Why are most textbooks used in U.S. middle-school science classrooms so bad -- and what alternatives exist? In a two-part series, Science News magazine explores the problem, identifies factors that have contributed to the error-ridden texts typically used, and points to innovative curricula, many of which avoid textbooks entirely.
Purdue University's student chapter of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers will represent the "home team" during the National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 7, at West Lafayette High School.
A new collection of first-person accounts published by Smith College chronicles the detours and triumphs of real women who made their way, later in life, to a coveted college degree.
At a time when most people are starting to think about retirement, 57-year-old Clarence "Nic" Nicodemus is a first-year student in Michigan State University's College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Ball State University is stepping up efforts to prepare students for careers in the fast-growing area of biotechnology.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has obtained a gift of $360 million, the largest gift ever to any public or private university in the United States.
A new interactive Web site is helping 12th grade teachers and professors prepare teenagers for the rigors of college English courses.
Harassment at school differs from harassment in the workplace, because in the latter there is a legal course of action to pursue to stop the harassment, according to a University of Alabama at Birmingham management professor.
Lilly Endowment has awarded a $3.5M grant to Ball State University to help students make a stronger commitment to stay in school and graduate.
1) Students use nature to fight pests 2) Warm-up is key when returning to summer sports. 3) Students on spring break trade in swimsuits for hard hats. 4) University to host annual science fair.
The largest study to date of the GRE's validity has found the tests perform well as predictors of success in graduate school. Tests in specific subject areas tended to predict most accurately. (Psychological Bulletin)
Judy Shepard, the mother of Matthew Shepard, a college student who was beaten to death for being gay, will be speaking at Hollins University April 17.
Cathy Rigby, a 1968 Olympic gold medal gymnast, recovered anorexic and Broadway actor, will be speaking at Hollins University March 8. The general public is invited to attend this free event.
For more than a decade, groups of OWU students have spent spring break doing community service work in the U.S. and abroad. This year, trip organizers have entered the world of online auctions to raise money for the trips.
The $14.5 million Roger Milliken Science Center at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC, brings together visually, physically and emotionally all of the disciplines -- humanities, the arts and science.
Ann Compton, chief Washington correspondent for ABC News.com, is the commencement speaker for Hollins University's 159th graduation ceremony in Roanoke, Virginia.
Kris Neely is in the midst of his yearlong travels around the world seeking connections of water and the spirit, a journey made possible by his selection as the 16th Wofford College Presidential International Scholar.
Despite is bacchanalian reputation, spring break increasingly has become a time for colleges and universities to send student volunteers off campus for service projects. Here are some examples of the national trend.
For more than 30 years the SAT has been an optional part of Bowdoin College's admissions process. In light the recent announcement by the University of California president that he supports dropping the SAT as an admissions requirement, Bowdoin College officials are available to comment on evaluating students with and without the SAT based on what works at Bowdoin.
Rhodes College Students will spend spring break March 3-10 building a home and community playground for poor residents of Reynosa, Mexico.
The American Bar Association voted to oppose schools' "zero tolerance" disciplinary policies that fail to take into account the circumstances or nature of an offence or an accused student's history.
Ball State University teaching majors are using the moon and the Internet to increase their understanding of students from another culture.
One of the last things Grant McCall expected when he started his college career at Grinnell College was to be in a position to influence how anthropologists view human evolution. The 20-year-old student discovered a major archeological find that may lead scientists to consider new parts of Africa in the search for "the oldest periods in human evolution."
At some nursing homes across the country, bingo, craft-hour and popcorn-making parties are rapidly becoming passe. Instead, today's residents are getting with the program and engaging in much hipper activities: surfing the Web and sending and receiving e-mail.
Research from at least one country with long voucher experience doesnÃt support the argument about higher achievement and standards, according to Patrick McEwan, an economist and professor of educational policy studies at the University of Illinois.
A recent study of data from the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills shows that schools using the "Success For All" reading program are substantially closing the performance gap between themselves and the far less impoverished schools in the rest of the state. The improvements are especially pronounced for African American and Hispanic students.
