The first-known examples of glass from the Iron I archaeological era were found in the Cornell University research area of the Tel Dor, Israel, archaeological site, according to Jeffrey Zorn, Cornell visiting lecturer in Near Eastern studies.
A University of Kansas economics professor and associate director of KU's Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, is currently in Moscow and is available to discuss Russia's economy on a first-hand basis.
1.Are school uniforms a good idea? 2.Concussions and high school athletes. 3. Block scheduling. 4. Parents and the morning rush. 5. Head lice
How do I look? Even if the answer is "Great," just asking the question can have a harmful effect on a woman's emotional health and mental performance, according to a University of Michigan study published in a recent issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
The European Union will issue a statement on Russia's deepening political and economic crisis on Wednesday, Sept 2, 1998. "The continuing turmoil in Russia threatens not only Russian President Boris Yeltsin, but also poses a threat to the European Union," said Alan Cafruny, Ph.D., Hamilton College, a leading expert in the formation and governance of the European Union.
Vassar College has been named College of the Year by the editors of the 1999 edition of "The Best College for You," a co-publication of TIME Magazine and The Princeton Review.
The Marine Biological Laboratory's Science Writing Fellowships Program and the Center for Children's Environmental Literature is co-sponsoring an Author, Illustrator, Biologist Institute during the weekend of October 9th in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
When it comes to equal pay for equal work, one would expect women in the '90s to have a stronger sense of entitlement and self-esteem than women did two decades ago. But an experiment conducted by Stanford Business School assistant professor John Jost found that women paid themselves 18 percent less than men paid themselves for the same work.
A new how-to book for dog owners addresses the problem of what to do when your pet becomes injured. The Purdue professor who wrote the book saw a need for such knowledge in the aftermath of a hurricane.
The AFL-CIO, over time, has become more interested in issues of concern to women in its policy agenda, which has major implications for the revitalization of the labor movement.
A CD-ROM produced by students at Johns Hopkins University will help learners better explore Ibsen's "A Doll's House," with side-by-side video clips of different actors interpreting the key characters, scripts, commentaries and background material.
This fall, Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will require all incoming students to create and maintain a personal Web page--an "electronic portfolio" which will serve as an intellectual archive of students' undergraduate achievements.
Previous research has shown that having many siblings is associated with poorer school performance for all the children in a family. But a new nationwide study has found an intriguing exception among Mormon families.
The World Wide Web is the home for millions of pages of information on every topic that the human mind has been able to conceive. It also is a home for plagiarism.
Our most effective presidents have mastered the transactional skills of bargaining and maneuvering while also practicing moral or transforming leadership, according to the author of a new book on presidential leadership, a Vanderbilt University professor.
A unique instructional laboratory allows students anywhere in the world to experiment with real circuit elements--not simulations--through a web-based application. Its developer says he was motivated in part by students' being turned off by experiences with faulty equipment.
Cornell professor Dominick LaCapra's new book, "History and Memory After Auschwitz," examines interactions of history, memory, ethics and politics in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
In addition to receiving a copy of the student handbook to guide their behavior on campus, first-year students at Hamilton College will receive 110 "Rules of Civility," written by George Washington when he was 14.
According to Joanne Cantor, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of communication arts, television and movies present a constant parade of monsters of every description, "ready," Cantor says, "to pounce on your child's psyche at any moment."
Following a year of research and conversations with legislators and policy makers, nine students added their voices to the scientific literacy debate, addressing the global science community with an editorial in SCIENCE. "This is the first time undergraduates have ever authored an editorial there," said Jane Maienschein, the group's co-author.
When is early academic intervention not too late? Can a parent ever be too involved in their child's education? How are talented students identified, and how do you best keep them academically engaged? The Johns Hopkins University education faculty has K-12 back-to-school tips.
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- More than 2,000 new students are expected to take "virtual" tours of the University of Iowa while learning how to navigate the World Wide Web, set up their own websites, and use other communications technology this fall in a new, interactive orientation course.
Competiton makes faith grow stronger and encourages chruch innovation, according to a study exploring the composition of all 171 Roman Catholic dioceses in the continguous 48 states.
According to new research, older people are less vulnerable to depression the more pessimistic and realistic they are about life events.
Educational programs aimed at helping women reduce their risk of sexual assault may not be very effective, a new study suggests. The study found that women participating in such a program were just as likely to experience sexual assault as those who didn't participate. .
Does Television News' Coverage of Violence Instill Fear in Children? News Briefing at the 106th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco: Monday August 17, 1998 at 10:30 AM
New research suggests that girls as young as ten years old who are teased or socially victimized by peers relate such experiences to their own body image.
