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Population Research Institute

A Community of Population Scientists at Penn State

Who We Are

The Population Research Institute is a multidisciplinary center that supports innovative population research. PRI promotes a dynamic, talented, and collaborative research community with over 100 faculty researchers. Established over four decades ago at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1992 with generous supplemental support from PSU, this vibrant, multidisciplinary center provides strategic resources to support innovative, high impact population research. Read more for a short history of PRI.

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How We Can Help You

PRI’s overarching aim is to advance the scientific understanding of human population dynamics and processes, especially as they relate to PRI’s primary research areas:

Communities, Neighborhoods and Spatial Processes
Immigration, Migration and Immigrant Integration
Families, Networks and Social Change
Population Health

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Seed Grants

SSRI Seed Grants


SSRI offers several types of funding for researchers working in the social sciences. We have different levels of funding, as well as funding that is specific to different institutes, types of research, and services offered.

PRI Seed Grants


PRI invites applications for seed grant funding that are interdisciplinary, innovative, likely to have special scientific impact, and related to our signature themes.

Team Grants


PRI Innovation, Collaboration and Leadership Internal Grant Competition.

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PRI News

View SSRI provides supplemental funding support

SSRI provides supplemental funding support

Jul 20, 2026

View Town hall to focus on research security and evolving federal requirements

Town hall to focus on research security and evolving federal requirements

Jul 15, 2026

View Brothers receives American Sociological Association’s Early Career Award

Brothers receives American Sociological Association’s Early Career Award

Jul 1, 2026

View Why Social Science? - Because Asking People Questions Provides Important and Necessary Insights

Why Social Science? - Because Asking People Questions Provides Important and Necessary Insights

Jun 30, 2026

View Transgender Athletes, Birthright and Ballots: SCOTUS to Test Trump Agenda

Transgender Athletes, Birthright and Ballots: SCOTUS to Test Trump Agenda

Jun 29, 2026

View The Social Science Research Institute announces co-funded and affiliated faculty member promotions

The Social Science Research Institute announces co-funded and affiliated faculty member promotions

Jun 12, 2026

PRI is supported by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (P2CHD041025) and by the Pennsylvania State University and its Social Science Research Institute.

PRI Events

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Sep

Tue, Sep 01, 2026 12:00 pm

PRI Welcome Event 2026 (Pizza Lunch) - SEPT 1, 2026

202 Welch Building
15
Sep

Tue, Sep 15, 2026 12:00 pm

PRI Brown Bag Lecture Series - Dr. Kris Marsh / SEPT 15, 2026

314 Welch Liberal Arts Building and Zoom
16
Sep

Wed, Sep 16, 2026 04:00 pm

MDI Book Talk - NANCY FONER Immigration: How the Past Shapes the Present / SEPT 16, 2026

202 Welch Building
22
Sep

Tue, Sep 22, 2026 12:00 pm

PRI Brown Bag Lecture Series - Dr. Leonard Lopoo / SEPT 22, 2026

314 Susan Welch Liberal Arts Building and Zoom
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Oct

Tue, Oct 06, 2026 12:00 pm

PRI Brown Bag Lecture Series - Dr. Ariela Schachter / OCT 6, 2026

314 Susan Welch Liberal Arts Building and Zoom
13
Oct

Tue, Oct 13, 2026 12:00 pm

PRI Brown Bag Lecture Series - Dr. Pat Hastings / OCT 13, 2026

314 Susan Welch Liberal Arts Building and Zoom

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University Park, PA 16802

       

 

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