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A forest is pictured with the floor around the trees covered in newly grown green wild ramps.

Wild ramps in a Pennsylvania forest

Wild ramps, like the ones pictured here, grow in and around wooded areas of Pennsylvania. A team of researchers, including Penn State Beaver Professor of Biology Sarah Nilson, are studying the plants to determine if they should be considered a vulnerable species.

LionPATH 9.2 Student Photos

LionPATH 9.2 Student Photos

LionPATH will now incorporate each student’s photo, as it appears on their Penn State id+ card, making it easy for faculty, advisers, and other staff who work with a large number of students to identify them.

LionPATH 9.2 Student Photos

LionPATH 9.2 Student Photos

LionPATH will now incorporate each student’s photo, as it appears on their Penn State id+ card, making it easy for faculty, advisers, and other staff who work with a large number of students to identify them.

LionPATH 9.2 Student View screenshot

LionPATH 9.2 Student View

The LionPATH Development and Maintenance Organization has made additional updates to the student view to better accommodate students’ needs. Informed by web analytics, student surveys, and usability testing, the new screen design features improved usability and gives more real estate to the items that students reported are most important to them when they log in to LionPATH.

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chronic wasting

Over the last decade or so, David Walter's research group in the College of Agricultural Sciences has been studying how the movement, behavior and genetics of wild deer are affecting the spread of chronic wasting disease.