Sharkey to lead SSRI Grants and Contracts Office
Nicole Sharkey was recently named the Director of Grants and Contracts for the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI). In this role, Sharkey will lead SSRI’s newly created Grants and Contracts Office, a team of administrators who support researchers with complex, multi-disciplinary proposal…
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Baumgartner Named SSRI Research Operations Manager
Natahsha Baumgartner has been named research operations manager for the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) at Penn State. Previously, Baumgartner was the associate director of University Health Services (UHS) Operations. In this role, she served as the administrative lead of UHS’s Pharmacy,…
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Barbara Rigg retires from SSRI
SSRI Research Operations Manager Barbara Rigg recently retired after 35 years of service to Penn State. Barbara started at Penn State in 1991, working as a clerk accounting secretary in the Center for Cell Research, College of Science. She served in various research administrative roles in the…
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SSRI celebrates major accomplishments and staff awards
Faculty and staff from all of SSRI's units recently gathered at the Nittany Lion Inn to celebrate major accomplishments of the year and to announce staff awards. The “Above and Beyond Award” was presented to Kassidy McElwee of the Child Maltreatment Solutions Network, and Valerie Keppenne and Mindi…
SSRI celebrates two staff retirements
Betsy Beck and Joe Broniszewski recently celebrated their retirements from SSRI with a party to honor their years of service at Penn State. Betsy spent the last five years of her 19-year Penn State career as a senior administrative coordinator at SSRI. Previously she was with IST, Smeal…
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Scala celebrates 20 years at Penn State
Tracy Scalla began her career in 2005 with the College of Education, serving as Project Coordinator and Senior Research Technologist for the NSF-funded Mid-Atlantic Center for Teaching and Learning. During this time, she also contributed as an Editorial Staff Assistant for the Journal for Research…
SSRI celebrates accomplishments, staff awards
Faculty and staff from all of SSRI's units recently gathered at the Hintz Family Alumni Center to celebrate major accomplishments of the year and to announce staff awards. Elise Dreibelbis from the Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness was awarded the “Workplace Climate Award”. The award…
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Monica Oakes joins SSRI
SSRI would like to welcome Monica Oakes, who recently joined our team as a Research Project Manager. She previously worked for Optum in the Natural Language Processing group leading collaborative efforts across various departments including client professional services projects and implementing…
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