Topics: Environmental Sustainability

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College of Medicine receives grant to improve health, environment in disadvantaged communities

Dec 20, 2023

Penn State College of Medicine has been selected to receive a $1.19 million pollution-prevention grant to improve human health and the environment in disadvantaged communities.

Graduate Profile: Natasha Sood, Doctor of Medicine; Master of Education

May 11, 2023

MD Program Graduate Natasha Sood recognizes that complex factors like climate change affect care. Her work to address these challenges makes us Penn State College of advocating for all Medicine.

A group of volunteers gathers outdoors in the reforestation area of the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center campus around a sign that says “Tree Campus Healthcare: An Arbor Day Foundation Program.”

Hershey Medical Center awarded Tree Campus Healthcare designation

Apr 28, 2023

The Arbor Day Foundation has named Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center a Tree Campus Healthcare institution.

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine campus is seen in an aerial photo on a sunny day.

Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey Medical Center now part of Practice Greenhealth

Mar 10, 2023

Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center have joined Practice Greenhealth.

Rebecca Bascom and two colleagues pose for a photo in front of a poster board. They are wearing masks.

Bascom has big plans as new lead of Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment’s Health and Environment theme

Aug 2, 2022

Dr. Rebecca Bascom will help Penn State Institutes for Energy and the Environment study changes to climate and its impact on human health.

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Penn State Health collects more than 400 pounds of prescription drugs during National Prescription Drug Take Back event

Oct 28, 2021

More than 400 pounds of medication and 20 sharps containers were collected during Penn State Health’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Oct. 23.

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Honey, sweet honey: Penn State Health beekeepers’ annual harvest is in full swing

Oct 6, 2021

It’s a sweet time of year for Dr. Andrew Freiberg and Scott Stanley as they extract honey from Penn State Health hives and donate proceeds from honey sales to the Hershey Community Garden at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

A man kneels close to a rough patch of ground. Behind him, rows of saplings reach toward the crest of a hill where two others can been seen crouching and walking. The man wears a baseball cap, jacket, jeans, boots and gloves. He’s also wearing a surgical mask.

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center named one of 24 Tree Campus Healthcare facilities nationwide

Sep 27, 2021

For the second straight year, the Arbor Day Foundation has recognized Hershey Medical Center as a Tree Campus Healthcare Institution.

Man wearing a grey hoodie, black pants, face mask and gloves uses a shovel to dig a hole for a tree while another man, wearing a flannel shirt, jeans and a face mask, looks on.

Volunteers plant 100 new trees on Hershey campus during Earth Day ceremony

Apr 27, 2021

Nine Penn State College of Medicine volunteers celebrated Earth Day on Thursday, April 22 by planting 100 native seedlings on the west side of the Hershey Medical Center campus.

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Pen and marker recycling available at Hershey Medical Center, College of Medicine

Jan 10, 2021

A "Pen Plus" pen and marker collection program has launched at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine in an effort to reduce the number of pens, markers, highlighters and mechanical pencils that end up in landfills.