The National Science Foundation honored 338 outstanding new science and engineering faculty members nationwide in fiscal year 1998 with Faculty Early Career Development awards totaling approximately $80 million.
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes by Cornell University psychologist Thomas Gilovich and financial journalist Gary Belsky is about "behavioral economics," including the cognitive and motivational shortcomings that make even smart people act unwisely with their money.
A powerful exhibition of photography from the Civil Rights movement opens Friday, January 15, 1999, in the Prints and Drawings Galleries at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College and will run through Sunday, March 7, 1999.
Vassar loyalty is bringing a number of previously unexhibited masterpieces to public attention at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (FLLAC). Seven decades worth of collectors -- Vassar alumni and several friends of the college -- have brought some of their finest works together for an exhibition which will open in April. The exhibition will include works of painting, drawing, sculpture, decorative arts, printmaking, and photography from 65 private collections.
At Holman Correctional Facility, just north of the Florida panhandle in Atmore, Ala., Jeffrey Day Rieber waits to die - but some University of Wisconsin-Madison law students and their law professor are laboring to prevent his death.
What do Elvis Presley and Pablo Picasso have in common? Both made the cut in The Centre 100, an end-of-the-century arts listing compiled by students and faculty at Centre College. The college is celebrating the list with an exhibit and a website (www.centre.edu).
A new book highlights five controversial "Crimes of the Century," exposing much more than the underlying tensions of our criminal justice system. The cases -- including Leopold and Loeb (1924), Scottsboro (from 1931), Bruno Richard Hauptmann (1932), Alger Hiss (1949) and O.J. Simpson (1994) -- also offer provocative insights into the nation's passions, politics and prejudices.
The number of women and underrepresented minority group members earning baccalaureate to doctoral degrees in Science and Engineering (S&E) fields rose as much as 68 percent from 1985 and 1995, according to a National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Science Resources Studies (SRS) Data Brief.
Tunnel-vision teaching and traditional testing methods are multiplying the problem of students who "can't do math." One of this country's leading mathematics educators has a formula for solving the problem: broaden the definition of what constitutes good mathematical skills and create new ways to measure them.
American working, married couples would prefer to work less but they work more hours than ever. That's because today's workplace doesn't offer enough part-time jobs, reported a Cornell University sociologist. Many women choose to stay home rather than enter the 'all or nothing' workplace which has not adapted to the changing patterns of employee preferences, she said.
Couples who wish they could work less, who have demanding jobs or both work more than 45 hours a week report the lowest quality of life among working couples, according to a Cornell University sociologist. Couples in which both partners work regular full-time hours -- especially when the wives are in nonprofessional jobs -- report the highest quality of life, even higher than when one partner works part-time.
Scholars may never know the details of William Shakespeare's love life, but they do know that the authoritative text for the bard's plays is the 1623 "First Folio," which is now available to scholars and students through Rice's Fondren Library.
A group of scholars from around the world are gathering next month at Colorado College to address globalization and intercultural dynamics in the next century in a three-day series of lectures, debates, and open discussions.
A New TV advertising campaign uses the national reputation of Temple University's men's basketball team to tout its academic 'stars." The spots feature Temple Honors students racing onto the floor of The Apollo of Temple while courtside announcers give their 'stats'--GPA's and academic achievements.
On Thursday, Jan. 21, science students at two Indiana schools will communicate live via internet with a Purdue University researcher, who is on a scientific expedition to a dinosaur site in southwest China.
As the United States enters a new millennium, a Purdue University sociologist says we must move beyond simple rhetoric to really understand race relations. In his recently released book, "Diversity and Unity," a professor of sociology, takes a look at different approaches to handling racial and ethnic diversity.
Research by a social scientist at Rensselaer confirms that online relationships can lead to face-to-face romance as in the scenario in You've Got Mail, the hit movie starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
Teens who commit suicide often leave many telltale warnings -- including signs of depression and alcohol abuse -- that parents miss, says a Ball State University study.
Smith historian's new book overturns image of "Feminine Mystique" author as conventional suburban housewife. Documents locate Betty Friedan's radical roots in her Smith College days--and even earlier.
Three percent of North Carolina middle school students had carried a gun onto school property and 14.1 percent had carried a knife or club to school, a research team from Brenner Children's Hospital and the Brenner Center for Child and Adolescent Health report in the January issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
January terms offered at many colleges tend to lack academic substance and could hardly be called rigorous. The field excursion that anthropologist Susan Niles will lead to the jungles of Guatemala is a notable exception to this trend.
