Finding Respite, Despite Challenges By Heather Rodriguez '04 In 1997, then-President Bill Clinton established November as National Family Caregivers Month to recognize and honor family as well as “informal” caregivers around the country. Today, more than 3.4 million informal caregivers exist in Texas alone, providing regular and unpaid assistance to elderly loved [...]
Undergraduate Research: What Wasn’t Taught in Class By Erin Batta '23 and Christina Orzabal '23 Intro: When you think of the term “researcher,” you may be imagining someone in a lab coat and safety glasses carefully mixing chemicals that could explode at any second. Fortunately for those around us, this is [...]
Texas Congregate Meal Initiative Virtual Summit In collaboration with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, the Administration for Community Living, and the Texas A&M Mays Business School, PPRI is helping 16 community-based congregate meal providers develop and test low-cost innovations that will increase congregate meal participation and expand benefits to seniors. This [...]
Young people in the Middle East struggle to see a promising future By Georges Naufal '07 The Middle East’s population is growing almost twice as fast as the world overall, and one-third of its people are under the age of 15. As Joe Biden takes his first trip to the region [...]
