Department of Health Policy and Administration welcomes new instructor
7/25/18
Karen Kent has joined the Department of Health Policy and Administration faculty as an instructor in the Master of Health Administration programs.
Health and Human Development
Health and Human Development
Donato family establishes Open Doors Honors Scholarship
7/23/18
Penn State alumni William and Kathryn Donato have made a $250,000 gift — which the University matched 2:1 for a total of $750,000 — to create the Donato Family Open Doors Honors Scholarship, which will support Schreyer Scholars who meet financial requirements for need through the Complete Penn State program.
NIH grant will allow researchers to further study language disorder
7/23/18
A $300,000 three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow Penn State researchers to further study a language disorder experienced by one-third of stroke patients in the United States. Researchers will study patients with aphasia, a language disorder commonly found in stroke patients, who specifically have anomia or trouble finding everyday words.
'Everyday Ups and Downs' to be topic of September Healthy Aging Lecture
7/20/18
Alyssa Gamaldo, assistant professor of human development and family studies, will address health differences across diverse racial, ethnic and socioeconomic older adult populations. The lecture is part of the Penn State Center for Healthy Aging Community Lecture Series.
Penn State Berks faculty share research with trustees
7/19/18
Three Penn State Berks faculty members discussed their research as part of a presentation to the Board of Trustees on July 19. The board is holding its meeting at the campus and is learning about working going on in Reading.
Food for thought: How the brain reacts to food may be linked to overeating
7/19/18
The reason why some people find it so hard to resist finishing an entire bag of chips or bowl of candy may lie with how their brain responds to food rewards, according to researchers who found that when certain regions of the brain reacted more strongly to being rewarded with food than being rewarded with money, those people were more likely to overeat.
Eating iron-biofortified grain improves students’ attention, memory
7/17/18
Indian school-going adolescents who consumed a natural iron-biofortified pearl millet, exhibited improved attention and memory compared to those who consumed conventional pearl millet, according to Penn State researchers.
Nutritional sciences faculty named Fellows of Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
7/17/18
Lynn Parker Klees and Shawnee Kelly, both faculty members in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Penn State, have been named Fellows of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Penn State's Summer Academy is changing lives -- and attitudes
7/12/18
The Summer Academy for the Blind and Visually Impaired is a three-week program that functions with the help of a not-so-small village. The network of people and organizations that make up the moving parts of the Summer Academy stretches as far as the national level and hits as close as home.
Global Programs announces Penn State/Split 2018 Fund Awardees
7/10/18
The Global Engagement Network is a group of strategic peer partnerships around the world, developed around the natural links between faculty and research interests. Global Programs supports these collaborative research projects through a development fund and has announced the awardees, whose projects primarily focus on long-term sustainability.
Four faculty members join Social Science Research Institute
7/9/18
Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute recently announced four new co-funded faculty members who will join the institute in the 2018-19 academic year: Maithreyi Gopalan, Alexis Santos, Kenneth Shores, and Ericka Weathers.
Penn State center hosting national AAC conference
7/6/18
The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Augmentative and Alternative Communication at Penn State will host a national conference on the State of the Science in AAC on July 13 in Arlington, Virginia.
Students receive first Mockingbird Award given in memory of late student
7/6/18
Two Penn State students are the first recipients of the Mockingbird Award, supported by the family of William H. Denton, who died in January while a Penn State student studying health policy and administration.
Expecting a stressful day may lower cognitive abilities throughout the day
7/3/18
There may be some truth to the saying “getting up on the wrong side of the bed,” according to Penn State researchers who say starting your morning by focusing on how stressful your day will be may be harmful to your mindset throughout the day.
Sending a 'We Are!' to these Penn Staters
7/2/18
This week we say thank you to Susan Sanders, Cheryl McCloskey, Mary Dubbink, Marcia Delia, Rebecca Schultz, David Pack and Tracey Accordino — and to everyone who helps make Penn State such an incredible community. We Are!