News & Events Demystify Environmental Migration -Shuai Zhou and Guangqing Chi published a review paper on the environmental migration literature to… Yining Feng Awarded $4,000 C-SoDA Seed Grant for Big-Data… Yining Feng has received a $4,000 seed grant from the Center for Social Data Analytics (C-SoDA) unde… Amish found to be under-vaccinated for COVID-19 but not… - This summer, viral misinformation claimed that the Amish did not vaccinate against COVI… Call for Paper on Big Spatial Data in Demography Researchers from diverse fields are invited to contribute using Big Spatial Data in Demography - T… RSS Call for Proposal for Rural Sociology Editor Call for proposal for Rural Sociology Editor as published in RSS's website - The RSS Publication C… Strategic city planning can help reduce urban heat island… Katie Bohn from Penn State News reports on important research on the urban heat island (UHI) effect.… Shuai Zhou to take postdoctoral position at Cornell… Shuai Zhou, a Ph.D. candidate in Rural Sociology and Demography (dual title) under the supervision o… Wildfire proximity associated with asthma cases in rural… Kristie Auman-Gooding reports on Alaska's increasing number of wildfires and subsequent increase in… 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… Ayse Akyildiz Awarded NSF Fellowship to Attend a Workshop Ayse Akyildiz has received a fully-funded National Science Foundation (NSF) graduate fellowship to a… 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… 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… 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… 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.… 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 Please join us for a virtual launch event of the book, Gender, Food, and COVID-19: Stories of harm a… 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… ‘Bride kidnapping’ haunts rural Kyrgyzstan, causing young… Erin Hofmann and Guangqing Chi have published an article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies… 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… Using social media to solve social problems Social scientist rely on data to study social problems, however data from traditional surveys can be… Load More