Vanessa Garcia

1 week ago | brilliantstarmagazine.org | Vanessa Garcia

View Photo Gallery We all kind of tried it, didn’t we? Baking with kids during the pandemic. It was fun, at first, but then there were the dirty, grubby hands all over the kitchen (ahem, I mean, the house). There were the impatient jumping-jellybean-toddlers and what to do with them during all that waiting baking requires. And then, of course, the false starts and the errant trials where the bread was more like a slime experiment (their favorite, not exactly yours) than anything edible.

Oct 25, 2024 | medium.com | Vanessa Garcia

Vanessa Garcia·Follow2 min read·--Europeans set sail to the Americas hoping to start a new colony but they accidentally landed in Plymouth Massachusetts, with the help of Native Wampanoag they taught them to set up crops, catch fish, and collect sap from trees after they settled, and their first corn harvest was successful they wished to thank all their native allies by hosting a feast that lasted three days and is now known as thanksgiving.

Apr 14, 2024 | psu.edu | Vanessa Garcia

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — For the 2024-2025 academic year, Huck leadership has appointed Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Scott Medina, Professor of Statistics Lingzhou Xue, and Associate Professor of Surgery Dino Ravnic to be Huck Leadership Fellows. The Huck Leadership Fellows program, launched in 2022, is a year-long professional development opportunity for faculty members to experience and contribute to senior institutional leadership.

Nov 21, 2023 | phys.org | Vanessa Garcia

Bacteria that benefit plants are thought to be a critical contributor to crops and other ecosystems, but climate change may reduce their numbers, according to a new study by an international team of researchers. They have published their findings in Nature Food.

Nov 20, 2023 | farms.com | Vanessa Garcia

By Vanessa GarciaBacteria that benefit plants are thought to be a critical contributor to crops and other ecosystems, but climate change may reduce their numbers, according to a new study by an international team of researchers. They published their findings in Nature Food. The collaboration, including Francisco Dini-Andreote, professor of plant science at Penn State, characterized the abundances and distributions of plant beneficial bacteria (PBB) from soils collected across the globe.