As the NASDAQ hit another record high today, the Engineering Workforce Commission of the American Association of Engineering Societies released its latest survey on engineering degrees, which reveals that the number of students receiving bachelor's of science degrees in engineering in the United States has fallen to a 17-year low.
Nation's Most Highly Honored Young Researchers/Teachers Convene In Washington
Faculty sports pundits from the University of Minnesota (located a stone's throw from Viking land) sound off on Super Sunday.
Since 1990, Northeast Passage, at the University of New Hampshire, has served as an impact program to improve access, independence and quality of life for individuals with disabilities. This year's winter sports schedule includes sled hockey; cross country skiing (U.S. disabled team members will be instructing).
ìUlysses,î recently voted No. 1 in a list of this century's greatest English-language novels, is a public domain work that can be published in the United States by anyone, a University of Tulsa English professor asserts in December's Yale Law Journal.
Coming full circle, the institution that first recognized the talent of acclaimed poet Virginia Hamilton Adair will again herald her genius, after more than 60 years, this January 11 at a special afternoon ceremony at Mount Holyoke College in Claremont, California.
High-school-age persons who enroll in driver education courses do not have fewer motor-vehicle-related violations, crashes, or deaths than those who do not, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
Increasingly, it takes more than a college degree to get the best jobs. New research by a Swarthmore College economist and a University of Wisconsin colleague shows that "functional literacy" separates the most successful college-educated workers from fellow graduates who take jobs for which a high school diploma used to be sufficient.
With public concern mounting over the cost, length and quality of college education, Western Illinois University has taken the unprecedented step of guaranteeing major components of its education.
The launch of the euro by European Union will ultimately generate ramifications in the political arena that will eclipse the economic impact and foreverchange the international landscape says former U.S. Minister Counselor to the European Union Jonathan Greenwald.
Children in crowded homes do worse in school and fight more with their parents than kids in uncrowded homes, according to a Cornell University stuby by an environmental stress expert to be published in the December 1998 issue of Child Development.
A University of Vermont College of Medicine researcher has been selected to head a White House-appointed panel of experts to develop the largest-ever national youth anti-drug media campaign.
Smoking rates among secondary school students have started to turn downward.
While it's rare to include "legal issues" in the same sentence with Gilligan's Island, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University documents the extent to which the show dealt with legal issues in recent law review article, "Legal Tales From Gilligan's Island."
University of Michigan scientists conclude in their 1998 national survey that illicit drug use by this population is finally heading down after six years of steady increases.
Inner city children at the Nativity School in Los Angeles will return from the holiday break to find their depleted library has received 2,250 books. The books were collected and sent to the children by Fairfield University students in Connecticut.
While members of the U.S. Senate struggle with what to do with the impeachment papers Congress passed on, one politics professor says the Clinton affair is small stuff compared to Watergate and Iran-Contra.
A large number of reports have already discussed the academic and social skills of home-schooled children, but the state of their physical education is not being addressed, according to the co-author of a book and video package for parents who wish to teach their children physical education.
Two thirds of Lutheran social ministry agencies nationwide report increased requests for services in the wake of government welfare reform. Those are among the conclusions of a report, "The Impact of Welfare Reform on Lutheran Social Ministry Organization."
When the holiday season is over, the Christmas trees don't have to end up in the trash, according to an Ohio State expert. Old trees can be ground into mulch or used as fish shelters in ponds.
Home schooling spells success for UMBC valedictorian. Straight-A student journalist will speak at commencement
The Streetwise Guide makes calculus palatable by smothering it with outrageous humor. Ranked one, two, or three on the Amazon.com list of calculus bestsellers, the conversational book was authored by matheticians from Williams College and the University of California at Davis.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has announced the awarding of a three-year grant of $475,000 to the Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education to investigate the economic implications of "peer effects," or the notion that the quality of a student's education depends on the quality of fellow students.
Students in Johns Hopkins' Police Executive Leadership Program survey the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg for lessons on modern police leadership.
Johns Hopkins political scientist and constitutional law scholar Joel Grossman is available to comment on impeachment proceedings.
Johns Hopkins graduate students completing a 13-week study recommend urban revitalization strategies and better data collection to Baltimore officials.
A four-year, $19 million project will study the impact of welfare reform on children and their families.
New Web site from NCI and CDC helps you meet New Year's resolutions.
Increased punishment of juveniles reduces the amount of crime they commit in a way similiar to the impact punishment has for adults, according to a new paper by a University of Chicago economist.
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