Successful research methods regarding immigration and migrant populations was the focus of the 2019 Summer Institute on Migration Research Methods, held recently at Penn State’s University Park campus.
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.
Orfeu Buxton, professor of biobehavioral health and Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) co-funded faculty member at Penn State, was recently named the next editor-in-chief for the journal of the National Sleep Foundation, Sleep Health.
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.
A Penn State professor and his student-led legal resource team are looking into the legal and financial barriers to substance-use-disorder treatment and how the law can be used to break down or build pathways through those barriers.
Nonmedical opioid users were more likely to say they began abusing opioids after friends and family members offered them the drugs, according to researchers. About 56 percent of the interviewees said they began using the painkillers recreationally first.
More than two-thirds of Americans get their news from social media sites, according to a 2018 Pew Research Center study. But more than half who read news on social media expect it to be inaccurate. Penn State researchers are working to improve the prediction of people’s trust in what they read online. In a new project, they’ll advance state-of-the-art machine learning methods to model the psychological phenomenon known as memory illusion.
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.
Penn State Harrisburg has received a gift of $2.5 million from the Douglas W. Pollock Foundation to establish the Douglas W. Pollock Center for Addiction Outreach and Research on its campus. The center will address two areas of the substance abuse problem within the central Pennsylvania region, while serving as a catalyst to enhance communications and align numerous agencies and organizations in efforts to combat substance abuse.
The Share Your Opioid Story initiative is hosting a Community Conversation at the Schlow Centre Region Library in State College at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 30.
As part of our regular "We Are!" feature, we recognize six Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what's asked of them in their work at the University. Thank you Kristin, Janet, Doug, Meghan, Mackenzie and Kim — and to everyone who helps make Penn State such an incredible community. We Are!
More than 200 researchers, educators, practitioners and policymakers gathered recently for the Consortium to Combat Substance Abuse Conference, held on the University Park campus.
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.
Opioid users fear accidental overdoses from street drugs laced with fentanyl, but unpredictable drug quality means they often lack reliable strategies to avoid it, according to a team of researchers who suggest that fentanyl test strips may reduce overdose deaths.
How do regional opinions on Twitter represent real-world attitudes toward climate change? A team of researchers will work to find out, thanks to a recent seed grant from the Social Science Research Institute at Penn State.
