The Penn State Child Maltreatment Solutions Network is seeking proposals for paper and poster presentations at its 2019 conference, which will be held Sept. 23-24 at the Nittany Lion Inn at University Park. The title of this year’s conference is “The Future of Foster Care: New Science on Old Problems.”
Penn State researchers recently contributed to the “The State of Health Equity in PA” report, compiled by the Pennsylvania Department of Health through the Office of Health Equity.
Penn State’s Consortium to Combat Substance Abuse will host “Envisioning a Future Free from Addiction: Research, Programs, and Practice to Prevent Substance Abuse” from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 29 in the HUB-Robeson Center at University Park.
Puberty is a distinct developmental period with unique research opportunities, according to a group of current and former Penn State researchers who collaborated on several papers that comprise a special section on puberty in the current Journal of Research on Adolescence.
Michelle Frisco, associate professor of sociology and demography and Social Science Research Institute co-funded faculty member at Penn State, is quantifying behaviors such as smoking and obesity to show how they affect health disparities between people from different races and ethnicities.
Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute, in collaboration with the Institute for CyberScience and the College of Information Sciences and Technology, has awarded more than $100,000 in funding to support six new interdisciplinary teams of Penn State researchers whose work is aimed at developing innovative research programs using Twitter data.
Returning to civilian life can be challenging for veterans. While there are many programs and services aimed at helping them readjust, some veterans do not take advantage of these supportive resources. A Penn State-led research team examined factors that are associated with program non-use among veterans who recently left active duty service.
A research team lead by Deepa Sekhar, associate professor of pediatrics at Penn State College of Medicine, investigated major depressive disorder screening rates among privately insured teens and found screening rates are insufficient to address the youth mental health crisis.
A team of Penn State researchers measured the biological responses of mothers and children during problem-solving tasks to see how they differed in maltreating and non-maltreating families.
A new research project at Penn State aims to evaluate how cognitive training programs can maintain the brain and everyday functioning in older adults.
The opioid epidemic could be responsible for 700,000 overdose deaths in the United States between 2016 and 2025, according to a new research study.
The transition to kindergarten can be a challenge for children who have trouble paying attention, and can result in behavioral problems and poor academic achievement. A team led by researchers at Penn State is analyzing task persistence and how parents can influence it in early childhood.
The Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness at Penn State is leading a research team that is collecting information from recent veterans to better understand their use and non-use of programs and services that assist veterans to make healthy transitions from military to civilian life.
In conjunction with the Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness, Cristin Hall, assistant professor of education (school psychology), has partnered with the U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity to revise policies, procedures and training to better address social-emotional and behavioral threats among students.
Suspension is one way schools discipline students, but the high number of and disparities in suspensions in the U.S. has sparked controversy and policy debate. New Penn State-led research has found that students who are black are more frequently suspended than white students of similar behavioral, academic and socio-economic backgrounds. However, students with disabilities, including those of color, were not more frequently suspended.
