Book co-edited by Penn State faculty explores gender relations in agriculture
While women represent a significant portion of the global agricultural workforce, they face many roadblocks to success, including limited access to land, technological advancements, education and financing. They also often are excluded from household-level and policy decisions that determine their…
New report on The Veterans Metrics Initiative
Researchers at the Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness at Penn State, including PI and SSRI cofund Daniel Perkins, have been partners in a longitudinal study of veterans known as The Veterans Metrics Initiative: Linking Program Components to Post-Military Well-Being (TVMI Study).
The Henry…
Preventing child sexual abuse program effective addition to parent training
Researchers at Penn State’s Child Maltreatment Solutions Network are using a novel approach to further prevent child sexual abuse.
They tested whether a child sexual abuse prevention program, Smart Parents–Safe and Healthy Kids (SPSHK), could be implemented as an additional module to already…
CATS Safety platform to regulate use of biohazardous materials in research
In early in 2021, Penn State will implement a new platform to manage the submission, review, and approval of the use of regulated and biohazardous materials in research and instruction (as defined in Penn State Policy RP11).
The new web-based system, CATS Safety, will provide investigators, staff,…
Berenbaum receives Pavouček Shields Faculty Award
Sheri Berenbaum, SSRI associate director and professor of psychology and pediatrics, is the recipient of the 2020 Pavouček Shields Faculty Award.
This award recognizes tenured faculty who have undertaken professionally oriented service and mentoring on behalf of women at the university. Dr.…
Family symposium highlights parent-child separations
Penn State’s 28th Annual National Symposium on Family Issues was recently held focusing on the causes and consequences of parent-child separations. For the first time ever, the event was held virtually, but that didn’t deter experts around the nation from participating and offering their diverse…
Impacts of the coronavirus on student athlete substance abuse
College is a well-known risk environment for problematic alcohol use and substance abuse. In this post, Katherine McLean, associate professor of criminal justice at Penn State Greater Allegheny, outlines why student athletes may be at particular risk for higher levels of alcohol consumption and…
SAFE-T Center receives grant to increase access to SANE services on campus
The Penn State SAFE-T Center has been awarded a grant from the Office of Justice Programs’ (OJP) Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) to support their campus outreach plan, “Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Telehealth (SAFE-T) Center Campus Community Collaborative.” The proposal outlines a plan…
Impacts of the coronavirus on intimate partner violence
Each year in the United States, nearly 12 million people are the victims of some form of intimate partner violence (IPV) or domestic abuse. In this post, authors Penelope Morrison and Richard Wentling, assistant professors at Penn State New Kensington, write about a marked increase in IPV incidence…
NIH Issues New Policy for Data Management and Sharing
NIH has released the Final NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing which requires NIH funded researchers to prospectively submit a plan outlining how scientific data will be managed and shared. The Policy reinforces NIH’s continued commitment to make biomedical research findings broadly…
Registration open for a seminar about research of child maltreatment
Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute presents “The Impacts of Child Maltreatment on Development: Implications for Prevention and Policy” at its next Translational Science Seminar Series webinar from noon to 1 p.m. on Nov. 19.
Jennie Noll, professor of human development and…
Jensen co-edits special issue on rural and small-town America
SSRI Associate Director Leif Jensen, distinguished professor of rural sociology and demography, and Tim Slack, professor of sociology at LSU, have co-edited a new special issue of Population Research and Policy Review on “The Changing Demography of Rural and Small-Town America.”
SSRI associate director and cofunded faculty on team that wins national excellence award for research
Faculty in SSRI are part of a multidisciplinary, multi-institution research team that was recently awarded the National Excellence in Multistate Research Award from the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and the United States Department of Agriculture.
This prestigious and highly…
Abstracts wanted for Sixth Annual Penn State Addiction Symposium
Penn State Addiction Center for Translation is accepting abstracts for virtual oral poster and “data blitz” presentations at the center's Sixth Annual Penn State Addiction Symposium. Submit a 250-word abstract, complete with title, author(s), affiliations, and presenter's email address to…
Barriers to health care for violence victims
Violence is a serious health concern and is one of the leading causes of death for adults under the age of 45 in the United States. Among those who are injured during a violent crime, only half of those who need medical treatment use health care services. Penn State researchers are exploring…
Impacts of the coronavirus on access to controlled substances
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many unexpected changes to our lives, including limited access to healthcare and controlled substance prescriptions. In this post, Chan Shen, Penn State Cancer Institute, discusses her research using the Texas PDMP database to examine the filling of opioids and…
People with autism may have large deficits in facial recognition
The ability to recognize faces varies greatly, but individuals with autism spectrum disorders can especially struggle, having huge implications for social interaction. Penn State researchers, for the first time, recently analyzed 40 years of autism data to determine deficits in face recognition.…
Parent behaviors supporting children's independence vary by family risk
Parental responses that support children’s independence are less common in families facing more risk factors. This may be true regardless of whether parents are responding to children’s on- or off-task behavior, according to Penn State researchers.
According to Catherine Diercks, doctoral candidate…
Podcast features researchers collecting local COVID-19 data for action
On Oct. 19, The Symbiotic Podcast teamed up with the hosts of Podward State — a Penn State student-produced podcast — to interview researchers working on a profoundly collaborative project designed to measure multiple impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on residents and students in Centre County,…
New study will examine women with opioid-use disorder in criminal justice system
A new five-year, $842,000 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) will allow Penn State researchers to examine opioid-use disorder among criminal justice-involved (CJI) women.
Abenaa Jones, assistant professor of human development and…
A Symbiotic Short: Collecting COVID-19 Data for Action
This short teaser describes a uniquely collaborative effort led by Penn State research scientists to measure the social, economic health-related impacts of COVID-19 on the population of Centre County, PA. A full podcast episode, including an audio-only version and transcript, is available at www.…
Noll named American Psychological Association Fellow
Jennie Noll, director of Penn State’s Child Maltreatment Solutions Network and professor of human development and family studies, was recently awarded fellow status in the American Psychological Association (APA), Division 37, the Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice, for her…
Why Social Science? Because Misogyny Is Still Alive and Well and Women Still Don’t “Rule” Equally to Me
By Lori M. Poloni-Staudinger, PhD (Northern Arizona University), J. Cherie Strachan, PhD (Central Michigan University), Candice D. Ortbals, PhD (Abilene Christian University), and Shannon Jenkins, PhD (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
Fifty years after Ruth Bader Ginsberg worked to secure…
Hispanics live longer than most Americans, but will the US obesity epidemic change things?
In this article for "The Conversation", SSRI cofunds and PRI affiliates Michelle Frisco and Jenny Van Hook discuss their latest study suggesting that Hispanic immigrants will continue to enjoy longer lives than U.S.-born whites in the near future; but the life expectancy of U.S.-born Hispanics may…
New EIC podcast on income inequality
SSRI's latest Evidence-to-Impact Podcast episode features a discussion with Alexis Santos, assistant professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State, and David Saunders, director of the Office of Health Equity for the Pennsylvania Department of Health, about…