new species deep in an elaborate South African cave system. It's been called "one of the greatest fossil discoveries of the past half century." Garvin will speak at Penn State Beaver on Nov. 9.