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Penn State University’s Innovation Gateway — a new online platform that help researchers and industry research sponsors find each other — is being hailed as a major advance by faculty, corporate partners, and university administrators. The new platform provides a standardized way for faculty to present research approaches and possible solutions to industry challenges — and it gives industry a way to pose those challenges to university labs.

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Monday, April 17th from 12-1 pm 

College of Arts and Sciences, room 124

Summary of Research:

Older adults are less accurate at identifying facial expressions of emotion than young adults. A typical emotion perception task requires participants to identify the emotion presented on a series of standardized photographs of faces expressing anger, disgust, joy, fear, sadness, surprise, or neutral (no emotion). Research shows that older adults’ deficit in emotion identification can have serious consequences such as rendering them less accurate at identifying someone as lying, which may make older adults more vulnerable to falling prey to fraud or scams. However, expertise in a domain can sometimes reduce or eliminate age deficits. To test whether expertise at identifying facial expressions of emotion can buffer against the age-related declines seen in emotion perception, the present study proposes to compare age differences in emotion perception accuracy among deaf users of American Sign Language (ASL) to hearing individuals unfamiliar with ASL.

Researcher Bio:

Dr. Stanley earned her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, with a focus in Cognitive Aging, from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008. After postdoctoral work at Brandeis University and the Behavioral Research Program of the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Stanley joined the faculty of the Psychology Department at UA, where she directs the Emotions and Aging Lab. Dr. Stanley studies socioemotional functioning across the lifespan, focusing on two broad areas of aging and emotional life: emotion recognition and emotion regulation. Her publications have appeared in Developmental Psychology, Psychology and Aging, and The Journal of Gerontology.

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The Global Cardiovascular Innovation Center is a product commercialization consortium made possible by a $60 million grant from the State of Ohio’s Third Frontier Project. The consortium is led by Cleveland Clinic and is made up of other leading Ohio medical and research institutions including Case Western Reserve University, the Ohio State University, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Toledo and University Hospitals of Cleveland, along with leading industry and economic development partners.

Deadline: April 12, 2017

Request for Proposals

Petrology and Geochemistry

Proposals accepted after July 24, 2017

The Petrology and Geochemistry Program supports basic research on the formation of planet Earth, including its accretion, early differentiation, and subsequent petrologic and geochemical modification via igneous and metamorphic processes.