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A just-published study by Stonehill College film scholar Ron Leone reveals a significant increase in violent content in films rated PG-13 in recent years.

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While winter means snowbound doldrums on many college campuses, Franklin Pierce University uses its 1200-acre campus—and a series of outdoor-recreation activities—to help students beat the winter blues: turning the center of campus into a winter terrain park for student competitions; winter hiking and kite surfing; organizing weekly recreation outings on campus and at local winter-sports centers.

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Lafayette College students, staff and other members of the campus community will come together on Saturday, December 11, to string together thousands of paper cranes—and continue a gesture that began in September, helping a local boy suffering from cancer reach out to others with a message of hope.

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Undergraduate student-clinicians at Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio are achieving unparalleled success in a new program helping non-verbal children—with diagnoses including Autism, Rett syndrome, cerebral palsy and Down syndrome—communicate, many for the first time.

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American jazz legend Dave Brubeck turns 90 on December 6th, and scholars at the educational institute that bears his name are applauding the release of the new documentary “Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way” on TCM on his birthday.

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At time when many charities are creating online videos to showcase their work, a Tufts University team is launching a video contest to recognize nonprofits that help families, and reward aspiring filmmakers.

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Dan Cassino says young Americans see little difference between political campaigns and messages and marketing strategies designed to pitch them an iPod. His new research shows that young voters today are different from any other generation.

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A new study, published in the latest edition of the academic journal Perception, reveals that playing different kinds of video games changes the way people approach their surroundings.

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Patricia Weitsman, a political science professor at Ohio University who specializes in coalition warfare, says depending on allies to augment the Afghanistan troop surge is strategically flawed.

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New research further shatters the once-popular myth that, if you’re over 40 and have never been married, there must be “something wrong” with you. The study by Jamila Bookwala of Lafayette College shows no psychological disadvantages between Americans who remain single or get married.

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Amy Smith, vampire literature scholar at University of the Pacific, offers insights on Stephenie Meyer's books and on celebrations surrounding the release of “New Moon,” the latest in the popular “Twilight” film series.

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The California Innocence Project at California Western School of Law is celebrating a ten-year milestone. The project, which often represents the only hope for the wrongfully imprisoned, has secured the exoneration of eight incarcerated individuals to date.

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Ilan Peleg, a foreign-policy scholar at Lafayette College and author of a new book on the international impact of the George W. Bush administration's foreign policy decisions, is cautiously optimistic about the possibilities for the U.S. to regain global respect and credibility.

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The U.S. Department of Justice is launching a new initiative with the help of California Western School of Law to combat rampant IP piracy that is thriving in Latin America.

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Pete Souza is a photojournalism professor at Ohio University, and a former White House photographer. His book "The Rise of Barack Obama" documents the rise of the new President Elect from his first day in the U.S. Senate in 2005 up to the 2008 Pennsylvania presidential primary. Souza was granted exclusive access to Obama to capture the life of one of the most recognized political figures of our time.

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More than 400 students, faculty members, and staff will turn Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. into election central, reporting to television audiences well beyond campus as the Presidential election and U.S. House and Senate unfold on November 4.

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As momentum builds nationally to reconsider standardized tests as a requirement for college admission, Jane B. Brown sheds light on her college's decision to make the SAT optional in 2001"”and to research the outcome of that decision. Brown, VP for enrollment at Mount Holyoke College, led a three-year study that revealed no significant difference in the success rates of students who choose to furnish scores and those who do not.

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Researchers at University of the Pacific in California have designed a new model for a cancer drug that could lead to safer, more effective cancer treatment and drug development: an anti-cancer "warhead" that specifically targets the acidic signature of tumor cells--without affecting healthy cells.

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University of the Pacific's Brubeck Institute is launching a new partnership with the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, the George Washington University, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and others to present an ambitious two-week, coast-to-coast festival celebrating the 50th anniversary of Dave Brubeck's legendary 1958 Cultural Ambassador Tour"”which influenced the future of American diplomacy.

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Despite some demographic changes--and the recent influx of residents from traditionally liberal states--political science professor Frank Cohen of Franklin Pierce University still sees moderate Republican traditions remaining alive and well among the New Hampshire electorate for decades to come.

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California Western School of Law Professor Jacquelyn Slotkin, a scholar of career issues among women lawyers, says today's female attorneys approach career advancement challenges differently than those of decades past. In many cases, she says, that means using their legal and professional experience when they hit the proverbial glass ceiling to "jump ship" from law firms to pursue other career opportunities.

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September 6, 2007, marks the 250th birthday of the Marquis de Lafayette, and more than a dozen American communities will hold grand celebrations honoring the legacy of the French hero of the American Revolution. But a scholar at Lafayette College says she feels the Marquis should be equally recognized for his work seeking freedom for America's slaves.

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A team of researchers is seeking to determine if an ingredient found in lobster shells might make future missions to Mars safer for space crews who could be injured along the way. The series of space experiments will be launched aboard NASA's August 7th Space Shuttle Endeavour mission.

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Using a new technique developed at Drexel University College of Medicine, Stephanie A. King, M.D., removed a woman's ovaries through a single incision in the patient's belly button. The single port access (SPA) surgery procedure, believed to be the world's first SPA bilateral oopherectomy, left the patient with a hidden scar in her belly button.

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According to Lisette de Pillis, the secret to more effective therapies to fight cancer can be found in mathematics. A cancer researcher and mathematics professor at Harvey Mudd College, de Pillis is leading a team that is developing and testing new mathematically optimal approaches to controlling multiple simultaneous cancer treatment strategies.

