Lannette Fetzer, quality improvement coordinator in the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health, received the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project Spirit Award at a national meeting in Bethesda, Maryland, convened by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.
Christopher J. Nassetta, president and chief executive officer for Hilton, will be honored as the 2020 Hospitality Executive of the Year by the Penn State School of Hospitality Management and the Penn State Hotel & Restaurant Society.
As the legalization of medical marijuana and marijuana use are both on the rise in the United States, people are not necessarily using alcohol less and may be unaware of the risks of combining alcohol and marijuana, according to researchers who found that compared to people who only drank alcohol, those who used alcohol and marijuana simultaneously were more likely to drink heavier and more often.
Megan Martin found a passion for education and social work after overcoming her own addiction disorder. Penn State’s World Campus gave her the flexibility she needed to earn her degree.
Mark McKinney has joined the Penn State Department of Health Policy and Administration as assistant teaching professor in the Master of Health Administration (MHA) programs.
A signature program of Invent Penn State, the Summer Founders Program is a 13-week accelerator that provides teams $10,000 in funding, resources and mentorship to accelerate their ideas over the summer. Teams work full time on their startup, attend weekly dinners and meet regularly with advisers throughout the summer. The program does not take ownership or equity in participants’ businesses or nonprofits. All that’s asked is participants commit to working hard on their project for the summer and making an impact in their community.
A commercial recreation and tourism management option of Penn State’s bachelor of science in recreation, park and tourism management is being offered online by Penn State World Campus and the Penn State College of Health and Human Development. Applications are being accepted now for the 120-credit program.
Almost 950 Penn State World Campus students graduated during Penn State’s summer 2019 commencement ceremonies.
For Penn State Shenango alumna Erica Meszaros, an internship at Sharon Regional Medical Center — combined with dual degrees in human development and family studies and from the occupational therapy assistant program — opened the door to a rewarding position with Sharon Regional Medical Center’s behavioral health inpatient unit upon graduation.
Muzi Na, assistant professor of nutritional sciences, has been named the Broadhurst Career Development Professor for the Study of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, which will further fund her research on the links between food security and non-health effects.
Stephen Kodish, assistant professor of biobehavioral health and nutritional sciences, has been named the Ann Atherton Hertzler Early Career Professor in Nutrition, which will support his global research agenda focused on the social and behavioral dimensions of public health nutrition.
Asher Rosinger, assistant professor of biobehavioral health and anthropology and director of the Water, Health, and Nutrition Lab, has been named the Ann Atherton Hertzler Early Career Professor in Global Health, further funding his research on water insecurity and associated behavioral and nutritional effects.
Adi Kadosh, a communication sciences and disorders major, will be the college marshal for the Penn State College of Health and Human Development summer 2019 commencement ceremony.
Samantha Beebe shares her experience serving as a faculty lead for a group of Global Health students to Ecuador this summer.
The devastating consequences of the opioid crisis are far-reaching in the United States, impacting public health as well as social and economic welfare. Penn State researchers recently collaborated to address the issue in a supplement of The American Journal of Managed Care.
