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Local Food Production and Childhood Nutrition in Mali
A UMN geographer shows how small-scale agriculture can have a big impact on health.
Conspiring Together
UMN political scientists show how conspiracy theories are politically motivated—and more common than we think.
How Schools Can Get Children to Eat Their Vegetables
Schools, nutritionists, and behavioral scientists are putting science to work to figure out how to get children to reach for a carrot instead of a candy bar. Psychology professor Traci Mann talks about some methods schools are trying.
'Voice banks' step in to keep chronically ill patients from falling silent
University of Minnesota speech pathologists use new voice database technology to help restore the voices of those suffering from neurodegenerative illnesses.
An anthropologist's view of Wall Street
Associate Professor Karen Ho talks with Kai Ryssdal, host of National Public Radio’s “Marketplace,” about the people and culture in Wall Street, the effects of the 2008 financial crash, and the possibility of change.
Big Questions: How Do We Move Beyond Stigma in Mental Health?
Discussions about mental health often focus on the role of stigma in preventing people from accessing mental health resources. Join us as we explore how we can move beyond stigma in our efforts to address mental health concerns, improve access to mental health services, and enhance well-being for all.
The Return of Rehabilitation? Educational Programs for Prisoners Remain Inadequate
Up until the 2016 presidential election, criminologists saw increasingly hopeful signs that a new “smart on crime” political alignment was emergent: imprisonment rates (and crime) were declining, tough-on-crime policies were becoming increasingly unpopular among both Democrats and Republicans, and “rehabilitation” was reentering the criminal justice lexicon […]
How to remember the wartime Japanese-American incarceration
Historian Yuichiro Onishi places the history in the present.
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