Penn State to retire Box service in 2021
Penn State will retire Box as a cloud storage and collaboration service and migrate users’ files to comparable Microsoft Office 365 services -- such as OneDrive and SharePoint -- by June 2021.
Several factors contributed to the decision, including the planned increase in the cost of the Box…
QuantDev consulting available
The Quantitative Developmental Systems Methodology Core’s team of faculty and resident consultants is affiliated with Penn State’s Department of Human Development and Family Studies and SSRI. QuantDev provides statistical and methodological consulting to faculty and students on behavioral and…
Mood of the Nation Poll offers a snapshot of life during pandemic's early phase
As COVID-19 swept across the country this spring, most Americans reported feeling fearful of at least one daily activity that they did not think twice about before the pandemic, according to findings from the latest McCourtney Institute for Democracy Mood of the Nation Poll.
The poll, conducted…
MASC initiative helps unite Penn State in the COVID-19 fight
An interdisciplinary team of almost 400 Penn Staters are helping healthcare workers at Penn State Health and local hospitals fight COVID-19 through the Manufacturing And Sterilization for COVID-19 (MASC) initiative, and the story behind it highlights the power of partnership at Penn State to help…
Parental warmth on high-conflict days helps teens to feel loved
While parent-teen conflict is inevitable, parents expressing warmth and support on high-conflict days can bolster how much their teen feels loved, according to a study conducted by Gregory Fosco, Penn State associate professor of human development and family studies and associate director of the…
Morgan and team's research featured in report, podcast
A new APM Reports and podcast focuses on how false assumptions about what it takes to be a skilled reader has created deep inequalities among U.S. children, putting many on a difficult path in life. Multiple studies conducted by CEDR Director and PRI affiliate Paul Morgan and his research team are…
Penn State Microbiome Center and GALT enter collaboration to advance research
The Penn State Microbiome Center and General Automation Lab Technologies (GALT) announced their collaboration to advance plant pathology, environmental microbiology and human gut microbiome studies.
As part of this collaboration, GALT will support four research projects that will use the company’s…
Impacts of the coronavirus on non-COVID related medical care
Much of the attention surrounding COVID-19 has focused on the incidence, the risk factors, and the medical needs of COVID-19 patients as well as the profound economic impact of the pandemic. However, an increasing area of emphasis is the profound effect the pandemic has had on non-COVID related…
New online event series brings virtual conversations to the Penn State community
A new virtual event series launched earlier this year by the College of Health and Human Development has become a hub of activity for interactive engagement among friends and alumni of the Penn State community. The “HHD On Location: Home Edition” events, which feature discussions between an…
Impacts of the coronavirus on economic recovery in Pennsylvania
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound affect on Pennsylvania’s economy, in a way that has no recent historical comparison, with potentially long-lasting effects. In this article, Göktuğ Morçöl, Penn State professor of public policy and administration in the School of Public Affairs, discusses…
Climate change-influenced refugee crisis may lead to long-term settlement issues
While many models suggest that climate change will prompt a substantial number of people to leave their homes, not all research so clearly finds this is the case. Investigating cases where computer models seemed to indicate only limited impacts of climate change on people leaving rural areas, a…
Faculty helping develop online course on coronavirus science for K-12 schools
During the COVID-19 outbreak, faculty at Penn State’s Center for Science and the Schools are helping to create a course to help engage middle and high school students in multiple explorations to help them better understand the science behind the pandemic and learn how scientists create new…
PRC funding available for graduate student research related to anti-racism
The Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center (PRC) announced today a call for proposals for funding Penn State graduate student research that focuses on health and challenges faced by diverse and oppressed populations, with preference given to projects that develop or adapt an intervention to…
Why Social Science? Because It Can Become a Tool to Dismantle White Supremacy
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
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…
Social Science Research Institute Director Susan McHale to step down; Search for next SSRI director to commence
The Office of the Senior Vice President for Research announced on July 24 that Susan McHale will step down as the director of the Social Science Research Institute. She will continue to head the institute while a search for the next director is conducted.
McHale has served as the SSRI director…
Students use engagement grants to benefit communities in need
This summer 50 students received the Student Engagement Network’s (SEN) Remote Innovation Grants, and many of them are using those grants as a means to improve their communities and the lives of others.
In April, SEN announced it would offer $2,000 grants to students from any campus or academic…
Post-9/11 veterans with moral injury are having trouble connecting to others
A recent study, led by researchers at the Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness at Penn State, is the first to examine the relationship between moral injury and social well-being over a long period of time. The study included nearly 10,000 veterans who were followed for three years.
Moral…
Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on state responses and economic health
While some states have either completely reopened their economies or are in the process of phased re-openings, in others COVID-19 cases are increasing significantly and experts warn further shut-downs may be necessary to avoid large spikes. The public within these states pay close attention to…
Protecting U.S. Biomedical Intellectual Innovation
NIH has issued a series of policy revisions and clarifications since August 20, 2018, when the Director of NIH announced three emerging concerns (diversion of intellectual property, sharing of confidential information, and failure to disclose resources). Penn State has worked diligently to…
New funding to test impact of research communication strategies on policymakers
Penn State’s Research-to-Policy Collaboration (RPC) is responding to legislators’ needs for social and behavioral research related to the coronavirus pandemic, with support from the William T. Grant Foundation.
Housed under the Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative (EIC), a unit of Penn State’s Social…
About nine family members to suffer grief from every COVID-19 fatality
Deaths from COVID-19 will have a ripple effect causing impacts on the mental health and health of surviving family members. But the extent of that impact has been hard to assess until now. Every death from COVID-19 will impact approximately nine surviving family members, according to a study.
In a…
Understanding the needs of students with or at risk for disabilities
Penn State researchers are examining how students with or at risk for disabilities can be better helped as they attend U.S. schools through two new projects totaling almost $1.2 million being funded by the National Center for Special Education Research, U.S. Department of Education's Institute of…
Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on building a community in medical education
Over the past 3 months, nearly 30,000 medical students across the United States have been displaced from their traditional health care roles. With relatively little warning or time for preparation, students, faculty, and administrators scrambled to create platforms, structures, and processes to…
Childhood experiences and exposure to combat linked to poorer mental health
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are early life adversities that include exposure to abuse, neglect, and living in toxic environments. Exposure to ACEs is associated with physical and mental health, as well as developmental and behavioral problems. Individuals in the military are more likely to…