"Connie: The Powers and Possibilities of Community Engagement," a half-hour documentary made by Dorothea Braemer, associate professor of communication, will air on PBS station WNED-TV five times this month: Friday, February 14, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, February 15, 6:00 p.m. Friday, February 21, 10:30 p.m. Saturday, February 22, 3:00 p.m. Monday, February 24, 9:00 p.m.  The film explores Lee Constance "Connie" Bowles Eve’s remarkable life and groundbreaking work as a Buffalo-based activist, women’s advocate, and inspirational community leader. She was the founder of Women for Human Rights and Dignity Inc., which provided the most comprehensive alternative to incarceration and support network for women in New York State’s history and serves as a model for alternative prison programs nationwide to this day.  

Zhang Jie, SUNY Distinguished Professor of sociology and director of Buffalo State’s Center for China Studies, and coauthors Tan, Yee Kee, Ching Sin Siau, Norhayati Ibrahim, Kairi Kõlves, Caryn Mei Hsien Chan, Meng Chuan Ho, Chun Hong Gan, Noh Amit, Nurul Syasya Mohd Ridzwan Goh, and Lai Fong Chan published their 2024 paper "Validation of the Malay version of the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) among Malaysian undergraduates" in the Asian Journal of Psychiatry 99:104134.

Zhang Jie, SUNY Distinguished Professor of sociology and director of Buffalo State’s Center for China Studies, and coauthors Lin Zhang and Yin Yin published their 2024 paper "Adult Children’s Dependence or Support: Which Increases Life Satisfaction for the Chinese Elderly?" in Annals of Psychiatry and Mental Health 12(1):1190.          

Zhang Jie, SUNY Distinguished Professor of sociology and director of Buffalo State’s Center for China Studies, and coauthor Yilin Ye published their 2024 paper "Beliefs and Mental Health in Today’s China: A Study of Rural Adults" in the Austin Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology 11(1):1159.  

Zhang Jie, SUNY Distinguished Professor of sociology and director of Buffalo State’s Center for China Studies, and coauthors Guangqian Cai and Dwight Hennessy published their 2024 paper "A Peasant or Not? A Test of Chinese Rural Laborers' Identity status and Their Cultivated Land" in Psychology Research and Practice 3(5).

Zhang Jie, SUNY Distinguished Professor of sociology and director of Buffalo State’s Center for China Studies, and coauthor Sibo Zhao published their 2024 paper "Trend Variation and Related Factors of Suicidal Ideation in College Students" in Chinese Mental Health Journal 38(9): 808-813.  

Zhang Jie, SUNY Distinguished Professor of sociology and director of Buffalo State’s Center for China Studies, and coauthors Wenhui Yang and Dwight A. Hennessy published their 2024 paper "Couples’ Educational Comparability and Their Marital Satisfaction" in Interdisciplinary Education and Psychology 4(1):3.

Zhang Jie, SUNY Distinguished Professor of sociology and director of Buffalo State’s Center for China Studies, and coauthors Jichao Wang, Jill M. Norvilitis, and Wanting Fang published their 2024 paper "The Impact of Intergenerational Support on the Elderly’s Life Satisfaction in China: A Comparison of Males and Females" in OBM Geriatrics 8(3): 285.

Zhang Jie, SUNY Distinguished Professor of sociology and director of Buffalo State’s Center for China Studies, and coauthor Jiajing Liu published their 2024 paper "Digital Media Usage and Individual Well-being: Evidence from the China Family Panel Survey" in Archives of Depression and Anxiety 10(2): 62-70.

Zhang Jie, SUNY Distinguished Professor of sociology and director of Buffalo State’s Center for China Studies, and coauthors Junnan Li and Jichao Wang published their 2024 paper "Attitudes towards Gender Inequality and Acceptance of Homosexuality: A Study of Chinese Populations" in Archives of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care 8(1): 1063.