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Corporate Engagement with Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine

Together with our business and industry partners, Penn State can tackle the world’s most pressing problems – and solve them. Let Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine help your company leverage the remarkable talent and resources we have to offer.

Connect with our highly engaged network, including nearly 100,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students, 27,000 faculty members and staff and 700,000 Penn State alumni.

Explore opportunities below.

How can Penn State College of Medicine help your company?

  • Tap Talent and Expertise

    Increase your corporate visibility to expand available human resource potential. Whether you’re looking for an intern, an employee or a faculty collaborator, let us help you connect to talent.

    • Engage faculty whose diverse experience in consulting and collaborating with industry helps to move innovations down the path of technology commercialization and into the lives of patients around the world.
    • Connect with students through recruiting events and student organization activities, in-class lectures, facilitation of case studies and advisory boards across the University campuses and health system.
    • Enhance career and professional development.
    • Partner on K–12 outreach efforts to inspire young minds and kick-start bright futures.
    Michael Ludwig and Caitlin McMenamin, both students in the Anatomy PhD Program at Penn State College of Medicine, are seen at work in a lab in the Department of Neural & Behavioral Sciences in 2016. The two are looking downward and framed at right by clean glassware hanging on a lab wall.
  • Power Research and Innovation

    We invite you to drive discovery and partner with faculty to give your company an edge while improving health and the economic competitiveness of Pennsylvania and beyond.

    • Develop collaborative research projects
    • Leverage faculty expertise
    • Grow shared strengths through philanthropy and charitable grants
    • Sponsor cutting-edge scientific research
    • Access specialized services through the Center for Medical Innovation and Corporate Engagement Center
    • License or commercialize technology
    • Co-locate on various campuses in our University-wide system
    Two men are pictured looking at a 3D print of the word "Connect" in the Technology Sandbox at Harrell Health Sciences Library at Penn State College of Medicine in 2018.
  • Elevate Your Brand and Engage Employees

    Create a customized philanthropic program to engage your workforce. Launch integrated and meaningful platforms that tell stories, meet marketing goals and inspire hope for patients and their families.

    • Engage your employees through workplace giving, as well as volunteer and mentor opportunities.
    • Join thousands of supporters who ride, run, walk, golf and take part in other fundraising activities with coworkers, family and friends.
    • Champion children’s health through sponsorships including Children’s Miracle Network, THON and Four Diamonds.
    • Customize cause marketing campaigns, including social media and broadcast exposure.
    • Host a corporate alumni network event.
    • Explore naming and recognition opportunities.
    • Amplify your brand on our campuses and everywhere.
    Employees of Sherwin Williams hold a check made out to Penn State Health in 2018.
  • Get Started

    As a “front door” to Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine, the Corporate and Foundation Relations team bridges the organizational and academic medical worlds by creating system-wide partnerships. Let us connect you.

    Ultimately, we will help you meet your company’s strategic imperatives and social responsibility; facilitate worthwhile and effective interactions between campus leaders and your representatives; and communicate your impact and the attainment of shared goals.

    Corporate and Foundation Relations is conveniently located 15 minutes from Harrisburg International Airport (MDT), on the campus of Penn State Health/Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pa.

    Connect with us

    A photo of the Corporate and Foundation Relations team from Penn State College of Medicine shows three women surrounding an indoor statue of the Penn State Nittany Lion.

Tap Talent and Expertise

Increase your corporate visibility to expand available human resource potential. Whether you’re looking for an intern, an employee or a faculty collaborator, let us help you connect to talent.

  • Engage faculty whose diverse experience in consulting and collaborating with industry helps to move innovations down the path of technology commercialization and into the lives of patients around the world.
  • Connect with students through recruiting events and student organization activities, in-class lectures, facilitation of case studies and advisory boards across the University campuses and health system.
  • Enhance career and professional development.
  • Partner on K–12 outreach efforts to inspire young minds and kick-start bright futures.
Michael Ludwig and Caitlin McMenamin, both students in the Anatomy PhD Program at Penn State College of Medicine, are seen at work in a lab in the Department of Neural & Behavioral Sciences in 2016. The two are looking downward and framed at right by clean glassware hanging on a lab wall.

Power Research and Innovation

We invite you to drive discovery and partner with faculty to give your company an edge while improving health and the economic competitiveness of Pennsylvania and beyond.

  • Develop collaborative research projects
  • Leverage faculty expertise
  • Grow shared strengths through philanthropy and charitable grants
  • Sponsor cutting-edge scientific research
  • Access specialized services through the Center for Medical Innovation and Corporate Engagement Center
  • License or commercialize technology
  • Co-locate on various campuses in our University-wide system
Two men are pictured looking at a 3D print of the word "Connect" in the Technology Sandbox at Harrell Health Sciences Library at Penn State College of Medicine in 2018.

Elevate Your Brand and Engage Employees

Create a customized philanthropic program to engage your workforce. Launch integrated and meaningful platforms that tell stories, meet marketing goals and inspire hope for patients and their families.

  • Engage your employees through workplace giving, as well as volunteer and mentor opportunities.
  • Join thousands of supporters who ride, run, walk, golf and take part in other fundraising activities with coworkers, family and friends.
  • Champion children’s health through sponsorships including Children’s Miracle Network, THON and Four Diamonds.
  • Customize cause marketing campaigns, including social media and broadcast exposure.
  • Host a corporate alumni network event.
  • Explore naming and recognition opportunities.
  • Amplify your brand on our campuses and everywhere.
Employees of Sherwin Williams hold a check made out to Penn State Health in 2018.

Get Started

As a “front door” to Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine, the Corporate and Foundation Relations team bridges the organizational and academic medical worlds by creating system-wide partnerships. Let us connect you.

Ultimately, we will help you meet your company’s strategic imperatives and social responsibility; facilitate worthwhile and effective interactions between campus leaders and your representatives; and communicate your impact and the attainment of shared goals.

Corporate and Foundation Relations is conveniently located 15 minutes from Harrisburg International Airport (MDT), on the campus of Penn State Health/Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pa.

Connect with us

A photo of the Corporate and Foundation Relations team from Penn State College of Medicine shows three women surrounding an indoor statue of the Penn State Nittany Lion.

The background image is A group of adults and children, many wearing red shirts to represent heart disease awareness, are pictured surrounding a big check made out to Penn State Health Children's Hospital, in the amount of $280,000.

Giant Food Stores presented a check to Children’s Miracle Network to support a 3D heart model printing program for patients with congenital heart disease at Penn Health State Children’s Hospital in August 2018.

Learn more about this collaboration