Two Elizabethtown College students and two faculty members will travel to South Africa during Spring Break, taking with them 47 wind instruments to create a music program in a rural school.
A wind ensemble and chorus will travel from Tuscaloosa to Enterprise, Ala., for the debut of a musical composition called "Enterprise." The University of Alabama commissioned the work to memorialize eight students killed in a tornado at Enterprise High School on March 1, 2007. Dr. Ken Ozzello will lead the Alabama Wind Ensemble and University Singers.
Bad reactions to a prescribed medication send more than 175,000 older Americans to the emergency room each year. Just 10 commonly used medications"”almost all of them for heart disease or diabetes"” account for half of these reactions. The March 2008 issue of the Harvard Heart Letter offers tips about safely taking these important but potentially tricky medications.
With colorectal cancer the second leading cause of cancer death, it's a great time to take a look at the health of your colon. UCLA offers 10 tips to help lower your risk of colorectal cancer. March is colorectal cancer awareness month.
As many as half of patients with superficial bladder cancer do not respond to the standard first-line chemotherapy placed into the bladder, according to current multi-center outcomes data. When this happens, typically, their only option is surgical removal of the bladder. Now, researchers are investigating an FDA-approved metastatic breast-cancer drug called Abraxane that may prove a safe and effective alternative to surgery for these patients.
While many of us are worried about E. coli 0157 in our food supply, a pre-harvest food safety expert at Kansas State University cautions that other types of E. coli shouldn't go ignored.
The long-awaited unification between the Indy Racing League and the owners of the Champ Car World Series creates opportunities for open-wheel racing to regain some of its lost audience and financial support, according to a sports marketing expert at the University of Indianapolis. Dr. Larry DeGaris is available for interviews on this and other sports marketing issues.
For women who lack a home or a safe place to stay, getting a regular mammogram is probably way down on their list of things to do. They are too busy struggling just to survive. But now California Pacific Medical Center is providing free mammograms and a full health care check-up for some homeless women at the next Project Homeless Connect on February 27th at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco.
Researchers at the University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) have developed the SOMA Terror Organization Portal (STOP) allowing analysts to query automatically learned rules on terrorist organization behavior, forecast potential behavior based on these rules, and, most importantly, to network with other analysts examining the same subjects.
Ever wanted to learn how to perform a tracheotomy? Wish you could remove a bone spur? Well, while the latest installment of the UNC School of Medicine's annual Mini-Medical School will not equip participants with that level of skill and knowledge, the three-part weekly series is designed to give lay audiences first hand experience with the science underlying the practice of modern medicine. Topics on the agenda this year include research and clinical perspectives on aging, GI reflux disease, stroke prevention and the many faces of dementia.
Middle school students participating in a stock investing program that teaches them strategies for earning, saving and investing money outperformed other students in several key academic areas.
A neuro-pharmacologist at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio says focused thought and political activism develops brain neural connections.
Four students in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech have created a swiftwater victim-transport harness for boat transport.
Starbucks' decision to close its stores Tuesday for three hours of employee training is a clever corporate move with potential impact beyond the stated purpose, says an assistant professor of management at the University of Indianapolis. Dr. Terry Schindler is available for further comment on this and other topics related to Starbucks and management strategy.
Whether as rescue robot or flying spy, a micro-aerial vehicle could change how we look at the common housefly.
The recommendation systems that suggest books at Amazon and movies at Netflix will soon bring you personalized news.
Laptop computers are desperately in need of a new battery, and Christina Lampe-Onnerud says she's got one.
For years, getting a lot of calcium has been portrayed as one of the best things you could do to prevent osteoporosis and related bone fractures. Small study results supported this view. But when researchers started to crunch the data from large, prospective studies that followed people for many years, the benefits weren't so clear-cut, reports the March 2008 issue of the Harvard Health Letter.
A Dalhousie University kinesiology student has been leading a dozen Halifax elementary students in a pogo stick fitness regimen, a workout and sports routine with a little extra bounce. The sessions are testing the health benefits of the familiar childhood toy.
David Skillicorn, Queen's University computing professor and expert in political spin, says Barack Obama has a tendency to spin his messages, while John McCain has the lowest level of spin of all the candidates "“ followed by Hillary Clinton. Using computer software designed to detect deception, Dr. Skillicorn analyzed speeches by candidates for the U.S. presidential election from the beginning of 2008 to the middle of February.
Those who normally don't file income tax returns need to do so this year in order to receive stimulus checks. There are options for those who can't afford a regular tax preparer.
Scientists hope that research being conducted in Binghamton University's Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy will create lasers that work at wavelengths currently inaccessible.
Working with University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering and business school faculty and students, a Wisconsin entrepreneur has perfected a fiber-reinforced fishing lure that may prevent millions of pounds of toxic plastics from polluting waters nationwide.
A new type of scanning transmission electron microscope recently installed at Cornell is enabling scientists for the first time to form images that uniquely identify individual atoms and see how those atoms bond to one another. And in living color.
Central Michigan University's Ted Bolema, an expert on business mergers and antitrust law and a former trial attorney with the Department of Justice, says that he expects no serious roadblocks in a possible merger between Northwest and Delta Airlines. He is available to comment on the issue.
A rare artifact from the American colonists' early rebellion against the British, and a publicly unseen relic of 19th century African spirit practices in Annapolis will be part of a unique display of Archaeological treasures to mark the city's 300th anniversary. The display is the first comprehensive look at 27 years of excavations in the city by University of Maryland archaeologists.
Type 1 diabetes, formerly called insulin-dependent diabetes, is a common chronic pediatric disease. Children's Hospital researchers are following multiple strategies to preventing and treating the illness. Researchers are discovering causative genes, seeking ways to manipulate beta cells to restore insulin production, and conducting a clinical trial of insulin pills that may prevent type 1 diabetes.
Dr. Robert S. Fleming can discuss the potential fallout if the broken spy satellite is shot down.
Obesity in pets mirrors that of humans, as do the reasons -- decreased physical activity, age, and an increased caloric intake, even genetic predisposition. Like humans, there are also many health problems associated with being obese, such as diabetes mellitus.
As the political process has gone high-tech, a URI political science professor is examining the influence of the Internet on individuals during political campaigns. He is available to comment throughout this year's presidential campaign.
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