In a University of DelawareÃs honors colloquium on chocolate, all 20 student chocolate-tasters agree: Dutch-process cocoa is not a chocoholic's dream. One dab of the dark brown powder on their tongues sends them dashing for palate-cleansing water and saltine crackers. They grimace in surprise. How could chocolate taste like this?
Elmhurst College has received a prestigious grant for a comprehensive faculty-student research study on possible future expansion of nearby O'Hare International Airport.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students are using wireless technology for high-speed access to the Internet, e-mail and the campus network in classrooms, labs, libraries and at other nearby sites in connection with a new laptop requirement.
To address the critical national issue in math literacy, West Virginia University has announced creation of an Institute for Math Learning.
The nationally known University of South Florida school reform program, Project ACHIEVE, and its Stop & Think social skills component have been selected as a model program by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Substance Abuse Prevention in Rockville, Md.
One year after she launched the Snell women's coaching project at Ursinus College, Jen Shillingford is starting to see the ripple effect of her efforts--her ideas are catching on.
The Feminism and Legal Theory Project of the Cornell Law will sponsor an exchange program for students and faculty among the United States, Northern Ireland and Canada, thanks to an anonymous $824,000 grant.
Nationally recognized leader in the treatment of sexual problems will speak at the School of Social Work's winter seminar.
The students from Fort Smallwood Elementary School in Anne Arundel County who built the "Braces In Space" experiment with the help of the University of Maryland Dental School will pack their experiment for the space shuttle.
A new three-year National Science Foundation grant will enable UNC-CH researchers to, beginning in February, introduce nanotechnology and UNC-CH researchers who work within this rapidly emerging scientific field to students in two local schools.
Mary A. Nichols has joined the new University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation, Inc. as assistant to the vice president.
Cornell University Library's "Project Harvest" will explore the idea of creating permanent electronic archives for the digital editions of scholarly journals, with the goal of setting up a pilot archive of agricultural journals.
It is the class heard 'round the world: a Cornell distance-learning course in which students from the Americas, Europe, Australia and India are linked electronically to learn about international food issues and examine worldwide agricultural sustainability.
The Purdue University's 19th annual Rube Goldberg contest slated for Feb. 10 honors the late cartoonist, Rube Goldberg, who specialized in drawing whimsical machines with complex mechanisms to perform simple tasks. This year's machines must select, clean and peel an apple in 20 steps or more.
Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister of Great Britain, will deliver the 2001 Broyhill Executive Lecture at Wake Forest University's Babcock Graduate School of Management on Friday, Feb. 16.
Barry Mills of New York has been elected the 14th president of Bowdoin College, one of the nation's oldest and most selective liberal arts colleges.
A new examination of some of the most widely used middle school physical science textbooks has found texts that incorrectly state Newton's first law of motion and show the equator passing through the southern United States.
Entrepreneurship students from six MBA schools across the nation will compete for $10,000 in prize money in the inaugural Kauffman/Angell Center For Entrepreneurship National Case-Writing Competition on Jan. 26-27.
Cornell University will create an online library of solid earth geoscience information as part of the National Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education Digital Library for science education. The library will include tools that make the information useful to students at all levels from K-12 up.
Cornell University researchers have received a NSF one-year grant of $799,085 to develop a proposed architecture for the National Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education Digital Library.
Bad as it may have seemed, the University of Illinois in 1904 was "poised for take-off." Within a few years - and under a new president - it would become a leading U.S. university. So says author of "The University of Illinois, 1894-1904: The Shaping of the University".
State learning standards are moving forward in Illinois schools, but very slowly, according to a recent University of Illinois report. One thing holding back implementation, ironically, is the test intended to measure how well the standards are being taught.
Elmhurst College will introduce a new master's degree program in supply chain management during the fall of 2001. This graduate-level program, the sixth at Elmhurst, was created to address the needs of the new economy.
Just in time for Christmas, St. John's University proudly announced a gift in the amount of $10M. This is the second Christmas in a row St. John's has received a gift of this size.
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