Is the multi-trillion-dollar U.S. budget surplus for real? Should we spend it on tax cuts? Some surplus revenues can be expected in the future, UD expert Sheldon D. Pollack says, but estimates of trillions of extra dollars are grossly inflated. And, in light of the national debt and expected Social Security shortfalls, "It's absurd to even speak of budget surpluses."
A new study shows that corporate ethics programs work as long as the company values moral conduct as much as the bottom line. "A firm's approach to ethics and legal compliance has an enormous impact on employees' attitudes and behaviors," says Linda Klebe Trevino, professor of management at Penn State.
Green watermelons--a serious economic threat to farmers and a disappointment for consumers--may be quickly and automatically rejected by a new machine invented by four University of Delaware engineering students. The computer-controlled ripeness sensor ultimately could result in huge savings for the global watermelon industry.
It's sort of like "Road Rules" with a purpose. That's how two new University of Delaware graduates describe their plans to live in some of the country's poorest areas over the next six months, filming their journey along the way.
UD research may someday help Type I diabetes mellitus patients better control their blood-sugar levels using an implantable insulin pump, scientists said during the AAMI conference.
Louis J. Freeh, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will deliver the Commencement address at the University of Delaware on Saturday, May 29, before members of the graduating Class of 1999 and their families and friends.
The cold, barren crust of Mars conceals ancient remnants of its fiery youth 4 billion years ago, when an "active dynamo" in the red planet's interior hummed with magnetism, much like Earth, researchers report April 30 in Science. Like faded tattoos on an aging space sailor, magnetic stripes now adorn the Martian crust, perhaps where sea floors spread apart.
Contrary to recent reports, parents "powerfully influence" their children--at least from birth to age 3--by encouraging childhood chatter, University of Delaware and Temple University researchers contend.
19-year-old Rishi Khan was cruising the Internet from his University of Delaware room when he spotted a message from a fellow coder, who wanted to unlock the twisted programming secrets of the "Melissa" computer virus. Soon, the unassuming cybersleuth was receiving attention from national publications such as the April 12 Newsweek, which describes his role in exposing the most contagious computer virus ever concocted.
While great attention is given large scale teenage problems like drug and alcohol abuse, pregnancy and suicide, more teenagers are affected by everyday choices about part-time work, friendships and electronic media, a University of Delaware professor says.
Parents nationwide can help keep their 4th through 8th graders up to date on their math skills this summer--thanks to the University of Delaware's mail order math program, Solve It.
Sandpaper's cousin, silicon-carbide, may set the stage for a rugged, powerful new breed of semiconducting devices, a UD researcher will report April 6 during the Materials Research Society meeting. An alloy of silicon-carbide and germanium might handle hot, high-power, high-frequency microelectronic and microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices better than silicon, James Kolodzey says.
Good insect moms ferociously protect their young by fanning their wings and charging predators--but only when they must pin all their hopes on a single batch of eggs, a University of Delaware scientist reports in the new issue of the journal, Animal Behaviour. Bug moms who lay multiple batches are far more likely to "turn tail and run" from egg-munching predators, says Douglas W. Tallamy.
A new, short, streamlined and straightforward IQ test, designed by a University of Delaware professor, will be available for use beginning in May. The Wide Range Intelligence Test (WRIT) is designed for persons ages 4 to 80 and takes approximately a half hour to administer.
Shaped like baby chicks in shades of yellow, pink, purple, white and even blue, Marshmallow Peeps are getting a bad rap, says registered dietitian Marianne Carter, assistant director of the University of Delaware Wellness Center.
By harnessing glowing bacteria, scientists at the DuPont Co. and the University of Delaware have created inexpensive biosensors that rapidly detect a key toxin in poultry feed, as well as broad classes of other environmental contaminants, including herbicides and metals. Embargoed until 6:00 p.m. ET 3-18-99.
A test-tube photosynthesis system--described in the March 5 issue of Science--mimics a metal cluster that helps green plants harness sunlight to turn water into oxygen, says a University of Delaware chemist.
Nationwide, millions of students and parents planning college-campus tours this spring may do well to heed a few key pointers, compiled by top University of Delaware officials.
