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…News Topics: Seed FundingRacial and Ethnic Minorities
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…News Topics: CensusRacial and Ethnic Minorities