Barbara Franklin, of Penn State, went on to become a U.S. secretary of commerce.

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These partners include the University of Maryland, Penn State, Georgia Tech, the National Climate Data Center and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Hackenberg likes to talk. (Davey told me that one month this spring his father had a cell-phone bill for fifty-three hundred minutes.) He began calling around to fellow-beekeepers, to officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to entomologists he knew at Penn State.

NEWYORKER: Stung