A team of researchers led by Penn State and New York University faculty will collaborate to build a digital library of videos of mothers going about their daily activities with their children. A $6.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will fund the project, called Playing & Learning Across a Year (PLAY).
New statistical methods have helped Penn State researchers find that while babies appear to learn new skills in irregular bursts, their EEG power — a type of brain power — is growing steadily behind the scenes.
The Head Start REDI preschool program helps children growing up in poverty develop critical skills they need for academic success, according to researchers.
Penn State is offering students new study-abroad opportunities in Sweden and Denmark. Students can now study with DIS, a reputable provider of study-abroad programs, at either its Stockholm or Copenhagen location. DIS Copenhagen offers 24 academic programs and DIS Stockholm offers seven. The programs might be particularly beneficial to students in the College of Health and Human Development as it offers coursework directly related to such majors.
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), part of the National Institutes of Health, recently completed a competitive process to fund for the first time ever, an academic institution to serve as a national resource for child maltreatment research and training. Penn State has been selected based on scientific merit to establish the Center for Healthy Children. The award of $7.7 million over five years will support the center as a national resource for child maltreatment research and training. To further this effort, Penn State has committed $3.4 million in funds, to total more than $11 million.
Janet Rosenzweig, executive director of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, will present her work on describing and defining child well-being at the sixth annual de Lissovoy Lecture at 3:30 p.m. April 27 in Heritage Hall in the HUB-Robeson Center. Rosenzweig is also Penn State's College of Health and Human Development Distinguished Alumni Speaker for 2017. The talk is sponsored by the Health and Human Development Alumni Society.
Daniel Max Crowley, assistant professor of human development and family studies and faculty affiliate of the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center at Penn State, will present on the relationship between healthy child development and public spending to leaders at the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., on March 23.
One of the world’s leading authorities on empathy and child development, Nancy Eisenberg, will present the 2017 Lecture on Compassion. Eisenberg, who is Regents Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University, will talk about “Empathy-Related Responding and Prosocial Behavior in Children,” at 4 p.m. on April 20 in Room 22 of the Biobehavioral Health Building on the Penn State University Park campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Gene Brody, founder and director of the Center for Family Research and Regents’ Professor of Child and Family Development at the University of Georgia, will present the 2016 Bennett Lecture in Prevention Science from 4 to 5 p.m. Oct. 20 in 110 Henderson Building.
Kindergarteners' social-emotional skills are a significant predictor of their future education, employment and criminal activity, among other outcomes, according to Penn State researchers.
Recent standardized test results show that participation in the Harrisburg Preschool Program (HPP) significantly affects children's literacy and math skills. Third-grade children who had participated in the HPP program scored significantly higher on Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) tests than their peers who had not participated in the HPP program.
Researchers at Penn State have found that participation in a particular preschool program increases children's literacy and math skills and cognitive abilities. The researchers evaluated children enrolled in the Harrisburg Preschool Program (HPP), a comprehensive program that provides preschool programming in collaboration with early childhood agencies in Harrisburg, Pa.
Head Start, the federal program that provides comprehensive services to low-income children and their families, has had a positive effect on some aspects of school readiness, but not others. A new Penn State study shows that a program designed to make it easier to integrate research into the classroom by giving teachers enrichment manuals helped children in both academic and social-emotional areas.