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In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a surgeon at Drexel University College of Medicine successfully removed a woman's gallbladder through a single incision in the patient's belly button. The single port access surgery was performed May 3, 2007 by Paul G. Curcillo, associate professor at Drexel U. College of Medicine. The procedure was done with only one incision and left the patient with no visible scar.

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Alexander Bloom, a history professor at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., and a scholar of anti-war protests in America, is an insightful source on the anti-war movement of today versus that of the Vietnam era. "If people feel like they're moving things along and that the political institutions are responding to the process," he says, "they'll react accordingly."

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Researchers at University of the Pacific have developed a new method of fine-tuning a mass spectrometer to rapidly identify foreign substances in pet food. The breakthrough discovery enables scientists to determine whether pet food has been contaminated in a matter of minutes"”a process which currently takes several hours or longer.

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Gregg Lee Carter, professor at Bryant University and a scholar of guns in America, calls Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-hui a "poster child for the failure of gun control" in the United States. "Everybody who wrote the Brady Law and the Gun Control Act of 1968 did so with the intention that someone like Cho never obtain a firearm," says Carter, "and he got two of them without any trouble."

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Clint Eastwood announced today that he will be executive producer of a new documentary about jazz legend Dave Brubeck--and that he will chair the new honorary board formed to preserve the legacy of Brubeck through the work of the Brubeck Institute at University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif.

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Dr. Albert Harper will be watching with interest as "Bobby," the new movie about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, debuts in theaters on November 17. Harper oversees the RFK Assassination Archive at the University of New Haven, where he is director of the university's Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science.

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For the first time, mental health can be assessed completely and immediately in less than three minutes. A group of university psychologists has created CelestHealth Clinical Report system, a new Web-based personal computer/PDA system that measures the essential components of mental health: well-being; psychological symptoms; and specific areas of life functioning.

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Dr. Henry C. Lee, internationally-renowned forensic scientist and professor of forensic science at the University of New Haven, is announcing the creation of a "National Cold Case Center" at his university, the first of its kind on any U.S. campus, which will work with law enforcement agencies around the country to increase cold case resolution by providing actual analysis and instruction.

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Law professors at California Western School of Law are taking their expertise from the classroom to the iPod. On "Law in 10," California Western's new weekly podcast, professors provide legal analysis on current news topics--all in 10 minutes or less. Campus officials call the program the first of its kind at any U.S. law school.

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The Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce College has been gathering significant community history for more than six years"”the culmination of the project is the publication of a just-released anthology of regional stories and illustrations published by University Press of New England.

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Thousands of young football players returning to the gridiron this season will receive concussions"”simply because their helmets are not properly fitted, according to researcher Eugene Hong, M.D., chairman of the department of family medicine and chief of the division of sports medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine.

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Lafayette College in Pennsylvania has traditionally required a "summer reading" project to all new freshmen. Instead of a book this year, the college has assigned the movie "Crash." the 2005 Oscar winner for Best Picture.

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John Houle, Ph.D., Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at Drexel University College of Medicine, has demonstrated in a lab animal how a nerve removed from the leg and transplanted across a spinal cord injury, in combination with enzyme digestion of scar material, leads to regeneration of injured nerve endings and recovery of arm movements.

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Michal R. Belknap, a legal historian at California Western School of Law in San Diego, can compare issues of military justice regarding civilian killings in the Iraq war with the landmark My Lai massacre of the Vietnam era and the Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley.

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David Allan of Saint Joseph's University is studying how radio networks are promoting the benefits of advertising via 30-second commercials instead of 60-second spots. His research shows that, while the brand recall of commercials of these different lengths is not significantly different, the general and proven recall of advertising messages from 60-second commercials is significantly greater than from 30-second commercials.

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Ilan Peleg, a scholar of Israeli politics at Lafayette College, maintains that the Israeli/Palestinian peace process is not dead--and that a potential win in national elections by Ehud Olmert and his Kadima Party "might prove an historical watershed in the movement toward lasting peace in the Middle East."

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Scientists at Drexel University College of Medicine have made a significant discovery in the fight against malaria. They have determined a critical molecular structure of the cellular motor that allows the malaria parasite to invade human cells-- a discovery which could lead to new treatments.

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Learning to ride a unicycle has been a rite of passage for many students at Harvey Mudd College for decades. The college's unicycling club organizes an annual eight-mile-plus ride (each way) known as the "Foster's Run" to a popular donut shop. The 30th annual event will be held Sat., April 1, 8:00 a.m.

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Maria Klawe, dean of Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been chosen to serve as the next president of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California.

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Millions of Americans are going online in a convenient 24/7 virtual holiday shopping spree. According to a scholar of consumer security, most will encounter bargains and larger selections while avoiding weather and traffic problems. Many others, she says, will be putting their credit at risk unnecessarily.

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Arthur Benjamin is a popular math professor at Harvey Mudd College and a professional magician--a "mathemagician" who uses rapid-fire mental calculations to amaze, entertain and inform audiences all over the world.

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According to Michal Belknap the "requirement" that Supreme Court appointees be federal appeals court judges is actually a recent development. Belknap is a legal scholar at California Western School of Law in San Diego.

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Americans will "fall back" to Standard Time Sunday, October 30--but this may not mean an extra hour of sleep for many of us. According to Joanne Getsy, MD, professor and director of the Drexel Sleep Center at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia.

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Recent anti-war demonstrations have brought American society back to the visible protest era of the 1960s, according to Alexander Bloom, history scholar at Wheaton College.

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How did American women respond to the atomic bombs dropped on Japan and the end of World War II? Judy Barrett Litoff, a professor at Bryant University and a scholar of woman and war offers compelling insights based on her 30,000-letter archive of correspondences written by women during World War II.