Parents willing to make a strong commitment to their child's musical education should consider lessons before the age of six, according to the director of the Suzuki Program at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music.
Parents of young adolescents may be tempted to bypass after-care programs and allow their children to fend for themselves for the couple of hours between the end of school and the time parents return home from work. But a pair of psychologists at Vanderbilt University agree that it's not a good idea to leave youngsters unsupervised.
The best college food services are a far cry from the cafeteria-style dining halls of old. The best ones are tuned into themed specialty food areas, presentation with pizzazz and plenty of variety.
"Making Sense of Behavior: The Meaning of Control" by William T. Powers is the long-anticipated introduction to Perceptual Control Theory for lay readers. Bill Powers is chief theorist and founder of the Control Systems Group which this year celebrates its 25th year as an international coalition of scientists studying and modeling control theory as it applies to living systems.
While children are often commended for good grades and high test scores, new research illustrates that complimenting children for their intelligence and academic performance may lead them to believe that good test scores and high grades are more important than learning and mastering something new.
WVU's new forensic identification program continues to make favorable `impression,' gets $5 million boost to upgrade engineering and computer science virtual reality laboratories and to bring the lab facilities on par with FBI crime center labs.
New research suggests that the most dangerous people are "those who have a strong desire to regard themselves as superior beings." The research, which will be published in the July issue of the American Psychological Association's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, demonstrates that actual self-esteem may have little if any relation to aggression.
Cancer-causing ultraviolet-B (UVB) light can snake its way around the shade, according to Purdue University agronomist Richard Grant and the U.S. Forest Service's Gordon Heisler.
A study by a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher says negative attitudes toward homosexuality can lead to low self-esteem and increased risk for HIV among young African-American gay and bisexual men.
The raunchy reputation of backyard composting is both undeserved and unnecessary, according to waste-management educators at Cornell University who reveal a few tricks of the trade in a new instructional video, "Compost Truth or Consequences."
While conventional wisdom has been that hate crimes in the United States rise with a declining economy, an analysis of hate crime in New York City from 1987 to 1995 has found little evidence linking racial, religious, ethnic, or homophobic incidents to deteriorating economic conditions.
The theory behind much recent welfare reform is that welfare recipients will go to work if government just provides the right incentives.
Cornell University's Food Industry Management Distance Education Program now offers all assignments and exams electronically via e-mail. It offers 40 course offerings in supermarket, food distribution and convenient store issues.
Ever since 1925, when the Scopes "monkey trial" brought the contest between Darwinism and religion to the fore of the nation's attention, the debate between creationism and evolution has raged. Concerned by the growing influence of creationists, one professor decided to combat their claims by using what he knows best -- science.
Drive-in movies and root-beer stands have all but disappeared from the American landscape, but one summer leisure-time blast from the past continues to pack 'em in: the annual state, county or regional agricultural fair.
The question has been asked in some form after every school shooting that has occurred in recent months: Why didnÃt someone see the signs that the child would do this?
The photo exhibit "Sisters in Spirit: Celebrating the Iroquois Influence on the Early Women's Rights Movement" opened June 27 at the Urban Cultural Park/Heritage Area Visitor Center in Seneca Falls, NY. Cornell University provided expertise.
A Purdue University expert on citizenship education says a revolution is under way in how social studies is taught in American elementary schools. "More and more teachers are starting to introduce students to the world around them with history-based children's literature," says Lynn Nelson, director of Purdue's James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship.
Candidates whose names appear first on an election ballot may attract more voters simply because they're listed before their rivals, a new study suggests.
Increases in industrial research and development (R&D) activities are the highest recorded since the early 1980s, according to a new National Science Board (NSB) report to Congress.
Fireflies are a joy of summer, delightful to look at and fun to catch, but they can also be a great way to help children learn, says a Purdue University professor.
Dr. Claudia Osborn's life changed forever on a warm summer night in 1988 when a bike ride through her quiet neighborhood ended when she was hit by a car. Now a volunteer faculty member at Michigan State University, Osborn has chronicled her 10-year journey from serious head injury to a different yet happy life in a book titled "Over My Head."
"The take-home message for parents is that adolescent involvement in sports has positive effects on academic performance, but it also increases the likelihood of drinking and drug use," says U-M psychologist Jacquelynne Eccles.
By law, people opposed to the death penalty are prohibited from serving on juries in which a defendant may be sentenced to death. But a new study suggests that excluding anti-death-penalty jurors may be biasing the juries who determine guilt or innocence of defendants. It is not possible, however, to tell whether this bias would favor defendants or prosecutors.
Is country music losing its soul? The question is posed by Joli Jensen, a University of Tulsa communication professor and author of a new book that examines how country music changed in the 1950s and 60s as it reacted to the success of rock Ãnà roll.
