Nearly 33 years after his death, Carl Sandburg suddenly takes on the world's most common objects and most inexplicable mysteries in 19 newly discovered poems he wrote for children in the 1930s.
A University of Arkansas professor has conducted one of the world's first descriptive studies to examine the dangers of personal watercraft use. More than half of the people injured by these vehicles are children under the age of 14.
Americans mark Memorial Day with cut flowers and somber graveside visits. But a University of Arkansas historian says memorial days in ages past were not always so solemn. Ancient Greeks and Romans held public festivals and threw food into tombs.
You may have more to fear from home canning by novices than from Y2K computer crashes, says a Purdue University specialist.
This week, the country's leading theological experts will convene with top cancer researchers to lend their perspective to moral, ethical, religious and scientific questions about new genetic and medical technology.
This May, the Truman Capote Literary Trust awarded the University of Arkansas $18,000 to benefit two writers pursuing MFAs in creative writing.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court, in upholding a law allowing some parents to use state vouchers to send their children to religious schools, challenges "a sound constitutional and moral consensus" that goes back to the 1920s, according to a University of Illinois scholar.
Understanding what makes the terrorist tick and being prepared to respond in the event of a terrorist attack are among the topics that will be considered at a June conference "International Terrorism: Dealing With the Unseen" hosted by the University of Illinois.
A new book by Cornell University professor Vicki Caron describes France's response to its Jewish refugee crisis when Nazis rose to power in Germany in 1933-42.
Two new books edited by two Cornell University sociologists explore how people develop their weight-related identities and cope in social situations; how our society and culture shape weight ideals; and how weight issues become social problems.
A truly effective program to deal with school violence usually requires a change in a school's culture -- a change that is often resisted, according to an Ohio State professor and author of a new book on dealing with violent youth.
The University of New Hampshire's Cynthia M. Duncan, professor of sociology, researches rural poverty in America. Her latest book is the result of a five-year study of how the poverty cycle can be broken.
Social service agencies need to do a much better job of supporting foster parents if they want to correct the shortfall of families willing to take in children, a new Ohio State study suggests.
Magnet schools, developed in the 1970s as an alternative to mandatory busing, have achieved much of what they were designed to do but have also contributed to segregation by social class and a dimishment of communities, Vanderbilt researchers say.
Precursors to Teenage Aggression and Violence, Consequences of Internet Usage, and Cancer Treatment and Prevention to be Major Themes
An anti-violence initiative at a suburban Chicago high school aims to decrease violence not only at the school but in the communities in which the students reside.
Comedian Bill Cosby delivered the final lecture to Colgate University's Class of 1999, and when he had finished his address to the college's 178th annual commencement he hugged and greeted each of the 677 members of the class individually.
University at Albany Dean of Undergraduate Studies John Pipkin will be the featured speaker at the University at Albany's 155th undergraduate commencement ceremony Sunday, May 23. He replaces poet Maya Angelou.
Cornell University Library has acquired a rare set of William Wordsworth's "Poetical Works" (1827), annotated with the poet's largely unpublished handwritten revisions.
To tackle a subject--American Indians--long overlooked and poorly understood in civics classes--the rights and responsibilities inherent in American Indian sovereignty--Humboldt State University will host about 200 high school students Friday, May 21, for American Indian Civics Day.
A Purdue University expert on media and children believes kids are attracted to video games not so much by the violence, but because they present puzzles or problems to solve. He reviewed 27 studies on video games and found their overall effect on aggressiveness in children was not great.
A dearth of social workers in Georgia schools means that important links between schools, homes and communities aren't being established. Links that could prevent the sort of tragedies that have occurred in Littleton, Colo., Jonesboro, Ark., Paducah, Ky., and, most recently, Conyers, Ga.
A UMass professor says the Littleton shootings reveal the country has not learned the lessons of past gun-related tragedies. "All the headlines are about "kids killing kids" or the "problem of youth violence." But this isn't kids killing kids, it's boys killing other boys and girls. There's something about the way in which we're raising boys that leads to this."
Bishop John R. Kinney will deliver the 1999 spring commencement address to the College of Saint Benedict graduating seniors on Saturday, May 22, at 2 p.m., in the Clemens Field House in CSB's Haehn Campus Center.
Media advisory: Sandra Newman of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies has edited a new book on the interrelationship of assisted housing policy and welfare reform. She is available for interviews on the issue.
With Saturday's National Basketball Association draft lottery looming, two Baylor University economists have released their findings on tournament incentives in pro basketball, specifically the time-honored notion that teams "lose to win."
Rand V. Araskog, retired chair and chief executive of ITT Corporation, will deliver the commencement address at Gustavus Adolphus College at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 30 on the college's Hollingsworth Field.
