Life News (Popular Culture)

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Dress in Blue Day on March 7 will highlight the need for early colon cancer screening.

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David L. Dunn will shave his head to show solidarity with children facing cancer at the 12th Annual St. Baldrick's event Sunday, March 9. He challenges all other health care executives to join with him in this important cause.

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Two people facing cancer with grace and courage have been selected the 2014 James Graham Brown Cancer Center Champions at the University of Louisville.

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Dallas Buyers Club captures the despair and frustration of the AIDS crisis but misses the mark on profits. In a video interview, Dr. Mike Saag, past pres. of the HIV Medical Assn & director of the Center for AIDS Research, gives a non-Hollywood review of the movie.

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Cultural anthropologist Paul R. Mullins of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis is available for comments on Barbie and the Sports Illustrated issue:"Barbie in SI’s swimsuit issue represents a significant shift in Mattel’s long-term evasion of Barbie’s sexuality."

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“The Monuments Men,” a movie about men who recovered art masterpieces stolen by the Nazis during World War II, recently opened in theaters, and the story hit very close to home for a softball coach and history buff in Ohio.

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Karl Pillemer, a gerontologist in Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology, has spent the last three years surveying over 800 older people about love, relationships and marriage. Many respondents had been married 30 or more years – including some who tied the knot 60 or 70 years ago. They shared some secrets – just in time for Valentine’s Day – for keeping the spark alive in a love relationship.

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For Kimberly Jade Norwood, Washington University in St. Louis professor of law and African & African American studies, the topic of her newly released book, Color Matters: Skin Tone Bias and the Myth of a Postracial America (Routledge, 2013), strikes close to home.

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The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' Kids Eat Right program joins forces with Team USA Women's Hockey forward Hilary Knight and USOC registered dietitian Alicia Kendig to talk about the importance of kids and families eating right and getting plenty of physical activity. Learn more at www.KidsEatRight.org.

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As USA Luge competes in Sochi, Clarkson University researchers are improving the sled for use in the next Winter Olympic Games.

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The 2014 Winter Olympics are underway and athletes from around the world are getting ready to take to the ice in speed skating, figure skating, ice dancing and hockey. Today’s skaters have the advantage of being able to practice year-round in indoor rinks, but what did 19th-century athletes do to stay competitive? They used the Volito.

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In response to CVS deciding not to sell tobacco products, Pennsylvania physicians ask CVS to keep electronic cigarettes off shelves too.

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It was a time when slaves scrabbled for whatever food they could find, grow or collect from their white owners, a time when spirituals held coded messages for fugitives, a time of dangerous escapes to the North for freedom via the Underground Railroad. A Baylor University seminary has written a cookbook/history book sharing the legacy of her ancestors.

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Mount Holyoke alumna Esther Howland (1847) created the first American Valentine's Day card, launching what is today a multi-billion-dollar industry.

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first performance by the Beatles in the United States. Musician and Beatles scholar John Kimsey teaches “The Beatles and the Creative Process” and is an associate professor in DePaul University’s School for New Learning. He’s an expert in popular music.

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They say sex sells, but when it comes to Super Bowl ads, a researcher begs to differ. He says it's all about the storytelling. Shakespeare's kind of storytelling.

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The rocker’s impact on the music and legal side of the industry still raves on today.

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One of the nation's top dance bands will perform at The Julep Ball, an Official Event of the Kentucky Derby®.

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The Black Gospel Music Restoration Project -- a search-and-rescue mission launched by a Baylor University researcher to save little-known recordings from yesteryear's Golden Age of black gospel --will become a permanent feature of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Popular culture Expert David Allan, Ph.D. '99, with Saint Joseph's University's Haub School of Business is wrapping up a 10-year study of popular music in Super Bowl commercials this year. Through his research, Allan will illustrate the frequency in which advertisers employ popular music to market and relate with consumers.

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