Update, 3 p.m.: Police are no longer investigating an alleged hate incident reported by two Black Penn State faculty members.
Tyler Jolley, Patton Township’s chief of police, said his department received a call Monday after the faculty members found a rope hanging in a small tree near their house, describing it as a noose. Police collected the rope and returned to the neighborhood Monday afternoon to ask neighbors about any suspicious activity.
One neighbor said the rope was likely from a nearby swing set, which officers confirmed. One of the neighbor’s children said they’d thrown the rope into the woods. Police later determined no crime was committed when the rope made its way into the faculty members’ yard.
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The award is given to a full-time faculty member who has exhibited extraordinary achievement in the integration of teaching, research or creative accomplishment and service.
Buss is a developmental scientist whose research focuses on behavioral, biological and environmental factors associated with the development of childhood and teen anxiety symptoms. Her work spans multiple areas of research in the realm of social development, psychobiology and neuroscience. Her interest lies in the mechanisms of emotional development as they relate to temperament and anxiety development.
Her work is routinely funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and has resulted in the research group Parents and Children Together (PACT), which Buss founded and led until 2019 right before becoming department head.
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