Michael Ringenbach

Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at Penn State Health. PhD Candidate @SPAatPSH. Public Health Enthusiast. Opinions my own.

[Michael Ringenbach @mringenbach]

@JagerHokie @StuffSomersSays The article is inaccurate. Local news site, not precise wording.

It does note that PSU sports had a pretty incredible fundraising year last year, mostly from stadium.

Source on largest gift in PSU history: https://t.co/XtE2ioHHT1

[Joseph Younis, MD @YounisJoseph]

The breakthrough isn’t the median survival rate doubling, it’s the fact that they’ve finally managed to create a drug that can target the RAS(on) state, rather than selective KRAS mutations. This makes it the first multi selective RAS inhibitor that’s clinically proven to work. The implications are huge. KRAS mutations are found in:
1. 90% of pancreatic cancers
2. 40-50% of colorectal
3. 20-40% lung
4. 19-23% of ALL cancers

[CFBTalkDaily @CFBTalkDaily]

Take some time out of your day to think of the hero’s we have lost trying to protect our country

Memorial Day is a somber reminder that our freedom is not free

This memorial at Penn State for LT Michael Murphy always hit home for me

[Michael Ringenbach @mringenbach]

@StuffSomersSays This is really fascinating, good stuff. Would love to see how this compares to other B1G schools.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

New results published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine gave more protection against illness than the standard flu shot in a Phase 3 clinical trial. https://t.co/WrNigcewLv

[Michael Ringenbach @mringenbach]

@michaliscler @HaimHabulai @EricTopol @JAMA_current There's a lot of false negatives with MRI in colon, it misses a lot

[Patrick Gilbert @PatrickJGilbert]

Today is launch day for my new book: Never Always, Never Never: Strategic Marketing in an AI World.

Get your copy on Amazon: https://t.co/v91rLEuS9T

Took me five long years to write it. Most challenging project of my life but I’m really happy with how it came together and proud of the outcome.

If you choose to order a copy, an Amazon review would mean the world to me. Thank you in advance❤️

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

New: Covid-19 vaccines roughly halved the chances a US adult would need to visit the ER or be hospitalized with their infections last fall and winter, according to two sources familiar with the findings of a new study. But you won’t hear about it from the agency that led the research: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The current head of the CDC, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who’s also director of the US National Institutes of Health, blocked the publication of those findings in the CDC’s flagship journal, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, according to the sources.

https://t.co/YTeESKDAuN

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen]

the national champs were forged in the fires of an early January night at the Bryce Jordan Center

[NASA @NASA]

To commemorate the Artemis II mission, the astronauts announced their suggestion to rename certain features on the Moon to honor the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, as well as commander Reid Wiseman's late wife, Carroll.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Christina Koch was a firefighter at the South Pole at -111°F before she ever applied to be an astronaut. That was maybe the fourth most interesting line on her resume. She grew up in North Carolina, got three degrees from NC State, and her first real job was building deep-space instruments at NASA.

Then she left for Antarctica. Spent three and a half years bouncing between the Arctic and Antarctic as a research scientist, including a full winter at the South Pole base. That means going months without sunlight or fresh food, with a crew of about 50 people and no way out until flights resume. While she was down there, she also joined the glacier search-and-rescue team.

After coming back, she went to Johns Hopkins and built instruments for two NASA missions (one of them is still orbiting Jupiter right now). She figured out how to start a tiny vacuum pump that NASA designed for a future Mars rover. Johns Hopkins nominated it for their Invention of the Year in 2009. Then she went back to the field. More time in Antarctica and a stretch up in Greenland. A government research station in northern Alaska, near the top of the world. Then she ran another one in American Samoa, near the equator.

In 2013, NASA selected her from 6,300 applicants. Eight people got in. Her first space mission was supposed to be a normal rotation on the International Space Station, but NASA extended it. She ended up staying 328 straight days and orbiting Earth 5,248 times, covering about 139 million miles (roughly 291 round trips to the Moon). Up there, she ran over 210 experiments, including tests of cancer drugs in zero gravity and 3D printers that can build structures close to human tissue. Six spacewalks, 42 hours floating outside the station. She learned Russian for the training. She flies supersonic jets.

Right now, Koch is on Artemis II, heading for a flyby behind the far side of the Moon. The crew launched on April 1 and is on track to travel about 252,000 miles from Earth, which would break the all-time human distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in 1970. That record has stood for 56 years, and it was set during a disaster that nearly killed the crew. Fred Haise, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts, is 92 now. He told Koch: "I heard you're going to break our record."

Nobody had left Earth's neighborhood since December 1972. Koch and her three crewmates are the first in 53 years, and they are coming home at about 25,000 mph. That is faster than any crewed spacecraft has ever come back through the atmosphere.

[NASA @NASA]

Good morning, world! 🌎

We have spectacular new high-resolution images of our home planet, all of us looking back through the Orion capsule window at our Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon.

[Michael Ringenbach @mringenbach]

@NoahJSnyder @Nasaaeaoa South Central PA however is way closer to larger metros, and hosts a lot of logistics hubs, the state capitol, major hospitals, events, and large companies like Hershey Co, TE, Select Medical, West Shore Home, UTZ. Lots of tourists visit Hershey, Gettysburg, Lancaster

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

One Of The Greatest Dynasties In Sports History: Penn State Wrestling Wins Its 13th National Championship In 15 Years https://t.co/SkZbgLCZkC

[Michael Ringenbach @mringenbach]

@MarketPalmer_ Primary care docs, especially in rural areas, don't make a ton of money and often have substantial student loans.

[Sam Brandt @sambrandt99]

One of the most incredible skies I’ve ever seen. A thunderstorm exiting Newport, PA this evening

[Michael Ringenbach @mringenbach]

Research works.

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

Overall cancer death rates are down 29% over the past decade. 📉

These are the cancer types with the biggest drops in deaths over 10 years:

• Stomach cancer: -34%
• Lung: -22%
• Ovarian: -19%
• Breast: -14%
• Esophageal: -12%
• Cervical: -11%
• Leukemia: -9%
• Bowel: 6%

[Penn State Football @PennStateFball]

A record $18,841,726.53 raised in the fight against pediatric cancer🎗️🤍

The true power of Penn State.

#WeAre | @THON

[Michael Ringenbach @mringenbach]

@KevinHornePSU The set list this year was legit