Thomas publishes book on migrants aiding U.S. military in Iraq
Kevin Thomas, Population Research Institute affiliate and associate professor of sociology, demography, and African studies, recently published his book titled, "Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq". The publication explores why migrants risk traveling to Iraq despite the dangers of the…
Applications open for Community Engaged Research Core Faculty Fellowship Program
Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute‘s Community Engaged Research Core is now accepting applications for its 2018-19 Faculty Fellowship Program.
This opportunity is open to all Penn State junior or mid-level faculty who want to advance their practice of community-engaged research…
Morgan's research featured recently in NYT & WSJ
CEDR director and PRI affiliate Paul Morgan's research was recently reported on in both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and details why the research should be resulting in changes in federal-level educational policy.
Additionally, Morgan gave the Naomi Zigmond Plenary…
New partnerships take Quality Talk to classrooms in Taiwan, South Africa
After seeing success in K-12 classrooms in the United States, Quality Talk, an empirically supported instructional approach, now will help students in international classrooms achieve academic success.
Developed in 2002 by P. Karen Murphy, distinguished professor of education (educational…
Twitter resources available for Penn State researchers
The Computational and Spatial Analysis (CSA) Core of the Population and Social Science Research Institutes has built the infrastructure for collecting and managing Twitter data and has capacity in processing and analyzing the data for social science and population research. The Core has collected…
Penn State Harrisburg to host two discussions on the opioid epidemic
On Jan. 10, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf declared the opioid epidemic a statewide disaster in Pennsylvania. Penn State Harrisburg faculty are dedicated to understanding this crisis and combating addiction in the state. To that end, the college will host two discussions related to the current opioid…
Scientists determine standards for gauging cost, benefits of prevention programs
The Society for Prevention Research released a new set of standards to guide how researchers and public health officials estimate the costs, benefits and return on investment of health and social service prevention programs, based on the work by a taskforce co-chaired by a Penn State researcher.…
New research collaboratory aims to harness the power of data to improve health
Health care professionals have long theorized that medical conditions, like asthma or cancer, are a result of not only genetics but also environmental and lifestyle factors. These theories, however, have been difficult to prove conclusively without the ability to analyze large-scale population…
Frankenberg reviews report about school and residential segregation
Balancing Act: Schools, Neighborhoods, and Racial Imbalance, published by the Brookings Institution, takes up the important task of considering school and residential segregation by exploring the racial makeup of schools compared to their proximate neighborhoods.
Professors Genevieve Siegel-Hawley…
NIH Announces Inclusion Across the Lifespan Policy
By Mike Lauer
Last month, NIH announced a revision (NOT-OD-18-116) to a decades-old policy originally conceived in response to concerns that children were not appropriately included in clinical research. These changes broaden the policy to address inclusion of research participants of all ages, and…
Predoctoral students invited to apply to clinical and translational science training program
Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute is accepting applications for both a yearlong and a summer training program for predoctoral students interested in learning the fundamentals of translational science. These programs work to teach the next generation of scientists the skills to…
ICS Symposium 2018 to explore big data and computational research
In today’s society, data is being collected everywhere, all the time—from your phone, from your car, in hospitals, in the workplace. Data has the potential to solve major social problems. But to make sense of such massive quantities of data, researchers must find innovative methods to gather and…
Stigma increases risk of depression for people with Multiple Sclerosis
People with Multiple Sclerosis — MS — who feel stigmatized are more likely to suffer from depression, according to researchers, who add that having a support system of friends and family and a sense of autonomy may help reduce the harmful effects of stigma.
As part of an ongoing research project,…
Data Security at Penn State focus of Brown Bag Seminar
PRI is presenting a special Brown Bag seminar, "Data security at Penn State", being given by Don Welch, Chief Information Security Officer, which will be held on Tuesday, February 27th from 12 - 1 p.m. in 110 Henderson Building (the Bennett Pierce Living Center). All faculty, staff, and students…
Buxton recipient of IST seed grant
Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) recently announced nine projects that will receive funding from the college’s Seed Grant Program.
The program provides preliminary funding for IST faculty to initiate new research projects. The college solicited research proposals…
New project to investigate social media aggression
A recent survey found that 40 percent of American adults and 9 percent of children in grades 6-12 have experienced online harassment on social media in the last year.
In light of this trend, the National Science Foundation recently awarded Penn State’s Diane Felmlee, professor of sociology, the…
New project to identify risk factors for sexual exploitation of children
Sex trafficking is one of the world’s most prevalent and profitable criminal enterprises, with over 100,000 annual cases involving children under the age of 18 in the U.S. each year. However, the number of these cases are vastly under reported, especially in rural areas. A new project being…
University Libraries offer maps and geospatial information sessions in February
On Wednesdays this February, and one in March, Penn State University Libraries will offer informational sessions relating to foundational map and geospatial topics. The sessions, which do not require registration, are open to all Penn State students, staff, faculty and visitors, and…
Bridges to Translation IV offers pilot grants
As part of its mission to accelerate discoveries to benefit human health, the Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute will award up to $300,000 in funding for pilot projects through Bridges to Translation IV.
An RFA workshop will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 13 at…
Why Social Science? - Because It Adds Value, Even When You Don’t See It
By Wendy Naus, Executive Director, Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA)
Why Social Science? was launched in 2017 as a project of the Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) aimed at getting social science findings and impacts out to the general public. Our goal has been to…
Second round of Integrative Studies Seed Grants available to faculty
The Penn State Office for General Education is soliciting faculty proposals again this year for the development of integrative studies courses. This year, the Office for General Education is looking to fund approximately 30 proposals from all current, nonretired faculty. A webinar for interested…
Harsh parenting linked with poor school performance in kids with ADHD
The way parents interact with their kids may affect how well children with certain behavioral problems like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder — ADHD — perform in school, according to researchers.
The researchers studied the associations between the parenting practices of mothers and fathers…
Brown bag software tutorials in the humanities and social sciences
A series of workshops titled “Software in the Humanities and Social Sciences” will continue through the spring semester and features researchers from across the University offering weekly tutorial sessions that aim to highlight a range of software options and resources in relatable topics.
The…
Weather patterns, farm income, other factors, may be influencing opioid crisis
The overprescribing of opioid-based painkillers may be the main driver of the increased abuse of opioids in rural America, but economists say that other factors, including declining farm income, extreme weather and other natural disasters, may affect a crisis that is killing thousands of citizens…
NIH Clinical Trials: 15 Minute Overview Recording
The recent presentation NIH Clinical Trials: 15 Minute Overview (What NIH’s Definition Means for Researchers and How the ORP Can Help) and is now available to view on YouTube. Slides are also available for the presentation (slides available as a pdf and as a Powerpoint…