19-year-old Rishi Khan was cruising the Internet from his University of Delaware room when he spotted a message from a fellow coder, who wanted to unlock the twisted programming secrets of the "Melissa" computer virus. Soon, the unassuming cybersleuth was receiving attention from national publications such as the April 12 Newsweek, which describes his role in exposing the most contagious computer virus ever concocted.
In May a professor of physical education at Albion (Michigan) College, and five students will travel to China for a research exchange at Tianjin Medical University near Beijing. For two weeks they will study the movements of a thousand Chinese school children, and will teach doctors and teachers how to apply child-movement research to their work.
Parents nationwide can help keep their 4th through 8th graders up to date on their math skills this summer--thanks to the University of Delaware's mail order math program, Solve It.
Alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems were significantly slashed among a group of high-risk college-age drinkers using a brief, non-confrontational intervention treatment developed by University of Washington researchers.
Issues of ethnic violence have riveted America's attention on Kosovo, but a far more gruesome conflict is playing out in Borneo, including widespread incidents of headhunting and cannibalism. A University of Arkansas anthropologist who lived among these ethnic tribes offers his expertise.
Parents can quell test anxiety in their school-aged children by recognizing the problem and reinforcing realistic expectations. A Purdue University anxiety expert offers tips.
Ticks are hardly the topic of conversation at dinner parties. Rarely are such insects the main plot in an Academy Award winning movie. None have been given a major award from a nation's president.
Most drivers who engage in "road rage"--from tailgating and honking to sideswiping and drawing weapons--believe their aggressive behavior is inherited from a parent and their victims deserve what they get, according to a Central Michigan University study.
Organizers of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities' first annual spring conference are not only expecting trouble, they're welcoming it.
When European readers of Chateaubriand's famous "Atala" looked into the Mississippi Valley, they saw not the bustling trade of Yankee frontiersmen, but the noble image of Indians upholding an honorable code of conduct.
Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze will deliver an address, "Georgia, the Caucasus and Beyond," and join former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker, III, in a "town hall" meeting April 22 to reflect on historic events that brought about a peaceful end to the Cold War nearly 10 years ago.
Boston College Graduate School of Management' has created a tuition-free scholarship for business journalists who wish to deepen their understanding of finance.
Chicago middle school students can earn high school credit thanks to the Bulls Scholars Program, an after-school tutoring program created by the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Bulls. Launched in January 1999, the program reaches 1,000 7th and 8th graders.
Nationally recognized as the great books school, St. John's College offers a Summer Classics program that provides the opportunity to study the classics while vacationing in historic Santa Fe.
Spring means exam time at colleges and universities across the country, but at St. John's College students do not sit through hours filling in blue books. However, seniors do have to face an intimidating public oral examination during which they must defend a long original essay they have written.
A Cornell professor of history and classics and director of the Peace Studies Program threw himself into a difficult new sport and then wrote a book about it. Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty is a memoir that navigates through mid-life rites of passage as it meditates on the techniques and history of rowing.
University of Richmond senior has come up with a question about truth that has made her $23,390 richer in a campus-wide competition called the Richmond Quest. Her question is, "Is truth in the eye of the beholder?"
The Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University announces the launch of an international campaign to archive millennial documents and memorabilia pertaining to the year 2000.
On May 14-16, eminent scholars from around the world will convene at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for the conference "Sarira: Aspects of Embodiment in the Arts and Cultures of India."
National experts plan to gather April 7-9 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a national conference that will examine the public service mission of land grant institutions.
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