2000 — Not-for-profit entrepreneur Ellen Baxter '75 presents a lecture entitled "Homelessness in New York City: The Courts, the Politics and Pragmatic Solutions,” in the chapel.
Safe Passage, the non-profit founded by the late Hanley Denning ’92 to educate children whose families earn their living picking through trash at the Guatemala City Dump, was highlighted on NPR. The piece includes an interview with Jessica Britt ’10, who works for the agency. Listen to the segment.
Among its Alternative Spring Break 2012 options, the McKeen Center for the Common Good includes Providing Safe Passage in Guatemala, a trip that entails helping in the effort to combat poverty by creating opportunities and fostering dignity through the power of education.
Research by trustee emerita Lisa McElaney ’77, president and principal investigator for Vida Health Communications, has been looking at ways media education distributed at childbirth might effectively reduce incidents of child abuse in the first year of life. With NIH funding and a handful of powerful partnerships, “All Babies Cry” is a multiple-dose intervention program distributed during the maternity stay. It includes a video, booklet, take-home DVD and various online components.
The right ingredients for a successful marriage may vary from couple to couple, but spending time around two people who have made it last can’t hurt.
The Wall Street Journal examines the dynamics at play within a couple whose elusive chemistry and respect for one another have carried their bond for an epic 52 years.
In a similar vein, the Harvard Business Review translates the question, “Would you mind if I gave you some feedback?” into the more truthful “here’s some negative feedback,” and decodes how the sender and recipient may be feeling, in order to help you be a better communicator.
When your to-do list is as long as your arm and the workday goes into the late night, the threat of burn-out can be great. Though stress is natural, there is a difference between feeling overworked and actually being overworked. Professional mountain bike rider, Jeremiah Bishop lists the symptoms of exhaustion that everyone should look out for.
Dr. Dora Anne Mills ’82, vice president of clinical affairs at the University of New England and formerly public health director for the State of Maine, was honored with the Maine Development Foundation’s Kenneth M. Curtis Leadership Award for her efforts in improving Maine’s health and its public health system over the past 15 years.
“Her energy, inspiration, perseverance, and passion have made Maine a better place for all of us,” says Amanda Roggio of the Maine Development Foundation.
Author and motivational psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson writes that the unconscious mind processes past victories as a pattern of behavior and concludes that you are the common factor, bolstering confidence and enthusiasm.
Reflecting on a single success, she says, is interpreted as luck and generates self-doubt. Similarly, remembering an unsuccessful incident or several unsuccessful incidents causes the mind to assume that you are the cause of disappointment, causing you to repeat your mistakes.
Feeling blue? Put a little 16th century in your swagger. Researchers from the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania believe that the Old Order Amish might be on to something.
With their depression rate 10% of the national average, theories have emerged that the problem with industrial life is nature-deficit disorder. Studying physical and mental health, Dr. Andrew Weil suggests that “our brains are simply not suited for the modern world.”
The award for her research on the epidemiology of uterine leiomyotmata will presented to her at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting, which begins later this week in Washington, D.C.
In a study of divorce — one of the more troubling situations you and your children might encounter — there is a promising conclusion.
“Our results suggest that divorces with the greatest potential to harm children occur in marriages that have the greatest potential for reconciliation,” say University of Minnesota researchers.
Safe Passage, the non-profit founded by the late Hanley Denning ’92 to educate children whose families earn their living picking through trash at the Guatemala City Dump, was highlighted on NPR. The piece includes an interview with Jessica Britt ’10, who works for the agency. Listen to the segment.
