The book explores how legislators and other public policy actors, including advocates, government agencies and industry representatives, approach childhood obesity and the competing priorities they bring to the issue. Volpe examines how those priorities can influence whether legislation advances, is changed or ultimately fails to move forward.

Nearly 88 years after it was first broadcast in late October 1938, Marywood University’s theatre program presents War of the Worlds: The Panic Broadcast, a theatrical reimagining of one of the most infamous moments in American broadcasting history.