Wednesday, May 16, 2012
One of the founding leaders of Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, John Waldhausen, has died at the age of 82. Waldhausen was the founding chair of the Department of Surgery at the Medical Center and the College of Medicine and led the department for more than 25 years. (more)
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
The 22nd annual Ballantine Lecture will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursday, May 10, in the Junker Auditorium on the campus of Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine. The featured speaker will be D. Alex Gillis, former chief of surgery, IWK Hospital for Children and chairman, Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He will present "The Halifax Explosion... Was it the Big Bang for Pediatric Surgery?" (more)
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Penn State College of Medicine will hold its 42nd annual commencement ceremony at 1 p.m. on Sunday, May 20, at Founders Hall, Milton Hershey School. All students, faculty, and staff of Penn State Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine are welcome to attend. (more)
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Four Penn State College of Medicine faculty members were inducted into the Society of Distinguished Educators at an award reception on April 12 at the University Conference Center in Hershey. (more)
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
The Division of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery at Penn State College of Medicine will present the George H. Conner Visiting Professor Lecture on Thursday, May 3 at 4 p.m. in the Junker Auditorium. (more)
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Patricia Sue Grigson, professor of neural and behavioral sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, will present the Spring 2012 Dean's Lecture at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, May 15, in the Junker Auditorium at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Grigson will speak about her research on substance abuse and addiction in a talk titled "Addiction: Natural Rewards vs. Drugs of Abuse." (more)
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
It's not too late to help make Hershey the cleanest place on earth. This year's Kiss Hershey Back event is planned for Saturday, April 28 and volunteers are still needed. (more)
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Sixteen federal and state policymakers, including two U.S. congressmen, Charles Dent and Joseph Pitts, were admitted to medical school for a day during Penn State College of Medicine's inaugural Project Medical Education (PME) program on April 12. (more)
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Association of Indians at Hershey (AIH), a Penn State College of Medicine student organization, will host a dinner-and-a-movie event beginning at 5:15 p.m. on Friday, April 13, in Lecture Room A on the College of Medicine campus. (more)
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Roslyn Crowder, president of the Postdoctoral Society of Penn State College of Medicine, presented at the10th annual National Postdoctoral Association conference in San Francisco. (more)