Crabs’ famous sideways walk may trace back to a single evolutionary moment 200 million years ago. Researchers found that most ...

Take a brief walk outside and you're likely to encounter a wide range of things that could influence your health—the sunlight ...

We argue that while profound dietary change and systemic transformation are widely acknowledged as urgent, current behavioral science approaches remain too incremental and hesitant to meet the scale ...

For Meingold Chan, assistant professor in the Purdue University Department of Human Development and Family Science, studying epigenetics can be analogized to playing a piece of sheet music. When ...

As children enter adolescence, peers become a dominant force in their lives. With adult supervision waning, teens look to agemates for guidance on how to act, think, and fit in. But who matters ...

Nearly every leader has faced this moment: You've presented what you believe to be a perfectly logical strategy, backed by data and sound reasoning, yet your team resists. The plan makes sense on ...

In late December 2025, the Food and Drug Administration approved Novo Nordisk’s once-daily Wegovy pill, the first oral GLP-1 medicine for weight loss management in the United States. The pill has ...

If you want to work with adults facing complex mental health challenges, this specialization prepares you to deliver effective, compassionate care in today’s most demanding practice settings. In this ...

Ask the earliest students of programs that are now part of the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences (CBCS), and they’ll likely tell you the same story: the first programs were born from humble ...

The Department of Health Behavior and Nutrition Sciences welcomes new faculty member Devon Tapp as an assistant professor and director of the Health Coaching program for the spring 2026 semester. From ...