A University of Delaware English professor's 1983 book on the career of director Elia Kazan remains the first and only comprehensive look at the enormously successful professional life of this alienated film-maker who will be honored March 21 with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Philadelphia and Baltimore television stations too often paint an inaccurate portrait of violent crime, leaving viewers feeling frightened, helpless and uninformed about real dangers, a University of Delaware researcher says in a new report.
A "matchmaker" protein may help pair sticky fibrinogen with hook-like receptors on blood platelets, thereby setting the stage for clots, which can trigger heart attacks, strokes and arterial inflammation, a University of Delaware scientist explains.
Heat kills, claiming thousands of lives each summer, but new UD technology offers up to 60 hours' advance warning of such deadly weather, which could prove particularly important in the 21st century, if global warming predictions come to pass. UD's Laurence Kalkstein--sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme--will meet Feb. 1-2 with Italy's Lazio Health Authority, the World Meteorological Organization, the World Health Organization and others to plan a heat warning system.
When Jack Frost nips at your nose, consider this: Perennially frozen material lurks beneath as much as one-fourth of the Earth's land surface. Studies of these "permafrost" regions may help cold-weather communities prepare for potentially hazardous thawing events. And, more accurate global-climate predictions should result from new information on permafrost, to be presented Dec. 7 at the AGU meeting.
Using a 'glowing twin' of cholesterol and other bile components, researchers have characterized an enzyme known to speed the growth of gallstones. The UD system for studying bile chemistry may someday help geneticists pinpoint and perhaps turn off the genes responsible for gallstone formation. And, the technique may suggest new strategies for investigating other problems involving cholesterol--particularly cardiovascular ailments.
People with Williams Syndrome, a genetic disorder affecting an estimated one among every 25,000 individuals, are frequently described as having extraordinary musical and verbal skills, despite a profound inability to conceptualize spatial information. Yet, new UD research, to be presented Nov. 6 in Boston, shows that language use by Williams Syndrome children may, in fact, be directly affected by their cognitive deficits related to spatial events.
Off the coast of Maui, an underwater ridge acts like a "giant magnifying lens," bending and enlarging Pacific Ocean storm swells to soup up monster surfing waves as high as 70 feet, according to University of Delaware research linked this month to a National Geographic web site.
Five highly accomplished graduates of the sculpture program in the University of Delaware's Department of Art will return to their alma mater Oct. 20 to participate in an exhibition that honors the sculpture program and Joe Moss, UD professor of art and the program's director for the last 29 years.
The new book, "The Grand Resort Hotels of the White Mountains, A Vanishing Architectural Legacy," is the first to fully explore the architectural, economic and cultural history of these resorts, once situated in one of the nation's most popular locales.
A Distinguished Research Scientist with Glaxo Wellcome Inc. and the inventor of combinatorial chemistry--a technique for rapidly creating and testing vast `libraries' of chemical compounds--will serve as honorary chairperson for an Oct. 22-23 conference at the University of Delaware.
In the Oct. 12, 1998 issue of Applied Physics Letters, online Oct. 7, University of Delaware researchers--with scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory and Raytheon Systems Co.--describe the first tunnel diode that is compatible with a silicon integrated circuit process." The diodes may help chip makers boost silicon's speed while further shrinking chips.
No matter how many homers Mighty Mark McGwire and Slammin' Sammy Sosa smash this year or in any future year, no player is ever likely to threaten Babe Ruth's indisputable ranking as baseball's greatest batter, contends University of Delaware Treasurer Stephen M. Grimble, author of Setting the Record Straight: Baseball's Greatest Batters.
As the year 2000 approaches, "people are thinking philosophically," and philosophers increasingly are applying their problem-solving skills to real-world issues-from race relations and healthcare to family leave policies-says Eric Hoffman of the American Philosophical Association at the UD.Some of the nation's deepest thinkers will ponder the changing role of philosophy in American public life today at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy in Boston.
Stronger materials for aircraft, farm equipment, medical devices and consumer products may result from UD research showing how hot polymer chains coil back and snap forward, snake-like, leaving a telltale, rippling 'signature' wherever plastics are joined together. Published July 28 in Macromolecules, the study confirms the popular but controversial "reptation" theory, and sets the stage for stronger composite materials and welded plastic seams.
