Christa Lese Martin, associate chief scientific officer and founding director of the Autism & Development Medicine Institute at Geisinger, will be the speaker for the 2019 Jean Vallance Lecture in Nursing Innovation on March 29. The lecture will start at 4:30 p.m. in Ruth Pike Auditorium, 22 Biobehavioral Health Building at Penn State University Park.
Through her research on the relationship between nurses and their patients, Penn State Altoona Assistant Teaching Professor of Nursing Linda Govere hopes to help create mutually positive, respectful, meaningful and effective relations and interactions among people with different ethnic, racial, religious, geographic and social backgrounds.
Find out what’s happening at University Park and start a new tradition this summer at We Are Weekend, which combines time-honored favorites and new advancements that Penn Staters are sure to love. The Penn State Alumni Association will host the premier summer event from May 31 to June 2 at University Park, with some events taking place nearby in downtown State College.
To thank veterans and their families for their sacrifice and commitment, the College of Nursing and Penn State Law will co-sponsor a Veterans Outreach Fair on March 30. Students, faculty and community partners will offer a variety of services, including health screenings and education and legal consultation — all free of charge.
For nursing student Tara Jacobs, getting involved in THON represents a truly personal commitment to the fight against cancer.
A new research project at Penn State aims to evaluate how cognitive training programs can maintain the brain and everyday functioning in older adults.
Medications are a fact of life for older people. Donna Fick, Elouise Ross Eberly Professor of Nursing and director of the Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence at Penn State, co-chaired a panel of experts convened to update and expand the AGS Beers Criteria — released on Jan. 31 — for medications to avoid or consider with caution for older adults.
Penn State University Libraries Short Stories “Lost and Found” Fall 2018 contest winners and honorable mentions represent a wide range of creative writers University-wide. Nine student honorees range from first-year through senior undergraduates to a doctoral student and represent six campuses and six colleges, and five faculty/staff honorees represent three campuses.
The Penn State College of Nursing’s Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Telehealth (SAFE-T) Center played a key role in a congressional briefing Nov. 27 to educate congressional staffers about efforts to improve access to health care for sexual assault victims.
Students in human development and family studies, biobehavioral health, education, nursing, psychology, and other degree programs are benefiting from a minor that delivers critical training to those who want to work with children.
In November, the Center of Geriatric Excellence at Penn State hosted its first student visiting scholar, Angela Richardson, a registered nurse and doctoral student from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom.
Ten intercollege teams of enterprising students recently pitched ideas for innovative mobile health applications during Penn State’s mHealth Challenge. The challenge tasked student teams with developing a mobile application prototype that addresses a societal health need associated with a specific target audience.
Penn State Scranton students and faculty will have their research article published in an upcoming edition of MedSurg Matters.
Kalei Kowalchik, a junior honors' nursing student, has received a Student Engagement Network grant that she will use to assess and educate patients with congestive heart failure. This is her third SEN award since becoming a student at Penn State Scranton.
University Health Services will host a One Health seminar with the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Pennsylvania Consortium for Antibiotic Stewardship on Tuesday, Nov. 13, covering the topic of antibiotic resistance and the threat it poses to health care today.
