• Talking Beetle Teaches Children, Parents about Pests
• New Program to Help Beef Producers
• Guide to Growing Fruit Goes On-Line
• Composting Program Benefits, Beautifies Penn State
• Welfare-to-Work Program Aims to Bridge Gaps
• Transgenic Mouse Facility Opens Doors
• Food Safety for Hunters and Anglers

Can Trees Afford to Stay Outside?

by Kim Dionis
Often a controversial topic, air pollution does affect Pennsylvania’s forests. But how much, and does it matter?

A Plague Upon the Land

by John Wall
Penn State and state and federal agencies are working to help contain a threat to the state’s $22.3 million-per-year stone fruit industry.

Alumni Profile: Return of the Native

by John Wall
A Penn State graduate’s work is leading to a revival of the American elm.

Colleagues/Curricular

• Floros to Head Food Science
• Seeing the Forest and the Trees
• Youth Programs in Natural Resources