In two recent essays, Amanda Cockrell, director of the graduate program in children's literature at Hollins University, takes a close look at why the Harry Potter series has generated some surprisingly hostile reactions.
1)The real winners of the 2002 election. 2) Temple chefs talk turkey with Thanksgiving tips. 3) Experts available to discuss joy, stress, wonder of holidays.
President George W. Bush has designated the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial for 2003-2006, beginning in Virginia Jan. 18. Dan Thorp of Virginia Tech's history department is an expert on the Lewis and Clark expedition and can tell some stories probably not found many places.
If you want to speak a foreign language, skip the audiotapes and online courses, says UAB associate professor of Spanish Sheri Spaine Long, Ph.D. "Language tapes involve the audio-lingual method, where listeners repeat words and phrases."
Whether it's trying to please children by buying every toy on their Christmas wish list or explaining the role of Santa Claus, a Purdue University child development expert says it's important to keep the spirit of giving a priority this holiday season. "Start with the giving, not the getting," says Judith Myers-Walls.
Gettysburg College Holiday Tipsheet 1) What makes a good family board game? 2) Star of Bethlehem may have been supernova.
While Christmas, by its very name, reflects the holiday's roots in Christianity, some of its traditions are traced to decidedly secular influences.
This year, the holiday gifts you give can keep on giving by helping students receive college educations. Both functional and decorative handmade crafts made by students at Berea College, a small liberal arts college in Kentucky's southern Appalachian region, preserve the region's craft tradition and support educational opportunities for students.
1) It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...a lot earlier. 2) Is there a link between hip-hop and violence? 3) Bad apples or bad barrel...Why the corporate scandals?
What if the next Robbie the Robot is wired with human feelings? What if an advanced cousin of R2D2 finds himself falling in love? How would kinder-gentler cyborgs express their emotions and affections?
Musicologist Gabriel Solis is among the many interested in jazz legend Thelonious Monk. What Solis is focusing on he calls the "reception history" of Monk and his music.
Although notoriously impenetrable to the common reader, the French novelist Marcel Proust has somehow managed to infiltrate many popular cultures over the decades since his death. He even got into a recent episode of "The Sopranos."
Carl Sandburg considered himself a "Poet of the People." But a newly discovered document reveals that he once had other aspirations: "President of the People" -- president of the United States, that is.
For centuries, architects have been designing three-dimensional spaces based on two-dimensional drawings and plans. But what if architects were able to design in 3-D right from the start?
1)"Campaign 2002": Temple course gives students working knowledge of electoral process. 2) Hackers less likely to break through cell phone security. 3) Job searches during holiday season require increased focus, persistence.
The influences that guided the transformation from reticent boy to confident commander are explored in "Stonewall Jackson's Book of Maxims," compiled and edited by James I. Robertson Jr., executive director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech.
1) Forty years later, North Korea and Iraq become eerie reminders of the Cuban Missile Crisis. 2) Can Bonds help baseball cash in during fall classic? 3) Temple expert weighs in on the Pennsylvania Gubernational campaign; Temple researcher shares finding on early childhood education in Pennsylvania.
There is more to the element of horror in books and film than the gross-out, in-your-face horror of films like "Friday the 13th" or "Nightmare on Elm Street," says Jack Morgan, an instructor in the English department at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
As the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition approaches, Arkansas researchers note that these weren't the only explorers scouting the new territory. A new documentary from award-winning filmmakers chronicles the journey of two lesser-known adventurers and their "Forgotten Expedition."
"Grave Matters" includes haunting black and white photographs by Dietrich Christian Lammerts of the graves of 150 artists, architects, writers, philosophers, and musicians who shaped 20th-century American and European culture. The photographs are arranged chronologically from Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, to Ralph Ellison, 1914-1994.
1) The sniper terrorizing the nation is likely a thrill-seeker, a "Type T" (thrill-seeking) personality who thrives on uncertainty, novelty, variety and intensity, says Temple psychologist Frank Farley; 2) Temple experts also comment on Lautenberg candidacy and the FCC radio.
The 28th Annual Celebration of Traditional Music takes place on October 25-27 at the Phelps Stokes Chapel in Berea, KY.
Halloween story idea: Why did 15th century theologians come up with the idea of witchcraft, encourage people to believe in it and accuse women (and men) of being witches? To get God off the hook for infant mortality, the plague and crop disasters and to explain how a world created by a watchful and benevolent God could be such a mess.
1) New data on missing children. 2) Don't get 'burned' by your furnace; check it now. 3) Temple Homecoming 2002
Acclaimed North Carolina artist Ben Long, perhaps best known for frescoes he has created throughout the state, will be featured in a local exhibition, "Capturing the Essence: Portraits by Ben Long."
