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Released: 8-Mar-2003 12:00 AM EST
Scholar of '60s Protests Calls Anti-Iraq-War Demonstrations "Significant"
Academy Communications

A professor of history and American studies at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, says the anti-war protests now underway have the potential of being "much bigger and more significant than the early demonstrations against the Vietnam War" in the 1960s.

Released: 3-Dec-2002 12:00 AM EST
Anthology Project Records, Preserves and Promotes New England History
Academy Communications

As New England cities and towns change, traditions and community history may fade. John Harris and his colleagues at the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce College have developed an ambitious project to collect and record New Hampshire stories--to make them available to future generations.

Released: 26-Nov-2002 12:00 AM EST
Parasite Research: Got Worms?
Academy Communications

Little is known about the worms that inhabit the bodies of animals, our pets or ourselves. Dennis J. Richardson, assistant professor of biology at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Ct., is working to change that.

Released: 26-Nov-2002 12:00 AM EST
New Leadership for U.S. Overseas Educational Treasure
University of Evansville

One hundred Americans study at Harlaxton College, a sprawling 19th century manor in central England, each semester. The University of Evansville, which has owned and operated the highly rated study-abroad destination since 1971, has announced new leadership for the overseas college: J. Gordon Kingsley, former president of William Jewell College in Missouri.

Released: 26-Nov-2002 12:00 AM EST
Tolkien Scholar Mike Drout Discovered, Publishing Lost Tolkien Books
Wheaton College (MA)

Professor Michael Drout of Wheaton College in Massachusetts has created a distinctive niche as an expert in the writings and legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien. He discovered an unpublished book by Tolkien while working on a project in an Oxford library in 1996. The book, "Beowulf and the Critics," was published this week.

Released: 26-Nov-2002 12:00 AM EST
Scholar of U.S. Military Abroad: Foreign Policy Opportunity May Be Missed
Wheaton College (MA)

"When it comes to stationing large numbers of military personnel abroad," Wheaton College historian Anni Baker notes, "the United States has more than 50 years of valuable lessons from which we need to learn."

Released: 6-Nov-2002 12:00 AM EST
Stress-Management Expert on Reducing Holiday Stress
Mount Saint Mary College

Many of us do little more than read about stress-reduction during the holiday season, according to a psychology professor and stress-management expert at Mount St. Mary's College. "We get caught up in meeting everyone else's needs and expectations," she says, "and this gives us little time to reflect on the holidays and what they mean to us."



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