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that treat clients like children -- and provide little autonomy or privacy -- are more likely to have clients who are withdrawn from their peers than those centers that have a more age-appropriate setting and activities, according to researchers at the University of Utah.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.
Don't schedule too many activities for your children. Although your intentions might be to provide your children with a wonderful childhood, you may be harming them in the process. So says a professor at Wartburg College in Waverly, IA.
In a study of in-home day care settings, Purdue University researchers measured the level of attachment security between caregivers and very young children. Several factors, including the age at which a child entered day care and the quality of the day care setting, predicted how well the caregivers and children would bond.
The culture of a school -- a web of values, traditions and symbols -- can be toxin or tonic for education reform. Ignoring this powerful variable, however, can be a fatal mistake in reform attempts, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
Vanderbilt University's award-winning Little Planet Literacy Series combines CD-ROM technology with old-fashioned storytelling to help at-risk children learn to read.
Reporters who broke stories of reckless business practices and corruption in politics, health care and the judicial system are among the 13 winners of the 1998 George Polk Awards for excellence in journalism, Long Island University announced today.
Spring break is a time when thousands of students flock to the beaches. The volatile mix of alcohol, anonymity, sex and partying often results in someone getting hurt. A Vanderbilt University expert offers tips for a healthy spring break.
With Oscar nominations for the film "Shakespeare in Love" and upcoming remakes of other Shakespearean works - "Hamlet," "Love's Labours Lost" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream," to name a few - William Shakespeare seems to be more popular than ever. Why?
The plains Indians fought army outposts and infectious disease. But it was mis-use of the land that finally pulled in the reins on the Great Plains horse culture, asserts a University of Arkansas historian in his award-winning new book.
Forty-five years before he ever set foot on a college campus, Tadeusz Debski discovered his thirst for knowledge in the worst of environments, the Flossenburg concentration camp in Germany between 1941 and 1945.
If it's true that the devil's in the details, then there's plenty of Beelzebub in a new book about the destructive forces permeating U.S. academia.
The time is ripe to amend the New Deal law that prohibits farm workers from bargaining collectively with their employers, two University of Illinois experts write in the coming issue of the Emory Law Journal.
College students from around the country will be crossing their eyes and dotting their tees at the 11th annual national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on April 10. The event honors the late cartoonist Rube Goldberg. The task for 1999 is to tee up a golf ball.
A new study finds that financial circumstances don't explain why many high-achieving, low-income students never go to college. The real culprit: inadequate advice from counselors, teachers and other adults.
High school students find learning biology almost as much fun as a video game with a new interactive computer program called BioScope. Purdue University researchers are developing the educational tool that has one-of-a-kind Internet safeguards and is constantly changing.
While most college students head for the surf and sand this spring break, more than 300 Vanderbilt students will spend their week in volunteering at sites around the country and in Peru, Mexico and Canada through a program called alternative spring break.
In a pleasant, bright conference room on the University of Illinois campus, four professors and 13 students come together once a week to participate in a new interdisciplinary graduate seminar on terrorism.
Educators at the University of Illinois and in three Illinois counties are finding that a rare form of university-schools collaboration -- which pools expertise, resources and the novice teachers themselves -- can be a key to getting first-year teachers some of the support they need.
Nearly a decade after the dismantling of apartheid, one group of South Africans is still struggling for recognition. That group, according to a University of Illinois theater professor, is black South African women.
Making friends is a natural thing for many kids. For others, it's not. And for a small but significant minority, the way they handle even minor conflicts within a friendship is a strong predictor that their friendships will be few, say two University of Illinois researchers.
The March 3, 1999 U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring public schools to pay for one-to-one nursing care to some disabled students will benefit the disabled nationwide, says a University of Iowa law professor and leading American with Disabilities Act expert.
Nationwide, millions of students and parents planning college-campus tours this spring may do well to heed a few key pointers, compiled by top University of Delaware officials.
The district attorney in Philadelphia, Mississippi is trying to reopen the Ku Klux Klan killings of the three civil rights workers that took place nearly 35 years ago. Charles Sallis of Millsaps College is an expert on this topic and the attempts to reopen the case.
The Cornell Early Childhood Music Project at the childcare center at Cornell uses chants, musical playground, instruments from around the world and other unique approaches to focus on music for enhancing brain development.
Of the 3,000 student athletes who have attended Dr. Tom Jackson's violence prevention workshops, not one has since been charged with assault. The key to preventing violence among athletes is to distinguish between appropriate on-field and off-field behaviors.
Many people simply need something to worry about, and the synergy between the millenium and the Y2K bug gives them a convenient excuse to panic, according to an expert on religion, culture, and apocalyptic literature at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta.
New research by a University of Georgia sociologist focuses on the problem of out-of-field teaching -- teachers assigned to teach subjects for which they have little education or training. He found that the most common assumptions about the causes of the problem are largely untrue and that proposed solutions may, in fact, cause more harm than good.
Recruiting underrepresented minorities to science and engineering graduate schools and ensuring they complete advanced degree work is a critical issue facing U.S. educators today, say scholars who will focus on the isssue at a conference at Rice University March 11-12.
The Monadnock Institute at Franklin Pierce College surveyed New Hampshire residents and among the survey's findings from 243 respondents: women reported a much higher level of attachment to (and satisfaction with) their place compared to men; income levels and home ownership seem to be strong predictors of place connection; and respondents who acknowledge watching four or more hours of TV per day expressed a significant disconnection from their place/community.
Gender is clearly no longer a liability for women considering a run for Congress, according to a Vanderbilt doctoral student who is researching the competitiveness of women candidates in the House of Representatives.
District of Columbia teachers now have a unique opportunity for professional development and graduate credit through Western Illinois University's College of Education and Human Services.
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