Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s 2019 Translational Science Fellowship summer program is underway. This program provides graduate and medical students with the opportunity to gain select knowledge and skills in clinical and translational research in a summer experiential program.
A project to better understand the issues facing rural communities and address a decline in American life expectancy is benefiting from a partnership between Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute and Highmark Health Enterprise Analytics Data Science Research. The Data Science Research group is supporting the project through its expertise in machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve healthcare understanding and outcomes.
More than 200 researchers, educators, practitioners and policymakers gathered recently for the Consortium to Combat Substance Abuse Conference, held on the University Park campus.
Guangqing Chi, associate professor of rural sociology and demography and public health sciences, will present “The Generalizability and Replicability of Twitter Data for Population (and Health) Research” at the next Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design Recent Topics in Research Methods Seminar Series on April 23. It will also be streamed to room 2008 at Academic Support Building at Penn State College of Medicine, and online. A streaming link is provided upon registration.
A new program is available to all levels of research support faculty and staff to navigate the research process at Penn State College of Medicine. The Staffing, Mentorship and Research Training (SMaRT) Program for investigator-initiated, human-subjects research will be introduced at an informational session on April 23 in Lecture Room C. Three one-hour-sessions are available to choose from: 9:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
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.
“The Clocks That Time Us: Navigating Temporal Differences in Teams” will be presented at the next Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute Bench to Bedside and Beyond Seminar Series, from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, March 28. In addition to being held in 116 Henderson Building at the University Park campus, the session will be streamed to H4504 at Penn State College of Medicine and streamed online.
Bonnie Kent is all about northern Dauphin County. For more than 30 years, she has been active in her hometown communities, currently serving as a community mobilizer with Dauphin County. In this position, she looks for ways to fill gaps of services and engage the community and organizations to work together for positive change. Her commitment and connections to northern Dauphin County made her a perfect addition to the Community-Engaged Research Core of Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute when it was looking for its first community team member.
“Laws and Regulations in Translational Research: The Role of Law in Health Policy” will be presented at the next Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute Bench to Bedside and Beyond Seminar Series from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Feb 28.
How adversity early in life can lead to susceptibility to disease will be studied through a project initially funded through Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s Bridges to Translation pilot grant program. Idan Shalev, Mark T. Greenberg Early Career Professor for the Study of Children's Health and Development, and assistant professor of biobehavioral health, was recently awarded funding through the National Institute on Aging to better understand how immune cells react and adapt to stress.
Scott Graupensperger is making the most of his Penn State education – delving into a number of training programs and experiences to prepare him for a research career. The dual-title kinesiology and clinical and translational sciences doctoral student has been a regular presence at Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute, which he credits with preparing him for his current successes and his future endeavors.
“Improving Collaboration Through a Strong Online Presence” will be presented at the next Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute Bench to Bedside and Beyond Seminar Series from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24.
The Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute is accepting applications for both its yearlong and summer training programs for students interested in learning the fundamentals of translational science. These programs work to teach the next generation of scientists the skills to move research in the laboratory to benefit patients in the health care system.
Vasant G. Honavar, professor and Edward Frymoyer Chair of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his distinguished contributions to research and leadership in data science.
Conrad Tucker was giving a talk on the idea of using technology to capture students’ body posture to determine their attention level in the classroom. In the audience was a member of Parkinson’s disease researcher and clinician Xuemei Huang’s research team, who approached Tucker afterward about a connection between his talk and Huang’s research into using changes in a person’s walking gait to diagnose Parkinson’s earlier. The rest, as they say, is history.
