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Coolness, control and community draw people to Pinterest

9/29/16

Cool features with easy-to-follow instructions that provide control and community may keep Pinterest users pinning, liking and inviting, according to researchers, who add that these behaviors may reveal new ways people are using the web and social media.

Teacher Stress and Health series

Research brief addresses teacher stress and health

9/28/16

The Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have released a social and emotional learning brief—Teacher Stress and Health: Effects on Teachers, Students and Schools—the first in a 10-part series. This first brief examines the causes and consequences of teacher stress—a growing problem with nearly one-half of teachers reporting high daily stress and more teachers leaving the profession than ever before.

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.

interpretation of the cold sintering

Lowering the heat makes new materials possible while saving energy

9/28/16

A new technology developed by Penn State researchers, called cold sintering process (CSP), opens a window on the ability to combine incompatible materials, such as ceramics and plastics, into new, useful compound materials, and to lower the energy cost of many types of manufacturing.

An old woman and a child holding hands.

Study looks at links between race, age, education and kinship ties

9/28/16

Kinship ties with parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts and uncles and other family members can offer financial, educational, and societal support to individuals of all cultures. Penn State researchers are looking beyond the existing data to track these ties on a broader scale in the large and modern American society

FaceAge

Young and old, face to face

9/28/16

FaceAge, a new video installation directed by theatre professor Andy Belser, explores our fears about aging, how age shows in our faces, the rewards of aging, and how we communicate across generations.

MGIS students in the Netherlands

Online students participate in research project to map refugee migration data

9/26/16

This summer, Penn State Department of Geography online geospatial education program instructors Beth King and Fritz Kessler took 10 students in the online Master of Geographic Information Systems (MGIS) program on a unique field-learning experience. In the new eight-week course, GEOG 597G: Challenges in Global Geospatial Analytics, Penn State students collaborated with graduate students from the Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente, located in Enschede, Netherlands, to develop solutions to analyze spatiotemporal patterns in refugee migration data.

Five Teenage Friends

What’s in a face?

9/26/16

Penn State researchers recently discovered adolescents begin to view faces differently as they prepare for the transition to adulthood.

Review of studies finds genetically engineered crops are safe

9/20/16

Genetically engineered (GE) crops are no different from conventional crops in terms of their risks to human health and the environment, according to a report published by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Leland Glenna, associate professor of rural sociology and science, technology and society in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, served on the committee that authored the report.

Honeybees and Homemakers: Pollination and Gendered Labor

Undergraduate researcher uses honeybees to probe society’s gender roles

9/20/16

What do traditional gender roles of women have in common with the non-visible labor of honeybees? Through a research project supported by an Apes Valentes Undergraduate Research Award, Christina Dietz found that, in both subjects, the value of labor is lessened based on the lack of visibility it receives.

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