Criminal justice data is under-utilized in research despite its high relevance and unique role in the opioid crisis, according to a recent study by Penn State researchers using crime incident data. The study found that opioid-related crime incident rates were positively associated with rates of opioid-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations and overdose mortality.
The WorkRise grant funds the 18-month study "Underemployment in the U.S.: Its Distribution and Effects on Workers," which will be led by Lonnie Golden, professor of economics at Penn State Abington.
Heather McCune Bruhn, assistant teaching professor of art at University Park, and Xuan Liu, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, are co-principal investigators on the federal grant.
The researchers including one from Penn State Abington will develop standards and protocols for a new scanning platform that will enhance the public’s online viewing experiences of artwork as well as conservation efforts by museums.
A new Penn State-led project is educating coroners, medical examiners, and others in the death-certifier community in Pennsylvania about the reporting of substances associated with accidental overdose.
A study led by a Penn State Abington professor recommends that luxury fashion brand managers segment their consumers by culture and develop different marketing strategies to remedy the loss of sales from counterfeit dominance.
Marissa Nicosia, assistant professor of Renaissance literature at Penn State Abington, has received a highly competitive National Endowment for the Humanities grant for her research and writing toward a book examining the intertextual links among domestic writing, food culture and early modern English poetry.
This document from a Mrs. Knight's recipe book, housed at the Folger Shakespeare Library is among the source material Marissa Nicosia, an assistant professor at Penn State Abington, draws from for her research.
Penn State Abington students presented 26 projects at the annual research fair. Three of them also earned honors at the Penn State Eastern Regional Undergraduate Research Symposium 2021.
