A series of seed grants from the Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses has provided Penn State campus leaders with the support to implement transformative initiatives and best practices that have been successful at other University campuses.
Accurate reporting on causes of death has direct impacts on mortality data, policy making, and setting priorities in public health. A Penn State-led project aims to educate coroners, medical examiners, and others in the death certifier community in Pennsylvania about the reporting of accidental overdoses due to substance use to help local governments better respond to public health issues.
Two gifts totaling $50,000 are kicking off an international research project led by Penn State Abington professor Pierce Salguero into the diagnosis and treatment of meditation sickness, a largely unknown occurrence in practitioners of intensive meditation.
Penn State Abington senior Angelea Francesco presented her research on Pennsylvania adolescents with gender dysphoria at the World Professional Association for Transgender Health scientific symposium, where she shared her findings that transgender youth describe their gender in various ways but have a clear idea of who they are and are certain of the medical care they want.
Diane Rosenbaum, assistant professor of psychology at Penn State Abington, explains that weight bias or negative attitudes toward higher weight is a key risk factor for mental health challenges including eating disorder symptoms, depression, and negative body image.
Penn State Abington will host a free community event on Sunday, July 24, featuring a NASA Solar System Ambassador who will offer in-depth explanations of the images NASA released this week from the deepest parts of space ever observed.
Rachael Erikson Brown, associate professor of education at Penn State Abington, is the co-principal investigator on research that could fundamentally change learning assessments in schools nationwide.
P.J. Capelotti, professor of anthropology at Penn State Abington, focused his recently published 25th scholarly book on the iconic South Carolina roadside attraction "South of the Border."
A new book written by Friederike Baer, associate professor of history at Penn State Abington, offers a groundbreaking look at the American Revolution from the perspective of the Germans who were paid to fight on the British side.
