Compared to most other religions, Judaism requires a lot of time and a high level of personal investment to gain the rewards or benefits of religious participation, says University of Illinois at Chicago professor Carmel Chiswick. "Because the observance of traditional Jewish ritual is 'time-intensive,' Judaism tends to be a costly religion - especially in high-wage households in the United States," Chiswick says.
Boston University has been selected to participate in a $40.5 million National Science Foundation (NSF) initiative to develop programs that will better prepare students for the wide variety of emerging careers in the rapidly evolving fields of science and engineering.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced the awarding of $40.5 million over five years to 17 doctorate-granting institutions to promote integrative graduate education and research training.
A major exhibition about the literary career of Laura (Riding) Jackson will open Oct. 8 in the Exhibition Gallery of the Carl A. Kroch Library on the Cornell University campus.
Evaluating how suitable our homes are for aging should be just as routine as financial planning, says Cornell University housing expert, Joseph Laquatra. Adapting homes for age-related disabilities would help the elderly age in place and live independently and would reduce the need for long-term care.
Negative ads are getting a bum rap in the debate about campaign reform, according to a political scientist who has conducted research on political advertising.
Non-custodial fathers are less likely to maintain contact with children from a previous relationship if they have biological children with another partner, a new study shows.
Despite the prevalence of violence in inner-city neighborhoods, elementary school children living there seem to have favorable views of at least parts of their community, a new study suggests.
Researchers have identified some of the important factors that may predict refugee migrations that displace millions of people each year. "Refugee migrations are not random -- they stem from political and social problems that can be predicted," a researcher said. said Craig Jenkins, a professor of sociology and a
Survey shows that a $10 investment to enroll in MONEY 2000, a Cornell Cooperative Extension financial education program, reaped an average $5,000 gain in net worth for participants one year later. Just six months in the program , more than half the participants were already paying bills on time, reducing their credit use, saving money, using a budget and reducing what they owed.
Two University of North Texas psychologists have discovered that those who lose friends or family members as a result of an accident, murder or suicide view the funeral more negatively and experience less help from it than those whose friends' or family members' deaths were expected.
Parents wanting to help their children adjust to life's stresses may want to turn down the noise in their home, says a Purdue University professor of psychological sciences.
Wells College has joined other institutional leaders who are responding to public concern about the affordability of higher education.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) made a down payment on the nation's future this week, announcing ten new Awards for the Integration of Research and Education to undergraduate schools located nationwide.
Despite the headlines and the lurid details, why does the public continue to support Bill Clinton? An historian of presidential politics offers an opinion in this op-ed piece by a professor of History at Mississippi State University.
A powerful new psychological tool that shows a shocking number of people -- as many as 90 to 95 percent -- display the unconscious roots of prejudice will be demonstrated at a 10 a.m. PDT press conference Tuesday, Sept. 29 at the University of Washington by UW and Yale psychologists.
A multidisciplinary team of Temple University researchers is evaluating a Philadelphia child care project to determine what resources are useful in increasing access to quality and affordable child care to low-income children and their families.
A $1.2 million grant has been awarded to Temple University by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to enhance its undergraduate program in the biological sciences and--working with two Philadelphia high schools--introduce qualified pre-college students to basic research in the life sciences.
Developed by the Cornell University Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors in New York State, a newly enhanced site addresses the roles that pesticides, diet, lifestyle and genetics may play in breast cancer risk, and offers strategies on what women and others, including policy makers, can do to reduce the risk of breast cancer.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has announced that UCSD is one of 58 universities to receive major funding from the institute to help revitalize undergraduate science education.
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