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Michael Sherraden’s book, Assets and the Poor: A New American Welfare Policy, broke new ground on social policy in 1991. Twenty years later, its impact is still being felt around the world. In Assets and the Poor, Sherraden, PhD, the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, writes that asset accumulation is structured and subsidized for many non-poor households, primarily via retirement accounts and home ownership. He argues that these opportunities should be available to all and proposes establishing individual savings accounts for the poor — also known as Individual Development Accounts (IDAs). Since Sherraden first proposed IDAs, they have been adopted in federal legislation and in more than 40 states.

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UAB’s African-American Studies program “breathed life” into 35-year-old Chernell Bizzell.

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Researchers at McMaster University have found that brief high intensity workouts, as little as six sessions over two weeks, rapidly lower blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetics, offering a potential fix for patients who struggle to meet exercise guidelines.

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Swarms of bees and brain neurons make decisions using strikingly similar mechanisms, reports a new study in the journal Science (Dec. 9, 2011), which finds scout bees use inhibitory stop signals to inhibit the "waggle dances" produced by bees advertising competing homes for the swarm.

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A professor has found that children recognize and understand sarcastic comments better when the comments that are used are conventional. Her findings could help children recognize and understand sarcasm better, as well as help better convey social meanings to children with language impairment or who are on the autism spectrum.

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Hormone-blocking therapy for prostate cancer doesn’t raise the risk of fatal heart attacks – as some recent studies had suggested – according to a new report from Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center.

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Darrel Tremaine has been known to go to extremes for his research, such as crawling on his hands and knees through a dark, muddy limestone cave in Northwest Florida to learn more about the weather thousands of years ago.

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About 80 to 90 percent of children at one time or another experience breathing problems. In her new book, "Take a Deep Breath: Clear the Air for the Health of Your Child" (World Scientific Publishers), scheduled for publication in January 2012, Dr. Nina L. Shapiro, director of pediatric ear, nose and throat at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA and an associate professor of surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, explains all the puzzling and oftentimes distressing breathing patterns children have throughout development.

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Researchers from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science are working with commercial fishermen to collect and share fisheries data in a cooperative venture to build trust and foster sustainable and profitable fisheries in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions.

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Preliminary research finds man-made risks created by petroleum and ranching industries don't impact the lizard as feared.

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Florida is home to one of the highest percentages of residents ages 65 and older in the United States, but very few of them have thought ahead to a time when they will no longer be able to drive a vehicle safely or considered how they will get around without a car, according to a new survey developed by Florida State University and the Florida Department of Transportation.

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Like any strategic chess player, Donald J. Weidner is always thinking a couple of moves ahead. Even in casual conversation, the dean of Florida State University’s College of Law thinks before he speaks, often pausing to mull an answer that he delivers in a beautifully crafted sentence.

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Powered by interdisciplinary muscle and global vision, Florida State University is launching an ambitious research initiative focused on the rising tide of ecological, economic and cultural problems facing the Inter-American Seas and the severe deficit of research aimed at solving them.

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The Metabolic Weight Loss Program at LifeBridge Health & Fitness near Baltimore, Md., can help a person shed pounds through knowledge of his or her metabolic rate.

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To determine why participation rates in these communities are so low, University of Toronto researchers surveyed nine focus groups comprising at-risk individuals, and found they held a set of misconceptions.

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In this video, Douglas Richman, MD, is professor of pathology and medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Florence Seeley Riford Chair in AIDS Research discusses the current status of HIV/AIDS research and what lies ahead.

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Using advanced imaging techniques and cognitive tests, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital for Einstein, have shown that repeatedly heading a soccer ball increases the risk for brain injury.

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A drug commonly used to treat seizures appears to make eye tumors less likely to grow if they spread to other parts of the body, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

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Researchers from UCLA’s cancer and stem cell centers have demonstrated for the first time that blood stem cells can be engineered to create cancer-killing T-cells that seek out and attack a human melanoma. The researchers believe this approach could be useful in 40 percent of Caucasians with this malignancy.

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Several of the experiments at the Konza Prairie are to learn about the tallgrass prairie ecosystem by using the grazing patterns of bison. The role of the bison is similar to the various burning treatments conducted annually at Konza.

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With the continued growth of online shopping and this year's "Cyber Monday," a University of Virginia expert is available to help your audience or readers keep their computers, their identities and their credit cards safe.

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With the increasing production of electronic products in the consumer market, more button batteries are found in the home setting. From remote controls and watches to musical greeting cards and toys, these small, shiny objects are the perfect size for a curious child to swallow or even push into their nasal cavity or ear canal. It is important for parents to be aware of the dangers that button batteries pose to young children and the damage that these batteries can cause.

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Fashion icon Donna Karan took a combination of Eastern healing techniques that she found effective and developed them into a program that has expanded to hospitals across the country. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, part of the UCLA Health System, is the first hospital on the West Coast to adopt the program.

