Topics: Public Health Sciences

College of Medicine launching $6 million study of physical function in seniors

Jul 29, 2024

Nationwide project investigates use of Medicare Advantage exercise benefits

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College of Medicine welcomes international students to Hershey

Jul 25, 2024

Penn State College of Medicine’s Global Health Exchange Program welcomed 12 international students to central Pennsylvania for three weeks of training and learning in Hershey.

Six people, all College of Medicine Global Health Scholar competition participants, stand in a line; five are wearing We Are Global Health shirts.

Penn State places fourth out of 31 teams in global health competition

May 7, 2024

Penn State places fourth out of 31 teams in global health competition; Competition offers students chance to use classroom knowledge to solve complex hypothetical public health crisis

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Two College of Medicine graduate students receive prestigious Penn State awards

Apr 9, 2024

Two graduate students at Penn State College of Medicine have received the prestigious Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award.

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College of Medicine receives $20M grant to research alternative tobacco products

Mar 13, 2024

Penn State College of Medicine received a five-year, $20 million federal grant to investigate the harmful effects of alternative tobacco products.

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Dajiang Liu named as distinguished professor by Penn State

Feb 19, 2024

Penn State has awarded Dajiang Liu, PhD, professor of public health sciences and biochemistry and molecular biology, the title of distinguished professor.

Sol Rodríguez-Colón, center, seen here with women from the Latino Hispanic American Community Center in Harrisburg, helps communities of central Pennsylvania in the fight against cancer by arming them with education and resources to prevent and seek screening or treatment for the disease.

Alumna, Cancer Institute staff member advances health equity in central PA

Sep 13, 2023

Sol Rodríguez-Colón, a 2008 graduate of Penn State College of Medicine and project manager at Penn State Cancer Institute, helps Hispanic/Latino communities in the fight against cancer.

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College of Medicine receives record-breaking $160M in annual research funding

Sep 6, 2023

Between April and June 2023, College of Medicine researchers received 195 grants and contracts totaling $57.04 million for research.

Head and shoulders professional portraits of Strategic Plan Goal 2 Seed Fund Recipients Djibril Ba, PhD; Roderick Clark, MD; Neerav Goyal, MD; Fadia Kamal, PharmD, PhD; Gregory Lewis, PhD; Guodong Liu, PhD; Cayce Onks, DO; Jian Wang, PhD; and Nelson Shu-Sang Yee, MD, PhD.

College of Medicine faculty receive biomedical artificial intelligence grants

Aug 25, 2023

College of Medicine leaders awarded $225,000 in funding to researchers to apply leading edge approaches in biomedical artificial intelligence, machine learning and informatics to rapidly advance biomedical research.

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Article led by medical student Lydia Smeltz, College of Medicine faculty published in Disability and Health Journal

Aug 23, 2023

Lydia Smeltz, medical student at Penn State College of Medicine, Tonya King, PhD, Ami DeWaters, MD, and several co-authors from other institutions recently published a manuscript in the Disability and […]

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