While great attention is given large scale teenage problems like drug and alcohol abuse, pregnancy and suicide, more teenagers are affected by everyday choices about part-time work, friendships and electronic media, a University of Delaware professor says.
Wake Forest University's head of preservation is a mechanic, but you won't find him in a garage. Instead, he is tucked away inside the library tinkering on books rather than cars.
19-year-old Rishi Khan was cruising the Internet from his University of Delaware room when he spotted a message from a fellow coder, who wanted to unlock the twisted programming secrets of the "Melissa" computer virus. Soon, the unassuming cybersleuth was receiving attention from national publications such as the April 12 Newsweek, which describes his role in exposing the most contagious computer virus ever concocted.
In May a professor of physical education at Albion (Michigan) College, and five students will travel to China for a research exchange at Tianjin Medical University near Beijing. For two weeks they will study the movements of a thousand Chinese school children, and will teach doctors and teachers how to apply child-movement research to their work.
Parents nationwide can help keep their 4th through 8th graders up to date on their math skills this summer--thanks to the University of Delaware's mail order math program, Solve It.
Alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems were significantly slashed among a group of high-risk college-age drinkers using a brief, non-confrontational intervention treatment developed by University of Washington researchers.
Issues of ethnic violence have riveted America's attention on Kosovo, but a far more gruesome conflict is playing out in Borneo, including widespread incidents of headhunting and cannibalism. A University of Arkansas anthropologist who lived among these ethnic tribes offers his expertise.
Parents can quell test anxiety in their school-aged children by recognizing the problem and reinforcing realistic expectations. A Purdue University anxiety expert offers tips.
Ticks are hardly the topic of conversation at dinner parties. Rarely are such insects the main plot in an Academy Award winning movie. None have been given a major award from a nation's president.
Most drivers who engage in "road rage"--from tailgating and honking to sideswiping and drawing weapons--believe their aggressive behavior is inherited from a parent and their victims deserve what they get, according to a Central Michigan University study.
Organizers of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities' first annual spring conference are not only expecting trouble, they're welcoming it.
When European readers of Chateaubriand's famous "Atala" looked into the Mississippi Valley, they saw not the bustling trade of Yankee frontiersmen, but the noble image of Indians upholding an honorable code of conduct.
Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze will deliver an address, "Georgia, the Caucasus and Beyond," and join former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker, III, in a "town hall" meeting April 22 to reflect on historic events that brought about a peaceful end to the Cold War nearly 10 years ago.
Boston College Graduate School of Management' has created a tuition-free scholarship for business journalists who wish to deepen their understanding of finance.
Chicago middle school students can earn high school credit thanks to the Bulls Scholars Program, an after-school tutoring program created by the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Bulls. Launched in January 1999, the program reaches 1,000 7th and 8th graders.
Nationally recognized as the great books school, St. John's College offers a Summer Classics program that provides the opportunity to study the classics while vacationing in historic Santa Fe.
Spring means exam time at colleges and universities across the country, but at St. John's College students do not sit through hours filling in blue books. However, seniors do have to face an intimidating public oral examination during which they must defend a long original essay they have written.
A Cornell professor of history and classics and director of the Peace Studies Program threw himself into a difficult new sport and then wrote a book about it. Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty is a memoir that navigates through mid-life rites of passage as it meditates on the techniques and history of rowing.
University of Richmond senior has come up with a question about truth that has made her $23,390 richer in a campus-wide competition called the Richmond Quest. Her question is, "Is truth in the eye of the beholder?"
The Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University announces the launch of an international campaign to archive millennial documents and memorabilia pertaining to the year 2000.
On May 14-16, eminent scholars from around the world will convene at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for the conference "Sarira: Aspects of Embodiment in the Arts and Cultures of India."
National experts plan to gather April 7-9 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a national conference that will examine the public service mission of land grant institutions.
Boston University Professor William Anthony, author of the book The Art of Napping, says that the first Sunday of daylight savings time, should be celebrated as "National Nap Day."
A mock court exercise developed by a University of Wisconsin Law School professor will introduce Wisconsin deaf students to the world of law, and the very real possibility of becoming a lawyer.
Women who cook, eat and chat together improve their diets together in a unique Cornell Cooperative Extension program called Sisters in Health.
A batch of often angry, but sometimes tender, newly found poems has been found and published, adding to the current revival of interest in the poet of the people, Carl Sandburg.
Students should take an active part in parent-teacher conferences, says the dean of Purdue University's School of Education.
