Life News (Education)

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There are many ways parents can help prepare their children for school, say Drs. Sharon and Craig Ramey, developmental psychologists at UAB and authors of "Going to School."

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Governor Gray Davis announced that the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technologies [Cal-(IT)2], a joint proposal of UC San Diego and UC Irvine, has been selected among the six finalists to be submitted for final consideration as a California Institute for Science and Innovation.

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There is a perception that children of migrant families are "flooding the schools" in the Midwest. One University of Missouri-Columbia researcher is working to help educators build new bridges of understanding and cooperation with migrant parents.

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Boston University announces the creation of a Washington Journalism Program for both graduate and undergraduate students who will report on national politics with a New England angle for the program's newly created BU-Washington News Service.

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Universities can play a major role in helping lessen the impact of disasters in their communities and speeding recovery, according to a professor who researches public preparedness for hurricanes and who has organized the July 26 Project Impact Higher Education Conference.

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Temple University has many faculty members and administrators available to contribute expert advice and opinion to any "back to school" related articles.

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A Virginia Commonwealth University study published in the current issue of Academic Medicine offers new perspectives on factors that might influence women's progress to academic medicineís highest ranks.

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A proposal to form a college-run high school program from Marlboro College to Brattleboro (Vt.) High School was rejected last week by the school board because of strong concerns about equity and access. Critics called the idea a potential "brain drain."

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Westminster College will create a first-class aeronautical institute thanks to a $7.4 million grant from a private, charitable foundation, announced Westminster College President Peggy Stock.

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Washington State University will build an antimatter-physics research laboratory with a $1.1 million grant awarded by the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles; the grant will be used to purchase and install an accelerator.

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Move over Siegfried and Roy -- the real magical powers these days belong to Harry Potter, at least when it comes to capturing kids' interest.

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Thirty-two inquisitive high school students will begin delving into the mysteries of science July 10, when Rhodes College opens its annual Young Scholars Program in biology.

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A University of Arkansas law professor describes how school officials could handle problem situations, if the children involved were disabled, under the 1997 amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (Arizona Law Review).

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A University of Illinois department that has specialized in teaching community college educators is bringing that expertise online.

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"We do everything at the German International Graduate School of Management that we do back on the Purdue campus, but we do it in an international context," GISMA dean Dan Schendel says.

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While college students make gains in the cognitive process, they think about problems much simpler than professors assume, says a study at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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Two Cornell University preservation librarians have created a self-help reference guide called "Moving Theory Into Practice," a guide for librarians digitizing their resources.

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The Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia will host the 31st Annual Conference on Higher Education and the Law at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education on July 17-18.

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Purdue University, IBM and Dassault Systemes announced Friday (6-23) a collaborative alliance to create a digital enterprise applied-research center in the School of Technology on the university's West Lafayette campus.

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Today's food producer is more likely to drive a microprocessor than a tractor. Purdue University's School of Agriculture and the Krannert Graduate School of Management a year ago began offering a largely Internet-based MBA in food and agribusiness.

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Williams College graduate Ali Michael, for her senior thesis in African and Middle Eastern Studies, wrote a biography of Gertrude Sgwentu, a black woman who created the foundation for South African Female Empowerment.

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The University of Wisconsin-Madison is at the forefront to curb binge drinking through the RWJ Project, which aims to change the campus and community norms that result in high-risk drinking.

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Summertime is here and kids should be enjoying the freedom from the regular grind, says s child psychologist and New York University School of Education professor of applied psychology. "Even though children are out of school, there are ways to make certain learning doesn't end," he said.

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The job market has never been better for liberal arts graduates. The vast majority of liberal arts graduates are "ordering" the fries, not serving them, and Ursinus College graduates are a case in point.

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The Johns Hopkins University will host a conference July 17-18 that will bring together some of the nation's top experts on summer learning loss, summer school and year-round learning.

