Research Centers
Child Maltreatment Solutions Network
Penn State’s coordinating entity on the causes, prevention, detection, consequences, and treatment of child abuse and neglect.
- Provides opportunities to address complex problems of child maltreatment
- Provides educational opportunities for faculty, staff, student and professionals
- Facilitates events including an annual conference
- Fosters partnerships with community providers and public policy leaders
Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness
Helps professionals identify, implement, evaluate, and improve programs that strengthen military service members, veterans, and their families.
- Provides scientifically validated information on evidence-based programs and practices
- Conducts applied research on topics relevant to military family health and well-being
- Offers consultation, coaching, continuing education, and training
- Synthesizes data, review research, and bring together scholars
Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction
Committed to addressing substance use and addiction through leveraging Penn State’s research, education, and outreach capacities.
- Fosters collaborative research opportunities
- Provides research funding and administrative support
- Hosts annual conference
- Cultivates partnership networks
Geroscience and Dementia Prevention Consortium
Accelerates discoveries to prevent or delay of progressive neurodegeneration and biological aging.
- Fosters partnerships and collaborations
- Integrate biological, psychosocial, and medical perspectives
Population Research Institute
Advances multidisciplinary population research.
- Contributes to collaborative research partnerships and development of junior scholars through seed funding and consultation opportunities
- Holds seminars, symposia, working groups and other forums on topics related to population research
- Provides high-quality, comprehensive research support services in spatial methods, data acquisition and management, and programming and statistics
- Provides comprehensive pre- and post-award grant services for PRI faculty, ensuring researchers remain in compliance
Research Services
Community-Engaged Research, Action, and Partnerships
The Community-Engaged Research, Action, and Partnerships (CERAP) is led by an interdisciplinary team of community engaged faculty and researchers who are committed to advancing community health and well-being, equity and justice. Our approach is guided by a model and set of processes that involves community members and university researchers co-creating and co-investigating pressing social issues.
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Data Resources Hub
The SSRI Data Resources Hub is designed to organize and support data acquisition and compliance, selective storage services, and workshops and training needs tailored to meet the needs of social and behavioral sciences.
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Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative
EIC focuses on improving the data, methods, and processes related to research, the dissemination of evidence, and understanding the impact of research evidence.
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Federal Statistical Research Data Centers
The FSRDC supports research using confidential data from the U.S. Census Bureau, National Center for Health Statistics, and other federal agencies.
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Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core
Consultation from expert faculty and research associates on statistical, methodological, and analytic issues in social science research.
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Social, Life, and Engineering Sciences Imaging Center
Provides instrumentation, technological and substantive expertise, educational opportunities, and support of fMRI and EEG.
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SSRI Communications Core
The SSRI Communications Core provides communications support for our researchers, including news development, graphic design, website development, event support, consulting, and more.
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Survey Research Center
SRC is a scientific center that provides high quality social science research services from study design through analysis.
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