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Rural PA.

Penn State team supports implementation of novel Pennsylvania Rural Health Model

Pennsylvania is the first state in the nation to design and implement an alternative payment model focused solely on rural hospitals, with an emphasis on both containing health care spending and transforming care to better meet community needs. A multi-disciplinary team of Penn State faculty and…
News Topics: Health Policy and Administration Penn State Research Health Care College of Health and Human Development Sociology Demography Public Health Sciences SSRI
Virtual Map of the World.

Researchers to compare Twitter opinions on climate change with real-world views

How do regional opinions on Twitter represent real-world attitudes toward climate change? A team of researchers will work to find out, thanks to a recent seed grant from the Social Science Research Instituteat Penn State. In their study, the researchers will construct a Twitter-driven regional…
News Topics: College of Information Sciences and Technology Climate Change Sociology Demography SSRI Social Science Penn State Research
Book called Spatial Regression Models for the Social Sciences.

Chi publishes first book on spatial regression methods

After taking ten years to complete research and writing, SSRI co-fund Guangqing Chi recently published his book, “Spatial Regression Models for the Social Sciences” with co-author Jun Zhu. The book serves as a primer type of textbook for social scientists who would like a quick start to learning…
News Topics: Social Science SSRI Penn State Research
Heat Map of the area, highlighting hot spots of activity.

Sifting through 50 million phone calls for patterns to aid refugees

When refugees use their mobile phones they leave clues about how well they are integrating (or not) into their host country. Clio Andris, assistant professor of geography in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, is analyzing a year’s worth of phone calls to find the clues to help address the…
News Topics: Refugees Seed Funding SSRI
Photo of a bottle of prescription pills spilled out on a table.

Seed grants to support opioid research announced

Penn State’s  Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), in collaboration with the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), has awarded over $200,000 in funding to support 10 new interdisciplinary teams of Penn State researchers whose work is aimed at combating the opioid epidemic. “…
News Topics: SSRI CTSI Seed Funding Opioids
Spheres of 0s and 1s in front of a city landscape.

Using social media to solve social problems

Social scientist rely on data to study social problems, however data from traditional surveys can be difficult and time consuming to collect, as well as inaccurate since not all factors can be measured well. A National Science Foundation-funded Penn State project will evaluate the accuracy of using…
News Topics: NSF Twitter Data CSA SSRI PRI Social Science Social Media
Penn State Human Health and the Environment Seed Grant Program.

Human Health and the Environment seed grant recipients announced

Human Health and the Environment seed grants for 2018 have been awarded to eight interdisciplinary teams of Penn State researchers. The seed grants were funded through a collaboration of Penn State Institutes and the College of Medicine, which collectively contributed more than $400,000. The…
News Topics: Seed Funding College of Medicine CTSI Huck Institute for CyberScience Institutes of Energy and the Environment Penn State Cancer Institute SSRI

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The CSA Core is in part supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Award # P2C HD041025).

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