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On Terms of Trade, Offshoring Ties, and the Enforcement of Trade Agreements

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Devashish Mitra

Co-authored by Professor of Economics Devashish Mitra, the study was published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

October 24, 2025

See related: Tariffs, Trade

African Witchcraft and Global Asylum Seeking: Border-Crossing Beliefs

Fethi Keles

Part-time instructor of anthropology Fethi Keles's review of the book African Witchcraft and Global Asylum Seeking: Border-Crossing Beliefs, written by Katherine Angela Luongo, was published in the International Journal of Refugee Law.

October 15, 2025

See related: Conflict, Refugees

Breadth and Depth: Examining the Limitations of Large-N Survey Research in the Study of Marginalized Populations

Jenn M. Jackson

The article, written by Assistant Professor of Political Science Jenn Jackson, was published in Political Science & Politics.

October 15, 2025

Adult ADHD is Linked to Higher Illicit Drug Use and Prescription Drug Misuse

Andrew S. London, Kevin M. Antshel, Joshua Grove, Iliya Gutin, and Shannon M. Monnat
This brief summarizes findings from a study that describes differences in lifetime and past-year use of 7 illicit drugs (marijuana, cocaine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, and hallucinogens) and misuse of 4 categories of prescription medications (opioids, tranquilizers, sedatives, and stimulants) between U.S. adults ages 18-64 with and without ADHD in 2023. The authors find that adults with ADHD are 1.6 to 3.3 times more likely to report past-year illicit drug use or prescription drug misuse than those without ADHD.
October 14, 2025

See related: United States

Understanding International Security: Theory and Practice

Michael John Williams, James Wesley Hutto, Asli Peker Dogra

Michael Williams, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, has co-authored a new book, Understanding International Security: Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2025). The book explores the meanings and debates around international security, with chapters addressing war, terrorism, violence, cyber security, health and more. 

October 9, 2025

Zones of Hope? National Heritage Areas and Their Contested Futures as New Regionalism Planning Interventions

Anne E. Mosher

The article, authored by Anne Mosher, associate professor of geography and the environment, was published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

October 9, 2025

See related: Federal, Maps, United States

The Archaeology of Hassanamesit Woods:The Sarah Burnee/Sarah Boston Farmstead

Heather Law Pezzarossi

Heather Law Pezzarossi, assistant professor of anthropology, has co-edited and contributed to a new book, The Archaeology of Hassanamesit Woods:The Sarah Burnee/Sarah Boston Farmstead (BAR Publishing, 2024). The book explores the Sarah Burnee/Sara Boston Farmstead, a household in the Nipmuc community of Hassanamesit, and its excavation. 

October 8, 2025

Belief, Behavior, and Health: Religion as a Social Determinant of Health

Sandra D. Lane

Sandra D. Lane, professor emerita of public health, has written Belief, Behavior, and Health: Religion as a Social Determinant of Health (Routledge, 2025). The book details how religious beliefs across cultures impact health outcomes. It draws from research from the United States as well as Africa and the Middle East. 

October 7, 2025

Using a Community-Based Cultural Approach to Promote Life Skills and Leadership for Social Determinants of Health in Adolescents From Disadvantaged Communities in Casablanca, Morocco: A Sidi Moumen Community Case Study

Md Koushik Ahmed, Chaimaa Abouzaid El Massaoudi, Laila Biri, Youssef El Mezzaoui, Boubker Mazoz, Lydia Rose Andrews, Teioshontathe Herne, Susan Coots, Robert A. Rubinstein, Sandra D. Lane

“Using a Community-Based Cultural Approach to Promote Life Skills and Leadership for Social Determinants of Health in Adolescents From Disadvantaged Communities in Casablanca, Morocco: A Sidi Moumen Community Case Study,” co-authored by Maxwell professors Robert Rubinstein and Sandra Lane, was published in BMC Public Health.

