A United Nations statute to establish the first permanent International Criminal Court received overwhelmingly enthusiastic support from U.N. diplomats. A symposium examining how the new court will work will be held at the Cornell Law School Friday and Saturday, March 5 and 6.
Former President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter have been chosen as the recipients of the inaugural Delta Prize for Global Understanding. The Delta Prize was created to recognize groups or individuals for "globally significant efforts that provide opportunities for greater understanding among nations and cultures."
The Tibetan Buddhist perspective on issues of health and healing will be explored in an arts festival at St. Lawrence University March 23 through April 16.
Hendrix College will receive a $2.8 million gift from Acxiom Corporation and its company leader to help build the Charles D. Morgan Center for Physical Sciences for the departments of chemistry, mathematics and computer science, and physics.
A mother's employment outside of the home has no significant negative effect on her children, according to new research reported in the March issue of Developmental Psychology.
A University of Delaware English professor's 1983 book on the career of director Elia Kazan remains the first and only comprehensive look at the enormously successful professional life of this alienated film-maker who will be honored March 21 with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
A professor of psychology at Cornell University and author of "Power Sleep: The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance" (Villard, 1998), will answer questions about sleep problems when he participates in a toll-free "Sleep Hotline" on March 24, 1999.
Middle school students maintain a significantly better seated posture at adjustable computer workstations than at desktop workstations. Yet, the students were still seated in potentially at risk positions for musculoskeletal problems.
Most colleges and universities eliminated their honor codes during the 1960s. Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi is going against that trend. It adopted an honor code at the request of its student body in 1994.
Students at some liberal colleges must pass a comprehensive examination in their major field of study before receiving their degree. Other liberal arts colleges are testing their graduates for technological proficiency
Economic clout in the hands of a powerful few, technology advances, and concern over America's role in a changing world order was the zeitgeist as Americans faced the new century 100 years ago, says a Swarthmore College historian.
Adolescent girls are more helpful and affectionate toward their parents than adolescent boys, new research at Ohio State suggests. In addition, mothers receive more help and affection from their children than do fathers.
"Spirituality, Healing, and Health: A Transformative Vision" is an international conference April 11-13 at the Holiday Inn City Center in downtown Tucson sponsored by The University of Arizona that will focus on healing as a transformative experience of one's interior life that leads to a state of spiritual well being and health.
The obvious decline of the traditional family, a trend marked by increasing rates of divorce and cohabitation, illustrates the paradoxical nature of Americans' hot and cold attitude toward marriage and family, says a University at Buffalo sociologist.
Seven Muhlenberg College students with completely different backgrounds and virtually nothing in common have formed a tight-knit improvisational comedy troupe and taken the College and several other campuses by storm.
The Federal Aviation Administration is uniting with Purdue and a dozen other universities to head off a looming shortage of air traffic controllers. Anticipating the necessity of training thousdands of recruits within a short time, the FAA turned to universities to determine which had programs already in place that meet the government agency's pretraining requirements.
The Y2K issue and heart defibrillators on airplanes will be some of the topics discussed at this year's annual SMU Air Law Symposium sponsored by the Journal of Air Law and Commerce at Southern Methodist University.
At a national conference on March 10-13, 1999, in Baltimore, Maryland, presenters will review the latest scientific findings and assess ongoing research needs on worker stress associated with dramatic changes in the nature and organization of work
Webster University announced today that it will open a new 50-acre residential campus in Thailand next fall. The new campus will be Webster's seventh international campus and the first operated by a four-year American university in Thailand.
After 20 years of sporadic research, a UGA professor has identified the author of a fragment of Atlanta's Civil War history. His book "Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta" traces the lives of Vermont native Cyrena Bailey Stone and her family who clandestinely but comfortably lived in the South.
Philadelphia and Baltimore television stations too often paint an inaccurate portrait of violent crime, leaving viewers feeling frightened, helpless and uninformed about real dangers, a University of Delaware researcher says in a new report.
Armchair adventurers and divers alike can now easily explore seven of Lake Superior wrecks thanks to a Web site and a set of dive guides produced by the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
The Cornell University Work and Environment Initiative and the Town of Londonderry, N.H are conducting a national design competition for a site design of an eco-industrial park and its 25,000-square-foot flexible industrial building.
Johns Hopkins University announces program offering $10,000 research grants to undergraduates, enabling students to get hands-on experience in demanding, graduate-level research projects.
The National Science Foundation is unveiling an innovative $7.5-million educational program that will enable talented graduate students and advanced undergraduates to serve as teaching fellows in K-12 science, mathematics and technology-based education.
