Penn State students earn fourth place in global health competition
Out of 52 teams, a group from Penn State, including five students from Penn State College of Medicine, placed fourth in this year s Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition. Pictured clockwise from the top left are Savanna Ledford, Krista Harmann, Brian Drury, Xingyan Wang, Emma Baker and Laura Guay.
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Penn State students earn fourth place in global health competition
Tracy Cox
April 15, 2021
HERSHEY, Pa. An interdisciplinary team of Penn State students placed fourth in the 2021 Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition on March 20. Penn State was one of 52 universities worldwide to compete in this year’s challenge, which focused on implementing a COVID-19 vaccination plan.
Next Gen Penn State members named and ready for input on next president
Next Gen Penn State listening process will inform search process led by Board of Trustees Presidential Recruitment and Selection Committee
An important step of the official search process, which will be led by the Board of Trustees’ Presidential Recruitment and Selection Committee, is a listening element that kicks off this month, known as “Next Gen Penn State.”Image: Chris Koleno
Next Gen Penn State members named and ready for input on next president
April 05, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. As part of a phased approach to select a new president for Penn State, the Board of Trustees is engaging the University community beginning this spring in a process to inform the selection of a world-class leader to be Penn State’s 19
As previously announced, President Eric Barron
plans to retire once his contract expires in June 2022. Now, the board has formed a task force to spearhead efforts to find Penn State’s next president.
To get started, the Board of Trustees’ Presidential Recruitment and Selection Committee launched a new initiative, titled “Next Gen Penn State,” to guide its efforts and receive feedback and input from the community throughout the university’s search.
“The Next Gen Penn State initiative is a ‘listening phase’ of our process within which stakeholders from varying backgrounds and perspectives will be charged with actively soliciting input from all areas of our community to help inform the selection of Penn State’s next president,” Board of Trustees Chair Matt Schuyler said. “This is a critical step in the overall presidential search process, and it is an indispensable opportunity for community members to be involved. We are asking our community to help inform the
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Penn State Center Philadelphia collaboration is providing meals during COVID-19
January 20, 2021
PHILADELPHIA Food insecurity for many people was not created by the COVID-19 pandemic, but the crisis is exposing it as a global issue and in many cases, making it worse. In Philadelphia, the People’s Kitchen is a community-driven program that was co-created during the COVID-19 pandemic as a response to food insecurity, unemployment, immigration and land use and development. The Penn State Center Philadelphia, a service of Penn State Outreach, is a collaborator on the project along with the Food Decisions Research Lab in the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State, 215 People’s Alliance and South Philly Barbacoa.