This press release features Dakota D. Witzel, PhD and dave almeida and their work on #loneliness! psu.edu/news/health-an…

In a new paper using Add Health Research, I find that young people disconnected from school and work during the transition to adulthood (ages 18-26) report greater depressive symptoms through early midlife relative to their peers.

Just out in Soc Sci & Medicine Mental Health from Michael Caniglia Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmm…

Why do men struggle so much in retirement? Check out this podcast and my dulcet tones. Shout-outs to Prof Sarah Damaske at Penn State for her research. retirementwisdom.com/podcasts/why-a…

Brian Thiede (Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences) will take over as interim director of the Computational and Spatial Analysis Core (CSA) of Penn State Population Research Institute on July 1. He takes over for Guangqing Chi, who served as director for almost nine years. ➡️ buff.ly/45BJ2hW

New paper out - Digital geographies of care - Telehealth landscapes...authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S13… Penn State Geography Penn State SSRI Penn State Consortium on Substance Use & Addiction Penn State Population Research Institute AAG Health Geography

Glad to see another Penn State Demography student in the mix! Penn State Population Research Institute

Two weeks left to submit your abstract(s) for the 2024 SDA Meeting in Savannah, GA (due Monday, July 15)! Check the meeting website for more info about the conference and for the link to submit you paper or poster abstract or to propose a session/panel: sda-demography.org/page-18080

It was great fun to chat with Dawn Fallik for her piece in Kiplinger on “why so many men are bad at retirement.” kiplinger.com/retirement/why… And it’s terrific to hear her talk about some of the main points of that piece in the below podcast! Penn State Sociology & Criminology Penn State Population Research Institute

PRI director Jenny "2+2=4" Van Hook contributed to the below work ⬇️

New work in Preventative Medicine from Jilli Jung and Andrew Fenelon shows how later school start times initially had a positive effect on adolescents' sleep duration and substance use, though effects disappeared one year later. doi.org/10.1016/j.ypme…

Happy to share my work with Andrew Fenelon on the effects of late school start times on students' sleep and substance use! Using policy variation in Korea, we found that delayed start times are initially associated with increased sleep duration and decreased substance use.

The #PAA2025 Call for Papers is now available! Submissions open August 15 and deadline is September 29. See the call and details here: ow.ly/xrv150SPkVP

Now out in the July issue of Nature Water! nature.com/natwater/volum…

One month remaining to prepare and submit an abstract for IPC2025. Don’t miss this opportunity! iussp.org/en/civicrm/mai… or iussp.org/en/civicrm/mai…

The 19th Annual De Jong Lecture will happen October 15 feat. Dean Spears of UT Austin. Register online: pop.psu.edu/events/19th-an…

A New JAMA Network study with Jeff Howard finds inflection point in heat-related mortality in the USA. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

A new study led by Penn State researchers, including CSC faculty affiliate Orfeu Buxton, examined how sleep during childhood could be linked to future substance use. Biobehavioral Health tinyurl.com/34tzspzs

🚱 The tragic horn of Africa drought in 2020-23 killed hundreds of thousands of livestock & increased #foodinsecurity for 40+ million. In this new Soc Sci & Medicine paper, we show how this drought made people to want to leave which was embodied in chronic #stress authors.elsevier.com/a/1jisl-CmV1UAk

In our first Brown Bag Lecture Series of the fall semester, we are joined by Jason De León on September 17. Register: psu.zoom.us/webinar/regist… Note the location change!