The Penn State College of Nursing and Clinical and Translational Science Institute will present a panel discussion April 6 to provide education and understanding of the opioid epidemic and its statewide impact. "The Opioid Epidemic: Impacts on Nursing, the Community, and Family" will take place from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in Freeman Auditorium at the HUB-Robeson Center.

The Nursing Program at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, will hold an information session March 22 for nurses interested in the Nurse Practitioner options of the master of science in nursing (M.S.N.) degree program. The session will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. in room 218 of the Biomedical Building on the Fayette campus in Lemont Furnace, Pennsylvania.

Ruth McDermott-Levy, associate professor and director of the Center for Global and Public Health at Villanova University, will present a public lecture titled “Planetary Health: An Upstream Approach to Addressing the Needs of Patients and Communities” on March 21 at Penn State's University Park campus.

Penn State’s College of Nursing is one of 31 schools of nursing to receive a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s final cohort of the Future of Nursing Scholars program, which provides financial support, mentoring, and leadership development to nursing doctoral students who commit to completing their degrees in an expedited three-year time frame.