At Smith College and beyond, digital imaging is revolutionizing the fields of art history and studio art, enhancing not only how faculty members teach but, more importantly, how students learn.
Smith College's renowned art department and art library have a distinguished new home--the newly named Brown Fine Arts Center--thanks to the completion of a two-year, $35-million building renovation and expansion.
Under the leadership of Assistant Professor Laura Terry, eight University of Arkansas students spent their summer designing and building an archery pavilion with adaptable stations for wheelchairs at Camp Aldersgate in Little Rock.
Waxman's areas of expertise are as follows: Middle East politics, Israeli domestic and foreign policy, Turkish domestic and foreign policy, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iran, Iraq, Terrorism.
What caused the "Carroll A. Deering," the pride of Bath, Maine, to run aground on the outermost reaches of the Outer Banks -- and what became of her captain and 10 crew members -- have remained enigmas for more than 80 years. In his new nonfiction novel writer Bland Simpson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill revisits the event and those that followed.
1) From father knows best to Dr. Phil knows best; 2) Relocation of the Barnes Collection could make Philadelphia an art mecca; 3) Teachers and parents have little faith in privatization.
At the age of 72, acclaimed poet Miller Williams has produced his first book of fiction. In the preface, Williams writes: "These [stories] are about one Kelvin Fletcher...who wanted to be good and wanted to grow up. What stood in the way of either was the other."
An historical novel about the man still considered professional baseball's fiercest competitor is the new work of an English department faculty member at Mississippi State University.
1) First frost should take the 'chill' off the West Nile Virus; 2) Americans travel on, post-9/11; 3) Autumn gardening agenda: care for trees, plan for spring.
"It's hard to fool the voter, and if they get fooled, they'll usually fix it at the next election," says UAB communications expert Larry Powell, Ph.D.
A collection of children's illustrated books begun in the early 1940s to "stimulate the imagination" of the two young daughters of professors Lee and Esther (Sparkie) Walp has been given to the University Library of the University of Michigan.
1) Public opinion of war on Iraq may be as important as Congressional approval; 2) Media must mark events of 9/11, and move on; 3) A year later, a lesson in humanity; 4) Temple community plans day of remembrance; 5) More 9/11 experts available.
They are number two on the charts, but it isn't likely they'll get much airplay on MTV. Still, number two with the release of their first CD is something to cheer about. You won't find the album by Odrishsho in many outlets in the United States, but you will see posters, advertisements, bumper stickers, and other promotional items for the band in Bangladesh, the home of the three principal artists of the group.
Why have so many American writers remained obsessed with a war that ended 60 years ago? And why does their story suddenly seem so relevant today? A new anthology gathers this history together and provides the answers.
Savvy Web developers know that slow response times can send users racing for the "back" button, never to return. Many developers still overlook something even more central to the design of a first-rate Web site: good visual presentation.
As an art form, drawing historically has played second fiddle to its jazzier, more colorful cousins -- painting, sculpture and installation work -- but the medium moves to center stage in a new exhibition opening this month at the University of Illinois.
A new book that honors the late actor Jason Robards and is co-edited by Sheila Garvey, a theater professor at Southern Connecticut State University, is on the market.
A new book by Dr. Margarita Krakusin, Alma College associate professor of Spanish, is bringing well-deserved attention to another author and gaining recognition in the Cuban exile community of Miami, Fla.
A researcher explains how the philosophies behind African American musical forms serve as metaphors for ways of living in society. She goes on to show how African American authors took those metaphors and added flesh -- creating characters who embodied the spirit of the music and acted out the paradoxes of life as an African American.
A birch bark manuscript from a Buddhist monastery, believed to have been written in the first or second century A.D. has been acquired by the University of Washington and will become a key component of the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project.
Sridhar Ranganath followed his older brothers from Bangalore, in Southeastern India, to New York City. Then he followed his dreams to the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) to pursue a career in film and television.
1) Back to school: new classes, new students...and a lesson on 9/11. 2) Avoid West Nile Virus by keeping the mosquito buffet closed. 3) Decade of deregulation at root of corporate crisis.
Entitled "In Remembrance of Our Family", artist Matthew Baker's installation to commemorate alumni lost in the World Trade Towers attack is also a tribute to all who died on that terrible day, September 11, 2001.
A stars-and-stripes-themed exhibition to commemorate the victims of 9/11 opens September 7th at NYIT's Manhattan campus flagship building on Broadway at West 61st Street.
The StoryCon meeting brings together experts from the diverse world of story -- including novelists, screenwriters, neuroscientists, mythologists, psychologists and corporate consultants -- to discuss the emergence of a science of story.
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