Baker to address Germany’s National Academy of Sciences
David Baker, professor of education and sociology, has been invited to address the Leopoldina, Germany’s National Academy of Science, in Berlin in June.
Baker was asked to speak on the topic “Education, World Health and Brain Power” and will present his research on the impact of the education…
Van Hook interviewed about U.S. 2020 Census and citizenship
Trump officials claim they can avoid 2020 census problems caused by controversial citizenship question. Experts are very skeptical
By Jeffrey Mervis, for Science Magazine
The Trump administration’s plan to deal with a possible significant undercount on the 2020 U.S. census is seriously flawed,…
Ramey receives Roy C. Buck Award
David Ramey, PRI associate and assistant professor of sociology and criminology, was recently selected as the Roy C. Buck Award recipient for his paper titled, "The influence of early school punishment and therapy/medication on social control experiences during young adulthood”, published in…
ResearchMatch available for study feasibility and recruitment
The Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute is now offering ResearchMatch, a free tool to help researchers with study volunteer recruitment. ResearchMatch is a national registry available via the Web that connects studies with more than 127,000 willing participants. …
Data sharing for research between Hershey and University Park gets easier
Data sharing for research purposes between Penn State's Hershey and University Park campuses is now easier. Through support of the Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute executive committee and the Office of the Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, data use agreements are…
Frankenberg answers five questions about about school secession
by Erica Frankenberg, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, and Kendra Taylor, PhD Student, Pennsylvania State University, for "The Conversation"
Editor’s note: The word “secession” is often used in reference to states or countries that wish to break off and form their own government. But…
CFP Consortium Webinar on Bridging Research and Policy
A recording of the CFP Consortium webinar on Bridging Research and Policy is now available, please click here to view it on SRCD's YouTube channel. The next Consortium webinar will be on Thursday, May 3 and will focus on computational thinking and robotics in early childhood. Please click here to…
Research on racial disparities in disability identification cited by the Brookings Institution
Three Penn State researchers and their colleague replicated an earlier but provocative study that found that minority children are less likely to be identified as having disabilities as they attend U.S. schools. Their work is now being cited in a new analysis by the Brookings Institution, which…
Brain's immune system to be topic of Biobehavioral Health Founders Day event
Andrew Miller, William P. Timmie Professor and Vice Chair for Research in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine, will present the keynote lecture “Immune System Targets in the Brain in Depression: Impact on Neurotransmitters and Neurocircuits” at 3:30 p.m. April…
A 30-minute lesson can connect young people to nature, preserve for others
A 30-minute educational lesson about the importance of leaving what you find during outdoor experiences helps young people feel more connected to nature and results in children being less likely to take natural items home as souvenirs, according to a study conducted at Outdoor School, a residential…
Barriers prevent family-centered services for children with speech disabilities
While speech-language pathologists support the concept of family-centered services when working with children who cannot meet their communication needs through their own speech due to autism or other disorders, a Penn State study shows that there are barriers to meeting this goal.
Specifically, the…
NIH launches HEAL Initiative, doubles funding to accelerate scientific solutions to stem national opioid epidemic
Today, at the 2018 National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit, National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., announced the launch of the HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) Initiative, an aggressive, trans-agency effort to speed scientific solutions to stem the…
Examining role of genetics, environment in substance use among adopted children
A five-year, $3.3 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) will allow scholars from Penn State and three other academic institutions to continue studying the role that both genetics and environment play in the development of early substance use among adopted children.
Jenae…
Wilkinson named recipient of 2018 Barash Award for Human Service
Krista Wilkinson, professor of communication sciences and disorders in the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State, is the 2018 recipient of the Barash Award for Human Service.
Created in 1975 by the family of the late Sy Barash, the award honors a full-time member of the faculty,…
Inaccurate data analysis may affect Puerto Rico’s recovery
The ability to use statistics to guide decision-making may be collateral damage of Hurricane Maria's devastating blow to Puerto Rico, according to a Penn State demographer.
In an article published today (April 2) in Health Affairs, Alexis Raúl Santos, the director of the graduate program in applied…
Program invests in early-stage translational science researchers
Researchers of cancer, post-traumatic stress disorder, staph infections in babies, health behavior choices in sexual minority college students, high blood pressure management in African Americans, proactive sexually transmitted infection testing, and the brain’s role in determining a smoker’s…
Study finds dramatic rise in Pa. babies affected by opioids
A new study shows the number of babies born in Pennsylvania with opioid withdrawal symptoms has increased 1,000 percent since 2000. The Health Care Cost Containment Council released the data, saying more babies are born diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome.
Joe Martin of the council says…
Why Social Science? - Because It Produces Essential Data for Our Democracy
By Ronald L. Wasserstein, Ph.D., Executive Director, American Statistical Association
The social sciences are vitally important to the institutions of democracy. Those institutions include a constellation of federal statistical agencies responsible for collecting and disseminating data. With these…
Solutions Network researcher funded to study cardiovascular disease risk in children
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes over 30 percent of all deaths in the U.S. and its roots can be found even in children. Hannah Schreier, Child Maltreatment Solutions Network co-funded faculty member and assistant professor of biobehavioral health, was recently awarded a grant from the National…
Sexsmith receives Roy C. Buck Award for paper on health care access
PRI affiliate Kathleen Sexsmith, assistant professor of rural sociology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, is the recipient of the college's 2017 Roy C. Buck Faculty Award, which recognizes the best article accepted or published by a refereed scholarly journal in the social sciences…
Science achievement gaps study recognized
Penn State researchers Paul Morgan, CEDR director and professor of education, and Marianne Hillemeier, professor of health policy and administration and demography, and their colleague George Farkas, professor of education at University of California Irvine, received the Distinguished Research…
Perkins named to National Academies committee on military family well-being
Daniel Perkins, founder and principal scientist of Penn State’s Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness and professor of youth and family resiliency and policy, was recently appointed to serve as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on the Well-…
Parenting and personality work together to affect baby’s weight gain
Offering a snack may be a sure way to soothe a fussy child, but researchers say making it a habit can result in unnecessary weight gain in babies with certain temperaments.
The researchers studied the babies’ temperament and how their mothers soothed them when the babies were six months old. When…
Forgetting details, getting the gist may prompt false memories in older adults
Older adults often complain about forgetting, but Penn State psychologists suggest that another problem may be misremembering.
In a study, the researchers found that as people age, they may be more likely to rely on a type of memory — called schematic memory — that helps them remember the gist of…
COSSA Releases 2018 Edition of State Fact Sheets, New Federal Funding Dashboard
COSSA has released the 2018 edition of its state funding fact sheets, a set of one-pagers that highlight the amount of federal social science research funding that goes to each state, including one for Pennsylvania. Accompanying this year’s fact sheets is a brand-new federal funding dashboard with…