October 7, 2025

Community-Based Food Program Limits in Reducing Older Adult Food Insecurity

Madonna Harrington Meyer and Colleen M. Heflin
Older adults who are grappling with food insecurity may enhance their food supply through community-based programs that provide free and subsidized food. But these programs can be complex, expensive, and may be difficult for older adults to use. This final brief in our older adult food insecurity series describes the limits of community-based food programs for older adults, including access, food quality, and transportation barriers. 
October 7, 2025

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The Limits of SNAP in Addressing Older Adult Food Insecurity

Colleen M. Heflin and Madonna Harrington Meyer
This brief describes how SNAP is currently not well designed for older adults in three respects: (1) the high levels of administrative burden associated with eligibility, certification, and benefit-determination processes, (2) the low value of SNAP benefits compared with the high costs associated with redeeming them, and (3) the high levels of state variation in SNAP policies that produce substantially different conditions for SNAP depending on where one lives.
September 30, 2025

What Municipalities Really Want: Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence among New York State Municipal Leaders

Nicholas Croce & Saba Siddiki

This September 2025 Research to Practice Brief summarizes "What Municipalities Really Want: Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence among New York State Municipal Leaders," co-authored by Nicholas Croce (Syracuse University) & Saba Siddiki (Syracuse University).

September 26, 2025

Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among the General Population in Japan from Public Health Ethical Perspectives: Findings from a Narrative Review

Moe Kuroda, Md Koushik Ahmed, Kaku Kuroda, Sandra D. Lane

Co-authored by Sandra Lane, professor emerita of public health, the article was published in Asian Bioethics Review.

September 24, 2025

Nonfinancial Factors Shape Food Insecurity Among U.S. Older Adults

Madonna Harrington Meyer and Colleen M. Heflin
Nonfinancial factors such as poor physical and mental health, lack of access to healthy food, and transportation challenges make it more difficult for older adults to obtain, prepare, and consume healthy food. Based on the book, Food for Thought: Understanding Older Adults Food Insecurity, this brief summarizes how nonfinancial factors function as both causes and consequences of food insecurity in old age. 
September 23, 2025

How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

Omar Cheta

Omar Cheta, assistant professor of history, has written How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2025). The book explores Egypt’s adoption of a new infrastructure of commercial laws and institutions following the country’s opening to private capital in the 1840s. 

September 16, 2025

Saving the “Lungs of the City”: Emerging Civic Action in Urban Environmental Policy: Case Studies from Tampere, Finland and Worcester, Massachusetts

Markus Lainea, Selina Gallo-Cruz, Helena Leino

Co-authored by Associate Professor of Sociology Selina Gallo-Cruz, the article was published in Local Environment.

September 16, 2025

Budget Tradeoffs Shape Food Insecurity Among U.S. Older Adults

Madonna Harrington Meyer and Colleen M. Heflin
For low-income older adults, it may be difficult to meet basic needs on a fixed monthly income.  This brief summarizes how budget tradeoffs between food and other essential expenses—housing, utilities, medical care, transportation, and personal and cleaning supplies—shape food insecurity among older adults. 
September 16, 2025

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Between Dovecotes and Columbaria: Rock-Cut Architecture in 19th Century Cuba

Odlanyer Hernandez-de-Lara, José Manuel Gil Avalos, Judith Rodríguez Reyes, Esteban Grau González-Quevedo, Darién Urquiza Rives

The article, co-authored by Odlanyer Hernández de Lara, Ph.D. candidate and part-time instructor in anthropology, was published in Post-Medieval Archaeology.

September 11, 2025

The Pandemic Journaling Project: A New Dataset of First-Person Accounts of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sarah S. Willen, Katherine A. Mason, Heather M. Wurtz, Sebastian Karcher

Co-authored by Sebastian Karcher, director of the Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry and the Qualitative Data Repository, was published in PLOS One.

September 11, 2025

See related: COVID-19

Failure. Russia Under Putin

Brian Taylor

Brian Taylor, professor of political science, contributed a chapter to the recently published book Failure. Russia Under Putin (Bloomsbury, 2025). He is one of multiple authors who share their views on Russia’s failures under the leadership of Vladimir Putin. 

September 11, 2025

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