One of the hottest new academic fields can now "go by the book" -- the textbook, that is. The first documentary history of gender in the United States has hit the bookstores.
You think you're just giving a gift, right? A simple act, no big deal. Researchers have news for you: It is a big deal. That gift could make or break your relationship with the recipient -- depending on the quality of the relationship at the time the gift is offered.
Current U.S. immigration policies threaten fundamental democratic principles, say the contributors to a new book who assert that immigrants--both legal and undocumented--are entitled to basic civil rights when they cross the border into the United States.
The best architects, designers and scientists have always immersed themselves in their work. But now, thanks to a new virtual reality theater at North Carolina State University, they can take it to a whole new level.
Research by renowned linguist Dr. Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University's William Friday Distinguished Professor of English, and a team of researchers indicates that while the Lumbee in North Carolina's Robeson County lost their ancestral tongue generations ago, they have developed a unique Lumbee English dialect.
The University of Illinois at Chicago has launched the new department of disability and human development, which offers a master's degree program and, in collaboration with two other departments, the nation's first Ph.D. program in disability studies.
Last year George Soros' Open Society Institute gave a three-year, $600,000 grant to Emory University's Barkley Forum debate program to serve as a model and mentor for inner city school debate programs around the country in an effort to prevent youth violence and boost academic.
A University of Utah Hebrew scholar has spent 12 years researching 2,000 years of Jewish messiahs using many original sources and finds similarity among the messianic movements in a new book from Oxford University Press.
Students taking part in "The Poverty Project" in a Wake Forest University sociology class were assigned fictional families of different socioeconomic classes, from a two-parent,upper-income family to a single-parent, welfare family. They had to find jobs, housing and day care for their families. and day care for their families.
The stereotypical engineer is a linear, analytical thinker, but recent research at the University of Missouri-Rolla shows that many engineering students prefer a less linear style of learning.
Five women will discuss their personal memories of Thomas Merton, one of our century's formative thinkers, on the 30th anniversary of his death. The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine College in Louisville, Kentucky will bring together "Women Who Knew Merton:"
An Elizabethan scholar at the University of Wyoming says the new film "Elizabeth" provides a "fascinating version" of the early life of Queen Elizabeth I. The film depicts how Elizabeth sought to attain and keep England's throne in spite of family rivals and the protests of the Vatican.
As holidays with their emphasis on families approach, a new poll finds support for Covenant marriages growing. Respondents believe covenant marriages strengthen families, are better for children and last longer.
Self-beliefs play a critical role in academic success, according to an assistant professor of educational studies at Emory University. Also the co-author of the forthcoming book "Self-Beliefs and School Success," he offers the following advice for parents and students to maximize success.
In an interview, self-described American revolutionary Betty Friedan, the author of The Feminine Mystique and founder of the National Organization for Women, talks about what she's doing lately, in partnership with Cornell's Institute for Women and Work. With her Washington, D.C.--based New Paradigm: Women, Men, Work, Family and Public Policy, she hopes to use such feminist values as equality, fairness and justice to make work, and life, better for men as well as women.
The McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University doubled the number of Hispanic students in its freshman class this year, highlighting a nationwide trend of greater numbers of Hispanic students pursuing engineering degrees.
Sexual abuse of boys appears to be underrecognized, underreported, and undertreated, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
A new nationwide study at Ohio State University refutes the theory that children in single-mother households are disadvantaged because they lack the presence of a father.
Violent television programming impedes the viewer's memory of the commercial messages run during the program, according to new research in the December issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, published by the American Psychological Association.
A major illness or disability often not only changes everything for an individual who has gone through such and event. It also can likely disrupt that person's relationships, according to research at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Copycat offenders rarely have a political message when they commit an act such as the recent anthrax letter scares, according to a Ball State University professor.
Giving a puppy or kitten to a child as a Christmas present is not in the best interest of the youngster or the animal, says a Ball State University psychologist.
An archivist at the University at Buffalo, speaks for an international network of archivists when he says that because of the explosion in information technologies, the late 20th century will be one of the worst-documented periods in history.
Prejudice strikes most people as a learned behavior, but a study of grade school kids exposes prejudice as a much cagier beast, waiting to rear its head at the slightest provocation, according to a UW-Madison psychology professor.
New research finds that HIV-positive gay men who find meaning from the death of a partner or close friend to AIDS may have improved immune functioning and live longer than HIV-positive gay men who are less successful in coping with this type of loss, according to UCLA researchers.
Walt Disney's early films, among the most popular in moviemaking history, are every bit as obsessed with death as any 1990s blockbuster, according to a Emory University professor.