One of the most widespread forms of bias crime among teenagers and young adults - violence against sexual minorities - is rarely motivated by genuine hatred, but is instead "an expression of cultural norms that are entrenched even among preadolescent children," says a forensic psychologist.
Eating disorders are a turnoff about equally for college men and women, but not so for obesity: Men are much more uncomfortable dating an obese person that women are, says Jeffery Sobal, a nutritional sociologist and associate professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell University.
What is the Prevalence of Youth Gambling and How Addicting is it? News Briefing at the 106th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco: Saturday, August 15, 1998 at 10:00 AM
Between five and eight percent of young Americans and Canadians have a serious gambling problem (compared with one to three percent of adults). Research also shows that adolescents may become more addicted to gambling than they are to alcohol, smoking and drugs and sometimes gamble for reasons other than winning money.
Most older drivers are safe drivers, but older adults with cognitive impairments and those above age 80 have a much higher risk for causing and/or being in a car accident, say psychologists who have been studying the determinants of auto safety in older drivers.
Two University of Kansas researchers have learned that by sharing their homes with younger people who pay rent or help with chores, many senior citizens have found a promising alternative to moving into a nursing home or moving in with a relative.
Johns Hopkins University economist Steve H. Hanke--recently at the center of Indonesia's economic crisis--is the author of the only book on Russian currency reform. This dogged advocate of currency boards predicted the current Russian crisis and believes he has its cure.
It's not surprising that high-prejudice people think differently than others when they're asked to evaluate statements made by Blacks or homosexuals. But new research suggests that the difference between high and low-prejudice people isn't what common wisdom would dictate.
The start of a new school year can be a time of eager anticipation or high anxiety for an elementary school student. "Young children can worry about getting lost in their school building, about their parents being available during the school day, or whether there will be someone who wants to play with them at recess," explains Douglas Powell, head of the Department of Child Development and Family Studies at Purdue University.
Many students across the country, including some 3,000 students enrolled at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., are part of a growing number taking courses through distance learning, either via satellite, the Internet or through online courses.
GLMA's 16th Annual Symposium will be held August 27-29 in Chicago at the Chicago Hilton and Towers. GLMA can provide background information on, and can arrange interviews for articles related to, these plenaries and workshops.
Liberal arts students at Albion College in Michigan can add a new "liberal art" to the traditional reading, writing and arithmetic this fall: geographic information systems, or GIS.
As the year 2000 approaches, "people are thinking philosophically," and philosophers increasingly are applying their problem-solving skills to real-world issues-from race relations and healthcare to family leave policies-says Eric Hoffman of the American Philosophical Association at the UD.Some of the nation's deepest thinkers will ponder the changing role of philosophy in American public life today at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy in Boston.
Cornell University will host the Vladimir Nabokov Centenary Festival, September 10-12, featuring songs, scholars, the son of Nabokov--and William F. Buckley, Jr. playing Edmund Wilson
A study developed at the University of Kansas indicates that cooperative housing units are a satisfying alternative to nursing homes for senior citizens in the Midwest. In fact, an overwhelming majority of respondents to a survey indicated that living in a rural senior housing cooperative had a positive effect on their overall happiness.
Recruiters at the University of Missouri-Rolla are using instant messaging chat programs such as ICQ and America Online's Instant Messenger to recruit students over the Internet.
Citizens who make a concerted effort to restrict teenagers' access to tobacco can significantly influence youth smoking rates in their community, according to a University of Minnesota study that will be published in the August issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
A Johns Hopkins constitutional expert has a surprising answer: Yes! And he says there may be political advantage to such a move.
Network marketing is one of the hottest ways for small home businesses to expand their customer base exponentially. Now this concept has been brought to education, with an innovative program in Mississippi providing resources for public school teachers.
The final few weeks of summer break are the ideal time for parents to help their children prepare for the upcoming school year, according to the dean of Purdue's School of Education. "Parents can guide activities now that will make the classroom more enjoyable and a richer learning experience this fall," says Marilyn Haring, who also is a professor of counseling and development.
Advocates for school vouchers increasingly point to the system of direct student aid in higher education as proof of the benefits that vouchers can bring in K-12 education. But the student-aid system is "not as successful as they would like to think, or want us to believe," says a professor of higher education at the University of Illinois.
As children prepare to go back to school this fall, memories of the tragic shootings in American schools last school year will cause anxiety and fear among many.
Three thousand philosophers from around the world will convene in Boston on August 10 for the 1998 World Congress of Philosophy, a gathering held only once every five years since 1900. The twentieth and final Congress of the century, organized under the aegis of the FÈdÈration Internationale des SociÈtiÈs de Philosophie, will feature more than 2,000 symposia and has so far generated 1,300 scholarly papers. The last Congress held in the United States was in 1926.
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