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What makes the Red Planet red? Right now the answer is iron oxide, but one day it could be roses say NASA scientists debating the prospects for plant life on Mars.

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Money spent to develop effective intervention programs for high-risk youth offenders can change behaviors and, in the long run, save money for state and local governments.

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Exposure to sports magazines and women's sports on television---much like reading fashion magazines or watching television programs with thin characters---encourage teen-age girls to focus on body image, say researchers at the University of Michigan

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The U.S. Navy's warships in the future will be safer, high-tech vessels able to sustain power and continue in battle even after taking a missile hit. That's the goal of University of Missouri-Rolla researchers who are working with the Navy to develop new power-distribution systems for these warships.

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The University of Indianapolis conferred its first doctoral degrees in PsyD, or clinical psychology, this spring. U of I is one of two institutions in Indiana with a PsyD program, and its program also received accreditation from the American Psychological Association.

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A new Harris poll on MS reveals that neurologists and people with MS overwhelmingly prioritize the slowing of disease progression over preventing relapses: nearly half of people with MS receive no FDA-approved therapy.

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1) Social support proves to be a critical factor in women's health, 2) Women living with HIV find positive light through deadly disease, 3) Grandmothers raising grandchildren face more health risks than peers

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1) Protecting plant biodiversity helps safeguard ecosystems, 2) At the "moving edge of discovery," pushing the frontier without a map, 3) Students' robots perform surgery on ... A grape?

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For the first time in recent history, the University of California, San Diego will hold an all-campus commencement ceremony and graduation rites for its five undergraduate colleges on a single day-Sunday, June 17. Programs for two graduate divisions will be held the preceding day, June 16, while the UCSD School of Medicine will hold its commencement June 3.

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U of I students use Spanish language skills to help the Indianapolis area's growing Hispanic community, resulting in better academic performance and job placement for Hispanic residents. Students work in schools, job centers, shelters and preschools.

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Pomp plus circumstance, mixed with student success equals Temple's 114th commencement.

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Helen Thomas, renowned journalist for the past 40 years, will deliver the keynote address at the College of Saint Benedict commencement ceremonies at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 26, in the Clemens Field House.

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Many Americans suffer heartburn, but for some it's more frequent and serious. A new study by a UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas physician, published in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests that anti-reflux surgery is no better for treating severe heartburn than antacid medications.

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As cheap gas grows scarce, an abundance of so-called solutions is misguiding many Americans. Between the "American Gas Out" and the Mobil-Exxon boycott, misinformation is rampant on the Internet.

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Over the next few weeks Cornell University biology students and members of the campus Herpetology Society will gather along a road about six miles from campus to stop and slow down automobile traffic, giving frogs and salamanders right of way to cross from the forest to a mating pond.

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People don't get married, make friends or try to maintain ties with sibling to have those relationships fail. Yet many fail because people don't pay enough attention to the emotional needs of others, says University of Washington psychologist John Gottman, author of the new book "The Relationship Cure."

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Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. trade representative during the Clinton administration, will offer advice and encouragement to new graduates from the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Letters and Science during commencement exercises this spring.

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Rev. Abuna Elias Chacour spoke at the 2001 Commencement Ceremony to the largest graduating class in U of Indianpolis history. Chacour founded the Mar Elias Educational Institution in Israel, the only private interfaith educational facility in Galilee.

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A pioneering evolutionary biologist, a noted TV news analyst and the former heads of the FDA and National Science Foundation are among the six individuals who will receive honorary degrees at North Carolina State University's Commencement on May 19.

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CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather to deliver commencement address and receive honorary degree at Colgate University. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu; Harvard's Henry Louis Gates Jr., National Football League Commissioner Paul Tagliabue; and Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor also to receive honorary degrees from Colgate on May 20, 2001.