Social Security can be saved by raising the earliest retirement age for benefits to 65 from 62, a Cornell University social security expert told a Congressional subcommittee this week.
The Purdue University Network Computing Hubs, or PUNCH, provide access to research-grade computer simulation laboratories. From almost anywhere in the world, students and researchers can use the World Wide Web to access these computer tools that typically are unavailable commercially.
A $402,000 link-to-learn grant from Pennsylvania's Dept. of Education will fund Temple University's Literacy Improvement through Technology project to increase teachers' proficiency in using technolgy as a tool for teaching language arts.
A school reform model based on the "Cultural Literacy" ideas of E.D. Hirsch fares well in its first comprehensive, nationwide evaluation.
For three decades social scientists have had little success in figuring out how a person's race affects the outcomes of crimnal cases. Now University of Washington researchers have found that court reports prepared prior to sentencing by probation officers consistenly portray black and white juvenile offenders differently, leading to harsher sentencing recommendations for blacks.
A new book published by Resources for the Future (RFF) provides teachers and students, the public policy community, and interested citizens with short and readable articles on a wide variety of environmental research and policy topics.
The International Center at the University of California, San Diego sent a record 606 students abroad last year, surpassing any other UC campus. UCSD ranks fifth among U.S. institutions in the number of international scholars hosted during 1997-98.
According to University of Michigan researchers, the Protestant ethic also makes overweight women feel bad about themselves.
A new program housed in the Vanderbilt-Bill Wilkerson Center and the Kennedy Center for Research in Human Development at Vanderbilt University helps children who lag behind their peers in talking.
Engineering has trailed other professions in attracting women into its ranks. Women now account for a quarter of physicians and lawyers, but only about one in 10 engineers. Now in its 30th year, a career workshop at Northwestern University encourages girls to consider engineering in their education and career choi
The approach of the second millennium has become a worldwide phenomenon, feared by some and anticipated eagerly by others. Will it bring a Golden Age or the end of the world as we know it? Or, to the rational skeptics in our midst, will it be simply the passing of another calendar year.
Imagine a community park in Appalachia created to celebrate the area's social history and help solve acid-mine drainage problems. Or a wetlands area on a busy university campus that makes storm-water management an integral, visible part of the designed landscape.
The advantage of privilege based on gender, skin-color, age, ability or socio-economic factors will be discussed by the associate director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 at the Institute of the Americas on the University of California, San Diego campus.
The Internet has revolutionized continuing education for working professionals, especially social studies teachers.
Joblessness, not race, is the key predictor of all forms of violent death -- homicide, accidental death and suicide -- according to a study by University of Washington demographers who looked at census data and vital records for Chicago. They also found the average life expectancy for poor black males dropped by 1 1/2 years between 1970 and 1990.
Most schoolchildren have at least an annual relationship with museums: their end-of-the-year class field trip. For some Illinois children, that relationship is about to intensify, and eventually the same will be true for kids around the country.
Before you get your sweetheart's name tattooed you-know-where this Valentine's Day, heed the studies of a University of Arkansas researcher who says you may be succumbing to a needle-friendly social fad.
Married couples who see each other as equals are more likely to have larger increases in blood pressure while arguing than couples who have either a highly dominate or submissive partner, according to new research from the University of Utah.
For most of Douglas Mitchell's adult life, he has been giving voice to ancient tongues such as Old Icelandic and Sanskritoboth of which he teaches at Rice. But there were other voices flying around in his head, and they wanted out.
Internationally known multimedia performance artist Ping Chong will present production of "Undesirable Elements" with eight Hamilton College students
A new study on premarital relationship development in this month's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology explores how love improves over time for romantic couples if satisfaction and commitment increase too. Satisfaction and commitment were as, or more, important than love for couples in their desire to stay together, according to llinois State University researchers.
Ethics professors lead 2-day conference at Johns Hopkins University, working with police on applying ethics to daily police decisionmaking
President Clinton today awarded 20 National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported researchers, including nine women and three minorities, with the 1998 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
Babson College announces the rollout of the QuestGen Assessment System. The online software system, allows college students to assess and improve their academic skills.
Married couples who see each other as equals are more likely to have larger increases in blood pressure while arguing than couples who have either a highly dominate or submissive partner, according to new research from the University of Utah.
RSS
Medicine keyboard_arrow_right
Sciencekeyboard_arrow_right
Life keyboard_arrow_right
Business keyboard_arrow_right
Journal News keyboard_arrow_right
By Location keyboard_arrow_right
Meetings, Grants, and Events keyboard_arrow_right