Penn State Health’s incoming vice president for medical affairs and staff development is expected to lead in the recruitment of staff for the system’s new Hampden Medical Center when it opens in 2021, according to officials.

Dr. Francis Achampong, 64, is chancellor at Penn State Mont Alto, where he also heads up the LaunchBox program. He started his career in education as a professor of business law at Howard University and later moved into administration. He joined Mont Alto in 2002 as its chief academic officer, and after a three-year stint as chancellor at Penn State Fayette, returned as the Franklin County campus’ chancellor in 2013.

Amid legal and financial challenges, cannabis entrepreneurs are banking on growing cultural acceptance of their product to succeed.

One of the first of three medical marijuana research organizations approved by the state broke ground Wednesday on a 65,000-square-foot facility in Penn Township, Perry County where cannabis will be grown, processed, manufactured and researched.

Penn State researchers are using Legos in research to grow scientifically engineered meat.

The idea that consumers should become more savvy about health care costs has been around for a least a generation, but the ability for people to effectively compare prices in health care remains elusive.

To reach lower health care costs, understanding the charges and their variability is a must.

On the night of a pitch dinner, co.space is buzzing with conversation about the day's achievements and solutions to problems like the winter blues and how to create sustainability.

U.S. News updated the Best Colleges methodology to further emphasize student outcomes, which hold the most weight at 35 percent – up from 30 percent last year.