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Below are descriptions of frequently-requested information for resources, Centers, Institutes, etc. available at Penn State University.
Huck Institutes
of the Life Sciences
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is comprised of seven
Penn State colleges with faculty working in the life sciences. These are the
Eberly College of Science, the College of Medicine at the Milton S. Hershey
Medical Center, the College of Agricultural Sciences, the College of Health
and Human Development, the College of Engineering, the College of the Liberal
Arts and the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. The Huck Institutes is
dedicated to enhancing Penn State's ability to prepare students for tomorrow,
strengthening research in the life sciences, encouraging research alliances
across disciplinary boundaries.
The Huck Institutes encourages collaborative research alliances through a
variety of mechanisms. It provides funding for graduate fellows and graduate
assistants enrolled in its multidisciplinary, Inter-college graduate degree
programs, encouraging students to select complementary advisers knowledgeable
in different fields. The Huck Institutes also cooperates with departments
of the participating colleges to identify emerging areas of research importance
and assists in hiring new faculty with a particular emphasis on encouraging
faculty to participate in collaborative and multidisciplinary efforts.
Huck Institutes resources support research through state-of-the-art Shared
Technology Facilities. These include the Electron Microscope Facility, the
Flow Cytometry Facility, the Center for Computational Genomics, the Nucleic
Acid Facility, the Hybridoma and Cell Culture Laboratory, the DNA Microarray
Facility, the Macromolecular X-ray Crystallography Facility and the Proteomics
and Mass Spectrometry Facility. These facilities serve both faculty and students
to enable research and familiarize students with highly specialized equipment
and techniques.
For the prospective graduate student, the Huck Institutes Integrative Biosciences
Graduate Degree Program, the Neuroscience Graduate Degree Program, the Masters
Degree in Biotechnology Program and the Inter-college Graduate Degree programs
in Genetics, Ecology, Physiology and Plant Physiology offer a unique opportunity
to learn about and work in multiple disciplines, calling upon the expertise
of individuals in different departments, different colleges and even on different
campuses, supported by modern telecommunications facilities and equipment.
The doctoral programs allow students not only to explore new conceptual connections,
but to engage in active group learning experiences and to explore a variety
of potential career opportunities before graduation.
Social Science
Research Institute
The mission of the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) is to promote
research encompassing the wide range of skills and perspectives that are needed
to solve complex social problems. SSRI fosters communication and collaboration
across the full range of social science disciplines and provides a shared
infrastructure for social science research that enables faculty to conduct
high-quality studies. Uniting outstanding social science faculty across the
university, SSRI encourages and supports: Research of individual investigators
from diverse fields; Research collaborations across disciplinary lines, across
colleges and research centers, and across universities; Programs to support
multidisciplinary graduate training; and Multidisciplinary centers of activity
within SSRI that focus on different areas of social concern.
Survey Research
Center
SSRI's Survey Research Center (SRC) provides state-of-the-art and cost-effective
survey research services to Penn State faculty and administrative units. It
contributes to the education and training of Penn State students in areas
related to survey research, and also serves as a focal point for Penn State
faculty in a variety of disciplines whose research interests touch on the
methodology of survey research. The Survey Research Center provides services
in the areas of survey design, sampling, and data collection (including telephone,
mail, face-to-face, internet surveys and focus groups); survey data management;
and data analysis. Center staff assist researchers in estimating the costs
associated with the collection and analysis of survey data.
The Methodology
Center
The Penn State Methodology Center, housed in the College of Health and Human
Development, is devoted to the advancement and dissemination of statistical
methodology related to research on the prevention and treatment of problem
behaviors.
Children,
Youth, and Families Consortium
The CYFC promotes research, outreach, and teaching to address critical social
issues in the area of children, youth, and families. Its goals include the
promotion of interdisciplinary activities and the integration of research,
outreach and teaching; the support of basic and applied research informing
prevention and intervention; working to understand and address factors that
place children, youth, and families at risk for poor outcomes as well as promote
well-being; and the application of Penn State University resources to the
benefit of society.
