The conference featured a poster session during the lunch break, which allowed dozens of researchers and graduate students to present their work, fostering strong engagement with attendees. Joshua Fansler, doctoral candidate in health policy and administration, Sujeong Park assistant professor of health policy and addiction studies at Penn State Harrisburg and SSRI co-funded faculty member, and Makenna Luzenski, incoming doctoral student in development psychology and research study coordinator at Penn State, received the honor of Best Poster at the conference.
The Social Science Research Institute’s Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction recently hosted the sixth annual conference in the Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub at Penn State University Park.
As part of our regular “We Are!” feature, we recognize 20 Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what’s asked of them in their work at the University.
Students studying criminal justice with Shauntey James, assistant teaching professor of criminal justice at Penn State Harrisburg, turned to an alternative medium — podcasts — to share the research they conducted in class this spring.
Penn State Harrisburg student Makayla Galarza said producing a podcast for her criminal justice class allowed her to learn from professionals working in the field.
