Parents who endured difficult childhoods provided less financial support to their children’s education such as college tuition compared to parents who experienced few or no disadvantages, according to a new study from a researcher from Penn State. Regardless of current socioeconomic status, the parents who had more disadvantages in their childhoods gave their children $2,200 less, on average. 

A multi-national, multi-institutional team led by Penn State researchers developed a new tool that enables doctors to examine placentas right at the bedside using just a phone. The tool harnesses computer vision and artificial intelligence to make placenta examination more accessible for low-resource and more-advanced health care institutions alike.