On March 21st, Prof. Brady, Professor of Psychology, presented a Bean Lecture event with Dr. Shelby Cooley. The event was attended by members of Saint Anselm College as well as individuals from the New Hampshire Health Equity Partnership and Manchester public health department. Dr. Cooley's lecture presented research from across her career on the importance of positive cultural identity development, inclusive school climate influences on minority youth achievement, and Collective Impact solutions to improving educational equity in diversifying communities. The event was co-sponsored by the Saint Anselm College Psychology Department, The Multicultural Center, Communication, and Sociology Departments, and the Bean Distinguished Lecture Series. On March 26th, Dr. Kali Thomas presented "More than a Meal: Research Documenting the Impact of Home-Delivered Meal Programs to Inform Policy and Practice." Dr. Thomas presented the evolution of her home-delivered meals research program and discussed results from a series of studies examining the impact of these services. She shared examples of the ways in which these programs have evolved through this applied research and highlighted how these findings have been used to advance the policy discussion around funding for home-delivered meals programs. This talk was cosponsored by the NH Institute of Politics Distinguished Speaker Series and the Psychology Department’s Annual Hechtl/Lasky Lecture Series. The series is in honor of former faculty members Richard Hechtl and Julian "Jack" Lasky, who were leaders in Saint Anselm College's psychology department, having devoted their careers to promoting wellness through basic and applied psychology research.