A quartet of Nittany Lion seniors have earned accolades from Penn State for their achievements in academics, athletics and leadership. All four were recognized at the Penn State Student Awards ceremony on March 31 at Eisenhower Auditorium.
Three Penn State alumni and former Nittany Lions now starring in the NFL will return to campus April 12, the day before the Blue-White Game, to participate in a panel discussion about the business of football at 4:30 p.m. in the HUB-Robeson Center.
Spousal caregivers can face increased health risks, such as high blood pressure and heart disease, possibly due to the stress of caring for an ailing spouse. To evaluate this stress in daily life situations, researchers Stephanie Wilson, postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State's Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, and Lynn Martire, professor of human development and family studies at Penn State, led a pilot study that measured spousal cardiovascular changes in response to patient pain expression via in-home assessments.
The Penn State Hotel & Restaurant Society Hospitality Executive of the Year event will be held on April 3 at the Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus. The event will include the presentation of the Hospitality Executive of the Year Award, to be presented to Dawn Sweeney, president and CEO of the National Restaurant Association.
Linda Watkins, distinguished professor in the department of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder, will present the keynote lecture, “‘Listening' and 'Talking' to Neurons: Non-Neuronal Cells Amplify Pain and Drug Reward,” at 3:30 p.m. on April 5 in the Ruth Pike Auditorium, room 22, in the Biobehavioral Health Building on University Park campus.
This year's Human Development and Family Studies Workshop at Penn State Scranton dealt with the serious opioid crisis currently taking place not only in northeast Pennsylvania, but across the country. Organizers brought together several guest speakers, along with a panel of experts, to discuss all aspects of the epidemic.
Entrepreneurs across the University will pitch their business ideas and create inventive solutions to common problems through a series of competitions and challenges held during Penn State Startup Week from April 1-5. The challenges are at the heart of Startup Week’s mission of teaching and inspiring participants to make innovation a part of their lives, communities and careers, either by starting their own companies or bringing a problem-solving approach to established organizations.
Dixin Xie, an undergraduate in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, is conducting a research project on food insecurity and mental health outcomes, thanks to faculty mentorship from the department and support from the College of Health and Human Development.
A new study points to the importance of thinking more comprehensively, across multiple levels of influence, when considering ways to foster or sustain intersectoral collaboration.
Penn State researchers recently contributed to the “The State of Health Equity in PA” report, compiled by the Pennsylvania Department of Health through the Office of Health Equity.
Each year, Penn State honors several students for the highest levels of academic excellence, outstanding leadership and meritorious service. The 2019 student award recipients exemplify best practices and achievements among Penn State students, reflecting the University's mission of teaching, research and service.
Penn State students Jason Nolf, a wrestler and kinesiology major, and Emily Ogle, a soccer player and kinesiology major, have been selected as the 2019 recipients of the Ernest B. McCoy Memorial Award.
Five Penn State students in their respective areas of leadership have been honored with the 2019 John W. Oswald Award. Awards were given in the following fields: Allyson McHugh, athletics; Marissa Works, creative and performing arts; both Alison Kuznitz and Brandon Pelter, journalism, speech and the mass media; and Cullen Dixon, scholarship.
Noorein Ahmed, a senior and Schreyer Honors Scholar in health policy and administration in the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State, has been awarded the 2019 Ardeth and Norman Frisbey International Student Award for undergraduates.
The Penn State Alumni Association will honor prominent young alumni at the Alumni Achievement Awards on March 29.
