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Penn State’s Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing is one of the largest educators of pre-licensure students in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, with over 2200 undergraduate and graduate students on 13 campuses. Our College is positioned to lead the next generation of nurses and nurse scientists while enhancing the health of all people through quality care and education. To learn more about the Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing, check out our printer-friendly fact sheet.

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$5.25 million grant expands Conway Scholars program in Nese College of Nursing

Bedford Falls Foundation funding will extend need-based nursing scholarships and student success support at Scranton and Schuylkill campuses

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NIH awards Penn State CTSI $28.2M to improve rural health (9/1/2026)

Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at Penn State College of Medicine recently received a seven-year, $28.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. The funding will help the institute pioneer scalable models to solve health challenges in rural areas and turn medical discoveries into real-world treatments, according to Jennifer Kraschnewski, who directs CTSI.

Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence announces fall 2026 seminar series (8/25/2026)

The Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing’s Tressa Nese and Helen Diskevich Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence will host four seminars focused on aging, geriatrics and gerontology for its fall 2026 CGNE Seminar Series.

Penn State graduates honor their parents with nursing scholarship fund (8/25/2026)

Tom and Colleen Weber, both 1987 Penn State graduates, have committed $250,000 to endow the Mary and Tom Moore and Betty and Leroy Weber Memorial Scholarship in the Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing.

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