Although President Clinton proudly proclaimed the recent federal welfare reform effort "an end to welfare as we know it," political scientist Gwendolyn Mink writes in her new book "Welfare's End" that the demise of welfare can be traced back almost to its origins.
In Western Massachusetts from April 29 through May 3, Vanessa Redgrave and her mother, Lady Rachel Kempson Redgrave, will step on stage in two different venues to pursue interests in Chekhov and women. Their first stop will be Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley where the pair will hold a master class on April 29.
Cancer biologists working at Cornell University with forms of leukemia are demonstrating how retinoic acid alters the chemical signals from oncogenes, halting the uncontrolled cell division that produces cancer. It could lead to enhanced therapies for leukemia and also highlights the cancer-prevention role of carotenes.
On Sunday, May 24, Johnnetta B. Cole, the former president of Spelman College and its first African American woman president, will deliver Mount Holyoke College's 161st commencement address.
Purdue University scientists have unlocked the secrets of a receptor that the common cold virus uses as an entryway to infect human cells. Their findings, detailed in the April 14 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may help slam the door on one of the most troublesome and universal pathogens known to man.
Using a key protein that governs the release of virulent toxins in bacteria, researchers at UC Davis School of Medicine and Medical Center have successfully vaccinated and treated mice, preventing infection in up to 90 percent of animals studied.
Tallahassee, FL--Using funds from its settlement with the tobacco industry, today the State of Florida is launching a $25 million annual anti-tobacco advertising campaign. The ìTruthî campaign was developed by FloridaÃs teens and uses one of the most effective strategies known to affect teen behavior: rebellion.
University of Minnesota biochemists have synthesized a modified form of a crucial blood clotting factor and found it induces clotting much faster than the naturally occurring form of the factor. It could lead to better treatments for hemophilia and better overall control of clotting.
DALLAS, April 14 -- Researchers have demonstrated in laboratory animals that tumor necrosis factor alpha, a protein produced in the heart, can lead to congestive heart failure. The finding may pave the way for a new treatment for the nation's fastest-growing heart disease. The studies, from two different research teams, appear in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Consider the flow of carbon through your body. You take in carbon as plant and animal food. You breathe in oxygen, which is transported to the cells for oxidation of organic molecules. The products of this oxidation, water and carbon dioxide, you then breathe out. All organisms respire, or exchange gases with their environment, in some form. As does the Earth.
A Connecticut College botany professor and Garden Club of America medalist has started a new environmental movement to reverse the lawn-care mania in America. He advocates smaller lawns be replaced by ecologically-sound, naturalistic landscaping that will reduce maintenance and air, noise and water pollution.
One Franklin & Marshall professor is finding a way to show her students the mathematical nature of art, and the artistic nature of math. The course, unique to F&M, is not taught anywhere else in the country.
A team of scientists will be mixing up a batch of "pathogen cocktails" in the laboratory, with the goal of countering disease-causing threats to drinking water. Civil engineer Greg Harrington is leading a two-year project to determine how well water-treatment technologies remove Cryptosporidium and other microorganisms before they reach the kitchen tap.
"The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History," by Cornell University historian Walter LaFeber, has been awarded the Bancroft Prize in American History for 1998. The Clash, according to Akira Iriye, a Harvard University historian, "will easily become the best history of U.S.-Japanese relations in any language."
State-of-the-art sensing instruments on towers located at 24 sites in North America will measure the amount of carbon dioxide exchanged between local ecosystems and the atmosphere. The U.S. Department of Energy project will help scientists predict what's going to happen as people pump more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Social phobias -- the presence of extreme fear and/or avoidance of social situations -- is common in adults and children and is extremely debilitating, according to a newly released book, Shy Children, Phobic Adults: Nature and Treatment of Social Phobia, published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
1) Much of TB Prevalence Attributed to Race and Ethnicity Now Seen as Result of Low Socioeconomic Status, 2) Twins Study in Finland Shows That Presence of Asthma in Successive Generations Due More to Genes than Environment, 3) Asthma Reported to be Increasing in All Ages Not Just Young Males
The grand opening today of a new technology education center in the Seattle area marks a milestone for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program.
Responding to the rapid changes taking place in the energy industry, including the development of a deregulated, competitive electricity market, the University of Texas-Austin and Enron have teamed up to launch the nation's first Energy Finance program today.
A Purdue University team is headed to the Air Race Classic for the fifth year in a row as the only all-student collegiate entry. The annual event is a summer cross-country race for female pilots. Two years ago, a Purdue team became the first collegiate team to win the race.
Boston College has joined Peking University in Bejing, China, and 24 other American business schools in creating the Bejing International Management Center, it was announced today by John J. Neuhauser, the dean of Boston College's Carroll School of Management.
Sandia has requested permission to prepare a conceptual design for an accelerator, X-1, expected to produce sufficient heat, energy and power to implode fusion capsules of deuterium and tritum to achieve high-yield fusion.
A team of U.S. astronomers, led by Cornell University astrophysicist Martin Harwit, has discovered a massive concentration of water vapor within a cloud of insterstellar gas close to the Orion nebula. The amount of water measured is so high -- enough to fill the Earth's oceans 60 times a day -- that the researchers believe it provides an important clue to the origin of water in the solar system.
Good news for Achilles tendon injuries: a professor of chemistry and materials science at the University of Connecticut has created an artificial tendon out of biodegradable materials that will assist the body in developing a new tendon and shorten the recovery period.
