The problem of raising money by challengers is a major barrier to electoral competition in Illinois, two University of Illinois political scientists have found. Almost half of all Illinois General Assembly races in 1994 and 1996 were not actively contested in the general election.
Historian Peter Fritzsche disputes the standard explanation for the rise of Nazism in Germany -- that it came out of nowhere and succeeded beyond all expectation because Germany ìwas pushed to the very edge of crisisî by military defeat, inflation and economic depression.
An exhibit of photographs of American volunteers fighting in the Spanish Civil War at a Washington, D.C., gallery opened on the 60th anniversary of the last, largest and greatest campaign of that war. The exhibit, ìThe Aura of the Cause,î opened July 24, the date that marks the beginning of the bloody Ebro offensive in 1938. The exhibit closes on Sept. 5.
When it comes to how Americans perceive different job-related activities, and how they relate to one another, people apparently think alike, says a University of Illinois researcher.
The 325th anniversary of the first European contact with the Illini, a once large and powerful confederacy of Native American tribes that lived in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, is being celebrated this summer, not with cake and ice cream, but with shovels and buckets.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and other institutions report that nearly 4 in 10 female emergency room patients have been victims of physical or emotional domestic abuse sometime in their lives, and 14 percent have been physically or sexually abused in the past year.
A budding high school composer sent "The Complete Squirrel" over the Internet to his University of Illinois student-mentor. The pair was brought together earlier this year to participate in Network for Technology, Composing and Music Mentoring, or NETCOMM, a pilot program designed to promote the teaching and learning of technology-based music composition.
For mental illness patients, having a social network-even just one understanding friend to rely on-can mean the difference between hospitalization and the ability to cope in mainstream society, says Bernice Skirboll, exec. director of Compeer,a volunteer organization.
Started after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Youth Employment and Development Mentoring Program has provided unique "earn while you learn" opportunities for inner-city juniors, seniors. Integrates mentoring, education, paid employment.
The media wield a powerful influence on public opinion and have a critical role to play in promoting racial reconciliation in America, according to a new report on race and the media, released today (July 29) at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) meeting in Washington, D.C.
Statement of Peter Likins, President, University of Arizona Regarding Dr. Marguerite Kay: "I have decided to accept the recommendations of The University of Arizona Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure (CAFT) and end the employment and affiliation of Dr. Marguerite Kay with The University of Arizona."
Responding to the U.S. twelfth grade student performance on the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), the NSB made four recommendations for accomplishing this goal in a statement released this week titled "Failing Our Children: Implications for the Third International Mathematics and Science Study."
What used to be called "home economics" is becoming a dynamic career field for secondary school teachers. The curriculum, now known as family and consumer sciences, is taught at both the middle- and high-school level, and there are jobs aplenty for new college graduates nationwide.
University of New Hampshire researchers have found that children who are never or rarely spanked have higher scores on tests of cognitive ability than those who are frequently spanked. The findings are based on a nationally representative sample of 960 children who were ages 1 to 4 at the start of the study.
A Wheaton College sociology professor who came close to death will participate in the upcoming U.S. Transplant Games. He is able to enjoy an active life today because of the gift of a heart from a family whose teenage daughter died.
To help bridge the widening gap between industry's demand for a diverse, well-trained work force and the available labor supply, the University of Washington's nationally recognized Women in Science & Engineering Center has developed the first comprehensive curriculum for mentoring training in science and engineering.
A Colorado State University psychology professor is using computer graphics and a mock "car" with brakes, gas pedal and steering wheel to replicate snarled traffic and other scenarios to determine whether certain road conditions are more likely to provoke road rage.
An Ohio State University class for student athletes who are "retiring" from athletics has shown promise in helping these athletes make the transition from sports to a new career.
How many friends you have, not how much money you have, predicts how happy you're likely to be right after you retire, a University of Michigan study suggests.
A Congressionally-mandated study has found scientific evidence that 15 different methods of crime prevention are effective. The study, conducted by University of Maryland criminologists for the National Institute of Justice, also found 23 programs that had been proven ineffective.
The newly-released results of an independent national survey sponsored by Resources for the Future confirm that most Americans believe global climate change is real and damaging and that the federal government should take significant steps to combat it.
Most K-12 students will never see the ocean floor where the Titantic sank. But with educational resources developed by Mississippi State University, they can "see" that and other ocean depths in 3-D real-time images.
Preparing for marriage is crucial, but a Purdue University expert on family budgeting suggests that the slogan "look before you leap" may be just as important when it comes to divorce.
