Without theologians, would there be any witches? A Johns Hopkins specialist on medieval literature attributes human belief in witchcraft to the need of medieval clerics to repress their own doubts in the existence of God.
The University of Idaho and Society of Environmental Journalists will draw working journalists and scientists together Nov. 6 and 7 to consider some of the leading issues facing the Northwest and the nation.
Bob Troutwine has his head in business and sports. He does psychological assessments of players for many N.F.L. teams and talent assessments for other businesses and corporations. "The bottom line is good psychology wins games and retains customers," says Troutwine.
On Oct. 14-16, Middlebury College will hold the Bicentennial "Celebration of the Sciences," featuring the dedication of Bicentennial Hall, a new 220,000-square-foot science facility. The event will also include a symposium with nationally renowned scientists and science journalists.
In a rare U.S. appearance, the president of Somaliland, Muhammad Ibrahim Egal, will give a public talk at Princeton University on Oct. 13.
The FBI will issue reports this fall and early next year on identifying potentially violent teens and strategies for school security.
Alabama history, even during years of segregation, can't always be viewed in black and white, concludes a new book of essays, "It Is Union and Liberty: Alabama Coal Miners and the UMW."
The 1999-2000 season of Southern Methodist University's Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series features a best-selling author and historian, a ground-breaking scientist, an award-winning composer, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners and internationally renowned political leaders and commentators.
Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., will host a symposium titled "Transferring the Panama Canal: Passage to a New Millennium" on Thursday, Oct. 21. The event will feature leading figures in the canal's history and transition.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer is one of the participants scheduled to take part in a three-day conference designed to address critical issues related to the interface of psychology and criminal law.
When toxic Pfiesteria piscicida microorganisms invade recreational waterways, summer tourism and seafood sales can suffer, a researcher with the University of Delaware Sea Grant College Program reports.
Wealthy interest groups that funnel vast sums of money into political campaigns in the hopes of influencing the outcome of a ballot initiative are usually not successful, according to a professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego, who has completed the first systematic study of how money and interest groups actually affect the initiative process.
Just when you thought it was safe to haul out the Dracula costume, child development experts have begun to question the wisdom and the value of Halloween festivities for preschoolers.
Despite what the general public may believe and headlines may imply, a recent report shows that important and meaningful progress has been made in preventive intervention with school-age children during the last decade.
Despite its reputation for single-minded hatred of blacks, the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama actually focused its hate on many targets, ranging from blacks to Catholics to women alleged to have loose morals, according to a new book by Glenn Feldman, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UAB Center for Labor Education and Research (CLEAR).
Four nationally recognized child development specialists will provide new information for parents and professionals at an October 15 conference at Case Western Reserve University on "Interventions in Infancy Intervention." The event will identify ways to help children develop critical learning skills early.
Experts say teen drinking is a pervasive problem in the United States. Health professionals, counselors and others who deal with the issue -- because of time constraints and the proliferation of profession-specific journals -- are often unaware of relevant research on teen drinking in other fields.
The American Association of Political Consultants will hold its first annual Academic Outreach Conference Nov. 14-17 in Baton Rouge, attracting some of the nation's top consultants and political figures.
Contraceptive education, easy access to contraceptive services, and the provision of free abortion on demand helped reduce teenage birth rates, pregnancy rates, and abortion rates in Sweden, concludes an article in Studies in Family Planning.
Repairing tornado damage in Oklahoma City -- helping Washington, D.C. food banks -- tutoring children in Atlanta -- this is how the Austin College Sesquicentennial will culminate: in a day of volunteer service by alumni from coast to coast as the college takes its 3rd annual Great Day of Service nationwide, October 16-17, 1999.
Some people see helping in a disaster as romantic, allowing them to participate in an adventure of a lifetime, says a Ball State University educator.
Healing racism will be the focus of workshop sessions led by renowned authors, speakers and facilitators with international reputations in race relations at conference October 15-17 at Connecticut College.
Experts from across the country will gather in Snowmass, Colo., Nov. 29-Dec. 2 to examine the question of whether we are loving our public lands and waters to death at a conference organized by Colorado State University.
World-renowned forensic anthropologist Dr. Clyde Snow will make major international announcements when he presents two lectures at Austin College October 1 and 2. Additionally, the director of the Guatemala Forensic Anthropology Foundation will speak about controversial exhumations at the Police Military Academy in Guatemala City. The exhumations are anticipated to be the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.