Research has shown that minority children with special needs often fare better in classrooms with teachers of color, but diverse special education teachers in the United States are in tragically short supply. A Vanderbilt-based program, the Alliance Project, is changing that.
Urban residents who move from a central city to the suburbs are different in several noticeable ways from those who choose to move within the city limits, a new Ohio State study shows.
A new study by Ohio State researchers suggests it may be difficult to teach teenagers in post-communist societies to develop strong support for democratic and free market principles.
Residential liberal arts colleges make a vital contribution to American intellectual life and many argue are the best model for educating undergraduate students. These are a few conclusions reached by authors in an examination of liberal arts colleges in the Winter 1999 issue of the journal Daedalus.
If you don't want to be scammed when planning your wedding, you must shelve your rose-colored wedding fantasy glasses and take in a dose of wedding planning reality. So says Dr. Angela L. Thompson of TCU. She studies the wedding industry.
With the imminent creation of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA), Georgia will be taking a bold leadership role in addressing one of the nation's most pressing problems -- suburban sprawl. An expert at Atlanta's Agnes Scott College believes that the solution to suburban sprawl lies in long-range planning and community involvement.
At the University of Illinois, one group of students learned that you can fight city hall -- and win. And they didn't read about it in a textbook; they learned by doing.
It happens every spring. Tens of millions of American children turn out for organized youth sports. Tagging along behind them are their parents, many of whom don't understand their roles and responsibilities according to a pair of sports psychologists who have written a new book to guide parents through the mindfield that sports can be.
Public anxiety is a universal worry, topping the list on national surveys of individual fears. Imagining your audience in their underwear might not help because research shows that some people are born with stage fright, says Ralph Behnke of TCU.
By studying the playing habits of young lab rats, a researcher at Gettysburg College is hoping to understand our own playing habits, as well as shed some light on autism.
Somehow, in his new slim volume of 23 trim poems, the award-winning poet Michael Van Walleghen has packed a world of animals, a universe of heavenly bodies, and beyond that, a lifetime of personal memories and the echoes of our prehistoric fears.
The National Science Board this week approved plans by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide some $21 million to fund 8,000 one-year scholarships of up to $2,500 each to low income students who pursue degrees in computer science, engineering or mathematics.
Bounty hunters, sometimes depicted as reckless criminals themselves, provide an essential public service and ought not to be outlawed, a scholar argues in the current issue of the University of Illinois Law Review.
Yoga and meditation techniques could be valuable tools in helping teenage sex offenders reduce or control their deviant impulses, according to new research at the University of Utah.
The familiar Hollywood theme of psychiatrists and psychiatric treatment takes a turn ìon the couchî in a new book by Glen Gabbard, M.D. and Krin Gabbard, Ph.D. Psychiatry and the Cinema, by published by the American Psychiatric Publishing Group, is a careful scrutiny of cinematic psychiatrist past and present.
One of the world's top brain surgeons, Keith L. Black, M.D., director of the Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, is actively working to motivate 120 students to stay in school, pursue higher education and consider a career in medicine.
Good insect moms ferociously protect their young by fanning their wings and charging predators--but only when they must pin all their hopes on a single batch of eggs, a University of Delaware scientist reports in the new issue of the journal, Animal Behaviour. Bug moms who lay multiple batches are far more likely to "turn tail and run" from egg-munching predators, says Douglas W. Tallamy.
While children under age 18 make up about 25 percent of our population, their concerns are rarely represented. And though we often talk about how much we love them, they are frequently overlooked, says a Vanderbilt University Divinity School professor who intends to change the way children are viewed in society, theology and the church.
A new, short, streamlined and straightforward IQ test, designed by a University of Delaware professor, will be available for use beginning in May. The Wide Range Intelligence Test (WRIT) is designed for persons ages 4 to 80 and takes approximately a half hour to administer.
As Passover and Easter turn our attention toward religious faith, many people feel more strongly the conflict between science and religion. But a University of Arkansas chemist claims such a conflict need no longer exist. His evidence -- science, itself.
For many kids, the first taste of farming may come in the classroom. A 4-H Classroom Chicken Embryology program that started as a pilot project in two urban school corporations a decade ago is now in every school corporation in that county -- public and private -- and reaches about 10,000 students each year.
With an eye toward bridging the ideological divides on affirmative action, a panel of nationally known researchers and scholars will convene for "The Future of Affirmative Action in Higher Education" conference hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago April 8-10.
Marriages of older women who have their own pensions are more than twice as likely to end as the marriages of older women without pensions, according to researchers at the University of Michigan.
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