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Seed grants to support opioid research announced

9/13/18

Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute, in collaboration with the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, has awarded over $200,000 in funding to support 10 new interdisciplinary teams of Penn State researchers whose work is aimed at combating the opioid epidemic.

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Buying a cake or building a case?

9/11/18

A leading researcher in digital communications will discuss the challenge of framing conversations about marriage equality and religious freedom during a free public lecture Oct. 10 on the University Park campus at Penn State.

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Center for Healthy Children recommends evidence-based programs

9/11/18

Federal legislation will radically change how foster care dollars can be used, and Penn State’s Child Maltreatment Solutions Network and Center for Healthy Children is leading the charge to ensure services intended to prevent foster care placement, and better serve foster youth, are backed by sound research.

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Sekhar begins Community-Engaged Research Core Faculty Fellowship

9/10/18

There’s a difference between simply including in a research study the people a scientist wants to help and partnering with those people in the research process. That’s a lesson Dr. Deepa Sekhar learned while studying ways to better detect high-frequency noise-induced hearing loss in teenagers. She will continue to learn how to more effectively accomplish the latter through the year-long, Community-Engaged Research Core Faculty Fellowship of Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute.

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National conference on child maltreatment to advance innovation through data

9/4/18

Penn State isn’t just a leader on childhood well-being through its Child Maltreatment Solutions Network — but is pushing others to be leaders, too. The network's seventh annual conference will be held on Sept. 27 and 28 at the Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus, and is open to researchers, policymakers, child welfare professionals, and members of the public interested in learning about the future of data-driven innovations in improving children’s lives.

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Using social media to solve social problems

8/16/18

A National Science Foundation-funded Penn State project will evaluate the accuracy of using Twitter data to represent populations across different demographic groups.

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Youth who age out of foster care show higher educational attainment

7/25/18

Children in foster care often suffer detrimental effects that can carry over into adulthood and infect future relationships. However, new Penn State research indicates youth who age out of foster care attain higher educational achievement than those who exit foster care and are reunited with their families.

Four faculty members join Social Science Research Institute

7/9/18

Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute recently announced four new co-funded faculty members who will join the institute in the 2018-19 academic year: Maithreyi Gopalan, Alexis Santos, Kenneth Shores, and Ericka Weathers.

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Sending a 'We Are!' to these Penn Staters

7/2/18

This week we say thank you to Susan Sanders, Cheryl McCloskey, Mary Dubbink, Marcia Delia, Rebecca Schultz, David Pack and Tracey Accordino — and to everyone who helps make Penn State such an incredible community. We Are!

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Noll to participate in NICHD's Strategic Planning Working Group

6/27/18

Jennie Noll, director of the Child Maltreatment Solutions Network and professor of human development and family studies at Penn State, has been invited to serve as a member of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Strategic Planning Working Group.

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