Life News (Education)

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Trinity College in Hartford, Ct., will offer 100 Hartford-area school children between the ages of six and eight the opportunity to participate at no cost in a unique, five-week summer camp experience at Trinity's campus this year and for the next two consecutive summers. The free camp experience--which will also include year-round tutoring and a Wyoming backpacking excursion--is being made possible through the generosity of an anonymous Trinity alumnus.

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As students prepare to put their books away for the summer and head for the swimming pool, a University of Missouri-Columbia scientist is preparing to present research next week showing that might not be such a good idea.

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Expanded opportunity for lower-income college students was what legislators had in mind when they planted the seeds for the current system of student financial aid almost three decades ago.

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A better connection between informal and formal education would help to prepare K-12 science and mathematics students for the 21st century, according to several participants at an unusual hearing in Los Angeles May 29.

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The New Jersey Supreme Court has urged the state's Department of Education to adopt "Success for All," a whole school reform program developed at Johns Hopkins University, in 28 impoverished school districts.

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A forestry major from Purdue University will spend the first semester of his junior year on a frozen continent completely devoid of trees. The National Science Foundation and the Boy Scouts of America have chosen Benjamin Hasse of Kingsford, Mich., as their candidate to spend next fall helping Antarctic researchers.

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In a move designed to enhance the stature of Jewish studies at Cornell, university officials have announced the creation of three new named professorships in Jewish Studies.

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New consortium announces deployment of east coast's first connection point to multiple, major national, high-speed network initiatives.

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Organic Chemistry. It's a college lab course that sends shivers down the spines of even the bravest pre-med students. But at DePaul University in Chicago, it is a class students can't wait to take. That's because during spring quarter students know they get to invent their own polymer - one that may never have seen the light of a laboratory before.

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Partnerships between universities and K-12 schools are blurring the lines between students and teachers. On the leading edge of this national trend, Purdue University has forged a relationship with a local elementary school that's making learners of everyone involved. University faculty, Purdue elementary education majors, classroom teachers and kindergarten through fifth-grade pupils are all teaching each other and learning together.

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Mount Holyoke College, one of the oldest lberal arts colleges for women in the United States, will again celebrate this year's commencement with a number of unique traditions--including a parade with ties to the Women's Suffrage Movement--which have been established over the College's 161 year history.

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Thomas Jefferson IV will graduate from the College of William and Mary next week, 236 years after his famous forebear completed his studies at the nation's second oldest institution of higher learning.

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Parents nationwide can keep their 4th through 8th graders busy this summer pondering such brain teasers as how best to swamp a bedroom or split the profits from a sale of Beanie Babies--thanks to the University of Delaware's "mail-order math" program, "Solve It."

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Cornell will honor 35 secondary school teachers from around the world who have been chosen by Merrill Scholars, who are top students at the university. The teachers will be brought to campus and recognized for their inspirational teaching with a $4,000 scholarship in their names for future Cornell students from their schools or regions.

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A panel commissioned by the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences reports that several adverse trends threaten to undermine the United States' dominant position in world mathematics. The panel also notes that NSF policies significantly affect the strength of U.S. mathematics and hence the health of other sciences.

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Cornell students, using a new urban planning computer software, suggest new uses for Brooklyn's Greenpoint Terminal

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NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin and University of Arizona Alumnus, Greg Kinnear To Speak as the UA's Commencment Ceremonies Saturday, May 16, 1998.

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For the fourth consecutive year, the Cornell University Food Product Development Team, made of undergraduate students and graduate, has been named as one of six finalists in the Institute of Food Technologists' (IFT) Student Association 1998 Product Development Competition, to be held in Atlanta June 20-22. This year's novel Cornell food product is called Wrapidos, and is engineered so that the food juices don't drip on your clothes.

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A Boston-area physician and his wife have contrbuted $2.75 million toward Cornell University's Hillel program.

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Atlanta, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla., were named today to receive a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for system-wide reform of their K-12 mathematics, science and technology education programs.

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Starting salaries, signing bonuses, and other job perks have sent the total compensation package for MBA students at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management up to $117,000. That's up 29% from last year's total of $92,000.

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A recently released national report equates reading failure with the same destructive outcomes of serious disease.

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Cornell University Law Library has become an official mirror site for the International Labour Organization

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Though the recent Carnegie Foundation report found fault with many U.S. research universities--arguing that undergraduates are too often simply "receiving what is served out to them," mainly by untrained graduate assistants--the University of Delaware was one of only five institutions cited for "making research-based learning the standard."

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Less time off in the summer may translate into greater academic achievement for elementary-school students, says a Purdue University expert on year-round schools.

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A Cornell University study provides new evidence that curriculum-based external exit exams not only enhanced student achievement, but also increased the earnings of graduating seniors who took them.. It also showed that students who took remedial or basic courses earned less than their peers who enrolled in more challenging courses.