Shortly after the state's Board of Education voted to downplay the teaching of evolution, noted evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould will speak at KU on Oct. 6.
The first man in the job as president of the United States was a man of vanity, disappointment and longing, noted biographer Richard Norton Smith says.
The Virginia Tech Center for Gerontology's monthly forums explores current issues affecting older adults' lives. The October and Novermber programs look at the "Court Opinions About Grandparent Visitation Rights" and "Diversity in Older Adults' Lives."
Young people who participate in New York state 4-H clubs do better in school, are more motivated to help others achieve more, are more educationally motivated, have higher levels of self esteem, place more emphasis on having a value system and communicate at more of an adult level,than non-4-H'ers, according to a two-year Cornell University study.
Jane Goodall, the world's leading authority on chimpanzees, will speak at Bucknell Oct. 15, about her nearly 40 years of research on chimpanzees and her wildlife conservation efforts. The title of her lecture is "Reason for Hope."
Nobel Prize winner Dr. James Watson, who discovered the molecular structure of DNA along with Francis Crick in 1953, will speak Thursday, Oct. 14, at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Domestic Violence is an issue of pressing concern across the country. In recognition of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University and the Kings County District Attorney's Office will present a free two-day conference.
Single parenthood is not necessarily a risk factor for how well prepared six- and seven-year-olds are for school or how well they do in school, according to a large, multiethnic Cornell University study. Mothers' ability and educational levels were much more significant, and were about the same in single- and two-parent families.
It is possible to predict which newlywed couples will divorce from the way partners interact in just the first three minutes of a discussion about an area of marital conflict, according to University of Washington researchers.
A state-run lottery isn't likely to create gambling addicts, says a UAB addiction counselor, but it should bring more people into treatment for compulsive gambling disorders.
UAB child psychologist Vivian Friedman, Ph.D., suggests that when it comes to children, parents avoid an emphasis on scary stories.
Workers who used special computer software to remind them to assume good posture, take breaks from the computer and do occasional stretches were 13 percent more accurate on average in their work than coworkers who did not receive the computer advice, according to a new Cornell University study.
Hofstra University is planning a major conference on the life and work of Eleanor Roosevelt, September 30 through October 2.In addition to family members, confidants and colleagues, biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook will be on hand for the proceedings.
Carbon monoxide, a byproduct of improper combustion of some fuels, has been associated with the death of more than 200 people in this country each year.
In an era when shocking tragedies lead the news, rudeness is the norm and politeness the exception, 121 University of Maryland students are the first participants in CIVICUS, a unique program of living and learning organized around the theme of creating a civil society.
As this year's Nobel Conference(r) at Gustavus Adolphus College, Oct. 5-6, examines the emerging areas of genetics and predicts its effects into the next millennium live via the Internet.
The nation's growing rail network once created a locale of unique opportunity for blacks in an otherwise unlikely city, says a University at Albany historian in her new book on Buffalo, N.Y.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's popularity among the American public is nearly completely independent of her husband's approval rating, a new Ohio State study suggests.
Americans on average estimate they will live about one year longer than statistics of life expectancy suggest they will, a new Ohio State study finds. Men and Blacks are most optimistic about their lifespans, while white women are least optimistic.
The big spenders on campaign issue ads in the 1998 Wisconsin elections got very little payoff, says a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor.
Training adolescents to give up destructive behaviors like delinquency, substance abuse and violence seem to fail if several of the adolescents in the group have a tendency toward these behaviors, say researchers.
Media and Communication in the New Global Economy will be the subject of a major conference Oct. 2-3 sponsored by the University of California, San Diego's Department of Communication.
The Scopes Trial on evolution never really ended. It just wound on up the bumpers of cars. A new survey of the attitudes of those who stick Darwin fish symbols on their cars shows that some are making fun of religion in general, but many want to wreck a sacred symbol.
A burial offering containing four skeletons was recently found under the Pyramid of the Moon, the oldest monument at Teotihuacan, the Western Hemisphere's oldest metropolis.
Colgate University's Center for Ethics and World Societies has begun its second year of operation under the topic "Homeless in the World: Refugees, Immigrants and the State."
The first thing survivors of Hurricane Floyd will need is "three squares and a place to sleep," says UAB psychiatrist Doug Sargent, M.D.
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