This interactive seminar will encourage faculty at any Penn State campus to consider how they could build their research portfolios through numerous collaboration and affiliation opportunities available through the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center at Penn State.
Faculty affiliated with the Prevention Research Center use innovative science to build a healthier and just world for individuals, families, and communities. They believe in promoting human flourishing and preventing problems that cause human suffering.
Sarah Chilenski, Research Professor at the Prevention Research Center, co-lead of the Group to Reduce Inequities in Prevention, and Senior Faculty Mentor with Penn State’s Office of Educational Equity, will lead a panel discussion with five faculty connected through the PRC:
Panelists
- Sebrina Doyle-Fosco, Assistant Research Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
- Blake Colaianne, Assistant Research Professor, Human Development and Family Studies
- Greg Fosco, Research Professor, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
- Meg Small, PRC Director for Social Impact; Associate Research Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
- Max Crowley, PRC Director; Professor, Human Development and Family Studies and Public Policy
These faculty conduct research focused on well-being and social and emotional health, but each person comes at these topics from a different angle. Perspectives represented in this group include, but are not limited to:
- mindfulness and social emotional programming for teachers and other youth support workers,
- family-systems and wellness carried on through generations,
- co-design of a human flourishing program for high school students,
- interdisciplinary collaboration,
- entrepreneurship,
- innovative methods,
- translating research to practice,
- cost-benefit of programming, and
- the infrastructure supports needed to sustain wellness activities.
After brief introductions, Dr. Chilenski will pitch questions to the panelists about their current research, their pathway to get to their current areas of inquiry, how they overlap and complement each other’s research, and their unique contribution in current collaborative relationships. Discussion will include future directions and opportunities for collaboration. We will hold the last 25 to 30 minutes for attendees to ask their own questions and to share their perspectives on related areas of research.
Attendees will have the opportunity to follow up with one-on-one mentoring sessions with Dr. Chilenski to strategize next steps to explore opportunities to build their research portfolios and learn more about the benefits of affiliating with the Prevention Research Center.
