Health & Society

Growing up on a cattle farm in Alden, New York, a rural community 30 minutes east of Buffalo, gave Morgan Foss G’20 an understanding of agriculture, food production and life on a farm. The master’s degree in public relations Foss graduated…

For more than 20 years, Department of Nutrition and Food Studies Teaching Professor and Graduate Program Director Sudha Raj in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics has been providing support, guidance and inspiration to generations of students who…

The neocortex, or “thinking brain,” accounts for over 75% of the brain’s total volume and plays a critical role in humans’ decision-making, processing of sensory information, and formation and retrieval of memories. Uniquely human traits such as advanced social behavior…

Tina Nabatchi, professor of public administration and international affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, was a keynote speaker at the annual Social Outcomes Conference 2024, hosted in hybrid format by the Blavatnik School of Government at…

For nearly a century, in the north entrance to the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, a lone statue of President George Washington greeted all who entered the school. A former farmer, land surveyor, American Revolutionary War hero and…

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs has formalized an agreement with the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) that promotes collaboration between faculty, staff, students, alumni and ICMA members. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) detailing the agreement signed this…

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most commonly diagnosed behavioral disorder in children, and the numbers are only expected to rise. The CDC reported that in 2022, over 7 million (11.4%) U.S. children aged 3–17 years were diagnosed with ADHD, an…

Eunjun Kim, associate professor of cultural foundations of education in the School of Education and of women’s and gender studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a 2024-25 National Humanities Center (NHC) Fellowship. During this prestigious…

With nearly half (46%) of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 reporting being targets of cyberbullying—according to a 2022 Pew Research Center survey—instructional design master’s degree students Tavish Van Skoik G’24 and Jiayu “J.J.” Jiang G’24 have developed a process…

Researchers increasingly analyze gigantic volumes of digital information to understand how and why individuals and groups of people conduct their lives the way they do, both during ordinary days and under extreme stress such as disease outbreaks or social unrest….