Dual-language programs may reduce school segregation, study finds
Two-way dual language immersion programs — which bring native English speakers and students who speak another language at home together in the same classroom — may modestly reduce school segregation, according to a new study led by a Penn State College of Education researcher. In a large-scale…
Award Program Supports Community-oriented Research for the Public Good
Enhancing Cybersecurity Readiness in Non-Profit Organizations Through Collaborative Research and Innovation, a research initiative led by Maryam Roshanaei, assistant professor at Penn State Abington, and her team, is proud to announce its successful progress thus far, made possible through the…
How safe is the air to breathe? 50 million people in the US don't know
In 2024, more than 50 million people in the United States lived in counties with no air-quality monitoring, according to a new study from researchers in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development. Rural counties — especially counties in the Midwest and South — were less likely to have…
New SSRI Working Group - Collaborative on Population Aging Disparities
Collaborative on Population Aging Disparities The Collaborative on Population Aging Disparities (CoPAD) is an SSRI-funded working group that focuses on new and growing sources of inequality among aging adults, with attention to the ways that population dynamics and life course processes interact to…