The impact of new information technologies (IT) has been pervasive on society but productivity benefits are more difficult to pin down, according to a new National Science Board (NSB) report to Congress, Science and Engineering Indicators 1998.
Americans say they are more interested and more aware than ever about scientific discoveries, inventions and new technologies. However, they still score low on actual understanding of basic scientific terms and concepts, such as the definition of molecules and DNA, and how frequently the earth revolves around the sun.
Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet latest study may just prove how healthy it is to forgive. The assistant professor of psychology at Hope College launches a two-year study this fall which will focus on the physiological effects of forgiveness
When he wrote the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson penned words that would live forever in history. But was he the first to write them? A University of Wisconsin-Madison expert says that Jefferson may have modeled the Declaration after a 16th-century Dutch document.
In the first comprehensive study of the use of masks by African women, a University of Delaware anthropologist raises important questions about the women's access to power--both political and spiritual.
Thirty-four academically elite minority students are taking part in an intense summer challenge program to begin their engineering studies at Northwestern University. The program is called EXCEL because it is designed to challenge minority students to perform at the top of their class from the time they begin their engineering education.
Patient empowerment takes a step forward today with the launch of MSWatch, the first fully integrated, interactive disease management Web site for people with multiple sclerosis and their health care providers.
A $1.5 million grant to the School of Social Work and Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia will fund an in-depth view of those who are continuing to receive welfare assistance and the changes that have taken place in the Division of Family and Children Services since welfare reform began in the state five years ago.
Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art has won a $55,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Instead of mounting antlers on walls, a Brigham Young University professor is literally "turning" them into functional and aesthetic pieces of art. The veteran of woodturning, the art of using the lathe to fashion wood into beautiful objects, has recently substituted elk antler for wood.
Meet Mr. Mom. He's as comfortable doing the weekly run to the grocery store with kids in tow as he is doing a production cost analysis. He can hug a toddler, wipe away tears and apply a bandage as well as he can ngeotiate a tough contract for his company.
A study by psychologist Patricia Owen is the first to show that brief exposure to media images of thin female bodies results in body dissatisfaction on the part of the viewer.
Most Northwestern University engineering graduates pursue further study and many will go on to other careers within a few years of earning their degrees, according to a survey of recent graduates.
A new study finds welfare recipients cautiously optimistic about welfare reform and supportive of the new time limits on welfare benefits.
Despite the high cost, 40 percent of Americans over age 70, regardless of income, have modified their homes with grab bars, bathroom railings, wheelchair ramps and other aids, regardless of their income, reports Nandinee Kutty, assistant professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University.
Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities is helping to identify and preserve state and local historical literature about agriculture and rural life in the period from 1820 to 1945. Cornell University's Mann Library is directing the project, in which land-grant university libraries in 15 states are microfilming the publications.
An unusual anti-violence initiative at a suburban Chicago high school aims to decrease violence not only at the high school but in the communities in which the students reside as well. By introducing conflict resolution to the parents of students in addition to students, teachers and school staff, the Peaceable Schools Initiative goes beyond typical school anti-violence efforts such as peer mediation or the formation of student/faculty conflict resolution teams.
Researchers probing people's memories of sexual abuse report two ordinary mechanisms may be responsible for temporarily forgetting and later remembering genuine instances of childhood sexual abuse. The findings by University of Washington psychologists suggest that it is possible to explain such forgetting without repression.
A Purdue University Extension specialist in landscaping, urges homeowners to try something a little different. He suggests creative alternatives to grass for the front yard.
The federal government has just awarded $40 million in grants for after-school centers aimed at improving the academic success of at-risk students. A Johns Hopkins University researcher says there is, as yet, little good evidence as to which, if any, after-school programs really work. She has, however, identified 25 that she concludes are promising.
Adolescent violence is becoming a commonplace and alarming trend. Before we blame television, the Internet, or working parents, multiple studies conducted by Dr. Tiffany Field indicate that the groundwork for adolescent violence is laid in infancy.
National Science Foundation Research Center at UCI to Form Industry-University Alliances With Unique Focus on Social, Economic Impact of Information Technology
Cornell professor Neal Zaslaw is the first American to edit the Koechel catalogue that lists Mozart's works, compiled by Ludwig Ritter von Koechel and first published in 1862. Zaslaw's edition, the fifth or the ninth, depending on how one counts, will be the first to be published in both German and English. He expects it to be controversial.
Men and women experience the same level of sadness while watching a tearjerker at the movies, but women are more likely to reach for a box of tissues, according to a Vanderbilt University psychologist. Research by Associate Professor of Psychology Ann Kring found that women aren't more emotional than men, they are just more expressive of their emotions.
Inner-city drug dealing is a good example of what management guru Peter Drucker would call entrepreneurship, says a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher.
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