An Arizona State University graduate student studying the Tibetan plateau in China is helping nomadic yak herders fight two years of savage winters. Biology student Marc Foggin went to the Qinghai Province of China to learn how best to sustain development and ecology on the grasslands of Tibet, one of the harshest environments in the world.
For college recruiters and admissions directors, the Internet's "killer application" may not be the World Wide Web or online application forms, but instant messaging programs that allow recruiters to engage in one-on-one Internet chats with potential students.
While summer is a "no-brainer" for many students, one Purdue expert says the break is a good time to groom your mind for college. "Summer is the best time to find ways to set yourself apart from other college applicants," says Doug Christiansen, Purdue's director of admissions. "The opportunities are endless. Students can pick up new skills, improve existing talents, explore possible career paths or work on deficiencies.
News stories about food and health bombard us daily. Whether we're watching the evening news at home, flipping through a newspaper or reading magazine headlines while in the grocery store checkout line, we stumble upon the latest food study. But what are consumers actually hearing and reading from media sources? That's what the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation revealed in a new quantitative and qualitative study that analyzed three months of coverage (May-July 1997) in 38 national and regional television, newspaper and magazine outlets.
Mediator and Central Michigan University restorative justice expert Harry Mika can talk about the role of local, community-based justice organizations involved in Northern Ireland's peace process. He can trace the development of emerging community justice programs designed as options to a current form of community policing called "punishment violence." According to Mika: "One of the preconditions of the peace talks and agreement is the ending of punishment violence" in Northern Ireland.
Perpetrators of the Oklahoma City bombing have their roots in rural radicals and anti-government hate groups tracing back to Shay's Rebellion; Waco's Branch Davidians have roots not unlike cult beginnings of Christianity, say two Connecticut College historians who have authored books that detail lessons learned from these two tragedies, which share an anniversary April 19.
Inspired by a glaring void in a growing academic field, doctoral students from four colleges at North Carolina State University have launched the first online research journal devoted to the role of technology in middle school education.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A whopping 73 percent of white college and high school students own a home computer, while only 32 percent of African American students have access to a computer at home, according to a survey by two professors at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management.
Teams of science students from around the nation will compete for an all-expense-paid learning trip to Portugal after advancing to the finals of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl.
Thirty years ago, child psychiatrist James Comer, M.D. at Yale's Child Study Center developed a comprehensive strategy to improve schools. Now, First Lady Hillary Clinton, a long-time supporter of his work, will address a symposium, Child Development: The Foundation of Education, celebrating the program's anniversary.
Although President Clinton proudly proclaimed the recent federal welfare reform effort "an end to welfare as we know it," political scientist Gwendolyn Mink writes in her new book "Welfare's End" that the demise of welfare can be traced back almost to its origins.
In Western Massachusetts from April 29 through May 3, Vanessa Redgrave and her mother, Lady Rachel Kempson Redgrave, will step on stage in two different venues to pursue interests in Chekhov and women. Their first stop will be Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley where the pair will hold a master class on April 29.
On Sunday, May 24, Johnnetta B. Cole, the former president of Spelman College and its first African American woman president, will deliver Mount Holyoke College's 161st commencement address.
Tallahassee, FL--Using funds from its settlement with the tobacco industry, today the State of Florida is launching a $25 million annual anti-tobacco advertising campaign. The ìTruthî campaign was developed by FloridaÃs teens and uses one of the most effective strategies known to affect teen behavior: rebellion.
One Franklin & Marshall professor is finding a way to show her students the mathematical nature of art, and the artistic nature of math. The course, unique to F&M, is not taught anywhere else in the country.
"The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History," by Cornell University historian Walter LaFeber, has been awarded the Bancroft Prize in American History for 1998. The Clash, according to Akira Iriye, a Harvard University historian, "will easily become the best history of U.S.-Japanese relations in any language."
Social phobias -- the presence of extreme fear and/or avoidance of social situations -- is common in adults and children and is extremely debilitating, according to a newly released book, Shy Children, Phobic Adults: Nature and Treatment of Social Phobia, published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
The grand opening today of a new technology education center in the Seattle area marks a milestone for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program.
A Purdue University team is headed to the Air Race Classic for the fifth year in a row as the only all-student collegiate entry. The annual event is a summer cross-country race for female pilots. Two years ago, a Purdue team became the first collegiate team to win the race.
The controversial topic of body image is explored in an intriguing and, frequently, disturbing new video by sociologist Dane Archer. Archer tackles such topics as eating disorders, body piercing and tattooing, cosmetic surgery, modeling and beauty pageants, aging, and cultural differences.
A Connecticut College psychology professor, author and researcher says the disease-based concept for addiction treatment, as embodied in recovery programs like AA, ignores the root causes of addiction and will unlikely achieve sustained recovery when used alone.
Every April since 1970, Americans have celebrated Earth Day with fairs, rallies and educational programs on the imortance of protecting the planet. The holiday serves to promote environmental values -- but it also reveals the environmental movement's problems and limitations, says a University of Maine political scientist."The holiday has proved to be a mixed legacy," says Amy Fried.
Boosting taxes on cigarettes will have a far less dramatic impact on rates of teen-age smoking than politicians are hoping, a new Cornell University study finds. In fact, say the researchers, higher taxes will have "a statistically insignificant impact" on whether young people decide to start smoking.