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Starting fall semester 2000, Krannert School master's degree students will be able to study e-business in 13 classes across the whole traditional business curriculum: marketing, finance, operations, organizational behavior, accounting, economics, management strategy and information systems.

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The University of Missouri-Rolla in fall 2000 will become the first university in Missouri to offer a master's degree program in manufacturing engineering.

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The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and School of Medicine will share a $1.6 million gift from the estate of Evelyn Grollman Glick, the Baltimore philanthropist and golf champion who died last year.

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Drexel will operate as a fully wireless CyberCampus as of fall 2000, University President Constantine Papadakis recently announced.

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June 14, log onto WOW.UAB.EDU to join a University of Alabama at Birmingham team as they travel to the Hopi and Navajo reservations in Arizona to learn more about the emergency response training needs of these Native American communities.

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C6, the first virtual reality theater designed to totally immerse the user in images and sound, will open June 19 at Iowa State University; C6 will turn VR into a much more useful engineering tool.

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Whether public schools teach sex education or not, history shows it neither prevents nor promotes sex for teens, says a University of Kansas assistant professor of history.

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A Web-based teaching aid to help deliver satellite images of Earth to classrooms around the country has been designed by an Ohio State University engineer.

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The Tuck School of Business is pleased to announce that Robert E. Rubin will address the centennial class of 2000 at their investiture ceremony on June 10. Mr. Rubin will also be awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Dartmouth President James Wright.

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A doctoral student at UAlbany has won a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program for Minorities for his work on urban issues; he is writing his dissertation on "The Politics of Black-Church Based Community Development."

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Grinnell College's sociology 260 class isn't your typical classroom experience. This sexuality course places a new emphasis on the Internet and an email discussion group as a tool for the student.

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A U.S. Department of Education grant totaling $1.14 million over a three-year period will allow Ohio University's African Studies and Southeast Asian Studies programs to expand their outreach across the state through educational programs for teachers, students and residents.

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The University of Tulsa and Williams (NYSE: WMB) today announced plans to establish an energy risk management center integrating the latest in trading floor technology with a new graduate program focusing on the integration of financial theory with the practice of risk management in the energy industry.

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The overwhelming majority of recent Ball State University graduates strongly believe their college education prepared them for life in the modern workforce.

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Ohio University has selected two doctoral programs -- one in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the other in the Department of Psychology -- for the initial round of selective enhancement under a new Ohio Board of Regents directive.

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The members of the University of Michigan Medical School's 150th graduating class will embark on their medical careers June 9 with the words of the nation's genetic research leader, Francis Collins, echoing in their ears.

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Purdue University will upgrade its research computing facilities with a $10 million IBM supercomputer that will be among the most powerful research tools in the nation.

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June 3, UAB journeys to Europe via the WOW.UAB.EDU Web site with a UAB Spanish scholar for two weeks of research into the African experience in Spain.

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On June 9, the Smith College School for Social Work will host an unprecedented collaborative conference to mobilize against school violence in western Massachusetts; participating are cops, teachers, social workers, school administrators, parents.

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A Purdue University educator's mathematics and science education graduate course creates a virtual classroom where students participate in live classroom discussions, produce multimedia projects and co-write documents through a collaborative distance learning venture.

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Georgia Governor Roy Barnes, North Carolina Governor James Hunt, former Ga. Governor Zell Miller and UVA president John Casteen are among those scheduled to speak at a University of Georgia conference focusing on financing and accountability of public higher education.

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DuPont has donated a patent estate to the University of Tulsa for development of a little black bead that can house hungry bacteria that then feast on hazardous substances and render them harmless before they damage the environment.

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Ball State University experts are available to provide information and background on a variety of issues.

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Purdue University announced 5/23/00 that Martin C. Jischke, president of Iowa State University, will become Purdue's 10th president. The board is expected to confirm the appointment at its June 1 meeting, and Jischke will assume the responsibilities of the office on Aug. 14.

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Steven C. Beering will leave a 17-year legacy of growth in academics, facilities and reputation when he relinquishes the Purdue University presidency this summer.