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Penn State Fayette to hold nurse practitioner information session March 22

2/12/18

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

Ruth McDermott-Levy to speak on planetary and human health March 21

1/30/18

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 announces Global Programs Travel Grants 2017 competition results

12/20/17

Global Programs' fall 2017 travel grants have been awarded in three grant categories: Faculty Travel Grants, Transformational Travel Grants, and Graduate Student Travel Grants. Based on the review committees’ evaluations and recommendations, 30 applicants were selected for funding support. The awardees will travel to 19 countries on four continents.

College of Nursing selected for final cohort of Future of Nursing Scholars

12/13/17

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.

Safe Zone Winning Team at the 2017 mHealth Challenge

Students partner to create innovative apps in mHealth Challenge

11/28/17

More than 50 undergraduate students recently participated in the mHealth cross-college engaged scholarship event during Penn State’s annual Global Entrepreneurship Week. Students involved in the mHealth challenge develop a prototype of a mobile application that addresses a health problem for a specific target audience.

CDC Get Smart About Antibiotics Week

Antibiotic resistance seminar part of CDC 'Get Smart About Antibiotics' Week

11/9/17

University Health Services will join the Pennsylvania Department of Health to offer the seminar “Becoming a Better Steward: Antibiotic Use in an Outpatient Setting,” as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Get Smart About Antibiotics Week. The seminar is free and open to the public.

Graduate unionization hearing transcripts now available

11/8/17

Several weeks ago, the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (PLRB) provided Penn State and the Coalition of Graduate Employees (CGE) with the transcripts from the PLRB hearings that were held on the petition filed by the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) to unionize Penn State graduate students.

Turn Out film

Faculty film preview, panel discussion focus on sex trafficking and its victims

10/26/17

A sneak peek of a Penn State faculty member’s feature film, a panel discussion coordinated by the Penn State College of Nursing about children at risk, and a performance by a musician with Pennsylvania roots are part of an important evening focusing on the topic of commercial sex trafficking and its victims Nov. 16 at the State Theatre in State College.

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