The American Sociological Association's Annual Meeting August 21-25 in San Francisco will feature hundreds of presentations on topics including immigration, affirmative action, families and children, health care, violence, and criminology.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 8 program, designed to expand housing options for low-income recipients, may actually encourage discrimination, according to a student researcher at the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.
Like many a backyard chef, Daniel Perlman of Arlington, Mass., disliked the smell and acrid smoke of conventional charcoal starters. So he decided to do something about it.
Using historical records and modern medical knowledge, a University of Kansas doctor is diagnosing what really killed Britain's House of Stuart 300 years ago
University of Kansas anthropologist uses DNA studies, archaeological and linguistic evidence to support theories on origins of Native Americans and to review medical and evolutionary costs of mixing of populations.
Cornell University Press has aroused attention and controversy by publishing Jodi Dean's "Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace."
Right now, Melissa Loewenstern is in the Iron Age. By summer's end, she hopes to land in the Bronze Age. This Cornell student is spending her summer excavating an archaeological site in Israel. Read her latest dispatches from Tel Dor, a site rich in the history of biblical times.
Preparing for a career should begin as early as one's freshman year of college, says the director of Vanderbilt University's Career Center. Internships, campus activities, networking/mentoring, learning and researching and self-assessment tests are key factors in building a resume, says Linda Bird, who has been directing the university's career center for 10 years.
The mission of Purdue's Breaking New Ground Resource Center is to assist farmers who have been disabled. A survey of those farmers found that church accessibility was their top community accessibility concern.
World governments might be more successful in removing the nearly 100 million children from the labor market by working to increase adult wages and employment rates rather than pursuing legislative action against child labor, which could be effective only in certain countries, say two Cornell University economists
A new report to Congress from the National Institute of Mental Health concludes that treating mental disorders like physical disorders--mental health parity--might increase mental health costs by 1 percent while reducing total health costs by up to 50 percent.
Educational Testing Service and Peterson's, both leaders in their worldwide market sectors, have launched their first joint venture.
The federal government issued its second annual report today on the well-being of America's 70 million children, revealing some good news about their overall health and educational achievements.
Cornell University Professor Alison Lurie publishes The Last Resort, her tenth novel and her first in ten years.
Parents willing to make a strong commitment to their child's musical education should consider lessons before the age of six, according to the director of the Suzuki Program at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music.
Parents of young adolescents may be tempted to bypass after-care programs and allow their children to fend for themselves for the couple of hours between the end of school and the time parents return home from work. But a pair of psychologists at Vanderbilt University agree that it's not a good idea to leave youngsters unsupervised.
The best college food services are a far cry from the cafeteria-style dining halls of old. The best ones are tuned into themed specialty food areas, presentation with pizzazz and plenty of variety.
"Making Sense of Behavior: The Meaning of Control" by William T. Powers is the long-anticipated introduction to Perceptual Control Theory for lay readers. Bill Powers is chief theorist and founder of the Control Systems Group which this year celebrates its 25th year as an international coalition of scientists studying and modeling control theory as it applies to living systems.
While children are often commended for good grades and high test scores, new research illustrates that complimenting children for their intelligence and academic performance may lead them to believe that good test scores and high grades are more important than learning and mastering something new.
WVU's new forensic identification program continues to make favorable `impression,' gets $5 million boost to upgrade engineering and computer science virtual reality laboratories and to bring the lab facilities on par with FBI crime center labs.
New research suggests that the most dangerous people are "those who have a strong desire to regard themselves as superior beings." The research, which will be published in the July issue of the American Psychological Association's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, demonstrates that actual self-esteem may have little if any relation to aggression.
Cancer-causing ultraviolet-B (UVB) light can snake its way around the shade, according to Purdue University agronomist Richard Grant and the U.S. Forest Service's Gordon Heisler.
A study by a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher says negative attitudes toward homosexuality can lead to low self-esteem and increased risk for HIV among young African-American gay and bisexual men.
The raunchy reputation of backyard composting is both undeserved and unnecessary, according to waste-management educators at Cornell University who reveal a few tricks of the trade in a new instructional video, "Compost Truth or Consequences."
While conventional wisdom has been that hate crimes in the United States rise with a declining economy, an analysis of hate crime in New York City from 1987 to 1995 has found little evidence linking racial, religious, ethnic, or homophobic incidents to deteriorating economic conditions.
The theory behind much recent welfare reform is that welfare recipients will go to work if government just provides the right incentives.
Cornell University's Food Industry Management Distance Education Program now offers all assignments and exams electronically via e-mail. It offers 40 course offerings in supermarket, food distribution and convenient store issues.
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