It is one of the most sophisticated and expensive cameras in the world, built for the most ambitious mapping of the universe: the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Helping construct the survey's critical piece of equipment is 26-year-old Connie Rockosi, a graduate student at the University of Chicago--and one of the most knowledgeable scientists in the world in electronic imaging.
It's Election Day. An exhausted businesswomen rushes into the voting booth five minutes before the polls close and in less than three minutes, punches through her ballot to indicate her preferences. As she votes she vaguely recalls the political ads she saw on television a few night ago, the few pieces of direct mail....
In a Purdue University study of morality and motivation in sports, teen-age athletes rated coaches as having the most influence on their likelihood to be overly aggressive or to chat in sports. Parents also were a factor, with dads having the most influence on cheating and moms influencing aggression.
The Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, the National Football League Players Association, and the Nick Lowery Charitable Foundation are bringing together 300 American Indian children with 25 heroes from the NFL, the National Basketball Association, and other professional sports leagues. The camp, which will expose the youth to successful professional athletes with healthy lifestyles, is part of the Native Vision Initiative and will take place June 9-11 at the Native Vision Sports and Life Skills Camp on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.
Charles M. Falco, professor of optical sciences and condensed matter physics at The University of Arizona in Tucson, is a scientist whose passion for motorcycles has led him on what might be considered an unlikely journey to one of the world's most revered centers of art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, where he is playing a key curatorial role in the upcoming exhibition, "The Art of the Motorcycle."
It's a world filled with bondage, supreme sacrifice, and cannibalism as a mating ritual. Welcome to Cornell's Entomology 215, where students learn about the biological world of spiders.
Male college athletes consume about 50 percent more alcohol than their counterparts who don't participate in intercollegiate sports, a record beaten only by college fraternity members, as shown in a study published by the Core Institute at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
Trinity College in Hartford, Ct., will offer 100 Hartford-area school children between the ages of six and eight the opportunity to participate at no cost in a unique, five-week summer camp experience at Trinity's campus this year and for the next two consecutive summers. The free camp experience--which will also include year-round tutoring and a Wyoming backpacking excursion--is being made possible through the generosity of an anonymous Trinity alumnus.
Deep poverty in early childhood profoundly affects achievement in later years, according to a new study that examines schooling outcomes in relation to family incomes.
And you thought ìO Come All Ye Faithfulî was a Christmas song. In fact, the original text refers to politics. ThatÃs just one of the surprises University of Illinois musicologist Nicholas Temperley uncovered during an unprecedented 16-year project that yielded a comprehensive database documenting ìtens of thousands of hymn tunes spanning three centuries.î
1948 ìset the engines goingî for the rest of 20th century America, according to George Douglas, the author of nine books dealing with U.S. culture and history.
The issue of physician-assisted suicide, long the shrouded preserve of activists like Dr. Jack Kevorkian, is about to go public with political battles expected in a number of state legislatures.
PakistanÃs nuclear tests on May 28, in apparent response to IndiaÃs testing earlier in the month, could represent ìthe biggest foreign policy failure of the Clinton administration,î says Stephen P. Cohen, an expert on South Asian security and nuclear issues.
As students prepare to put their books away for the summer and head for the swimming pool, a University of Missouri-Columbia scientist is preparing to present research next week showing that might not be such a good idea.
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.
Expanded opportunity for lower-income college students was what legislators had in mind when they planted the seeds for the current system of student financial aid almost three decades ago.
As activists and politicians debate the merits and drawbacks to same-sex marriages, a University of Iowa professor has taken a step back to look at the rituals involved in these ceremonies and what they represent for the couples as well as for society as a whole.
A better connection between informal and formal education would help to prepare K-12 science and mathematics students for the 21st century, according to several participants at an unusual hearing in Los Angeles May 29.
Researchers report that when relaying an emotional experience, children who drew as they spoke reported more than twice as much information than children asked only to talk about their experiences. Furthermore, the additional information did not occur at the expense of accuracy, according to an article to be published in the June issue of the APA's Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
Fingerprints, DNA matches and fibers may be more reliably objective indicators that a suspect committed a crime, but, studies have found, for most jurors, nothing beats the confident testimony of an eyewitness, even when the eyewitness is completely wrong. Research has shown that incorrect eyewitness identifications account for more convictions of innocent persons than all other causes combined. Now a new study published by the American Psychological Association provides even further evidence that eyewitness testimony may not deserve the confidence that many jurors have in it.
The New Jersey Supreme Court has urged the state's Department of Education to adopt "Success for All," a whole school reform program developed at Johns Hopkins University, in 28 impoverished school districts.
A forestry major from Purdue University will spend the first semester of his junior year on a frozen continent completely devoid of trees. The National Science Foundation and the Boy Scouts of America have chosen Benjamin Hasse of Kingsford, Mich., as their candidate to spend next fall helping Antarctic researchers.
The scene was a tiny village on the Venezuelan savanna where anthropologist Pei-Lin Yu of Southern Methodist University was living among the PumÈ Indians in order to study their way of life. It was the rainy season in September 1992 and thanks to a good hunting trip, everyone was dining on venison. YuÃs fellow researcher tossed some leftover bones into a fire rather than brave a torrential downpour to throw them in the trash outside of camp. A PumÈ friend nicknamed P. J. entered their thatched-roof house and saw the bones mixed in with the coals.
