It’s happened to us all: driving along when suddenly, traffic comes to an almost complete stop. But just as suddenly as we slowed, traffic begins moving normally again. Congratulations, you have just been part of a phantom traffic jam.
Film scholars and critics consider the influence of such classics as “Cannibal Holocaust” and “The Sadist.”
The University of Maryland Archives has recovered a rare film treasure - on the eve of the Maryland-Navy football game this Labor Day. The film shows portions of the first-ever game between the Terps and Middies at a brand-new Byrd Stadium on September 30, 1950. That opening game was a 35-21 Maryland victory.
An extraordinary line-up of actors, musicians, athletes and journalists have banded together for Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), the groundbreaking initiative aimed at raising funds to accelerate innovative cancer research bringing new therapies to patients quickly that will saves lives now. Stand Up To Cancer will return to primetime TV on September 10, 2010, at 8PM EST & PST / 7PM CT. The one-hour fundraising event will be simulcast live and commercial-free on ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, Bio, Discovery Health, E!, G4, HBO, HBO Latino, MLB Network, mun2, Showtime, Smithsonian Channel, The Style Network, TV One, and VH1.
The story about a flight attendant intervening when a stressed mother slapped her 14-month daughter while on a Southwest Airlines flight obviously will trigger public debate about whether parents should ever slap their children, says Barbara Rittner, an associate dean in the University at Buffalo School of Work and expert on child welfare risk assessment.
An IU journalism professor's new book takes readers inside the cages, fences and walls of a zoo to reveal the lives of the animals and their keepers and to tell the story of their ambitions.
Some people call him the Space Cowboy. Some call him the Gangster of Love. But when Steve Miller, one of rock music’s all-time greats, joins the University of Southern California faculty this fall, he will have to get used another moniker: Professor.
University of Arkansas researcher Steve Dittmore discusses the BCS in a podcast released by the Journal of Sport Administration and Supervision.
As part of a new long-term alliance, Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) is gearing up for its next Team Fundraising Challenge by joining forces with one of television’s most popular shows, Survivor on CBS.
Today Earth Day Network announces partners in 15 countries who will join in planting one million trees in 2010 through the Avatar Home Tree Initiative.
Kansas is touring the nation to perform with university orchestras; it will play Sept. 9 and 10 with The University of Alabama’s Huxford Symphony Orchestra.
Upper-year Ryerson University students give advice to new post-secondary students.
Ryerson School of Interior Design students give tips on setting up your dorm room.
A University at Buffalo expert on DUI offenders and recidivism is available to comment on Lindsay Lohan's treatment.
Ryerson University Fashion and Retail Management Students give back-to-school wardrobe advice to incoming students: how to make the most of your back to school shopping.
Going off to college or university is a big lifestyle change. If your chosen new lifestyle consists of pizza, beer and nightly movie marathons, you could be headed toward the Freshman 15. Here are some expert tips to avoid weight gain when you go back to school.
Expert tips for students and parents on leaving home for the first time.
Ryerson University experts advise you on how to outfit yourself for back to school time.
Expert financial tips for students heading back to school.
Students and faculty offer how to’s for new post-secondary students and parents on everything from designing your dorm room, to leaving home, to shopping and finances.
Whether you’re heading back to school this September, or busy building a career as a videographer, graphic designer or IT specialist, or already in a top job in the computing field, one thing is clear: fast, robust storage solutions should be on the top of your want list.
While more students are living at home during college to save on money, parents can take steps to help their student enjoy the full college experience.
In four weeks, 23 year-old cancer survivor Phil Bayliss will complete an improbable 4,300-mile bike tour across the U.S. which began in San Diego and will end August 21, in Sea Isle City, N.J. Bayliss, who is riding alongside his best friend, Jon Triantafyllou, is expected to raise $30,000 for cancer research.
An Indiana University professor's new book looks at how people today are using new media to break up with each other and how mediums designed to create connections creates all sorts of problems for those trying to disconnect.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) has launched a new initiative to raise awareness about hunger and the availability of food in the community.
In this audio slideshow, a University of Vermont professor brings her award-winning book to life, examining America's fascination with the First Lady from a scholar's perspective.
