UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Sept. 17 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - The One Health Microbiome Center (OHMC) in the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences at Penn State presents annual awards recognizing researchers whose work unites disciplines - from agriculture and biomedical engineering to soil science and computational biology. The awards were established to encourage collaboration across academic disciplines, rooted in the One Health paradigm, which holds that human, agricultural and environmental health are interconnected through microbial ecosystems.

The awards support students, postdocs, staff and faculty working in microbiome science, recognizing contributions ranging from basi...