News coverage of Penn State's Summit on the Opioid Epidemic
Jan 16, 2018
The Penn State Summit on the Opioid Epidemic was held Friday, Jan. 12, at 122 at Heritage Hall in the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus. The summit gathered faculty from across Penn State with the goal of developing an interdisciplinary and translational agenda aimed at combating the…
Global Programs updates travel grant applications evaluation criteria
Jan 14, 2018
Global Programs has revised evaluation criteria for their Faculty, Graduate, and Transformational travel grants applications, as well as introduced a new system for submitting application materials and trip reports. Applicants will now use Qualtrics, a popular survey program, to apply for travel…
New National Institutes of Health policies affect all researchers
Jan 14, 2018
If you hear “clinical trial” and think of a study looking at a cure for a disease, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) wants you to think again.NIH is in the process of enhancing “the accountability and transparency of clinical research” through a number of new initiatives that impact…
Morgan's study named fourth most read in Educational Researcher
Jan 11, 2018
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) recently announced their most read education research articles of 2017. Paul Morgan, director of the Center for Educational Disparities Research and professor of education, and his research team had the fourth most read study in the publication…
SSRI RFA for opioid research
Jan 10, 2018
SSRI is providing funding to increase the quantity and quality of interdisciplinary opioid research by Penn State faculty. Proposals are invited for pilot research projects aimed at solving the opioid crisis.We seek interdisciplinary Penn State teams to develop novel translational research…
Penn State to host summit on opioid epidemic
Jan 8, 2018
By Cassie Kizis | The Daily CollegianOver the past decade, opioid abuse has become an increasingly prevalent issue in the United States. While there are a multitude of ways this issue can harm communities, perhaps the most visible way is the death toll.
According to the Center for Disease Control…
Penn State research center to host Annie E. Casey Diversity Program Scholars
Jan 5, 2018
The Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center at Penn State will host two postdoctoral researchers from the second cohort of the Annie E. Casey Foundation 2018 Leader Equitable Evaluation and Diversity (LEEAD) program.The LEEAD program, launched by the Casey Foundation in 2016, was created to…
Penn State third in rankings for federal social and behavioral science funding
Jan 4, 2018
The Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) recently released the 2018 edition of their College and University Rankings for Federal Social and Behavioral R&D, which reports total federal research dollars in the social and behavioral sciences awarded to U.S. institutions.Penn State…
Applications open for clinical and translational science training programs
Jan 3, 2018
Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute is accepting applications for both its year-long and summer training programs for students interested in learning the fundamentals of translational science. These programs work to teach the next generation of scientists the skills to move…
Why Puerto Rico’s death toll from Hurricane Maria is so much higher than officials thought
Jan 2, 2018
By PRI Associate Alexis Santos for The Conversation“If you don’t get away from those areas, you are going to die.” That phrase concluded Puerto Rico Secretary of Public Safety Héctor Pesquera’s press conference before Hurricane Maria.
Three months after the storm, he is one of the fiercest…
Social science research team funded through Penn State's Strategic Plan
Jan 1, 2018
Dr. Susan McHale, SSRI director, and her research team was recently funded for a project to support Penn State's 2016-2020 Strategic Plan. Through an innovative new funding process, Penn State is investing $2 million in its top strategic priorities, while simultaneously advancing the vital and…
Why Social Science? - Because Social Science Fosters Robust and Trustworthy Knowledge
Jan 1, 2018
By Felice J. Levine, Ph.D., Executive Director, American Educational Research AssociationAs Chair of the COSSA Board, it is an honor to conclude the inaugural year of “Why Social Science?” with some reflections and aspirations. When COSSA launched this initiative in 2017, the aim was to invite…