“DisemPOWERed: Puerto Rico's Perfect Storm,” a film that examines the reasons why Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, will premiere at Penn State. The screening will occur at 6:30 p.m. July 23 in Foster Auditorium in Pattee Library on Penn State's University Park campus. A panel discussion will follow the screening.
Samantha Tornello, assistant professor of human development and family studies at Penn State, has been named the Ann Atherton Hertzler Early Career Professor in Health and Human Development. The three-year professorship will provide further funding for Tornello's research on families headed by sexual and gender minority people.
The Penn State-led National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives is increasingly being recognized for its work in translating science to policymakers, educators, practitioners and communities.
Penn State researchers will share mindfulness tips and techniques with community members July 12 at the Art of Discovery booth, part of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts.
Diana Fishbein, professor of human development and family studies and director of the Program for Translational Research on Adversity and Neuroscience at Penn State, received the Presidential Award from the Society for Prevention Research at its annual meeting May 30 in San Francisco.
Based upon early successes, “The Art and Science of Human Flourishing” will be offered as a three-credit course at seven Penn State campuses — Altoona, Brandywine, Fayette, Greater Allegheny, Mont Alto, University Park and York — and is the focus of a research study evaluating possible outcomes in increased student health and well-being.
The Society for Prevention Research recently recognized Penn State researchers Max Crowley and Taylor Scott for their significant impacts in the field of prevention science, at its annual meeting in San Francisco.
Penn State researchers recently attended the Consortium of Social Science Association’s 2019 Social Science Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C., taking part in a full schedule of events to bring awareness to social and behavioral sciences.
Jessica Popp gained a love of research during her pursuit of a degree in human development and family studies at Penn State York. Popp will reach her goal as she graduates during Penn State York's 49th commencement at 6 p.m. on May 3.
Sleep and exercise are vital to the wellbeing of new parents, but these essentials affect new moms differently than new dads, according to researchers.
A $3 million grant from the National Institute of Aging will fund Penn State researchers to study the relationship between sleep and cognitive decline and impairment.
Yo Jackson, associate director of the Child Maltreatment Solutions Network and professor of psychology at Penn State, recently provided testimony on strengthening prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect to the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor’s subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services.
Penn State’s Consortium to Combat Substance Abuse recently announced the first three recipients of its Community Fellows Program awards, designed to provide release time for faculty members to develop community collaborations and build sustainable, evidence-based or evidence-informed programs, policies and practices that can effectively address substance use and related issues within a targeted community in Pennsylvania.
Nilam Ram, professor of human development and family studies, will present “Analysis of Experience Sampling and Ecological Momentary Assessment Data: Part 3: Using Differential Equation and Data Mining Algorithms” at the next Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design Recent Topics in Research Methods Seminar Series. The seminar will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9, in 116 Henderson Building at University Park.
Spousal caregivers can face increased health risks, such as high blood pressure and heart disease, possibly due to the stress of caring for an ailing spouse. To evaluate this stress in daily life situations, researchers Stephanie Wilson, postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State's Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, and Lynn Martire, professor of human development and family studies at Penn State, led a pilot study that measured spousal cardiovascular changes in response to patient pain expression via in-home assessments.