Alumina--better known as sapphire or ruby in its mineral form-may promise faster, smaller, more reliable computer circuits, thanks to University of Delaware technology described in the July 1998 ournal of Electronic Materials, tentatively scheduled for mailing July 13. The new UD technique produces extremely thin, alumina films offering an electrical storage capacity three times greater than silicon dioxide.
As researchers worldwide scramble to create computers based on molecular and even biological systems, University of Munich and University of Delaware researchers reported July 7 the first-ever glimpse of 'artificial molecules' at work--thanks to a new invention for stimulating them the way light excites real molecules.
Children with Williams Syndrome are delightful and engaging, with elfin-like features and often-extraordinary verbal skills but severe spatial deficits, and a new University of Delaware study may reveal the cognitive impacts of the rare genetic disorder.
If the backyard isn't buzzing this summer, blame it on mites and the diseases they carry, says Dewey Caron, UD's 'bee guy,' who braves apiaries from America to the Amazon. Honeybees are essential for pollinating wild plants and up to 90 percent of all U.S. crops, says Caron. Unfortunately, tracheal and varroa mites are wiping out entire bee colonies.
In the first comprehensive study of the use of masks by African women, a University of Delaware anthropologist raises important questions about the women's access to power--both political and spiritual.
Nothing can save 40-something Baby Boomers from getting a raw deal at retirement because they're mired at the bottom of a massive pyramid or Ponzi scheme, according to a University of Delaware economist whose analysis of the Social Security system appears in the new issue of Humanomics, an international social science journal.
A 7,000-acre industrial complex planned for the west coast of Taiwan threatens the black-faced spoonbill with extinction and will increase greenhouse gas emissions, according to a University of Delaware professor who recently testified before a Taiwanese legislative committee.
Like a sponge, the Earth's oceans store the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide--but certain coastal waters can't perform this trick because they lack iron, a University of Delaware researcher reports in the June 11 issue of the journal, Nature.
"Once upon a time in a faraway land..." begins a chapter in the newest book by Larry Seidman, University of Delaware professor of economics. But this book is not a fairy tale for children. Instead, "Economics Parables and Policies," published by M.E. Sharpe, is a book of lighthearted and fanciful econo-tales for adults who might not normally read a book by an economist.
WILMINGTON, DEL.-The late N.C. Wyeth's historic $1 million homage to working families-believed in 1932 to be the largest U.S. painting of its kind in any public building-will be restored to its original luster this summer, thanks to the Wilmington Savings Fund Society (WSFS) and the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation. WSFS will bankroll the $40,000 restoration project.
Boston, MA.--A colorful new computer animation--created by Gary P. Zank of the Bartol Research Institute at the University of Delaware--shows how even a small cosmic cloud could suddenly burst the "breathing bubble" that protects life on our planet. The simulation, to be presented at the American Geophysical Union's Spring meeting, also should help guide the spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, through a series of shock waves and a massive "wall" in space nearly two decades from now, says Zank.
Regulating child-staff ratios, group sizes and caregiver qualifications "is too blunt an instrument" for improving the overall quality of U.S. child care, UD researchers report in the new "Economics of Education Review."
Parents nationwide can keep their 4th through 8th graders busy this summer pondering such brain teasers as how best to swamp a bedroom or split the profits from a sale of Beanie Babies--thanks to the University of Delaware's "mail-order math" program, "Solve It."
Parents nationwide can keep their 4th through 8th graders busy this summer pondering such brain teasers as how best to swamp a bedroom or split the profits from a sale of Beanie Babies--thanks to the University of Delaware's "mail-order math" program, "Solve It."
A recently released national report equates reading failure with the same destructive outcomes of serious disease.
Though the recent Carnegie Foundation report found fault with many U.S. research universities--arguing that undergraduates are too often simply "receiving what is served out to them," mainly by untrained graduate assistants--the University of Delaware was one of only five institutions cited for "making research-based learning the standard."
Traditional support groups clearly help cancer survivors cope with their experiences, and Internet-based networks can offer many of the same benefits, says a University of Delaware professor who examined the content, advantages and pitfalls of "cyber solace" in a new study published in the January-February issue of Computers in Nursing.
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