Alumni Updates: Sept. 18, 2019
9/18/19
"Alumni Updates" highlights career achievements by College of Education alumni.
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Communities that Care prevention system helps to protect youth, study finds
9/12/19
Students in Pennsylvania school districts that participated in Communities that Care (CTC) coalitions were significantly less likely to use alcohol or marijuana, or to engage in delinquent behavior than those in non-CTC districts, according to a recent study published in Prevention Science.
College of Education grants: Sept. 11, 2019
9/11/19
Learn about the most recent active external research grants awarded to faculty in the College of Education.
College Profile: Joseph Wells
9/11/19
Name: Joseph Wells
Title: Student Supports Services and Volunteer Coordinator
Department: Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy (ISAL)
Phone: 570-601-5936
Email: jhw5226@psu.edu
Office address: CareerLink Office, 329 Pine St., Williamsport, PA
Directory entry: https://ed.psu.edu/directory/jhw5226
College Announcements: Sept. 11, 2019
9/11/19
Keep up with information about various happenings at Penn State, including study volunteer requests, activities and other opportunities.
Around the College: Sept. 11, 2019
9/11/19
Students, staff and faculty members from Penn State's College of Education share recent research and career achievements.
Team wins 5-year, $1.98 million NSF grant to improve teacher preparation
9/9/19
A team of Penn State College of Education faculty led by P. Karen Murphy has won a five-year, $1.98 million grant from the National Science Foundation to improve the preparation of undergraduate preservice elementary teachers.
Penn State faculty member appointed guest professor at University of Luxembourg
9/6/19
David Baker, professor of sociology, education, and demography in Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts and College of Education, has been appointed as a guest professor of educational science at the University of Luxembourg for the next three years.
Alumni Updates: Sept. 4, 2019
9/4/19
"Alumni Updates" highlights career achievements by College of Education alumni.
Whitney Hinze: Leveraging personal experience to help college students
9/4/19
The Alumni Spotlight is a monthly feature in Bridges, highlighting College of Education alumni who are making a difference in the lives of the people around them. This edition features Whitney Hinze, who is making a difference back where her journey started.
Education professor awarded Lyle Spencer grant to transform education
9/4/19
Karen Murphy, distinguished professor of education (educational psychology) at Penn State, and a multi-university/institute team has won a Lyle Spencer Research Award to Transform Education. The award is for just shy of $1 million.
School district secessions shown to have deepened racial segregation
9/4/19
Since 2000, school district secessions in the South have increasingly sorted white and black students, and white and Hispanic students, into separate school systems, weakening the potential to improve school integration, according to a new study published today (Sept. 4) in AERA Open, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.
Helping Alaskan coastal communities adjust to global warming
9/3/19
Penn State researchers have been awarded a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation in a multi-institutional effort to assist Alaskan coastal Indigenous communities with foreseeable environmental challenges due to global warming.
Religious communities may help provide social support to international students
8/29/19
Religious communities may provide an important social support community for international college students in the United States, according to researchers at Penn State. Specifically, the team found that religious communities also may help to provide culturally sensitive counseling to international students. The team focused its investigation on Chinese international students.
Penn State partnership helps transform U.S. Army leaders
8/28/19
A partnership between Penn State and the U.S. Army has been helping to transform the way the military branch teaches its soldiers to be leaders since 2015.