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The University of Kentucky will be the first higher education institution in the Commonwealth of Kentucky to offer a graduate degree in music therapy.

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An anti-malaria drug used for more than 60 years is now being studied for use in breast cancer patients whose disease has not responded to traditional chemotherapy treatment.

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Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that taking a probiotic before radiation therapy can protect the intestine from damage — at least in mice. Their study suggests that taking a probiotic also may help cancer patients avoid intestinal injury, a common problem in those receiving radiation therapy for abdominal cancers.

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The study of locomotion of lizards could aid in understanding how we instinctively adapt while walking in changing environmental conditions as we move across varying surfaces.

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About half of male breast cancer patients who take the drug tamoxifen to prevent their disease from returning report side effects such as weight gain and sexual dysfunction, which prompts more than 20 percent of them to discontinue treatment, according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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As a continuing member of NOAA’s Environmental Cooperative Science Center , Creighton University will receive $400,000 over the next five years to focus on student training and research with an emphasis on coastal habitat mapping using geospatial techniques and remote-sensing imagery data.

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Next weekend marks Black Friday, known in the United States as the biggest shopping day of the year for Americans. It is often the biggest shopping day for Canadians who cross the border looking for the best shopping deal as well. But, what does this do to our Canadian retailers and our economy?

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Binghamton University has opened its new Engineering and Science Building in a ceremony attended by elected officials, local leaders and University representatives. The facility is located next to the Biotechnology Building, which is part of the University’s Innovative Technologies Complex (ITC).

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Post-coverage of 4th annual Univ. of Va. Investing Conference

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The combination of important paleontological finds and skillful artists has made the University of Chicago a fruitful place for scientific illustrators to ply their craft.

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Systems engineers at Georgia Tech offered Georgia Aquarium leaders accurate predictions on how the new AT&T Dolphin Tales exhibit would impact guest flow within the aquarium and how to optimize the operations logistics, efficiency and show schedules for the new exhibit.

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Perceptions shaped by evolution influence voters to choose candidates with lower-pitched voices, according to new findings by researchers at McMaster University.

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When given alongside radiation therapy for head and neck cancer, acupuncture has shown for the first time to reduce the debilitating side effect of xerostomia, according to new research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center.

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Using its near-infrared vision to peer 9 billion years back in time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered an extraordinary population of tiny, young galaxies that are brimming with star formation. The galaxies are typically a hundred times less massive than the Milky Way galaxy, yet they churn out stars at such a furious pace that their stellar content would double in just 10 million years. By comparison, the Milky Way would take a thousand times longer to double its population.

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Obese rhesus monkeys lost on average 11 percent of their body weight after four weeks of treatment with an experimental drug that selectively destroys the blood supply of fat tissue, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reports in Science Translational Medicine.

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Preschool children who hear their parents describe the size and shape of objects and then use those words themselves perform better on tests of their spatial skills, according to a study that is the first to show that learning to use a wide range of spatial words predicts children’s later spatial thinking, which is important in mathematics and science.

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A new partnership between the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Watermen's Museum in historic Yorktown Virginia lets schoolchildren use robotic subs to study shipwrecks from last major battle of the American Revolution.

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Gates Foundation grants $20 Million to GAPPS at Seattle Children’s to engage researchers from around the world in groundbreaking research

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UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center experts have performed San Diego’s first-ever coronary revascularization procedure using a hybrid operating room, the only facility of its kind in the region. The state-of-the-art operating room allows patients to be treated in one place at one time without having to schedule multiple procedures,

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A new study indicates that many patients undergoing spine surgery have low levels of vitamin D, which may delay their recovery. Vitamin D helps with calcium absorption, and patients with a deficiency can have difficulty producing new bone, which can, in turn, interfere with healing following spine surgery.

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UC San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Hospital are hosting a joint Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia (ASAP) and World Health Organization Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (GIEESC) meeting November 9-11, 2011.

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New web-based technology developed at University of Kentucky Libraries allows researchers to pinpoint specific terms within recorded oral history interviews making research easier and faster.

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The Rice Hall Information Technology Engineering Building, part of a new gateway for engineering and science at the University of Virginia, will be dedicated Nov. 18 at 11 a.m. As part of the day's celebration, Dean Kamen, whose inventions include the Segway Personal Transporter, will speak at 3 p.m. in Rice Hall's Olsson Auditorium.

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When it comes to charitable giving, details matter. A new project by a marketing professor at Washington University in St. Louis finds that when charitable organizations approach potential donors with a more detailed description of the charity, donors give more.

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The clinic has met the emotional, developmental and medical needs of adoptive families for 10 years; a pilot project aims to improve the adoption process.

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The political outlook of blacks in America has undergone dramatic swings in the last ten years — from the depths of powerlessness during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, to the zenith with the election of the first black president, Barack Obama. Now, with another election looming, blacks confront new issues as they judge the impact of Obama’s election.

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Connecting the elderly to friends and family online reduces depression, a UAB professor discovers.