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Examining state policies governing opioid use and pregnancy

9/18/19

Opioid use disorders during pregnancy have risen at alarming rates in recent years, increasing the risks of preterm labor and delivery, poor fetal growth, prolonged hospital stays, maternal death and stillborn infants. A Penn State researcher and his team will receive almost $1.2 million over three years from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to examine the effects of state policies on pregnant women with opioid use disorder and their infants.

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Penn State is a top contributor to Teach for America in 2019

9/16/19

Penn State ranks among the nation's top 20 large colleges and universities contributing the most graduates to Teach For America. This year, 25 Penn State alumni are part of a network of 60,000 leaders working in high-needs schools in 36 states and the District of Columbia to expand educational opportunities for children facing the challenges of poverty.

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Grant recipients work to improve reconstructive ACL surgeries

9/11/19

Spencer Szczesny, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and Aman Dhawan, sports medicine orthopedic surgeon and associate professor with the Penn State College of Medicine, have been awarded one of two annual Grace Woodward Grants for Collaborative Research in Engineering and Medicine.

New book by law professor analyzes federal government’s immigration policy

9/10/19

In her new book — titled “Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump,” which publish on Sept. 10 — Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar, clinical professor of law and director of the Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Penn State, uses case studies and personal interviews to illustrate her analysis of the current administration’s immigration policy. The book includes a level of legal detail that is unavailable in traditional news accounts, in a way that is accessible to an informed but not expert audience.

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National BEST Robotics Competition kicks off at Penn State DuBois

9/9/19

A national robotics competition for middle and high school students got underway at Penn State DuBois on Sept. 7. An official kickoff event for BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology) Robotics took place on campus, with nine schools and nearly 200 students participating.

Research to Action: The Science of Drawdown

Climate conference to feature Penn State researchers Sept. 16-18

9/5/19

More than 20 Penn State researchers are participating in the upcoming climate solutions conference Research to Action: The Science of Drawdown. Overall, more than 70 speakers will be presenting at the event, which will take place Sept. 16-18 at the Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center.

Research to Action: The Science of Drawdown

Climate conference to be livestreamed

9/5/19

Research to Action: The Science of Drawdown, the conference focused on climate solutions being hosted at Penn State from Sept. 16-18, will be livestreamed online for free. Interested viewers can see the conference agenda for what is planned during the three-day event, which is sold out.

START Lab awarded $6 million to develop national experimental turbine

9/4/19

With industry support, the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Lab has awarded the Penn State Steady Thermal Aero Research Turbine (START) Lab $6 million to spearhead the development of a National Experimental Turbine rig, an initiative to help modernize the nation’s energy infrastructure.

School district secessions shown to have deepened racial segregation

9/4/19

Since 2000, school district secessions in the South have increasingly sorted white and black students, and white and Hispanic students, into separate school systems, weakening the potential to improve school integration, according to a new study published today (Sept. 4) in AERA Open, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

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Helping Alaskan coastal communities adjust to global warming

9/3/19

Penn State researchers have been awarded a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation in a multi-institutional effort to assist Alaskan coastal Indigenous communities with foreseeable environmental challenges due to global warming.

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