The University of Chicago has received a $5 million endowment gift from Irving B. Harris to establish the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy.
Cornell Higher Education Research Institute recently received a Mellon Foundation grant of $375,000 and matching funds of $300,000 from an anonymous donor.
High school students have discovered a previously unidentified celestial object in the Kuiper Belt using images from the National Science Foundation's 4-meter Blanco Telescope in Chile.
In contrast to research saying that parents are not important in determining teens' behavior,a new study shows a strong connection between teens' relationship with their parents and how they interact with peers. Teens who do not feel close to their parents do not respond to firm discipline, the study also shows.
If Andy Warhol were alive, chances are he'd be on the art world's bleeding edge, dipping into a high-tech, electronic palette to create art that can be seen -- and maybe even heard -- but can't be purchased in any gallery.
A little change in attitude can calm the butterflies in your stomach before a job interview or business presentation, says a Purdue communications professor.
A series of experiments that a professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut, has conducted suggest that very often first impressions have a surprising degree of validity.
The American Association for Higher Education will host a conference supported by the National Science Foundation on reform efforts in science, mathematics, engineering and technology education in colleges and universities.
Satellite images, 18th century maps and a city plan over 8,000 years old form part of a collection of rare and unusual maps that a professor of history at UIC, has chosen to help high school teachers "tell the story of world history."
Title 1, a federal education program for disadvantaged students, is up for renewal next year. The new issue of the "Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk" examines the latest research on Title 1, including studies demonstrating when the program is effective and when it is not.
Temple University has a number of faculty experts who are available to comment on the developing crisis in the Middle East.
Johns Hopkins University will use the largest part of a recent $45 million gift to increase scholarships for next year's freshmen 25 percent and cut their debt at graduation by more than a third.
A technical graphics professor in the School of Technology at Purdue University has found a way to take some of the trepidation out of navigating the school's West Lafayette campus. Using a software program that until recently has been applied almost exclusively to creating animated computer games, James Mohler has designed a two-dimensional, interactive map that allows a "virtual visit" by way of the World Wide Web.
DreamWorks will bring Moses, the Hebrew leader who led Israel out of captivity, to life in its new film, The Prince of Egypt, to be released nationwide December 18. Moses made waves long before he became an animated hero. In his new book, Israel in Egypt, Professor James Hoffmeier gives compelling evidence that the biblical record of Moses and the Exodus is true.
A new resource for community colleges was announced Nov. 11, 1998 at Cornell. The Institute for Community College Development is based at Cornell. Created through collaborative efforts by the State University of New York (SUNY), Cornell and community college presidents, the institute will study educational, social and financial issues of importance to community colleges.
The aggressive marketing and promotion of infant formula in this country and worldwide violate a basic human right of mothers and babies to give and receive breastmilk, and endangers health of infants worldwide, says Michael Latham, M.D., MPH, professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell University. He called for legislation to curb industry marketing practices to promote formula and to institute warning labels outlining the major hazards related to not breastfeeding.
From the 13,000 volunteers who count birds for science in the continentwide Project FeederWatch, Cornell University ornithologists have collected solutions for birders who prefer not to count squirrels.
More students will be able to live on the University of Maryland, Baltimore County campus within two years thanks to the generosity of the Baltimore-based Erickson Foundation, and the gift could change how charitable foundations operate.
Californians are more likely to attend arts events and activities compared to other Americans, according to a just released survey conducted by the University of San Francisco and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The brutal murders of a gay man in Wyoming and an African-American man in Texas earlier this year are forcing many states to expand or add anti-hate crimes laws, says a Ball State University educator.
Most people think that Americans have celebrated Thanksgiving ever since that first harvest feast where pilgrims and Indians dined together in a symbolic gesture of sharing and ethnic harmony. It's a wonderful story, but, unfortunately, it's just a story.
The woman who arranged Oscar Schindler's emigration to Argentina and who herself was intimately involved in some of the earliest efforts to aid victims of the Nazis has written a history of what she considers to be the greatest communal humanitarian effort in the history of Anglo-Jewry. Marked by heroism, generosity and grinding hard work, the effort "resulted in the saving of thousands of lives," writes Amy Zahl Gottlieb.
Some 30 students from five continents are headed to Bangkok in December, six months after attending a three-week workshop there. In a sense, however, they never left; their training has continued, and their classmates and instructors have been with them since June.
How many dreams have been dashed by the frustration of learning math? How many kids have been made to feel dumb because math, at some point, just stopped making sense?
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