University of Kentucky Libraries and Keeneland have teamed up in the race to save the Daily Racing Form archives.
Tarzan’s creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs, helped invent the modern media blitz says Dalhousie Professor Jason Haslam. He notes that Burroughs was a very canny marketer and publicist and that Tarzan was one of the first – if not the first – mass marketed figures. Dr. Haslam recently edited an Oxford University Press edition of Burroughs’ 1914 novel, Tarzan of the Apes.
With popularlity of the Twilight movies and at least two current TV series dedicated to vampires, it would seem that interest in the horror genre is peaking. A new edition of an IU professor's book, The Living and the Undead: Slaying Vampires and Exterminating Zombies, says each generation has reshaped the original legend and folklore to fit new times.
The author of a book on religious games and dolls says the proliferation of such general consumer products is one reason this year's International Christian Retail Show 2010, June 27-30 in St. Louis, will be so massive.
Two vampire experts can talk about the reasons why True Blood and the Twilight Series are sucking in viewers and cash.
Pop-culture author and librarian Rob Weiner compiled a bibliography showing Jackson influenced fields from medicine and law to chemistry and engineering.
Book addresses and dismantles prominent media-driven myths.
A second Titan Arum (Titan #3), known as the Corpse Flower, housed in the Western Illinois University Botany Greenhouse has begun the blooming process. The greenhouse's first Titan Arum (Titan #1) bloomed May 2. A live videostream for Titan #3 has been set up at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wiu-corpse-flower.
If you think your news is increasingly composed of crime stories, you might not be wrong. According to one Ryerson University researcher, today’s lean newsrooms and tighter deadlines are having an unintended outcome: low-income, urban neighbourhoods are being underrepresented in media while their crime stories are being over-reported.
A team of Georgia Tech students will be showing off their game, Vision by Proxy, at the IndieCade Showcase at E3 this week. To play the game visit Georgia Tech's Digital Lounge (details inside).
With the approach of what is thought to be the 100th celebration of Father’s Day this Sunday, June 20, Professor Geoffrey Greif, PhD, of the University of Maryland School of Social Work and a nationally known author on topics of fatherhood, men’s friendships, divorce and family issues, offers Ten Tips for being better fathers.
New comprehensive collection of quotes chronicles 44th President’s first year in office.
Students travel to Scotland to take part in the Dare to Be Digital video game design competition.
Jolene Zigarovich, Cornell visiting lecturer in English, comments on the plethora of teen vampire movies and books.
Canadian fashions popularity.
A new study shows that travelers to the upcoming World Cup soccer matches in South Africa should focus less on avoiding tropical diseases such as malaria and concentrate more on protecting themselves from more common illnesses – acute diarrhea, sexually transmitted diseases, insect and tick bites, and vaccine-preventable infections, especially influenza and measles. The report is based a 13-year period of GeoSentinel monitoring among travelers to South Africa.
New book by veteran filmmaker Chris Palmer is first insider account, calls for changes to questionable practices in wildlife filmmaking.
Night Nurse survived only four issues despite strong characters and ER-worthy plots, says a comics expert.
A professor and a museum research assistant trade campus life for combat once the West Texas sun sets.
Maria Simone is looking to reward "academic endurance" in EOF/MAP students through the Iron Scholarship Fund at Rowan University.
The blaze orange Honda Element car parks curbside midday in a rural community dotted with modest homes. An artist quietly approaches, placing a hand-thrown ceramic cup at each doorstep. The project carries the imprint of Michael J. Strand, head of the Visual Arts Department at North Dakota State University, Fargo.
Much of the world’s population will be watching as the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament begins June 11 in South Africa. A majority of those fans will be outside the United States however, where soccer has never been able to gain the popular foothold it enjoys in many of the world’s nations. Several reasons exist for this phenomenon, says Stephan Schindler, PhD, professor of German at Washington University in St. Louis, who has taught courses on the global culture of soccer.
Researchers looked at five reality shows and five non-reality shows and found 52 acts of aggression per hour on reality TV compared to 33 per hour for the non-reality programs.
Bibliography shows King of Pop influenced fields of chemistry, medicine, law and even engineering.
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