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A list of four Purdue University experts who can discuss various aspects of fitness, exercise and aging is presented.

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The first global study for an oral multiple sclerosis drug therapy has been launched at universities and medical centers worldwide to determine if an oral formulation of COPAXONE is efficacious and safe for the treatment of relapsing-remitting MS.

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Georgia's senior U.S. senator, Paul Coverdell, will speak at the University of Georgia's spring semester commencement on May 13.

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Highways aren't the only contribution civil engineers have made to life in the 21st century: they are also credited with synchronizing traffic lights, designing homes, building bridges, erecting industrial facilities and constructing recycling plants.

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As electronic circuits become more compact, the individual, overlapping wires are crammed so close together that their signals interfere with each other, but a Purdue engineer is proposing a novel design strategy to reduce the interference and predict a circuit's performance.

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Ohio State University researchers have found one explanation for why older adults tend to be more prejudiced than young people: they just can't help it (Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 5-00).

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Brigham Young University and University of Wisconsin biologists explain how they turned back the evolutionary clock and discovered how insects lost their abdominal legs in this week's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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By counting on friends and family, heart attack survivors may be better able to fight depression during that critical first year following a heart attack, according to today's Circulation.

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An article in the April 25 Neurology encourages aggressive treatment of migraine headache, a condition affecting 28 million Americans, and refers physicians to a new set of practice guidelines being published simultaneously on the journal's Web site.

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Stroke patients with elevated levels of iron are much more likely to experience more severe neurological symptoms and possibly increased brain damage, according to a study in the April 25 Neurology.

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An experimental drug that may improve Parkinson's disease symptoms when used in conjunction with current therapies is safe for use by Parkinson's patients, according to a study in the April 25 Neurology.

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Partnership for Quality Growth's research report provides essential guiding principles that local planners can use to build better communities that accommodate growth, promote development and improve the environment.

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Playing violent video games like Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Mortal Combat can increase a person's aggressive thoughts, feelings and behavior, both in laboratory settings and in actual life, according to two studies appearing in the April Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

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A new violence prevention program has been developed to be used in all parts of a child's world; Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers program has passed tests of effectiveness for stopping aggressive behavior and violence in elementary school children (Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 4-00).

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Amateur astronomers attended a unique meeting in mid-April to learn about high-energy astrophysics.

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The Colgate University/Zogby Internatioal Upstate NY Poll is the first of its kind to gather upstate New Yorkers' opinions on a variety of topics, including work, quality of life, and how they feel about candidates running for President and State Senator.

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1- Sports psychologist talks about the importance of team chemistry and whether the Philadelphia Flyers want Eric Lindros and Roger Neilson to return; 2- The Vietnam War profoundly affected pop culture, especially the depiction of war in film, says film studies prof.

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Over the past few years, millions of dollars have been spent by consumers on "natural music," says a UAB music professor; the recognition of music's calming effects is nothing new.

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Legislation designed to protect consumer confidentiality is pending in Congress and reflects the growing public concern that banks and other institutions could share customers' personal information without consent, says a UAB computer scientist.

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The best-studied model in science to discuss changes in state is the Ising Model; now a computational biologist has shown that a formal proof cannot be achieved in 3-D, so the model may be wrong (Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery's 2000 Symposium on the Theory of Computing, 5-00).