Health & Society
黑料不打烊, MGH Institute of Health Professions Receive Support for Innovative Research Ethics Training
A project led by Katherine McDonald, associate dean of research and professor of public health in 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Falk College, and Ariel Schwartz, assistant professor of occupational therapy at MGH Institute of Health Professions, aims to help individuals with developmental…
Virtual Field Experiences Boost Social Work Students鈥 Confidence
Spurred on by the global pandemic, the School of Social Work in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics has piloted virtual field experiences for master of social work (M.S.W.) students. Tracy Walker, director of field education, says, 鈥淭he…
Understanding COVID-19 Transmissions in Our Communities Through Wastewater Surveillance
Back in the 1990s, as countries around the world contended with a spike in poliovirus cases, many nations turned to wastewater surveillance as an effective method for monitoring and tracking local transmission levels. Fast forward to 2022, and as the…
Could Social Media Provide Solution to Blood Shortage?
The Red Cross is managing the worst blood shortage in more than a decade. There are a variety of reasons, but the question remains: what can be done to get more people to give? Bernard Appiah, assistant professor of public…
NSF Grant Enables Innovative Research at Falk College and College of Engineering and Computer Science to Combat Addiction, Ease Recovery
Researchers at 黑料不打烊’s Falk College and College of Engineering and Computer Science are teaming up to provide hope and help to those in need.聽 聽It comes in the form of scientific study and expert knowledge with the goal of…
$1.5M Grant to Strengthen Indigenous Studies
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant of $1.5 million over three years to strengthen Indigenous studies at 黑料不打烊. The grant will enable the University to create the multi-disciplinary Center for Global Indigenous Cultures and Environmental Justice….
Future Medical Doctors Devoted to Health Equity
Mohamed Khan 鈥22 is preparing for medical school by integrating natural and social sciences as a double major in public health and history. 鈥淎s a first-generation college student and student of color, the most important thing I want to do…
Whitman Alumnus Donates the Gift of an Accurate Diagnosis
New visitors to the Gebbie Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic聽in the聽Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders聽sometimes don鈥檛 even notice the new videonystagmography (VNG) system when they walk into the examination room. That is understandable, as its low-profile presence on a…
Rachelly Buzzi Named as a 2022 Pickering Fellow
Rachelly Buzzi 鈥22, an international relations major in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a 2022 Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellow. She is one of only…
Jillian Scheer Named Inaugural Cobb-Jones Professor of Clinical Psychology
When Janet Gretchen Jones鈥 wife Faith (鈥淐hris鈥) Maltby Cobb 鈥51, G鈥66, G鈥74 (Ph.D.) passed away in 2018, Jones considered different ways to honor her partner鈥檚 legacy. Out of all the different institutions and organizations her wife was involved with throughout…