Racial and Ethnic Minorities

Seed grants to foster research collaborations with Minority Serving Institutions

Apr 14, 2023

 Penn State’s Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences has initiated a new grant program to seed collaborative, interdisciplinary projects that would bring together researchers from Penn State and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). The Penn State Inter-Institutional Partnerships for Diversifying…

Race matters in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, research finds

Jul 27, 2022

Hispanic and Black Americans have suffered higher rates of hospitalization and death from COVID-19 than white Americans. A new Penn State study analyzed data collected when COVID-19 vaccines first became available to determine whether these racial and ethnic disparities are related to vaccine…

Ethnic pride may help protect Latino/a college students from problem drinking

Jul 11, 2022

Negative consequences from excessive drinking are well-documented, but little is known about how to tailor interventions to prevent problem drinking by Latino/a college students, the fastest-growing ethnic minority group on U.S. college campuses. A new study led by Katja Waldron, doctoral candidate…

Why Social Science? Because It Can Become a Tool to Dismantle White Supremacy

Jul 28, 2020

By Kenneth Prewitt, PhD, President, American Academy of Political and Social Science and Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, Columbia University The 1966 Coleman Report was our nation’s first big social science project. It gathered and analyzed data from 600,000 students, 60,000 teachers and 4,…

Uncovering racial disparities in mortgage markets

Jul 27, 2020

Discrimination can take many forms, and a Penn State researcher along with his coauthors are finding new ways to uncover it. Brent Ambrose, Jason and Julie Borrelli Faculty Chair in Real Estate in the Smeal College of Business at Penn State and director of the Penn State Institute for Real Estate…

Penn State researchers evaluate 2020 Census data privacy changes

Jun 2, 2020

After the U.S. Census Bureau announced that it was changing how it protects the identities of individuals for the 2020 Census, a Penn State-led research team began to evaluate how these changes may affect census data integrity. The Census Bureau is proposing to use differential privacy, a new…