Accurate reporting on causes of death has direct impacts on mortality data, policy making, and setting priorities in public health. A Penn State-led project aims to educate coroners, medical examiners, and others in the death certifier community in Pennsylvania about the reporting of accidental overdoses due to substance use to help local governments better respond to public health issues.
Students will develop skills to advance solutions to complex societal problems while earning the new race and ethnic studies degree, which is only available at Penn State Abington.
Two gifts totaling $50,000 are kicking off an international research project led by Penn State Abington professor Pierce Salguero into the diagnosis and treatment of meditation sickness, a largely unknown occurrence in practitioners of intensive meditation.
Penn State Abington provides tutoring, writing consultations, and success coaching at no cost at the Center for Student Achievement. Students are encouraged to visit the center to build their skills before they run into challenges.
Penn State Abington launched more than 225 new alumni into the world at its summer/fall 2022 commencement exercises with Philadelphia City Councilmember At Large Isaiah Thomas, the keynote speaker, encouraging graduates to “keep the Nittany Lion fight in you.”
Lixian Yan has been named the fall 2022 student marshal for the Penn State College of Engineering. She will receive her bachelor of science degree with a double major in electrical engineering from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science within the College of Engineering and in physics (electronics option) from the Eberly College of Science. Yan attended Penn State Abington before transitioning to the University Park campus.
Jessica Luna-Tlacopilco is graduating from Penn State Abington this week with a 3.7 GPA despite an exhausting daily commute from South Philadelphia while earning a bachelor's degree with a minor and a certificate in chemical dependency and counseling.
Penn State Abington senior Re'naijah Purvis serves as a resident assistant in the University’s first living learning community focused on global sustainability, and she recently discussed its impact at the Global Sustainable Action: It Starts With Us conference.
Two initiatives for transfer students eased Mark Tyler’s transition from community college to Penn State Abington: a $2,000 RaiseMe scholarship and the STEM Inc. Inclusion and Innovation program.
The full-semester study abroad experience in Paris was a game changer for a Penn State Abington student who is the first in her family to attend college.
