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.
To help bridge the widening gap between industry's demand for a diverse, well-trained work force and the available labor supply, the University of Washington's nationally recognized Women in Science & Engineering Center has developed the first comprehensive curriculum for mentoring training in science and engineering.
A Colorado State University psychology professor is using computer graphics and a mock "car" with brakes, gas pedal and steering wheel to replicate snarled traffic and other scenarios to determine whether certain road conditions are more likely to provoke road rage.
An Ohio State University class for student athletes who are "retiring" from athletics has shown promise in helping these athletes make the transition from sports to a new career.
How many friends you have, not how much money you have, predicts how happy you're likely to be right after you retire, a University of Michigan study suggests.
A Congressionally-mandated study has found scientific evidence that 15 different methods of crime prevention are effective. The study, conducted by University of Maryland criminologists for the National Institute of Justice, also found 23 programs that had been proven ineffective.
The newly-released results of an independent national survey sponsored by Resources for the Future confirm that most Americans believe global climate change is real and damaging and that the federal government should take significant steps to combat it.
Most K-12 students will never see the ocean floor where the Titantic sank. But with educational resources developed by Mississippi State University, they can "see" that and other ocean depths in 3-D real-time images.
Preparing for marriage is crucial, but a Purdue University expert on family budgeting suggests that the slogan "look before you leap" may be just as important when it comes to divorce.
The American Sociological Association's Annual Meeting August 21-25 in San Francisco will feature hundreds of presentations on topics including immigration, affirmative action, families and children, health care, violence, and criminology.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 8 program, designed to expand housing options for low-income recipients, may actually encourage discrimination, according to a student researcher at the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.
Like many a backyard chef, Daniel Perlman of Arlington, Mass., disliked the smell and acrid smoke of conventional charcoal starters. So he decided to do something about it.
Using historical records and modern medical knowledge, a University of Kansas doctor is diagnosing what really killed Britain's House of Stuart 300 years ago
University of Kansas anthropologist uses DNA studies, archaeological and linguistic evidence to support theories on origins of Native Americans and to review medical and evolutionary costs of mixing of populations.
Cornell University Press has aroused attention and controversy by publishing Jodi Dean's "Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace."
Right now, Melissa Loewenstern is in the Iron Age. By summer's end, she hopes to land in the Bronze Age. This Cornell student is spending her summer excavating an archaeological site in Israel. Read her latest dispatches from Tel Dor, a site rich in the history of biblical times.
Preparing for a career should begin as early as one's freshman year of college, says the director of Vanderbilt University's Career Center. Internships, campus activities, networking/mentoring, learning and researching and self-assessment tests are key factors in building a resume, says Linda Bird, who has been directing the university's career center for 10 years.
The mission of Purdue's Breaking New Ground Resource Center is to assist farmers who have been disabled. A survey of those farmers found that church accessibility was their top community accessibility concern.
World governments might be more successful in removing the nearly 100 million children from the labor market by working to increase adult wages and employment rates rather than pursuing legislative action against child labor, which could be effective only in certain countries, say two Cornell University economists
A new report to Congress from the National Institute of Mental Health concludes that treating mental disorders like physical disorders--mental health parity--might increase mental health costs by 1 percent while reducing total health costs by up to 50 percent.
Educational Testing Service and Peterson's, both leaders in their worldwide market sectors, have launched their first joint venture.
The federal government issued its second annual report today on the well-being of America's 70 million children, revealing some good news about their overall health and educational achievements.
Cornell University Professor Alison Lurie publishes The Last Resort, her tenth novel and her first in ten years.
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.
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