Child Study Center
The Child Study Center (CSC) is an active and exciting venture whose mission
is to integrate diverse scientific approaches to understanding children and
families with respect to three major initiatives: Early Pathways to Competence,
Parenting at Risk, and School Readiness. Across these initiatives, the CSC
conducts research, provides mental health services through the Child and Adolescent
Clinic, and offers outreach consultation to the community at large. The CSC
is also a rich training environment for graduate and undergraduate students
in Psychology and related disciplines. The CSC has excellent, fully-equipped
observational laboratory space for participating faculty, and can provide
staff support, meeting rooms, and research space in addition to copiers, fax
machines, related equipment, and access to a shared network. Observational
rooms are equipped with two-way mirrors and video equipment, and can accommodate
simultaneous lab visits. Workrooms are located adjacent to the observation
rooms to accommodate staff and coding needs. Major equipment that is available
for project use includes a state of the art video studio for each observation
room. Wall/Ceiling mounted cameras are in each room and additional cameras
can be set to video through the two-way mirror. Editing equipment is also
available, as are coding stations that include a VTR (SVHS) and monitor. The
Child Study Center has convenient parking and easy accessibility for people
with limited mobility, and the Center has a comfortable waiting and play area
for parents, infants, and their siblings.
Center for
Work and Family Research
The mission of the Center for Work and Family Research (CWFR) is to promote
excellence in research and education on issues at the intersections of work,
family, and community. Established in January 2002, the Center encourages
interdisciplinary collaboration on a broad array of research topics and approaches
to the study of work and family from the vantage points of work organizations
and of employees and members of their families, broadly defined. The CWFR
facilitates research on professionals as well as low-income workers, women
and men, and parents as well as nonparents.
Penn State
Justice and Safety Institute
The Penn State Justice and Safety Institute was formed in 1971 to meet the
professional development needs of law enforcement and public safety professionals.
Since then more than 450 municipal, county, state, and federal police agencies
have entrusted the training of more than 3,000 law enforcement professionals
to the institute. The institute’s mission is to provide educational
and training programs, related consulting services, and research that enable
our clients to more effectively serve their increasingly diverse constituencies.
Penn State
Outreach
Penn State Outreach is the largest unified Outreach organization in American
higher education, serving more than 5 million participants, viewers, and listeners
at over 500 locations, from all 50 states and 80 countries annually. The organization
supports outreach initiatives by academic colleges, campuses, and centers,
as well as Cooperative Extension offices across Pennsylvania. Each year more
than 2,000 programs and services are offered in collaboration with the academic
colleges, where more than 1,800 faculty members deliver programs through the
University’s Outreach units. The resources of three outreach units will
support the proposed Center. The Penn State World Campus will aid in the development
of on-line and DVD-based educational materials.
General Clinical
Research Center
The General Clinical Research Center is part of a national network of similar
centers funded by the National Institute of Health through the National Center
for Research Resources. The Penn State General Clinical Research Center (GCRC)
was funded by the National Center for Research Resources in July, 1995 (Grant
Number M01RR10732) and is located at the M.S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey
and the Elmore Wing of the Noll Research Center in University Park. The primary
mission of the Center is to provide research infrastructure for investigators
who conduct research with human subjects. Investigations carried out can include
studies of normal and abnormal human function and studies of cause, prevention,
progression, and cure of diseases.
Transportation
Services between University Park and Hershey Campuses
Both institutions
(UP and HY) provide shuttle service to the campuses, which operates year-round,
Monday through Thursday. Vans leave University Park at 6:30 am (arriving at
HMC by 8:30 am), 10 am (arriving at HMC by 12 noon) and 4:00 pm (arriving
at HMC by 6:00 pm). Vans leave HMC at 7:30 am (arriving at UP by 9:30 am)
and 1:30 pm (arriving at UP by 3:30 pm). The shuttles include maxi-vans and
a new custom bus that has work-space, is handicap accessible, and has wireless
internet capabilities. This service is free and available on a first-come,
first-serve basis. Funding for the shuttle service is provided by the Office
of the Vice President for Research, the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences,
the Veterinary Sciences Department, and the colleges of Engineering, Earth
and Mineral Sciences, the Eberly College of Science, and the Hershey Medical
Center and College of Medicine.
University Park's Fleet Operations rents a wide range of vehicles—including standard and full-size sedans; hybrid SUVs; mid-size and 5-passenger wagons; 7-passenger, 15-passenger, and cargo vans; and four-wheel-drive vehicles—to University employees for business use. All of the vehicles are serviced on a regular basis. All sedans, wagons, vans, and four-wheel-drive vehicles are available for daily (14 days or less) or long-term (more than 14 days) rentals. Hybrid SUVs are available exclusively for long-term rentals. They also provide bus service (with driver) or coordinate an outside charter service upon request.
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