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.
The problem of raising money by challengers is a major barrier to electoral competition in Illinois, two University of Illinois political scientists have found. Almost half of all Illinois General Assembly races in 1994 and 1996 were not actively contested in the general election.
Historian Peter Fritzsche disputes the standard explanation for the rise of Nazism in Germany -- that it came out of nowhere and succeeded beyond all expectation because Germany ìwas pushed to the very edge of crisisî by military defeat, inflation and economic depression.
An exhibit of photographs of American volunteers fighting in the Spanish Civil War at a Washington, D.C., gallery opened on the 60th anniversary of the last, largest and greatest campaign of that war. The exhibit, ìThe Aura of the Cause,î opened July 24, the date that marks the beginning of the bloody Ebro offensive in 1938. The exhibit closes on Sept. 5.
When it comes to how Americans perceive different job-related activities, and how they relate to one another, people apparently think alike, says a University of Illinois researcher.
The 325th anniversary of the first European contact with the Illini, a once large and powerful confederacy of Native American tribes that lived in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, is being celebrated this summer, not with cake and ice cream, but with shovels and buckets.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and other institutions report that nearly 4 in 10 female emergency room patients have been victims of physical or emotional domestic abuse sometime in their lives, and 14 percent have been physically or sexually abused in the past year.
A budding high school composer sent "The Complete Squirrel" over the Internet to his University of Illinois student-mentor. The pair was brought together earlier this year to participate in Network for Technology, Composing and Music Mentoring, or NETCOMM, a pilot program designed to promote the teaching and learning of technology-based music composition.
For mental illness patients, having a social network-even just one understanding friend to rely on-can mean the difference between hospitalization and the ability to cope in mainstream society, says Bernice Skirboll, exec. director of Compeer,a volunteer organization.
Started after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Youth Employment and Development Mentoring Program has provided unique "earn while you learn" opportunities for inner-city juniors, seniors. Integrates mentoring, education, paid employment.
The media wield a powerful influence on public opinion and have a critical role to play in promoting racial reconciliation in America, according to a new report on race and the media, released today (July 29) at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) meeting in Washington, D.C.
Statement of Peter Likins, President, University of Arizona Regarding Dr. Marguerite Kay: "I have decided to accept the recommendations of The University of Arizona Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure (CAFT) and end the employment and affiliation of Dr. Marguerite Kay with The University of Arizona."
Responding to the U.S. twelfth grade student performance on the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), the NSB made four recommendations for accomplishing this goal in a statement released this week titled "Failing Our Children: Implications for the Third International Mathematics and Science Study."
What used to be called "home economics" is becoming a dynamic career field for secondary school teachers. The curriculum, now known as family and consumer sciences, is taught at both the middle- and high-school level, and there are jobs aplenty for new college graduates nationwide.
University of New Hampshire researchers have found that children who are never or rarely spanked have higher scores on tests of cognitive ability than those who are frequently spanked. The findings are based on a nationally representative sample of 960 children who were ages 1 to 4 at the start of the study.
A Wheaton College sociology professor who came close to death will participate in the upcoming U.S. Transplant Games. He is able to enjoy an active life today because of the gift of a heart from a family whose teenage daughter died.
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