Soaring real estate prices make owning and maintaining a vacation home an expensive endeavor. There is however tax information that every homeowner should be aware of if they want to make their vacation property pay.
In the wake of the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech, America is asking tough questions about its gun laws. But at the same time, Americans are also asking if stricter gun laws will really lead to less violence. Maria Kefalas, Ph.D., sociologist and director of Saint Joseph's University's Institute for Violence Research and Prevention is not convinced that it's the guns that equal violence.
It's happening again. Americans are pulling up to gas stations, putting the nozzle in the gas tank, and watching the ticker reach prices reminiscent of the post-Hurricane Katrina days. But with the cost of crude oil dropping, and Katrina two years behind us, why are consumers still paying more at the pump?
Saint Joseph's University students help low-to-middle income community residents with tax preparation.
Saint Joseph's University career expert discusses 2007 job market.
"Individuals affected by autism are like snowflakes," says Associate Professor of Health Services Michelle Rowe, Ph.D. "No two are alike." With April designated Autism Awareness Month, Dr. Rowe seeks to increase understanding of the complexities of the disease.
"Can a Healthy Food Industry Coexist with a Healthy America?" With obesity a national epidemic, senior food industry leaders will convene at Saint Joseph's University for a one-day Food Industry Summit focused on finding the right balance between the pursuit of healthy eating and the business of food marketing.
Stephen Cooper, computer science professor at Saint Joseph's University, is working to reduce the attrition rate among first-year computer science majors nationally.
A Saint Joseph's University biologist has been awarded an $850,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project that sends university students to public schools in North Philadelphia to develop and teach hands-on science programs that increase science literacy in traditionally underserved neighborhoods.
A new lecture series at Saint Joseph's University aims to bring together faculty members and students in the university's three science majors--biology, chemistry, and physics--for interdisciplinary discussions about cutting-edge topics.
Using nearly $5 million in federal grants, Saint Joseph's University has established a distance-learning center to prepare the country's emergency-response community for the psychological consequences of incidents involving weapons of mass destruction.
While the digital economy poses serious threats to established brick-and-mortar firms, e-business represents a significant opportunity for entrepreneurs, conclude two Saint Joseph's University researchers in a new study. (New England Journal of Entrepreneurship)
Ninety-seven percent of pregnant women fail to sleep through the night by the end of their pregnancy, according to a new study by researchers at Saint Joseph's University and Delaware County (Pa.) Memorial Hospital. (Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, 10-00)
Baseball has inspired poetry and drawn rhapsodic praise from some of the country's most gifted writers, but this semester a Saint Joseph's University's business professor is taking a more hardheaded look at America's pastime.
A new monograph by a Saint Joseph's University consumer expert, available for free over the Internet, provides step-by-step strategies that can be used by the average customer in a wide variety of buying situations.
A $150,000 grant to a Saint Joseph's University scholar to direct the publication of an online edition of "The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle" has been awarded by The National Endowment for the Humanities.
Victorian writer Thomas Carlyle and his wife, diarist and correspondent Jane Welsh Carlyle, greatly influenced 19th century intellectual life; that influence will be the subject of a conference in Philadelphia, April 6-8.
Investing in an ascendant Africa will be the topic of discussion when hundreds of scholars, businesspeople, and government officials from across the globe converge on Atlantic City for the International Academy of African Business and Development conference.
National Sleep Awareness Week, from March 26 through April 2, will offer a Saint Joseph's University psychologist the chance to spread the news about the importance of sleep and how best to obtain its benefits.
The 30th Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, which annually draws the world's top scholars in the Holocaust to remember and learn the lessons of 20th century genocide, will meet at Saint Joseph's University, March 4-7.
Isaac Newton's mathematical method shaped the course of modern science, but his works are rarely read today--except by all students at St. John's College, where a conference devoted to his thought is scheduled for March 19-21.
Scott McRobert, professor of biology at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, collects, studies and breeds dozens of threatened and endangered species from around the world-- including the much-celebrated Epibpedobates tricolor or "poison dart" frog from South America.
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.
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