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PS-Ukraine
From the EBPVD machine to the skill of "what it takes to live," engineers, artists, and scholars from Ukraine are bringing their intellectual gifts to Penn State through exchange programs and a technological M.O.U.

The Green Question
Are the insects winning? Will the woods someday be bare? How about global warming? Will it tip the balance against bug, or leaf? A new research training program is preparing graduate students to answer these and other complex ecological questions.

Subjected to Science
Revelations of human radiation experiments, conducted by the federal government for three decades during the Cold War, have left fresh scars on the American psyche. Medical historian Susan Lederer was one of those chosen to try to heal the wounds by placing those experiments in context.

. Outlook: Government by Inter-Newt

Outlook: How TV Talk Shows Deconstruct Society

Profile: Seed the Day

Encyclopedia:

: How Birds Fly; Shorebird Sanctuary; When Children Can't Speak; Uncle Sam at the Great Wall; Return of the Wooden Bridge; Congratulations! It's a Galaxy!

Fieldnotes: The Russian Dig

COVER: Brilliantly decorated Easter eggs, a distinctively Ukrainian art form. Over the past five years, Penn State has made a number of connections with Ukraine: personal as well as professional, cultural as well as high-tech.