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Kathleen Sexsmith

Sexsmith receives Roy C. Buck Award for paper on health care access

3/23/18

Kathleen Sexsmith, assistant professor of rural sociology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, is the recipient of the college's 2017 Roy C. Buck Faculty Award, which recognizes the best article accepted or published by a refereed scholarly journal in the social sciences within the past two years.

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Penn State York students to conduct research at Diabetes Expo on campus

3/23/18

Penn State York students in the human development and family studies program will be conducting self-report survey research during the Diabetes Expo that will be held on campus from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on March 24. The free event, open to the public, is sponsored by the Diabetes Coalition of York, and will be held in the conference center of the Main Classroom Building.

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Researcher to study the effect of exercise on breast cancer metastases

2/2/18

Connie Rogers, associate professor of nutrition and physiology in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, has been awarded a scientific research grant by the American Institute for Cancer Research. Rogers' project will examine the effects of exercise and weight maintenance in breast cancer progression and metastases.

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New professorship will strengthen Penn State's impact on national parks

1/25/18

Penn State graduate Suzie Martin and her husband, Allen Martin, of Vienna, Virginia, have made the first gift commitment for an endowed professorship in the Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management in the College of Health and Human Development. The endowment will support a distinguished professor whose teaching and research directly engage with the national park system.

Erik Nisbet

Lecture tackles science communication through psychological and political lenses

10/23/17

Drawing from the fields of communication, psychology and political science, Erik Nisbet, associate professor of communication, environmental policy and political science at Ohio State, will deliver a lecture titled “The Partisan Brain: The Science of Communication about Controversial Science” at 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 2 in Foster Auditorium of Paterno Library.

Dr. Hengameh Hosseini

Hosseini to travel to Kazakhstan as Fulbright Specialist

9/5/17

Hengameh Hosseini, assistant professor of health care administration in the Penn State Harrisburg School of Public Affairs, has been named a Fulbright Specialist. She will travel to Semey, Kazakhstan during the 2017-18 academic year.

IST doctoral student aims to empower Saudi women through technology

8/3/17

In Saudi Arabia, cultural norms dictate that genders should be segregated in the workplace. It is a contributing factor to the high unemployment rate for women in the country, with only 22 percent of women participating in the Saudi workforce. IST doctoral student Sarah Almoaiqel feels she can help.

Penn State students named finalists for Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award

5/1/17

Three Penn State Schreyer Honors College Scholars will participate in a public oral presentation to be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 4 in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library, University Park. Aviva Doery, Samuel Lapp and Alexander Walsh have the opportunity to win $1,250 as the top prize for the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award.

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Just Breathe: Mindfulness may help freshman stress less and smile more

4/20/17

Mindfulness -- assuming an accepting, nonjudgmental and kind attitude toward thoughts and feelings -- helped a group of University freshman adjust to the transition into college life. The students who participated in a mindfulness program were less depressed and anxious than the control group. There was also an overall drop in alcohol use among the students trained in mindfulness compared to the control group.

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