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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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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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Foster care the focus of upcoming child maltreatment conference

8/28/19

The 2019 Child Maltreatment Solutions Network Conference, being held Sept. 23-24 at the Nittany Lion Inn on Penn State’s University Park campus, will focus on identifying and addressing the obstacles within the foster care system by translating research and evidence-based solutions into effective policy.

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Professor named to governor's Council on Reform to aid vulnerable populations

8/23/19

Jennie Noll, director of Penn State’s Child Maltreatment Solutions Network and professor of human development and family studies, is one of 25 individuals across the commonwealth to be appointed to Gov. Tom Wolf’s Council on Reform, which is designed to help protect vulnerable populations in Pennsylvania.

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Study shows benefits to changing students' mindsets about learning

8/7/19

A groundbreaking experimental study with more than 12,000 ninth grade students in the United States confirmed that a low-cost online program that takes less than an hour to complete can help students develop a growth mindset — the belief that intellectual abilities are not fixed but can be developed. This finding is important because student motivation often suffers when students have been exposed to the idea that their intellectual abilities can't change.

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Researchers estimate societal costs of the opioid epidemic

7/30/19

The devastating consequences of the opioid crisis are far-reaching in the United States, impacting public health as well as social and economic welfare. Penn State researchers recently collaborated to address the issue in a supplement of The American Journal of Managed Care.

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