Misty Heggeness, an economics and population data expert at the University of Kansas, has written "Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy." The book examines the entertainment behemoth that is Taylor Swift and how her massive success illustrates the many ways that women survive and thrive in the American workforce, whether it is through billion-dollar headlining tours or work that is unpaid and often overlooked. The book aims to illuminate the contributions of women, share stories of succes and bring more women to the field, with rigid research, personal anecdotes, humor and examples of women doing great work every day.

Indiana University associate professor of Anthropology and Human Biology Michael Wasserman will use a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to continue research on how pesticides and other environmental chemicals interact with the endocrine system in primates and humans.

Research by an interdisciplinary team from McGill University and Université Laval provides new insights into the links between social factors and cognitive health among aging adults. While previous research had found positive correlations between specific measures of social connectedness and a variety of health outcomes, this study appears to have been the first to create profiles aggregating multiple social factors and to see how those correlated with cognitive health in older adults, the researchers said.

One of the most effective ways to move individuals to act together on climate involves showing them how past collective actions have delivered structural change, a new study finds. What doesn’t work? Inducing guilt, or emphasizing co-benefits for health and economic growth. 

University of Phoenix College of Doctoral Studies has published a new white paper, “Rebuilding the Social Contract,” by TaMika Fuller, DBA, an affiliate of the Center for Educational and Instructional Technology Research (CEITR), and Victoria Lender, DBA, which examines how burnout, limited career development, and perceptions of low autonomy can erode trust at work—and what leaders can do to rebuild confidence, commitment and retention in an era shaped by accelerating technology and artificial intelligence.