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Smit Patel

Patel earns 2023 Frisbey International Student Award

Smit Patel, a junior majoring in business administration at Penn State Abington, has been awarded the 2023 Ardeth and Norman Frisbey International Student Award for undergraduates. The award recognizes undergraduate students who have contributed significantly to furthering international understanding. 
A female student wearing a blue shirt is pictured working at a laptop.

Education project aims to improve overdose-death reporting

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.