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Black Lives Matter

Backlash to racial justice movements may boost risk of high…

Katie Bowen reports in Penn State news about the research that found that Black people who lived in…
NSF

Ayse Akyildiz Awarded NSF Fellowship to Attend a Workshop

Ayse Akyildiz has received a fully-funded National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate fellowship to a…
Geo-Resolution 2022

Geospatial Perspectives on Climate Change: Predicting and…

Shuai Zhou was invited to a panel discussion at Geo-Resolution 2022 to discuss the issues of migrati…
Penn State News published a summary of our six NSF funded research in the Arctic that are social science driven, looking at a variety of social and infrastructural issues - environmental migration, food security, infrastructures, COVID-19 impacts, food-energy-water nexus, and earthquakes.

New grant continues Arctic research addressing climate…

Penn State News published a summary of our six NSF funded research in the Arctic that are social sci…
slate

A Doomed Decision: The Unequal Consequences for Women’s…

Jessica Miller and Guangqing Chi has published an op-ed piece at the Slate based on their ongoing re…
Philadelphia Inquirer

Central Asian Migrants: The Unseen Victims of the Russia-…

Guangqing Chi published an op-ed piece in Philadelphia Inquirer with Erin Hofmann from Utah State. …
academic minute

Infrastructure in rural Alaska

Guangqing Chi was invited to talk with the Academic Minute about the importance of infrastructure in…
Gender, Food, and COVID-19: Stories of harm and hope

Gender, Food, and COVID-19

Please join us for a virtual launch event of the book, Gender, Food, and COVID-19: Stories of harm a…
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Rural Alaska has a bridge problem as permafrost thaws and…

We were awarded a project funded by the National Science Foundation to study rural bridges in Alaska…
Kyrgyzstan

‘Bride kidnapping’ haunts rural Kyrgyzstan, causing young…

Erin Hofmann and Guangqing Chi have published an article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies…
EDeN News Cases of prostate cancer at time of diagnosis increase in PA

Cases of highly aggressive prostate cancer at time of…

Among prostate cancer cases, highly aggressive cases of the disease at the time of diagnosis increas…
EDeN uses social media to solve social problems

Using social media to solve social problems

Social scientist rely on data to study social problems, however data from traditional surveys can be…
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Well-being of 'left behind' children in…

Growing up can be hard no matter what a family's circumstances, but it is often more so for children…

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