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Font featured in "The Lost Debate" podcast

May 2, 2023

SSRI cofund Sarah Font, associate professor of sociology and public policy, is interviewed on the podcast special episode "Invisible Kids: America’s Journey From Orphanages To Foster Care" about  programs that are meant to care for the country’s most vulnerable children: the child-welfare system.…
News Topics: Child MaltreatmentChild Maltreatment Solutions Networkchild welfareSSRI cofundsPodcast
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Podcast episode discusses sexually transmitted infection testing in young people

Mar 24, 2021

Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute released the latest episode of its Engage Podcast discussing research into sexually transmitted infection testing in young people. Winnie Adebayo, Ph.D., an assistant professor of nursing at Penn State College of Nursing, discusses her work…
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Podcast episode explores how the Census impacts public health

Apr 9, 2020

Decisions about where to build hospitals and how to allocate emergency medical equipment are critical during a pandemic, and driven by a source you might not expect. This week’s episode of the Democracy Works podcast, produced by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy and WPSU, examines the role…
News Topics: COVID-19SociologyDemographyPodcastCensus
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New WPSU podcast highlights Penn State researchers' work, community impact

Feb 10, 2020

A new podcast that highlights the work of Penn State researchers and how their findings impact communities near and far is now available through central Pennsylvania’s public media station. WPSU Penn State’s Reach podcast tells the stories of Penn State researchers, their studies and how their work…
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How Do We Make Evidence Have an Impact? Podcast

Oct 2, 2019

The latest episode of the "Ask the Experts" series features Max Crowley, assistant professor of human development and family studies and director of SSRI’s Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative. 
News Topics: SSRIHuman Development and Family StudiesPodcastEvidence-to-Impact CollaborativeResearch Evidence
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Penn State podcast series covering issues impacting democracy

Jun 18, 2019

Penn State podcast series covering issues impacting democracy Penn State’s The McCourtney Institute for Democracy has crafted an intellectual podcast series, Democracy Works, to highlight issues in American democracy. Instead of bipartisan debate, the series addresses problems from a broader…
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Actress Lauren Holly featured in Battling Opioids podcast

Jun 4, 2019

Actress Lauren Holly grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the midst of the opioid epidemic and is now using her talent to shed light on the important issue. In season three of Designated Survivor, coming to Netflix June 7, Holly acts as a privileged, political figure who falls to opioid…
News Topics: OpioidsAddictionSubstance AbusePodcastSocial Science
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Conference, podcast examine school segregation 65 years after Brown decision

May 6, 2019

In the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that integrated public education was an important part of a democratic society and the "very foundation of good citizenship." Integrated schools, the court argued, would expose children to new cultures and…
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Dionne shares his views on empathy and democracy in latest podcast

Apr 18, 2019

The “Democracy Works” podcast spoke with E.J. Dionne about his views on the relationship between partisan politics and democracy. The conversation covered various topics from Donald Trump, the future of the republican party, and the need for empathy in politics. E.J Dionne is a columnist for The…
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Ashton Verdery featured on Methodology Center podcast

Dec 10, 2018

Methodology Minutes, the new Methodology Center podcasts, provides updates on the Center’s methods, applications, and events. The 15 to 30 minute podcasts feature assistant professors, the Center’s Directors, research associates and more. They cover secondary data analysis, issues with collecting…
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Van Hook talks U.S. census on McCourtney Institute podcast

May 8, 2018

The next U.S. census won’t happen until 2020, but it’s already a hot topic of conversation as controversy builds over a proposed question on citizenship.  Jennifer Van Hook, Roy C. Buck Professor of Sociology and Demography in the College of the Liberal Arts, recently discussed the implications of…
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