The number and proportion of women and minorities enrolled and earning undergraduate and graduate science and engineering [S&E] degrees continues to increase, while the number of white men doing so is decreasing, according to a National Science Foundation report.
The first American-Cuban university exchange program is being established between San Diego State University and the University of Havana.
Madeleine Albright will address the afternoon ceremony at the May 15 University of Arizona Commencement. She and Ben Vereen will receive honorary doctorates.
President Clinton has named 208 teachers to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the nation's highest honor for mathematics and science teaching in elementary and secondary schools.
This summer, nearly three out of four college students nationwide will put their first foot in the door of a professional work environment via an internship. Smith College Career Development Director offers ten tips to make sure students don't miss the chance to turn a good first career experience into a great one.
As more students surf the Web for research on term papers and class projects, educators are recognizing the need to teach them how to separate the wheat from the chaff. Purdue University addresses this issue in a course on information strategies. The class includes instruction on how to find, evaluate and present information via the World Wide Web.
There's no instant solution for eliminating teen violence, but it can be reduced and even prevented using a classroom-based program, called Teams-Games-Tournament developed by University at Buffalo researchers.
The NBC medical drama "ER" will become a science lab at Purdue University this summer.
Interview opportunities with experts on school violence -- school nurses, emergency room nurses, community health nurses, forensic nurses, psychiatric nurses. Tips for parents available.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has recognized Sea Grant researchers and extension personnel in both Hawaii and New York with presentation of the 1999 NOAA Environmental Hero Award.
Green TV, a Ball State University class, wrapped up its first season with a pilot episode of "Naturally Indiana," a showcase of the state's natural resources and outdoor recreation activities.
The National Science Foundation announced a three-year grant to the Science & Technology Interactive Center (SciTech) in Aurora, Illinois to disseminate a traveling exhibition, "Midwestern Wild Weather."
Two teachers have been honored with the first of a one-of-a-kind award for K-12 science teachers.
The system-wide effort to improve student performance in Chicago public high schools is yielding promising results, yet skepticism among teachers may impede long-term success, according to a new study published by researchers affiliated with the Department of Education and the University of Chicago.
While great attention is given large scale teenage problems like drug and alcohol abuse, pregnancy and suicide, more teenagers are affected by everyday choices about part-time work, friendships and electronic media, a University of Delaware professor says.
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.
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.
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.
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?"
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.
A mock court exercise developed by a University of Wisconsin Law School professor will introduce Wisconsin deaf students to the world of law, and the very real possibility of becoming a lawyer.
Students should take an active part in parent-teacher conferences, says the dean of Purdue University's School of Education.
Research has shown that minority children with special needs often fare better in classrooms with teachers of color, but diverse special education teachers in the United States are in tragically short supply. A Vanderbilt-based program, the Alliance Project, is changing that.
Residential liberal arts colleges make a vital contribution to American intellectual life and many argue are the best model for educating undergraduate students. These are a few conclusions reached by authors in an examination of liberal arts colleges in the Winter 1999 issue of the journal Daedalus.
At the University of Illinois, one group of students learned that you can fight city hall -- and win. And they didn't read about it in a textbook; they learned by doing.
The National Science Board this week approved plans by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide some $21 million to fund 8,000 one-year scholarships of up to $2,500 each to low income students who pursue degrees in computer science, engineering or mathematics.
One of the world's top brain surgeons, Keith L. Black, M.D., director of the Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute, is actively working to motivate 120 students to stay in school, pursue higher education and consider a career in medicine.
While children under age 18 make up about 25 percent of our population, their concerns are rarely represented. And though we often talk about how much we love them, they are frequently overlooked, says a Vanderbilt University Divinity School professor who intends to change the way children are viewed in society, theology and the church.
A new, short, streamlined and straightforward IQ test, designed by a University of Delaware professor, will be available for use beginning in May. The Wide Range Intelligence Test (WRIT) is designed for persons ages 4 to 80 and takes approximately a half hour to administer.
For many kids, the first taste of farming may come in the classroom. A 4-H Classroom Chicken Embryology program that started as a pilot project in two urban school corporations a decade ago is now in every school corporation in that county -- public and private -- and reaches about 10,000 students each year.
With an eye toward bridging the ideological divides on affirmative action, a panel of nationally known researchers and scholars will convene for "The Future of Affirmative Action in Higher Education" conference hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago April 8-10.
A study on the literacy levels of America's teachers shows that they perform significantly higher than most adults and comparable to other college graduates and professionals.
Educators at the University of Illinois at Chicago and their colleagues at community colleges in the Chicago area expect that their new laboratory program for general chemistry will be more effective than traditional courses at teaching undergraduates.
Between semesters at Williams College is one month known as Winter study, where student take a single intensive course. This year a number of students had their first taste of real research.
Archivists and computer systems specialists at Cornell University have embarked on an 18-month project to study new record-keeping technologies and recommend ways to ensure that electronic records are preserved for the future.
In a truly global course at Cornell, students from four continents and corporate managers from 10 international companies linked via teleconferencing are working together on teams to solve key international human resource problems.
The culture of a school -- a web of values, traditions and symbols -- can be toxin or tonic for education reform. Ignoring this powerful variable, however, can be a fatal mistake in reform attempts, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.
Vanderbilt University's award-winning Little Planet Literacy Series combines CD-ROM technology with old-fashioned storytelling to help at-risk children learn to read.
Spring break is a time when thousands of students flock to the beaches. The volatile mix of alcohol, anonymity, sex and partying often results in someone getting hurt. A Vanderbilt University expert offers tips for a healthy spring break.
Forty-five years before he ever set foot on a college campus, Tadeusz Debski discovered his thirst for knowledge in the worst of environments, the Flossenburg concentration camp in Germany between 1941 and 1945.
If it's true that the devil's in the details, then there's plenty of Beelzebub in a new book about the destructive forces permeating U.S. academia.
College students from around the country will be crossing their eyes and dotting their tees at the 11th annual national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on April 10. The event honors the late cartoonist Rube Goldberg. The task for 1999 is to tee up a golf ball.
A new study finds that financial circumstances don't explain why many high-achieving, low-income students never go to college. The real culprit: inadequate advice from counselors, teachers and other adults.
High school students find learning biology almost as much fun as a video game with a new interactive computer program called BioScope. Purdue University researchers are developing the educational tool that has one-of-a-kind Internet safeguards and is constantly changing.
While most college students head for the surf and sand this spring break, more than 300 Vanderbilt students will spend their week in volunteering at sites around the country and in Peru, Mexico and Canada through a program called alternative spring break.
Educators at the University of Illinois and in three Illinois counties are finding that a rare form of university-schools collaboration -- which pools expertise, resources and the novice teachers themselves -- can be a key to getting first-year teachers some of the support they need.
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