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John Hope Franklin, a founding father of African-American history and the head of President Clinton's national advisory board on race, will deliver the keynote address and be awarded an honorary doctorate when Occidental College celebrates Commencement 1998 in the historic Remsen Bird Hillside Theater on Sunday, May 10, at 3 p.m.

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Many WWW surfers are familiar with the "Dancing Baby," a cha-cha-ing toddler created by 3-D computer animation. But a Williams College junior has taken the Dancing Baby to a whole new level--the virtual jukebox. Although the baby isn't his, its musical incorporation into the student's Web site has brought him unforeseen acclaim.

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A new educational software program developed at Purdue University is making it easier than ever for teachers to put the power of the Internet to work in their classrooms. Test Pilot is a new application that allows teachers to design surveys, tests and tutorials that students can take on any computer that is connected to the Internet.

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Betty Friedan will join the Cornell University faculty as a distinguished visiting professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations to direct a $1 million, four-year project, New Paradigm: Women, Men, Work, Family and Public Policy," at the Institute for Women and Work that will attempt to transform the feminist ideals and practices she catalyzed more than 30 years ago into a broader societal and workplace agenda for the new century.

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Too many young academically talented female students are being discouraged from taking higher math and science classes, limiting a group of future leaders, says a Ball State University educator.

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For college recruiters and admissions directors, the Internet's "killer application" may not be the World Wide Web or online application forms, but instant messaging programs that allow recruiters to engage in one-on-one Internet chats with potential students.

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While summer is a "no-brainer" for many students, one Purdue expert says the break is a good time to groom your mind for college. "Summer is the best time to find ways to set yourself apart from other college applicants," says Doug Christiansen, Purdue's director of admissions. "The opportunities are endless. Students can pick up new skills, improve existing talents, explore possible career paths or work on deficiencies.

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Inspired by a glaring void in a growing academic field, doctoral students from four colleges at North Carolina State University have launched the first online research journal devoted to the role of technology in middle school education.

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Teams of science students from around the nation will compete for an all-expense-paid learning trip to Portugal after advancing to the finals of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl.

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Thirty years ago, child psychiatrist James Comer, M.D. at Yale's Child Study Center developed a comprehensive strategy to improve schools. Now, First Lady Hillary Clinton, a long-time supporter of his work, will address a symposium, Child Development: The Foundation of Education, celebrating the program's anniversary.

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On Sunday, May 24, Johnnetta B. Cole, the former president of Spelman College and its first African American woman president, will deliver Mount Holyoke College's 161st commencement address.

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One Franklin & Marshall professor is finding a way to show her students the mathematical nature of art, and the artistic nature of math. The course, unique to F&M, is not taught anywhere else in the country.

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The grand opening today of a new technology education center in the Seattle area marks a milestone for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program.

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A Purdue University team is headed to the Air Race Classic for the fifth year in a row as the only all-student collegiate entry. The annual event is a summer cross-country race for female pilots. Two years ago, a Purdue team became the first collegiate team to win the race.

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Several inmates from the Allenwood Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery, Pennsylvania will be at Susquehanna University on April 28 to relate their experiences with white-collar crime to Susquehanna University business majors.

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Cornell University and the U.S. Peace Corps will sign a Memorandum of Cooperation later this month, to mark the establishment of a new option at Cornell -- a three-year master's of professional studies degree in agriculture with a Peace Corps service option.

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Forecast: Unpredictable. Is the academic climate at many U.S. engineering schools discouraging women as well as minorities from pursuing careers in the field?

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Drawing examples from popular culture to explain clinical disorders, two Vanderbilt researchers are using anecdotes from Star Trek movies and episodes to explain the neurological and psychological bases of emotions, perception, aggression, memory and sex.

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A recent University of North Texas study of three public elementary schools in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex indicates that positive teacher attitudes toward information technology result in similar positive attitudes among students.

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Sometimes it's difficult to decide who suffers the greater trauma when preschool starts -- the child or the parents. But a Purdue University expert says there are things mom or dad can do to make the adjustment easier for everyone involved

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Doug Christiansen, director of Purdue's Office of Admissions, says taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or the American College Test (ACT) does not have to be a nerve-racking experience. He offers advice for taking standardized tests.

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At the same time top college hoopsters seek the national basketball crown this month, more than 700 of their fellow collegians will battle in a competition that's as intense, demanding, and grueling as anything in the NCAAs. For four days, from March 20 to 23, the forensic version of March Madness comes to the University of Rochester in western New York. Two-person rather than five-man teams will advance through eight preliminary debates and seven elimination rounds in their quest to be named the top college debaters in the country.

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A new honors program in engineering and law, the only such program in the U.S., is being launched at Northwestern University. The program offers high school seniors conditional acceptance into law school and completion of their undergraduate studies a year early.

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National Science Foundation (NSF) director Neal Lane will speak on Saturday, March 14, 1998, at a conference on "The Integral Role of the Two-year College in the Science and Mathematics Preparation of Prospective Teachers."