Mount Holyoke College will celebrate this year's commencement with a number of unique traditions--including a parade with ties to the Women's Suffrage Movement--which have been established over the College's 162-year history.
Former U.S. Vice President and ambassador to Japan Walter F. Mondale will be guest speaker at St. Olaf College's 110th annual commencement Sunday, May 23.
Chancellor Joe B. Wyatt urged the Classes of 1999 to commit themselves to "enlightenment" in the form of knowledge, new ideas and service to others. In his farewell remarks during Commencement ceremonies on May 14, Wyatt described the shared sense of community, purpose and vision that characterizes a Vanderbilt education.
Diane M. Capstaff, executive vice president at John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., will be the speaker at the Monday, May 24, Commencement exercises of Boston College's Graduate School of Management.
The latest research in how children learn and how teachers can improve classroom instruction will be highlighted June 11-13 when the annual Carnegie Symposium on Cognition is held at Carnegie Mellon University.
Graduation speakers at The University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada (May 19-20, 1999) include soprano Wendy Nielsen; Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada His Excellency the Right Honourable Romeo LeBlanc; Justice Louise Arbour, prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals at the International Court in The Hague; and Edward F. (Ted) Boswell, retired chairperson of E.B. Eddy Forest Products Ltd.
In the same way the graphical interface replaced text commands on the personal computer, a graphical Web search tool being developed at the University of Illinois promises to make searches of the Internet more user- and education-friendly.
What do you get when you combine the improvisational style of hip-hop music with a new theoretical approach to architecture that emphasizes spontaneity and flexibility? Hip-hopitecture -- of course!
Former Sen. George Mitchell, Chairman of the Irish Peace Negotiations, Offers Address at Fordham's 154th Commencement. Magician David Copperfield to Receive Honorary Degree.
Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs and White House Correspondent for NBC News who covered Jesse Jackson's recent visit to Belgrade, will deliver the Samford University Commencement address. Mitchell will speak during 10 a.m. exercises Saturday, May 22, at Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Center Complex Arena.
Fox News Anchor Paula Zahn will be the keynote speaker at the undergraduate commencement ceremony at Quinnipiac College at 11 a.m. on Sunday, May 16.
"When will my child start to read?" In answer to that, a professor of language and literacy at Purdue University says the important things for parents to remember is that every child is different, and teaching him or her to read is not the exclusive domain of teachers.
On May 29, 571 students in University of Colorado Health Sciences Center schools and programs will graduate during commencement exercises, which begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Bookstore Quadrangle on campus.
Virginia Feigles of Milton, Pa., decided four years ago that a quarter of a century of wrapping perms was plenty. The hair dresser decided to learn how to build roads and sewerage systems instead and enrolled in Bucknell's College of Engineering.
G. Denise Lance has spent her 30 years showing everyone around her what is possible -- including typing term papers with her toes, managing Web sites and earning a Ph.D. in special education at the University of Kansas. Denise has cerebral palsy.
John F. Kennedy Jr., magazine editor and advocate for the disabled, will speak at Washington College's commencement exercises on Sunday, May 23 in Chestertown, MD.
Best-selling author Iris Rainer Dart and six honorary degree recipients, including three Nobel Prize winners, will be the headliners at Carnegie Mellon University's 102d commencement, 11 a.m., Sunday, May 16 in Gesling Stadium, where more than 2,100 degrees will be conferred.
Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt--a leading advocate of the European Monetary Unit (EMU) and an influential voice in European politics and economics--delivered the 1999 commencement address at Rice University on Saturday, May 15, which was broadcast live on the Web. (RealAudio segment now available)
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will deliver the address at Boston University's 126th commencement exercises Sunday, May 23. Rev. Also receiving honorary degrees will be Dr. Ray Hammond, a physician, clergyman, and chairman of the Ten Point Coalition, James Carlin, businessman and chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education; actress and alumna Geena Davis; and Dr. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president of The George Washington University.
Dr. Lee S. Shulman will will deliver Drury College's commencement address Sunday, May 16, aat the college's 125th anniversary celebration.
Former Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds, who began the peace process that led to the historic Good Friday peace accord reached in Northern Ireland last year, will be the speaker for the 1999 undergraduate commencement at the University of San Diego on May 30.
Congressman Lane Evans of Illinois will return to his alma mater to speak at Augustana College's 139th Commencement.
Jesuit father and President of Catholic Charities USA, Fred Kammer, S.J., will be the keynote speaker at the Loyola University New Orleans School of Law commencement on Saturday, May 15, at 10 a.m. in the Morris Jeff Municipal Auditorium in Armstrong Park.
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