The obvious decline of the traditional family, a trend marked by increasing rates of divorce and cohabitation, illustrates the paradoxical nature of Americans' hot and cold attitude toward marriage and family, says a University at Buffalo sociologist.
Seven Muhlenberg College students with completely different backgrounds and virtually nothing in common have formed a tight-knit improvisational comedy troupe and taken the College and several other campuses by storm.
The Federal Aviation Administration is uniting with Purdue and a dozen other universities to head off a looming shortage of air traffic controllers. Anticipating the necessity of training thousdands of recruits within a short time, the FAA turned to universities to determine which had programs already in place that meet the government agency's pretraining requirements.
The Y2K issue and heart defibrillators on airplanes will be some of the topics discussed at this year's annual SMU Air Law Symposium sponsored by the Journal of Air Law and Commerce at Southern Methodist University.
In a field trial in 270 villages in rural Nepal, researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health showed that women had their risk of death from pregnancy lowered by about 40 percent after taking dietary supplements of vitamin A or beta-carotene, compared to women who did not take the supplements.
One of the nation's leading authorities on threats to the public's health and the man credited with the success of the smallpox eradication project a quarter century ago, says the virus is once again a threat to the United States and the world -- this time as a weapon of bioterrorists.
At a national conference on March 10-13, 1999, in Baltimore, Maryland, presenters will review the latest scientific findings and assess ongoing research needs on worker stress associated with dramatic changes in the nature and organization of work
A nurse researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has received a four-year grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health to conduct the first federally funded study on lesbians' use of alcohol.
Webster University announced today that it will open a new 50-acre residential campus in Thailand next fall. The new campus will be Webster's seventh international campus and the first operated by a four-year American university in Thailand.
Plant-based fats may cut the risk of prostate cancer by reducing the levels of both testosterone and certain enzymes that metabolize testosterone into more active forms, a new study by University at Buffalo nutrition researchers has shown.
A University at Buffalo assistant professor of geology, is on an NSF-supported research cruise, exploring an area of the southeastern Pacific Ocean, about 500 miles southeast of Easter Island.
A new automobile exhaust system desinged at Ohio State reduces pollution and boosts engine power at the same time. The single design increases overall engine performance by 5 percent while also cutting emissions by 15 percent.
Protein misfolding is a cause of Alzheimer's,"mad cow" disease, and could figure in biowarfare. Now the first successful computer model of one protein interfering with the folding of another has been created at Sandia. The model provides insights into the mechanisms by which incomplete folds occur.
Arkansas's only medical school has been working for the last decade to help their patients become partners by hosting five Mini Medical Schools covering such topics as aging, cancer, diabetes and viruses. The upcoming and sixth Mini Medical School will focus on mental illness at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences campus.
Thanks to soaring prices, academic agricultural and biological journals are likely to go the way of the plow horse, according to a Cornell University faculty task force that has been studying the problem.
The Western lifestyle of little exercise, lots of saturated fat, loads of refined sugar and little fiber is a major risk factor for the development of yet another chronic medical condition -- gallstones -- a new University at Buffalo study shows.
Taking a newborn's temperature with an infrared thermometer placed under the arm is just as reliable as taking a rectal temperature, new research at Ohio State suggests.
New research at Ohio State suggests that an increase in arctic temperatures as a result of global warming could result in significantly higher levels of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere. This, in turn, could fuel global warming even more.
A new study at Ohio State University suggests that obese Black teenagers have a greater risk of developing diabetes as adults than do their white counterparts.
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