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.
Steven Price has for two decades indulged a deep curiosity with the mother of all highways, Interstate 80, which girdles the continent from New York City to San Francisco. Hoping to convince us that interstates can hold the same charm of the old winding two-lanes, Price has authored an unusual travel guide that invites readers on a milepost-by-milepost look at the great highway.
A panel commissioned by the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences reports that several adverse trends threaten to undermine the United States' dominant position in world mathematics. The panel also notes that NSF policies significantly affect the strength of U.S. mathematics and hence the health of other sciences.
Volunteering boosts self-esteem and energy and gives Americans a sense of mastery over their lives, particularly in later midlife, says a new Cornell University study.
High-fashion models are thin. But the first study of the majority of professional models shows a leanness that is life-threatening. These are not the handful of celebrity super models in the news, but rather the anonymous women typically seen in print and television advertising for clothing, household items, jewelry, automobiles, children's products, food and the like.
Cornell students, using a new urban planning computer software, suggest new uses for Brooklyn's Greenpoint Terminal
NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin and University of Arizona Alumnus, Greg Kinnear To Speak as the UA's Commencment Ceremonies Saturday, May 16, 1998.
Experts in Ball State University's School of Physical Education are available to provide information related to National Physical Fitness and Sports Month during May.
News tips for the media from Notre Dame faculty
For the fourth consecutive year, the Cornell University Food Product Development Team, made of undergraduate students and graduate, has been named as one of six finalists in the Institute of Food Technologists' (IFT) Student Association 1998 Product Development Competition, to be held in Atlanta June 20-22. This year's novel Cornell food product is called Wrapidos, and is engineered so that the food juices don't drip on your clothes.
A Boston-area physician and his wife have contrbuted $2.75 million toward Cornell University's Hillel program.
Elderly people who have pets are happier and healthier, but society has erected roadblocks that often keep animals away from the elderly, a Purdue University expert says.
Atlanta, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla., were named today to receive a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for system-wide reform of their K-12 mathematics, science and technology education programs.
Sea Grant Tip Sheet: 1) Study Finds Group of Marine Bacteria Dominate Waters Off Southeastern U.S. Coast, 2) Teachers to Gain Hands-On Experience at Interactive Exotic Species Day Camp, 3) Women Who Claim Title "Fisherman's Wife" Meet Stress of Fishing Marriages Better
"Go west, young man," New York journalist Horace Greeley told growth-happy American men (and women) in the 19th century. And for most of America's history, the country's increasingly mobile citizens pushed west, and south. Until recently, perhaps.
Starting salaries, signing bonuses, and other job perks have sent the total compensation package for MBA students at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management up to $117,000. That's up 29% from last year's total of $92,000.
A recently released national report equates reading failure with the same destructive outcomes of serious disease.
Cornell University Law Library has become an official mirror site for the International Labour Organization
Minority and handicapped children in the New York state foster care system who qualify for subsidies are twice as likely to get adopted as other children, according to a Cornell University study by Rosemary Avery. She has completed one of the most comprehensive studies tracking the outcome of foster care children. However, she notes, 90 percent of the foster children available for adoption in the state get adopted.
Hard-to-place children who are adopted in New York State receive "vastly different levels of support," sometimes half that of a similar child living in a nearby county, says a new Cornell University study. Some of the most vulnerable children are not being treated equally, and low support may inhibit adoption rates, leaving children to linger in foster care, says Rosemary Avery, associate professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell.
The National Science Board (NSB) will host a ceremony and reception on May 6 honoring annual winners of key awards in science and engineering, and public service. The awards will be presented at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Traditional support groups clearly help cancer survivors cope with their experiences, and Internet-based networks can offer many of the same benefits, says a University of Delaware professor who examined the content, advantages andpitfalls of "cyber solace" in a new study published in the January-February issue of "Computers in Nursing."
Though the recent Carnegie Foundation report found fault with many U.S. research universities--arguing that undergraduates are too often simply "receiving what is served out to them," mainly by untrained graduate assistants--the University of Delaware was one of only five institutions cited for "making research-based learning the standard."
Less time off in the summer may translate into greater academic achievement for elementary-school students, says a Purdue University expert on year-round schools.
A Cornell University study provides new evidence that curriculum-based external exit exams not only enhanced student achievement, but also increased the earnings of graduating seniors who took them.. It also showed that students who took remedial or basic courses earned less than their peers who enrolled in more challenging courses.
In the new book "Escaping the Advice Trap," two Cornell psychologists ask more than 100 experts how they would respond to 59 tough relationship problems. Then, Wendy M. Williams and Stephen Ceci, both professors in the department of human development at Cornell University, offer a bottom-line analysis for each dilemma.
John Hope Franklin, a founding father of African-American history and the head of President Clinton's national advisory board on race, will deliver the keynote address and be awarded an honorary doctorate when Occidental College celebrates Commencement 1998 in the historic Remsen Bird Hillside Theater on Sunday, May 10, at 3 p.m.
Chocolate may be a harmless treat for humans, but it could land a racehorse into trouble. Researchers found that horses fed chocolate- coated peanuts every day for eight days showed detectable levels of caffeine and theobromine -- substances that are banned for horses.
Many WWW surfers are familiar with the "Dancing Baby," a cha-cha-ing toddler created by 3-D computer animation. But a Williams College junior has taken the Dancing Baby to a whole new level--the virtual jukebox. Although the baby isn't his, its musical incorporation into the student's Web site has brought him unforeseen acclaim.
Williams College has announced that Yo-Yo Ma will give the principal address at the college's 209th Commencement, Sunday, June 7.
Even though people of all ages are working fewer hours and retiring earlier than their parents and grandparents did, many of them feel overloaded. "Especially in two-job families with young children, life can seem like one long sprint, without time for real exercise or real leisure," says University of Michigan psychologist Robert L. Kahn.
A new book, The Soviet World of American Communism, further confirms the fact that the American Communist Party was a tool of the Soviet Union says co-author and Emory University political scientist Harvey Klehr. The claims are based on Klehr's research in the archives of the Communist International in Moscow.
A new educational software program developed at Purdue University is making it easier than ever for teachers to put the power of the Internet to work in their classrooms. Test Pilot is a new application that allows teachers to design surveys, tests and tutorials that students can take on any computer that is connected to the Internet.
Betty Friedan will join the Cornell University faculty as a distinguished visiting professor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations to direct a $1 million, four-year project, New Paradigm: Women, Men, Work, Family and Public Policy," at the Institute for Women and Work that will attempt to transform the feminist ideals and practices she catalyzed more than 30 years ago into a broader societal and workplace agenda for the new century.
In the first study focusing on the juvenile "peer court" process, UC Irvine professor Robert Beck has concluded that this recent and innovative approach to combating teen crime appears to be an effective alternative to the more traditional and punitive juvenile justice system.
Too many young academically talented female students are being discouraged from taking higher math and science classes, limiting a group of future leaders, says a Ball State University educator.
It's not a good idea to be extremely friendly with your ex-spouse, but it's not healthy to be overly hostile, either
U-M Population Studies Center researcher Sanjiv Gupta analyzed data to see how changes in their martial status affected time spent cooking, doing the dishes, washing and ironing clothes, cleaning the house, and other routine, repetitive household chores.
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