1) Ph.D. Jobless Rates in S&E Are Hard to Predict, Says Report, 2) Six States Account for Half the Nation's R&D, 3) New Book Examines Engineering and the National Science Foundation
The links between underwater and space research and possible solutions to a host of neurological problems -- such brain injury, stroke and epilepsy -- will be explored at a Washington, D.C., meeting by the Space and Underwater Neurology Research Group of the World Federation of Neurology. Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) will be the featured speaker.
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Federal regulations that say employers must provide toilet facilities for their workers also mean that workers must be permitted to use the bathroom when they need to at work, according to new guidelines issued this week by regulators to clarify an issue that two University of Iowa professors raised with OSHA and have been closely watching.
Technology education is no longer the domain of trade schools and correspondence courses, according to Ronald J. Burkhardt, director of student services for Purdue University's School of Technology. "A college degree really does make a difference in this field," Burkhardt explains. "And a Purdue degree carries a lot of weight with employers."
Today's business leaders can benefit by following some of the practical lessons taught by Jesus, according to Charles C. Manz, professor of business leadership at the University of Massachusetts and author of the new book "The Leadership Wisdom of Jesus."
A device expected to be less expensive and more effective than any on the market in helping cool silicon wafers during the chip manufacturing process has been patented in prototype by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories.
A super-hard, protective diamond coating applied as thickly as desired-- something never before achieved -- and at room temperatures has been created by researchers at Sandia National Labs. The advance means improved protection and longer lifetimes for metal and plastic parts.
For the second time in just over two years, two Simon School professors in computers and information systems have won top honors from their peers and computer industry professionals. Rajiv M. Dewan and Abraham Seidmann have won the 1998 HICSS award for the best research paper in the Collaboration Systems and Technology Track.
The controversial topic of body image is explored in an intriguing and, frequently, disturbing new video by sociologist Dane Archer. Archer tackles such topics as eating disorders, body piercing and tattooing, cosmetic surgery, modeling and beauty pageants, aging, and cultural differences.
Natural vitamin E is retained in humans two times greater than the synthetic form of the supplement, according to a new study published in the April 1998 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AM J Clin Nutr 1998;67:669-84).
Cockroach racing will get a run for its money from the latest popular insect activity ã cricket spitting ã at Purdue University's annual Bug Bowl April 18-19.
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers have found that as solid tumors shrink, so do the pores in the blood vessels surrounding the tumors. This prevents some therapies from reaching their targets. The findings, published in the April 14 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest a fundamental change in the approach to designing chemotherapy agents.
A Connecticut College psychology professor, author and researcher says the disease-based concept for addiction treatment, as embodied in recovery programs like AA, ignores the root causes of addiction and will unlikely achieve sustained recovery when used alone.
Bacteria in a community called biofilm are often resistant to attack by antibiotics and the immune system. Scientists may have found a way to impair protective biofilm and make it more sensitive to antibiotics.
Every April since 1970, Americans have celebrated Earth Day with fairs, rallies and educational programs on the imortance of protecting the planet. The holiday serves to promote environmental values -- but it also reveals the environmental movement's problems and limitations, says a University of Maine political scientist."The holiday has proved to be a mixed legacy," says Amy Fried.
Tip Sheet from New Scientist for 4-08-98
A possible antidote to toxic doses of acetaminophen has been discovered by a professor at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, who who will present his results on April 21 at the Experimental Biology 98 meetings in San Francisco. He has found that a novel grape seed extract (proanthycyanidin), known to have strong antioxidant properties, protects against acetaminophen-caused liver damage.
April Health News Tips from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas: Take a Bite Out of Scarring, The Neglected Child is an Abused Child, Some Juicy Advice, Beanie Babies' Littlest Fans, New Mothers Should Seek Help if the Blues Darken, Sneak an Exercise Snack
Happy to have water in her basement, a Northwestern University environmental engineer has constructed an artificial stream to study how toxic pollutants like PCBs enter the food web from riverbeds.
Early on the morning of April 16, 1998, dozens of snails and fish will go where only a few men and women have gone before: into outer space. The snails and fish will travel aboard NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, as part of a research project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the development of gravity sensors in space by animals in the early stages of life.
Boosting taxes on cigarettes will have a far less dramatic impact on rates of teen-age smoking than politicians are hoping, a new Cornell University study finds. In fact, say the researchers, higher taxes will have "a statistically insignificant impact" on whether young people decide to start smoking.
The euro is emerging as a strong and stable currency that will increase its relative parity with the U.S. dollar, according to an analysis released today by The Conference Board.
Science and engineering tips from Iowa State University include: 1.) Superpave could cut costs of repaving roads; 2.) Metal-metal composites readied for commerical use; and 3.) ABC replica will be displayed at Veishea spring celebration.
The difference between environmentally correct, native landscaping and a neglected, weedy neighborhood eye-sore is not universally apparent. A new book offers advice on what gardeners can do to a home landscape in cities and suburbs to make people realize it is being naturalized, rather than neglected.
Sea Grant Story IDea Tip Sheet for April 8, 1998 1) Study Finds Humpback Whales at Risk in Hawaii 2) New Biodegradable Treatment May Reduce Great Lakes Exotic Specie Threat 3) Linking Town Halls To Technology - Project NEMO Educates Decision Makers
DALLAS, April 10 -- A new study gives one more reason why you may be better off beginning the morning with a breakfast of low-fat yogurt, cereal or juice instead of toast slathered with margarine or a croissant.
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