A partnership between two universities and two public school systems has been established to develop new models for advanced teaching and learning that use computing and communication technologies.
Instruments on the Lunar Prospector -- a NASA mission slated for launch Jan. 5 -- will provide information bearing on a major question impacting the future of space colonization: Does the moon have water?
A Johns Hopkins University professor is promoting scholarship and research on the decline of civility, manners and politeness. Pier Massimo Forni teaches courses on the issue and recently founded the Johns Hopkins Civility Project, which will hold an international symposium in March 1998.
Why do we give to charity? Johns Hopkins philosopher J.B. Schneewind, an expert on moral theory and ethics, brings together colleagues to examine the question in a book he edited called "Giving."
How do ethnicity and race affect health? Exploring answers to this question is one goal of Long Island University/Brooklyn Campus' new Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Human Development, directed by Psychology Professor Carol Magai.
Side-by-side papers featured in the December issue of Immunity resolve a mystery of basic immunology while suggesting a new way to improve the success of bone marrow transplantation. The research -- conducted by postdoctoral fellows in the lab of a Stanford structural biologist -- focused on enigmatic white blood cells called natural killer cells.
1- Conceiving and creating manufactured goods in a day, 2- a microtransmission as small as a grain of sand, 3- a 75-million-year-old dinosaur's call recreated, and 4- removing landmines-- the left-behind scourge of past wars.
The following are articles appearing in the December issue of the "American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine," published by the American Thoracic Society: 1- Fall Weather Brings Increased Hospitalization For Asthmatics; 2- Dust Mites Appear To Be A Dominant Risk Factor For Asthma; 3- Hospitalization for COPD and Asthma Dramatically Increases With Age; 4- Delirium, Acute Confusion and Malnutrition See As Indicators Of Pneumonia In The Elderly
An expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago studies what he calls the "real relationships" between domestic violence and substance abuse.
A student born and raised in the former Soviet Union may not be the most likely choice to hold a leadership position in a pro-Republican organization at a small, private liberal arts college in Wisconsin in the birthplace of the Grand Old Party. Yet that's exactly where Ripon College's Dmitri Smirenski, a 19-year-old transplant from Moscow, finds himself.
As part of a new sociology class on civil rights, a group of students from St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia is preparing to make a pilgrimage to the deep South to study the legacy of Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders. The new course, "The Civil Rights Movement: The Dream Will Never Die," marks the 30th anniversary of the April 4, 1968 assassination of King, as well as his January 15 birthday.
Chicago's Richard J. Daley was the best American big-city mayor since 1960, and Philadelphia's Frank Rizzo was the worst, according to a nationwide poll of 69 urban historians and political scientists conducted by a history professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
A family member's suicide affects "survivors" in ways that go beyond grief over the death of a loved one, causing emotional reactions that resemble post-traumatic stress disorder and should be treated as such, says an expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago who works with suicide survivors and researches ways to help them best cope with their emotions and loss.
Researchers have spent decades studying the political opinions and behavior of whites and African-Americans. But far less is known about political attitudes of Latinos, say two University of Illinois at Chicago political scientists who have conducted some of the first surveys designed to find out how Chicago Latinos think about politics and act on their beliefs.
The 100th anniversary of the birth of activist/singer Robeson will be celebrated at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus on February 28 with a full day of activities including an academic conference and musical entertainment. Robeson's son, Paul Robeson, Jr., will keynote.
Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh researchers have received nearly $16 million to collaborate on a first-ever research effort that will use brain imaging to analyze complex human thought processes--how people make plans, make decisions under time pressure or solve problems.
Students enrolled in the modern history class "Boomers to Yuppies: American Society Since 1945" at Franklin Pierce College are required to prepare a paper, based on a series of interviews with their parents, examining important events from the 1950s to the 1980s.
With debilitating injuries from computer use becoming the fastest growing category of work-related injuries in the U.S., Carnegie Mellon University has launched the first accurate, comprehensive effort to educate its community and the public about the causes and possible prevention of repetitive stress injuries (RSI).
With ingenuity and humor, Hendrix College English Professor Chuck Chappell has managed to blend his desire to write a novel with his ability to produce scholarly work to create a detective novel that's also a college-level text on the works of William Faulkner.
Dr. Ann H. Die, president of Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, has been elected president of the National Association of Schools and Colleges of the United Methodist Church.
Early in 1998 Hendrix College will break ground on six new residence houses, the first major step in implementing a campus master plan developed by the acknowledged leaders of "new urbanism," Duany Plater-Zyberk Architects and Town Planners of Miami, Fla.
Health related pledges are the most common form of New Year's resolutions and researchers have found that a person's confidence that he or she can make a behavior change and the commitment to making that change are the keys to achieving resolutions.
When the Southern Connecticut Gas Company joined forces with Fairfield University's School of Nursing last year the goal they had in mind was to provide health screening and lead testing for 3,100 adults, adolescents and school-age children, especially children under age 5.
Determined to reach out to homeless children and their parents, Nursing Instructor Lula Mae Phillips has created the Long Island University Childhood Wellness Program, delivering nutrition, safety and health education.
Fairfield University students have won the 1997 Gold Medal for Overall Excellence from Hunger Cleanup.
A study conducted in California reported that children of divorce are more prone to alcohol and substance abuse problems and do less well academically and in society in general.
Leaders of fraternities, and to a lesser extent leaders of sororities, tend to be among the heaviest drinkers and the most out-of-control partiers. A national survey of 25,411 students at 61 institutions reveals that Greek leaders are helping to set norms of binge drinking.