In a move designed to enhance the stature of Jewish studies at Cornell, university officials have announced the creation of three new named professorships in Jewish Studies.
Just 10 days before India conducted five underground nuclear tests, participants in an international workshop at the University of Georgia expressed dissatisfaction with the pace of change in the strategic bilateral relationship between India and the United States.
New consortium announces deployment of east coast's first connection point to multiple, major national, high-speed network initiatives.
Organic Chemistry. It's a college lab course that sends shivers down the spines of even the bravest pre-med students. But at DePaul University in Chicago, it is a class students can't wait to take. That's because during spring quarter students know they get to invent their own polymer - one that may never have seen the light of a laboratory before.
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health have found that how well or poorly a young person interacts with family and peers, participates in school, and controls behavior can reveal the presence or absence of psychiatric disorders much earlier than can traditional indicators such as school failure and contact with police, which appear after problems have already become entrenched. Social role dysfunction can also help indicate whether a teen's psychiatric problems will be acted out as behavior problems or turned inward to cause emotional difficulties.
The overall amount of disruptive behavior in the first grade classroom can influence the course of aggressive behavior in boys through middle school, according to a study by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health researchers. The common practice of grouping many disruptive children together in one classroom may be actively steering those children toward anti-social behavior. The study was published in the Spring 1998 issue of Development and Psychopathology.
Investing major resources in reforming mental health systems of care for children and adolescents appears to be ill advised, according to a professor who led two recently completed mental health studies.
University of Georgia researchers have spent the past decade searching for the secret to living an active, meaningful life beyond the age of 100. Instead of a secret formula, they've found an equal-opportunity phenomenon.
The CIA and its 12 companion U.S. intelligence agencies are bloated bureaucracies, overly reliant upon technology and in need of a game plan for the post-Cold War era, according to Loch Johnson, a University of Georgia Regents Professor of Political Science.
Poor children in America face multiple stressors that threaten their biology and psychology, says James Garbarino, professor of human development at Cornell University. Yet, conventional economic barometers paint rosy economic pictures mask that the demise of children in trouble.
Senator John McCain's proposed comprehensive tobacco legislation that is expected to raise cigarette prices by $1.10 per pack will reduce teen smoking rates by 27 percent, according to a new study by the University of Maryland and the National Opinion Research Center.
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can also hurt you, says a University of Georgia clinical psychology professor. Bruises and broken bones are easier to see, but it doesn't mean that the injuries of psychological abuse are any less painful or long-lasting.
Beware of the upcoming summer holidays. They can be killers. "DUI fatalities during the summer holidays are far greater than the winter holidays," says Michael S. Garr of Wilkes University. He studies alcohol use and social settings, and drunken driving. When examining each day of the Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, and Labor Day holiday periods, Garr says the data reveal a higher incidence of alcohol-related fatalities than each day of the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's holiday periods.
A national resource center on self-taught art has been established at Vanderbilt University's library by a self-taught artist and collector.
A child sets fire to his grandmother's apartment and the blaze ignites the African-American consciousness. The death of Betty Shabazz? Yes, but decades before, it also was the experience of author Richard Wright.
Partnerships between universities and K-12 schools are blurring the lines between students and teachers. On the leading edge of this national trend, Purdue University has forged a relationship with a local elementary school that's making learners of everyone involved. University faculty, Purdue elementary education majors, classroom teachers and kindergarten through fifth-grade pupils are all teaching each other and learning together.
Cornell University Library has acquired the Maeda Collection, the personal library of Japanese literary scholar and critic Maeda Ai.
Tips from Notre Dame experts on the Microsoft case, India's nuclear tests, the Israeli position, Viagra and health care, NATO expansion, and a new book on the psychology of people who claim to have seen UFOs.
A new book by Cornell professor of materials science Stephen L. Sass is a tour of the history of civilization, from the Stone Age, through the Bronze Age, into the Iron Age and thence to the Industrial Revolution and the age of technology. Included are the developments of glass and concrete, polymers, aluminum and the silicon chip.
Sea Grant Memorial Day / Summer Safety Tip Sheet: 1)Seafood Savvy: Knowing the Risks of Catching Your Own Fish and Shellfish 2)Choosing the Right ÃŒbuddy" Crucial to Safe Scuba Diving 3)Beach Safety: Protecting Yourself from Lightning
Men who watch their favorite sports team compete and win experience the same type of testosterone surges as the players.
Mount Holyoke College, one of the oldest lberal arts colleges for women in the United States, will again celebrate this year's commencement with a number of unique traditions--including a parade with ties to the Women's Suffrage Movement--which have been established over the College's 161 year history.
Psychology's movement away from an exclusive focus on assessing and repairing illness and toward an emphasis on prevention will be an overarching theme of the 106th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.
Thomas Jefferson IV will graduate from the College of William and Mary next week, 236 years after his famous forebear completed his studies at the nation's second oldest institution of higher learning.
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."
Cornell will honor 35 secondary school teachers from around the world who have been chosen by Merrill Scholars, who are top students at the university. The teachers will be brought to campus and recognized for their inspirational teaching with a $4,000 scholarship in their names for future Cornell students from their schools or regions.
The most recent explosion in the travel industry may have been ignited by aging baby boomers who still want to kick up their heels. Adventure vacations for persons over 50 years old are one of the fastest-growing areas of the travel industry, according to Purdue University travel expert Alastair Morrison.
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