When Stevie Famulari of North Dakota State University, Fargo, walks on the set to compete in a Food Network Challenge, the judges, producers, other competitors and even the camera guys know her as the wildcard or the firecracker. In an episode scheduled to air June 14, Famulari's "Mystery Client Cake" lives up to its name.
Nonprofit groups are becoming increasingly active through their online sites in promoting causes and serving as bridges of civic engagement, according to a new study by University of Southern California professor David Suarez.
Important new research, forthcoming in the August 2009 issue of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, expands our understanding of whether economic concerns outweigh political reforms in their impact on subjective well-being.
Mutiny in the Arctic: New Book Tackles 400-Year-Old Mystery. Was English explorer Henry Hudson, the man credited by Europeans with the discovery of New York, murdered in cold blood by his own crew?
Relocation lowers the likelihood of re-incarceration for parolees, according to new research at The University of Texas at Austin. Using the occurrence of Hurricane Katrina"“"“which ravaged numerous neighborhoods throughout the Louisiana Gulf Coast"”as a natural experiment, sociologist David Kirk examines how consequential a change of residence is to behavioral outcomes such as crime.
Are you someone who squirms when confronted with slime, shudders at stickiness or gets grossed out by gore? If so, you might be politically conservative, according to two Cornell studies.
A recent surge in immigration rates has led psychologists to study how these families are coping and thriving in their adopted countries. In a special June issue of the Journal of Family Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association, researchers report that close family ties are crucial for immigrants' successful transition to their new country.
A study at the University of Houston Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management called "Empathy in the Kitchen," calls for the entrees to be created in silence. The study measures attitudes about non-English-speaking individuals in the hospitality industry and examines ways to change those attitudes.
Challenging the idea that marriage is necessary for solidifying relationships, a new study from The University of Texas at Austin reveals same-sex couples in long-term relationships believe marriage is more important in terms of legal rights, but less so as a symbol of commitment.
Research has shown that talking on a cell phone poses a dangerous distraction for drivers and others whose attention should be elsewhere. Now, a new psychology study finds that just the ring of a cell phone may be equally distracting, especially when it comes in a classroom setting or includes a familiar song as a ringtone.
What the heck? Swearing in teen movies is on the decline. Three BYU professors looked at the top teen movies from the last three decades and found that the instances of profanity has been cut in half since the 1980s.
Indiana University neuroscientist Heather Rupp found that a woman's partner status influenced her interest in men. In the study, no such difference was found between men who had sexual partners and those who did not. In this media tip sheet, IU experts in social networks and career counseling also discuss how to stay positive and find a job during dark times.
The Pathways to Resilience Project is comparing kids who thrive with those who struggle. The goal of the three-year study is to learn what patterns of formal service and informal support work best in different cultural contexts to mitigate risk and promote well-being.
A new study provides some of the strongest evidence to date that Americans prefer to read political articles that agree with the opinions they already hold. Researchers found that people spent 36 percent more time reading articles that agreed with their point of view than they did reading text that challenged their opinions.
A 2009 graduate of the graphic design program at the University of Illinois at Chicago has received a Gold Cube award from the international Art Directors Club.
After setting the world on fire with his groundbreaking research that deconstructed the opening chord to The Beatles' A Hard Days Night, Dalhousie matrh professor Jason Brown is now out to apply mathematical principles to determine what makes the blues, "the blues."
Timothy McKinnon would cross an ocean, wade through a jungle, and climb a mountain to save an endangered language. In fact, that's what the University of Delaware doctoral student is doing on Sumatra, the largest island in Indonesia. McKinnon, the recent recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Student Award, is working to document the Malay dialect known as Kerinci ("cur-in-chee"), which is spoken near the foot of Mount Kerinci, an active volcano that is the highest peak in Sumatra.
Dalhousie professor Dr. Jill Grant is setting out to study the suburbs - why are people moving there, what they they hope to find there and what does it mean to urban centres?
The 2008 index of Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel, carried out at University of Haifa, reveals deterioration of Arab public attitudes: 41% of the Arab citizens recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish and democratic state; 40.5% claim that the Holocaust never occurred.
Lower rates of smoking among black teens may be the result of black parents setting concrete guidelines about substance use and establishing clearly defined consequences for not following those guidelines.
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