Broader Impacts and Community Engagement in Research Design

The Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI) EarthTalks spring 2025 series, “Broader Impacts and Community Engagement in Research Design,” will highlight innovative and effective ways for researchers to engage more meaningfully in the research design of public impact activities for earth and environmental systems research. The seminars are scheduled for 4 p.m. on Mondays in 112 Walker Building and also on Zoom. Seminars are free and open to the public.

The series will launch on Jan. 27 with a talk by Daniel Max Crowley, director of the SSRI's Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative (EIC) and director of the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center at Penn State. He will give the talk, “From Evidence-to-Impact: Resources and Partnerships.”

Crowley is a professor of health development and family studies, and public policy in the College of Health and Human Development. He also holds the C. Eugene Bennett Chair in Prevention Research. He is a prevention scientist investigating how to optimize investments in healthy development and well-being. This work sits at the intersection of social policy, prevention science and public finance. His program of research is motivated by a desire to increase the use of cost-effective, evidence-based preventive strategies to improve the lives of children and families. He said he seeks to not only understand the costs and benefits of prevention, but aims to develop better interventions and encourage them to be disseminated widely.