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Fishbein ITR Symposium

Fishbein to present at translational research conference

9/30/16

Diana Fishbein, director of the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center and C. Eugene Bennett Chair in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, will be one of the primary speakers at the second annual symposium for the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Translational Research in Children’s Mental Health. The conference, “Moving Toward Precision Healthcare in Children’s Mental Health: New Perspectives, Methodologies and Technologies in Therapeutics and Prevention,” will take place Oct. 5-7.

Laurie Baefsky

Incubate, Accelerate, Launch:

9/29/16

The Arts & Design Research Incubator (ADRI) presents “Incubate, Accelerate, Launch: How Arts and Design Fuel and Foment Research Collaboratives,” by Dr. Laurie Baefsky, executive director, Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), on Monday, October 10, 2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. in the ADRI (16 Borland Building).

NSF grant to help researchers harness power of big data to address health issues

9/28/16

A $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will fund a Big Data Spoke, a consortium of researchers from Penn State, Harvard, Columbia and the University of Pittsburgh, to integrate and analyze health data from disparate sources to discover environmental, ecological, and socio-economic factors that impact the health of individuals and populations.

Invent Penn State

Inaugural Invent Penn State Venture and IP Conference set for Oct. 6-7

9/27/16

Hundreds of investors, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and representatives from startup businesses will gather on Penn State’s University Park campus for the inaugural Invent Penn State Venture and IP Conference, to be held Oct. 6-7 at The Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center. The event will connect promising startups and emerging technologies with investors looking for ground-floor investment opportunities.

Video Still: The LARCH King

Student-produced video wins Penn State bid to host LABash

9/27/16

Penn State has been selected to host the 2018 LABash landscape architecture conference, an annual student conference held in North America and hosted by a different university each year. To host LABash, university groups were encouraged to film and submit videos to the national committee, which were then shown at the closing ceremonies of the 2016 conference. The winner, the Penn State Department of Landscape Architecture, was chosen by applause.

Pictured at Union Station in Washington DC are OTA students and faculty

Penn State DuBois students and faculty lobby for health care solutions

9/26/16

A total of 10 Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) students from Penn State DuBois, as well as two of their faculty members from the OTA program attended the American Occupational Therapy Association’s (AOTA) 2016 Hill Day in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 19. More than 650 politically active occupational therapy practitioners and occupational therapy students from across the United States descended on Capitol Hill to make their voices heard during the profession's annual advocacy event.

Penn State Law professor Jamison Colburn

Penn State Law professor testifies before U.S. Senate subcommittee

9/23/16

Penn State Law Professor Jamison E. Colburn testified on Sept. 21 before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife regarding proposed revisions to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Mitigation Policy.

Philadelphia Urban Seminar

Philadelphia Urban Seminar gives students impactful immersion experience

9/22/16

Jeanine Staples’ Philadelphia Urban Seminar transcends a two-week Maymester course that offers a pre-service teaching experience in an urban setting; it’s ongoing research on how to teach students to identify and intercept racist, sexist and ableist ideologies in their own souls, in school and in society.

Associate Professor Mari Pierce lectures to a class.

Re-examining the death penalty

9/16/16

Penn State Beaver Associate Professor Mari Pierce is studying the transcripts of every death-eligible case in the state of Oregon from 2000 to 2010 to see if and how juries are influenced. Her findings could change the way capital cases are tried.

economics

Flexible work hours lead to happier, more productive employees

9/16/16

An Inc. magazine editorial encourages companies to implement policies based on research by a Penn State Abington labor economist. The study suggests flexibility to balance work with personal needs makes employees happier, ultimately boosting productivity and retention.

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