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Five named Big Ten Academic Alliance Department Executive Officer Fellows

5/14/18

The Big Ten Academic Alliance Department Executive Officers Program has gained five additional Fellows from the Penn State ranks. The BTAA is the academic consortium of the Big Ten universities. Through its leadership program, participants who have demonstrated leadership ability through University administrative assignments or through other significant leadership positions in public, private or professional organizations, are aided in further developing their leadership and managerial skills.

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Penn State is represented at congressional briefing addressing opioid epidemic

5/4/18

Penn State researcher Stephanie Bradley, director of the Evidence-Based Prevention & Intervention Support Center (EPISCenter), was one of five experts on a panel who recently briefed Congress on the rising opioid epidemic and efforts to combat the problem through evidence-based prevention programs and public health approaches.

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Students kickstart initiative to reach more minority students in health services

5/2/18

A group of Penn State students have started a program to bring awareness of and encourage the use of health and wellness services among minority students on the University Park campus. A new component of HealthWorks, the Minority Health Initiative was created to educate students on the resources available to them by HealthWorks, and to provide them with a safe place to talk about unique issues and concerns.

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Parents may help prep kids for healthier, less violent relationships

5/2/18

Warm, nurturing parents may pass along strategies for building and maintaining positive relationships to their kids, setting them up for healthier, less-violent romantic relationships as young adults, according to researchers. In a study, adolescents who reported a positive family climate and their parents using more effective parenting strategies tended to go on to have better relationship problem-solving skills and less-violent romantic relationships as young adults.

College of Health and Human Development alumni establish Open Doors Scholarships

5/1/18

Several current and former members of the College of Health and Human Development Alumni Society Board have established new scholarships as part of Penn State’s Open Doors Scholarship Program, a component of “A Greater Penn State for 21st Century Excellence,” the University’s current fundraising campaign.

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Nutritional sciences faculty member honored by National Lipid Association

5/1/18

Penny Kris-Etherton, distinguished professor of nutrition at Penn State, is the recipient of the 2018 W. Virgil Brown Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship from the National Lipid Association (NLA) and the Foundation of the National Lipid Association. She received her award and presented her research at the NLA Scientific Sessions, held April 26-29 in Las Vegas.

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Department head teaches, researches in Japan as part of Fulbright experience

4/30/18

A. Catharine Ross, professor of nutrition and physiology, and head of the Department of Nutritional Sciences, spent five months in Tokyo, Japan as a Fulbright lecturer and researcher. Ross taught an advanced nutrition course, gave lectures to graduate students on United States food policies and implications, and presented invited lectures at several universities and research institutes. She also conducted research on the traditional Japanese diet.

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Solutions Network Awareness Event focuses on the foster care system

4/30/18

Penn State’s Child Maltreatment Solutions Network recently hosted “Building Resilience and Hope,” and brought together researchers, advocates, public servants, and foster youth to discuss Pennsylvania’s foster care system and strategies for supporting youth in pursuit of a college education.

Graduate student excellence celebrated at awards luncheon

4/27/18

Penn State President Eric Barron presented 11 awards to more than 30 graduate students in recognition of outstanding achievement during the annual Graduate Student Awards Luncheon, held April 25 at the Nittany Lion Inn.

Two graduate students receive the Penn State Alumni Association Scholarship

4/27/18

Two graduate students, Kristin Lambert, doctoral student in biomedical sciences pursuing a joint degree in medicine from Penn State College of Medicine, and Christina Webb, doctoral student in psychology, received the Penn State Alumni Association Scholarship for Penn State Alumni in the Graduate School during the annual Graduate Student Awards Luncheon held on April 25 at the Nittany Lion Inn.

Fourteen graduate students receive the Alumni Association Dissertation Award

4/27/18

Fourteen graduate students received the Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award and Distinguished Doctoral Scholar Medal in recognition of their outstanding professional accomplishments and achievements in scholarly research in any of the disciplinary areas of arts and humanities; social sciences; physical and computational sciences; life and health sciences; and engineering.

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