In 1990, when a small group of University of Illinois faculty and students arrived in East St. Louis, Ill., bearing ideas for revitalizing decaying, semi-abandoned neighborhoods, residents were skeptical. Now they have handed the project a fairly glowing report card.
"Men never do any of the work around the house; they never help with raising the kids!" "Women cry too much; they're too emotional!" "Why do boys always roughhouse; they compete over everything." "Girls always sit around and play with their dolls, and teenage girls always talk on the phone and gossip."
The University of Illinois Library is ready for the 21st century. It just rolled out an online cataloging and circulation system that not only meets the international standard for data-sharing, but also is Year 2000 compliant. The system also gives users a powerful way to access materials.
Dead plants, bad lighting and sagging couches are probably the last things clients should encounter in their therapists' offices, according to a University of Illinois architecture professor.
President Bill Clinton may be facing the possibility of impeachment over the issue of Monica Lewinsky, but his mastery of public speech could be his ticket to staying in office, according to a University of Georgia professor of speech communication who is a scholar of presidential and political rhetoric.
A University of Iowa College of Law professor, has been asked to present his research on the status of the Americans with Disabilities Act to a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee at its first major inquiry on the ADA in Washington D.C., Monday, Oct. 5.
An estimated five-percent of the American population is addicted to the thrills and highs of gambling, according to a professor of psychiatry at the UConn Health Center.
Ohio State professors have developed a CD-ROM that encourages students to think critically about statistics in everyday life. The Electronic Encyclopedia of Statistics Examples and Exercise will supplement the new edition of a popular statistics textbook.
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.
University of Connecticut educational leadership professor has developed guidelines that will change the way teachers are being evaluated in Connecticut and Louisiana. Teachers in both states will be evaluated on improving aspects of teaching that strengthen or enhance students' learning in some way.
1. Some farmers in the midwest are looking at a 200 percent income drop this year. 2. A noted child development specialist counters current claims that parents don'thave much impact on how a child will turn out. 3. A consequence of America's aging population could be a big shortage of elderly-care nurses.
Official poverty rate data to be released on Thursday, September 24 are likely to tell an incomplete story about economic disadvantage in the United States, according to experts associated with theNorthwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.
Smith College to launch unprecedented 'universal' internship program, enabling every student to afford at least one significant early career experience.
Many elderly alcoholics may go undiagnosed because the symptoms of alcoholism are problems typically attributed to old age, such as insomnia, poor concentration and depression, says a Purdue University nursing expert.
Thanks to a grant of $1.6 million, Michigan State University undergraduate students will have the opportunity to spend their college careers learning first-hand the art of science in the laboratories where the work is being done.
A comprehensive University of Illinois program geared for the education of undergraduate students in the life sciences and fostering community outreach has received a $1.6 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
American society need to take a critical look at treatment programs for men who batter their wives or girlfriends and stringently test them to make sure that they actually work to end domestic violence, says one of the leading researchers of abusive relationships.
A new joint venture of Smith College and Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering promises to put more women in the engineering pipeline.
Widespread human rights abuses in apartheid-era South Africa have been extensively detailed, most recently in hearings conducted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). However, what is the psychological effect of testifying before the TRC among victims of human rights abuses?
Children of divorced parents are more liekly to become smokers as adults than children who parents stayed together. Boys are more likely to become problem drinkers as adults than boys from intact families
Every day in communities across the US a bond is broken. It's the bond between people and their pets, resulting in millions of pets being surrendered to shelters each year. And little has been known about the reasons why until now.
The Lifeline(tm) program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center provides seniors with a continuum of care, emergency assistance, peace of mind, and the ability to maintain their dignity through independence.
Political experts from the University of California, San Diego are available to provide commentary to the news media on politial issues and the upcoming elections in November.
Teachers Encouraging a Love for Literature, a Purdue University program, includes teachers, librarians, authors, illustrators and academics who hope to create a generation of readers by putting the people who create children's books into the classroom.
Patients who viewed videotapes explaining how they would feel after coronary bypass surgery generally recovered more quickly from their procedures, resulting in shorter stays in intensive care and in the hospital.
Did a popular dietary supplement help Mark McGwire break baseball's home run record? There's no evidence either way, according to a researcher at Ball State University's Human Performance Laboratory, speaking for the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).
President Clinton at a ceremony in the White House announced ten individuals and eight institutions as recipients of the 1998 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, a three-year-old award administered and funded through the National Science Foundation.
Move over, Blanche DuBois -- step aside, STEL-LAAAH!!! -- hit the road, Brick. A whole new cast of Tennessee Williams characters is bringing drama to life on the world's stages this year. It's a raw and gritty tale of prison torture.
While kids are struggling with subjects such as math or history this fall, some of their parents may be wishing they just knew more about being a parent. Answers are close at hand through the National Parent Information Network.
Adults embroiled in a long, bitter divorce fight often put their kids in the middle. A program implemented eight years ago in Champaign County in Illinois, however, appears to be taking the sting out of cases with the highest levels of conflict among moms and dads, researchers say.
"Works and plays well with others," that seemingly minor item on many a kindergarten report card, may be much more important to a child's academic success than many parents realize, a University of Illinois professor of educational psychology says.
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