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.
What have women accomplished since the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls 150 years ago and what remains to be done? National leaders will answer these questions July 13 to 16 in upstate New York during a rare opportunity to continue the legacy of that first convention.
Although men are three times more likely than women to be killed in car crashes, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Public Health have found that, when the total numbers of crashes are considered, female drivers are involved in slightly more crashes than men.
A new study by researchers at Ohio State University has concluded that people have 15 fundamental desires and values that guide their behavior. These desires include basic needs, such as food, as well as social desires such as prestige, social contact and honor.
HARTFORD, Conn., June 11, 1998 -- At a ceremony to dedicate the first Boys & Girls Club in America to be located on a college campus, General Colin Powell announced that Trinity College has become the first college or university on the east coast, and only the second in the country, to be designated a "College of Promise."
The first Boys & Girls Club in the country to be affiliated with a college or university was dedicated today at Trinity College in a ceremony attended by General (Ret.) Colin Powell, chairman of America's Promise -- The Alliance for Youth and a member of Boys & Girls Clubs of America's Board of Governors.
More children suffer from anxiety disorders than any other psychological problem, say two Purdue University experts. They share advice for parents dealing with separation anxiety in children.
The education gap between low-income youngsters and those from the middle class widens during the summer, not during the school year when both learn at about the same pace, two Johns Hopkins researchers have found. The disparity in the so-called "summer slide" may be an argument for year-round schooling for some children.
California Sea Grant and California Coastal Commission will propose the establishment of a national marine science education effort focused on in-field experience for K-12 students with a series of marine "sea camps" located around the country. Monterey Bay is proposed for pilot project.
UC Irvine's Chancellor Laurel L. Wilkening will award 3,742 undergraduate and graduate degrees at its 33rd commencement Saturday, June 20.
It's human nature to party, says a Vanderbilt University specialist in organizational behavior. As companies across the country - from Fortune 500 corporations to family-run businesses - plan summer picnics, barbecues and other informal outings, it's important for employers to recognize that corporate celebration is essential during the bad times, too.
People who live in poverty areas are 80 percent more likely to die than comparable people who live in better areas
A project incorporated into introductory courses in the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences teaches students how to find and contact alumni advisors for career advice, and helps them get over any fears of contacting strangers.
Regardless of their backgrounds, children as young as 3 have the ability to recognize numbers, and add and subtract, according to research by Susan Levine and Janellen Huttenlocher, both Professors of Psychology at the University of Chicago.
It is one of the most sophisticated and expensive cameras in the world, built for the most ambitious mapping of the universe: the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Helping construct the survey's critical piece of equipment is 26-year-old Connie Rockosi, a graduate student at the University of Chicago--and one of the most knowledgeable scientists in the world in electronic imaging.
It's Election Day. An exhausted businesswomen rushes into the voting booth five minutes before the polls close and in less than three minutes, punches through her ballot to indicate her preferences. As she votes she vaguely recalls the political ads she saw on television a few night ago, the few pieces of direct mail....
In a Purdue University study of morality and motivation in sports, teen-age athletes rated coaches as having the most influence on their likelihood to be overly aggressive or to chat in sports. Parents also were a factor, with dads having the most influence on cheating and moms influencing aggression.
The Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, the National Football League Players Association, and the Nick Lowery Charitable Foundation are bringing together 300 American Indian children with 25 heroes from the NFL, the National Basketball Association, and other professional sports leagues. The camp, which will expose the youth to successful professional athletes with healthy lifestyles, is part of the Native Vision Initiative and will take place June 9-11 at the Native Vision Sports and Life Skills Camp on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.
Charles M. Falco, professor of optical sciences and condensed matter physics at The University of Arizona in Tucson, is a scientist whose passion for motorcycles has led him on what might be considered an unlikely journey to one of the world's most revered centers of art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, where he is playing a key curatorial role in the upcoming exhibition, "The Art of the Motorcycle."
It's a world filled with bondage, supreme sacrifice, and cannibalism as a mating ritual. Welcome to Cornell's Entomology 215, where students learn about the biological world of spiders.
Male college athletes consume about 50 percent more alcohol than their counterparts who don't participate in intercollegiate sports, a record beaten only by college fraternity members, as shown in a study published by the Core Institute at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
Trinity College in Hartford, Ct., will offer 100 Hartford-area school children between the ages of six and eight the opportunity to participate at no cost in a unique, five-week summer camp experience at Trinity's campus this year and for the next two consecutive summers. The free camp experience--which will also include year-round tutoring and a Wyoming backpacking excursion--is being made possible through the generosity of an anonymous Trinity alumnus.
Deep poverty in early childhood profoundly affects achievement in later years, according to a new study that examines schooling outcomes in relation to family incomes.
And you thought ìO Come All Ye Faithfulî was a Christmas song. In fact, the original text refers to politics. ThatÃs just one of the surprises University of Illinois musicologist Nicholas Temperley uncovered during an unprecedented 16-year project that yielded a comprehensive database documenting ìtens of thousands of hymn tunes spanning three centuries.î
1948 ìset the engines goingî for the rest of 20th century America, according to George Douglas, the author of nine books dealing with U.S. culture and history.
The issue of physician-assisted suicide, long the shrouded preserve of activists like Dr. Jack Kevorkian, is about to go public with political battles expected in a number of state legislatures.
PakistanÃs nuclear tests on May 28, in apparent response to IndiaÃs testing earlier in the month, could represent ìthe biggest foreign policy failure of the Clinton administration,î says Stephen P. Cohen, an expert on South Asian security and nuclear issues.
As students prepare to put their books away for the summer and head for the swimming pool, a University of Missouri-Columbia scientist is preparing to present research next week showing that might not be such a good idea.
WILMINGTON, DEL.-The late N.C. Wyeth's historic $1 million homage to working families-believed in 1932 to be the largest U.S. painting of its kind in any public building-will be restored to its original luster this summer, thanks to the Wilmington Savings Fund Society (WSFS) and the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. WSFS will bankroll the $40,000 restoration project.
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