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.
A study on the literacy levels of America's teachers shows that they perform significantly higher than most adults and comparable to other college graduates and professionals.
Shaped like baby chicks in shades of yellow, pink, purple, white and even blue, Marshmallow Peeps are getting a bad rap, says registered dietitian Marianne Carter, assistant director of the University of Delaware Wellness Center.
The Academy of Natural Sciences will display thousands of insects from its 3.5 million-specimen collection, the oldest research collection in the western hemisphere, in Philadelphia from April 23-25, 1999.
Educators at the University of Illinois at Chicago and their colleagues at community colleges in the Chicago area expect that their new laboratory program for general chemistry will be more effective than traditional courses at teaching undergraduates.
Adult day care centers that treat clients like children -- and provide little autonomy or privacy -- are more likely to have clients who are withdrawn from their peers than those centers that have a more age-appropriate setting and activities, according to researchers at the University of Utah.
A gun-control project by University of Illinois at Chicago students will be on display in Chicago's Daley Center throughout April. The students hope that the project, which received backing from the city, will be turned into a full-fledged gun-control campaign.
The South Asia Program at Cornell University announced the creation of the Rabindranath Tagore Endowment in Modern Indian Literature to bring distinguished South Asian writers to the campus, made possible through a generous gift by Professor Emeritus Narahari Umanath Prabhu and his wife, Mrs. Suman Prabhu.
Friendship with your spouse is the foundation of a happy marriage says a University of Washington psychologist after nearly 25 years of studying what makes marriages blossom or shrivel. "Men aren't from Mars, nor women from Venus," but really want the same thing from a relationships, he says.
If you want to enjoy fresh vegetables from your own garden this year, now is the time to begin. A professor of botany at DePauw University and a vegetable grower for more than 30 years, offers an easy-to-follow guide to gardening that will get you through from start to harvest.
A group of national and international experts in disability studies and in film studies will gather at The University of Iowa March 26-28 for the first-ever conference examining the representation of disabilities in movies.
Parents who want to send their sons or daughters to a university can give their children, years ahead of time, a gift that's likely to help them succeed, says Rick Snyder, director of the University of Kansas clinical psychology program. Parents can give their children "hope."
Between semesters at Williams College is one month known as Winter study, where student take a single intensive course. This year a number of students had their first taste of real research.
When it comes to earning patents, United States inventors are among the world's most active and successful - both in the U.S. and abroad.
"The funniest writer of our time is also one of the most troubling," writes Robert Bell, editor of Critical Essays on Kingsley Amis. Bell has brought together a veritable Who's Who among contemporary fiction writers and critics to help explicate the humorous and disturbing nature of Amis' writings.
Archivists and computer systems specialists at Cornell University have embarked on an 18-month project to study new record-keeping technologies and recommend ways to ensure that electronic records are preserved for the future.
A package of interventions targeted at teachers, parents and children throughout the elementary school years had long-lasting effects in reducing levels of violent behavior, drinking and sexual intercourse and in improving school performance at age 18 among urban children, according to a study by University of Washington
The current decline in welfare caseloads has been very rapid, especially since the 1996 welfare reform act, yet other problems such as continued poverty and economic insecurity are still common among former welfare recipients and are likely to increase, according to experts associated with the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.
The University of Kansas will sponsor a conference Sept. 9, 10 and 11 titled "NATO: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," to examine the role of the alliance during the Cold War, its adaptation to the present and its future role.
In a truly global course at Cornell, students from four continents and corporate managers from 10 international companies linked via teleconferencing are working together on teams to solve key international human resource problems.
As we prepare to celebrate the luck of the Irish, a University of Arkansas artist will choose instead to celebrate those who weren't so lucky. Myron Brody has been commissioned to create a memorial for those who died in the Northern Ireland "Troubles."
Journalistic images of Native Americans that dominated the 19th century, including some stereotypes that endure even today, are described in a new book, "The Newspaper Indian," by John M. Coward, chairman of the communication department at The University of Tulsa.
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