Cornell University Professor of English Timothy Murray examines the relationship between early modern works and avant-garde theater, cinema and the new electronic and digital art forms in new book
"Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity" is the culmination of extensive research into country music and the sociology of culture by Richard Peterson, Vanderbilt University sociologist.
Employees with certain disabilities are more likely to be injured on the job than workers without disabilities. As a result, further research in the design and evaluation of workplace accommodations for these employees may be needed, according to a study by researchers at the University of Iowa College of Medicine.
A physics professor who plays her trumpet and guitar in class to explain the principles of physics and who was named Teacher of the Year by Alpha Sigma Nu at Fairfield University last spring, has become one of the first recipients of a grant under a bew National Science Foundation's program for women in research and education.
The start of a new year -- at least for most of us -- means a vow to diet and to get into shape. Beyond the obvious health considerations, did you ever wonder why getting skinny tops our lists of resolutions?
WUEV, radio station of the University of Evansville in Indiana, launched its UK-based foreign bureau this year, just in time for student/correspondents Stacy Woodruff and Beth Nicewonger to cover the funeral of Princess Diana. The new foreign-correspondent program , developed by the university's mass communication department, is the first of its kind.
Playing with the idea of "The End" is simply too close to the realities of modern anxiety and too much fun to ignore, as Carnegie Mellon Social Historian Peter N. Stearns shows in his book, "Millennium III, Century XXI."
Carnegie Mellon scientists are working with a physician on a new device that could bring relief to the millions of people who suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome. The device provides an effective non-surgical treatment enabling doctors to more accurately treat CTS reducing recovery time and cost.
Commonly considered a disease affecting younger people, AIDS rapidly is becoming a part of older people's lives -- as care givers, family members, friends and patients.
Seniors who enter nursing homes to recuperate after surgery aren't likely to stay there long, according to Miami University sociologist and anthropologist.
White supremacists, militia groups, and conspiracy theorists may seem on the fringe, but they should be taken very seriously, says a sociologist and anthropologist at Miami University of Ohio.
WomenÃs health issues frequently made headlines in 1997 ó from mammograms and pap smears to diet pills and hormone replacement therapy.
November capped a cool autumn in the Northeast, making it the fifth month in a row of average temperatures below the 30-year normal, according to Keith Eggleston, a senior climatologist at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. The region's area-weighted monthly average temperature was 2.9 degrees cooler than normal, making it the 21st coolest November in the last 103 years.
January Online Tipsheet: 1- ECT: Safe, Effective, Affordable -- Why Aren?t We Using It? 2- High Rate of Homelessness Among Newly Diagnosed Patients with Schizophrenia; 3- Confidentiality of Patients Records Threatened; 4- Psychiatrist, Heal Them Quick; 5- What Happens to the Children When Mental Illness Strikes?
Young deer hunters who bring home a trophy buck during firearm season also may be returning with an unwanted acquisition: permanent hearing loss. The results of a new survey by a Central Michigan University audiologist show that most young recreational firearm shooters between the ages of 18 and 30 are in danger of permanently damaging their hearing.
Rates of atmospheric mercury deposition in Maine appear to have reached a peak in the early to mid-1970s and to have declined significantly by 1982, according to a report by University of Maine geologists published in the December issue of the journal Water, Air and Soil Pollution (v. 100: 271-186, 1997). Stephen A. Norton, Gordon C. Evans and Steve Kahl of the UMaine Department of Geological Sciences used archived cores from Sargent Mountain Pond and Big Heath in Acadia National Park on Mt. Desert Island to determine historical trends in mercury deposition from the atmosphere to the Maine landscape. The cores were collected in 1982 and 1983.
Pfizer Inc announced on Dec. 19 that its broad-spectrum antibiotic Trovan (trovafloxacin) had gained marketing clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Discovered and developed by Pfizer, Trovan was cleared for the treatment of 14 bacterial infections, which is the largest number of indications ever included at an intial drug approval in the U.S. More than 13,000 patients participated in 87 studies involving Trovan and 30 comparatoe drug regimens, representing the largest clinical trial program in Pfizer history.
Four Tips from Los Alamos * Record-setting atomic trapping * Wee little boreholes for oil reservoir searches * Lasers and powderscombine under computer control for product making * Chemical reaction for removing actinides from the environment
Scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have found an important molecular clue to genetic diseases caused by expansions of repeated DNA segments. The lengths of the segments and the status of protein synthesis in a cell affect their replication.
Millions of Americans will be protected by new rules the Clinton administration released today telling employers how they must comply with the 1996 Mental Health Parity Act. The administration said all group health plans and all employers with 50 or more workers -- including state governments and churches -- must equalize the annual and lifetime limits imposed on mental and physical health care.
Myotrophin, an experimental drug for Lou Gehrig's disease, appears to slow the disease's symptom progression. Results of a nine-month study involving 266 patients at eight North American medical centers were reported in the December issue of the journal Neurology.
There is no evidence whatsoever to link the creatine supplement or any other supplement to the recent deaths of college wrestlers, and the media implications of a link are irresponsible and not supported by evidence.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- An estimated 70,000 to 90,000 scientists emigrate from Russia every year, according to an article published in the Dec. 22 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, the weekly news magazine of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Because they are in the 30- to 45-year-old range, almost an entire generation of scientists has been lost to one of the world's largest countries.
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