An English professor, whose Harvard doctoral disertation was on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, is preparing to incorporate the anticipated film "Lord of the Rings" into the honors English class he will teach next semester on the acclaimed fantasy author.
Executives closed an increasing number of cross-border mergers in the 1990s, hoping to boost the value of their companies by decreasing vulnerability to economic swings in any one geographic market. But even as mergers increased, share prices declined relative to non-merger companies, according to a new study by a Brigham Young University professor.
African-American women are 40 percent as likely to breastfeed their infants as non-black women, and this disparity accounts for the race gap in U.S. infant mortality at least as well as low birth weight does, according to a new study.
A new easy-to-skim book by a Brigham Young University Marriott School of Management professor offers practical tips to ensure electronic communication tools like cell phones and e-mail actually help people effectively communicate and not just mindlessly exchange data.
A team of Brigham Young University researchers has created molecules that glow in the presence of certain metal pollutants, paving the way for an early warning system that can alert regulators to the contamination of drinking water and waste streams.
To meet Wall Street's expectations, Internet retailers must retarget their marketing, address customer fear over credit card security and make the experience less technologically challenging, says a new study of more than 4,000 Web users sponsored by IBM.
As Americans prepare to celebrate the 225th anniversary of their democracy, a political scientist is touting a new approach to encouraging popular rule in America's intractably communist southern neighbor, Cuba.
A new study found that girls who use certain unhealthy weight-control practices were significantly more likely to be frequent readers of women's health and fitness magazines.
A political science professor, also the mother of two small boys with cystic fibrosis, taught herself molecular biology and authored an article advocating a new treatment for the fatal disease in this week's issue of a peer-reviewed medical journal.
A free Brigham Young University-developed computer tutorial aimed at teaching people how to use computer resources to research genealogy is now accessible online.
Allowing workers more job flexibility enabled employees to work longer hours before workload began to increase the strain on work-family balance, a recent study found.
As the Bush administration ponders the sale of Aegis-equipped destroyers to Taiwan, a new study affirms the United States' policy of arms sales and technology transfer to Taiwan.
A new study shows that students at academically competitive schools are more likely to begin smoking than students with comparable levels of achievement at other schools. It also found that schools attended by predominantly minority students discourage smoking.
Research by Brigham Young University business professor says competition between single firms, while still the rule, is becoming less universal as networks of allied firms have begun to compete in the marketplace.
An elaborate and precise engraving that details the life and times of a Maya king, including his 18-letter name, exact dates of his coronation, major battles, and death, which all preceded Columbus by about 800 years, has been discovered by a Brigham Young University archeologist.
In his new book, "Should We Stay Together?" Jeffry H. Larson, chairman of the Family and Marriage Therapy Program at BYU, identifies 25 factors essential to evaluating a relationship and improving its chances for long-term success.
To prevent disrespect of religion from discouraging patients from seeking professional help, BYU psychologists have compiled a APA handbook that informs mental health care practitioners about the various spiritual beliefs, rituals and traditions of their clients.
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.
A Brigham Young University economist and an orthopedic surgeon predict health maintenance organizations' cost controls will result in poorer orthopedic care in the future (Arthroscopy).
Brigham Young University and Stanford researchers wanted to investigate whether men really are from Mars and women really are from Venus, and they found, at least among depressed individuals, that both genders are from earth (Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy).
A Brigham Young University researcher has identified the key enzyme involved in triggering the glucose absorption process and has repeatedly stimulated it with a drug in rats, resulting in some of the same beneficial results that exercise provides, including increased glucose uptake, he reported in the Journal of Applied Physiology.
NASA's QuikScat (quick scatterometer) weather satellite data will be used in a BYU professor's studies of polar ice and global warming. The scatterometer radar images will monitor ocean weather patterns, as well as changes in the polar ice sheet, rainforest destruction, and other environmental indicators.
From survey results and in-depth interviews, three BYU professors studying media use by women with eating disorders concluded that pointing a finger at the media for causing eating disorders is overly simplistic.
Researchers from Brigham Young University and the University of California, San Diego recently set off their own mini-earthquake in the middle of the San Francisco Bay to test exactly what happens to buildings, homes and bridges when the soil beneath them turns to quicksand.
Brigham Young University researchers have demonstrated that the AIDS virus is evolving so fast in some patients that it has become immune to the heralded "AIDS cocktail," a commonly prescribed multi-drug therapy. But HIV is mutating the same way in each patient, giving drug makers a new bull's-eye for the next generation of AIDS drugs
A new study by a Brigham Young University researcher reported in the current issue of the Harvard Business Review reveals that one out of four workers who completes an international assignment returns home only to leave and join a competing firm.
A Brigham Young University chemist has found that fluctuations in water conditions at Yellowstone, compounded by increased elk populations, have caused the decrease in the growth potential and population size of the Yellowstone's willows, which are important factors in the park's ecosystem.
As baby boomers age and concern grows about the viability of Medicare, a Brigham Young University professor has found that, with regard to overall health care costs incurred after age 65, dying older is cheaper.
Instead of mounting antlers on walls, a Brigham Young University professor is literally "turning" them into functional and aesthetic pieces of art. The veteran of woodturning, the art of using the lathe to fashion wood into beautiful objects, has recently substituted elk antler for wood.
Engineers at Brigham Young University have invented a tiny battery as thin as a strand of human hair that one day may be used to power sensors that monitor vital signs in trauma victims or pumps that regulate insulin flow in diabetics. It has a hundred-fold increase in power over existing microbatteries.
Even accountants are confused by the burgeoning tax code and its '97 Taxpayer Relief Act. BYU's Fred Streuling, head of a national CPA Tax Simplification Committee, lightheartedly attacks the new law - "It's a slap in the face" - and warns that some of its promised tax breaks are not all they seem.
A preliminary report suggests that caffeine may act as an advocate to cancer cells by inhibiting apoptosis or programmed cell death. Apoptosis is a type of cell suicide mechanism that serves to eliminate damaged or unneeded cells. When subjected to a lethal heat shock, caffeine-treated cancer cells refused to die.
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