The difference between environmentally correct, native landscaping and a neglected, weedy neighborhood eye-sore is not universally apparent. A new book offers advice on what gardeners can do to a home landscape in cities and suburbs to make people realize it is being naturalized, rather than neglected.
Several inmates from the Allenwood Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery, Pennsylvania will be at Susquehanna University on April 28 to relate their experiences with white-collar crime to Susquehanna University business majors.
When a University of Missouri-Rolla history professor volunteered to host a radio program on bluegrass music 15 years ago, he had no idea it would lead to a publishing career. Now that professor is also the publisher of "Bluegrass Now" magazine.
Few people are cut out for pressure-cooker jobs such as being a 911 operator or an air traffic controller. University of Washington psychologist have determined that certain people seem to possess a common trait that enables them to handle these kinds of jobs, sometimes involving life and death, and have developed a new test that identifies these individuals.
Cornell University and the U.S. Peace Corps will sign a Memorandum of Cooperation later this month, to mark the establishment of a new option at Cornell -- a three-year master's of professional studies degree in agriculture with a Peace Corps service option.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute on Aging will hold a colloquium and two public lectures April 23-24 exploring new research insights into successful aging.
A study by a Purdue University expert on child development shows that boys who are bullies are not only accepted, but they can actually be among the more popular youngsters in school The only students that girl bullies were more popular than were the children that nobody seemed to like - the aggressive victims.
Alarmed by the epidemic rate at which children are being exposed to violence - on the streets, in their communities, and through the media - the Johns Hopkins Children's Center has opened an Office for the Prevention of Violence to address the needs of traumatized children and to draw attention to a rapidly escalating public health threat.
In a new book, an anthropologist has found that shamans on all five continents talk of a cosmic serpent, a very long single and double entity that is the key to life. They also report seeing twins, twisted ladders and sky ropes in their visions. Many say that this form shows them that the life principle is the same for all species.
Forecast: Unpredictable. Is the academic climate at many U.S. engineering schools discouraging women as well as minorities from pursuing careers in the field?
"Blood In The Arena, The Spectacle of Roman Power," a new book by University of Arizona Professor of Hisotry, Alison Futrell, examines images of power in the Roman Empire. She looks at how these images were manipulated for political purposes and how this legacy affected modern conceptualization of power.
She wasn't faster than a speeding bullet, but new research seems to indicate that Lucy and other early human ancestors walked with greater ease and efficiency than previously believed, despite their short leg, says a University of Washington anthropologist.
With continued unrest threatening to boil over in corners of the former Yugoslavia, a professor at a small New Hampshire college is working to plant seeds for peace and stability there. Douglas Challenger, professor of sociology at Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, N.H., is helping educators in the former Yugoslavia learn how to promote concepts of democracy in the classroom.
Cornell art history expert Robert G. Calkins' book covers Medieval architecture using text, photographs and a CD-ROM.
Drawing examples from popular culture to explain clinical disorders, two Vanderbilt researchers are using anecdotes from Star Trek movies and episodes to explain the neurological and psychological bases of emotions, perception, aggression, memory and sex.
High-profile shootings by students in Mississippi, Kentucky and Arkansas generate interational headlines and parental fears that school violence is the norm. But a professor who developed a method for reducing school crime says deadly incidents are anomalies that should mobilize the public to action.
A new analysis shows the tendency to "catastrophize"---to see the bad that happens to you as part of a pervasive pall of evil and pain that happens to everyone, everywhere---has been linked to an increased risk of dying before the age of 65.
A recent University of North Texas study of three public elementary schools in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex indicates that positive teacher attitudes toward information technology result in similar positive attitudes among students.
Sometimes it's difficult to decide who suffers the greater trauma when preschool starts -- the child or the parents. But a Purdue University expert says there are things mom or dad can do to make the adjustment easier for everyone involved
Despite living in a society that is increasingly weight and appearance conscious, many American children may be headed toward sedentary, overweight adulthood. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center have found that as the hours of television watched by American children increases, so does their weight.
Modern performances of J. S. Bach's St. John Passion--an acknowledged masterpiece of Western music--are inevitably controversial. In large part, this is because of the combination of powerful, highly emotional music, and a text that includes passages from a gospel marked by vehement anti-Judaic sentiments.
Ten million Americans, including almost 4 million children, don't get enough to eat, according to a new Cornell University/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study. More than half of the 4 percent of Americans who report they don't have enough food live in households in which at least one person has a job, says Katherine Alaimo, a doctoral candidate in nutritional sciences at Cornell.
The vast majority of past studies on peer victimization have focused on boys and physical aggression. But new research illustrates that girls also experience peer victimization, usually relational aggression, in which a person is harmed through hurtful manipulation of their peer relationships or friendships.
Cornell University alumnus and author Paul Cody's So Far Gone, a novel published by Picador USA, a literary imprint of St. Martin's Press, was released in February ($22; 240 pages, ISBN 0-312-18180-9).
The new Mount Holyoke Center for Leadership and Public Interest Advocacy has invited four prominent experts with opposing points of view to examine the potential success or failure of current directions in welfare policy and to debate both the likely outcome of current reforms.
A new book, edited by a University of Georgia professor, brings together for the first time some of the most important American speeches of the 20th century.
A University of Georgia historian has discovered that it is possible for African-Americans to begin identifying particular ethnic cultural and social influences once thought unrecoverable.
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