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Social & Behavioral Sciences Made for Action U. North Carolina-Chapel Hill Endeavors Neighborhoods that get us going keep us fit. -- Neil Caudle research.unc.edu/endeavors/win2004/action.html The Story of Grief Indiana U. Research & Creativity A child's death rewrites the story of family life. -- Lauren J. Bryant www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v25n2/gilbert.shtml Lifeline Indiana U. Research & Creativity One of the world's pioneers in stem-cell research continues looking for answers in umbilical cord blood. -- Elizabeth Hunt www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v26n1/lifeline.shtml People Want to See Themselves in the Funny Pages Virginia Tech Research Do you have a favorite comic strip? If you are like most people, you donŐt have just one. We are attracted to comic strips with characters and points of view we can identify with. -- Susan Trulove www.research.vt.edu/resmag/2003winter/funnypages.html Baby Steps and Beyond Indiana U. Research & Creativity When it comes to a baby's movement, the body instructs the brain. -- Ceci Jones Schrock www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v25n2/thelen.shtml 2003 issue: A SHARPER IMAGE Arizona State U Research A set of ancient bone tools discovered in a cave along the South African coast is rattling anthropologists’ assumptions about human origins.—Danika Painer http://researchmag.asu.edu/stories/bonetools.html A WATCHFUL EYE U of Georgia Research Reporter University of Georgia researchers are keeping an eye on the world’s weapons of mass destruction.—Catherine Gianaro http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/researchnews/summer2001/eye.html ANTICIPATING MADAM PRESIDENT Ohio U Perspectives It’s not a matter of if a woman will be elected president, researchers say. It’s a matter of when—Nick Kowalczyk http://www.ohiou.edu/perspectives/0301/feat_3.htm BETTER THAN GOLD S. Illinois U-Carbondale Perspectives The artifacts are stunning, but archaeologist Izumi Shimada prizes the knowledge he’s gained even more.—Marilyn Davis http://www.siu.edu/%7Eperspect/02_sp/sican.htm CULTIVATING INQUIRING MINDS U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Profile A new method of teaching math and science tries to pique students’ curiosity and connect learning to life experiences.—Joan Lenherr http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Grad_Sch/Publications/ResearchProfile/Vol23No1/cultivating.html FLORIDA'S FIRST PEOPLE Florida State U Research in Review New clues found in the Gulf pose questions about the origins of the Peninsula’s early arrivals.—James Call http://www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/winter2002/index.html LIFE PRECARIOUS IN ISLAND PARADISE Virginia Tech Research Two major disasters that shook St. Vincent in 1888 and 1902 “encouraged changes in land use there and changed the human geography.”—Sally L. Harris http://www.research.vt.edu/resmag/resmag2001/caribbean.html MAKING HISTORY: TECH ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNCOVER WESTPOINT FOUNDRY Michigan Tech Research Michigan Tech industrial archaeologists are rebuilding history by plotting, mapping, and preserving it at the nearly two-century-old West Point Foundry, located near the small New York tourist village of Cold Spring.—Paula McCambridge http://www.mtu.edu/research/researchmag03/arch.htm MOVING BEYOND FEAR Yale Medicine In Kenya’s lively and cosmopolitan capital, where HIV has made alarming inroads, there’s a desperate need for good prevention strategies. The right message, it seems, is one that encourages self-respect.—Karen Schmidt http://www.med.yale.edu/external/pubs/ym_w02/nairobi/nairobi1.html NOT BY JOBS ALONE Research/PennState Welfare reform marked a radical change in the American war on poverty. But how has it affected the lives of struggling families? To find out, Linda Burton and a host of her colleagues are conducting the largest ethnography of its kind ever attempted.—David Pacchioli http://www.rps.psu.edu/0301/jobs.html RURAL AMERICA'S RED RIBBONS Ohio U Perspectives The nation awoke to the nightmare of AIDS nearly two decades ago, but the country’s rural areas still appear to be sleeping. A new national study is painting a picture of life with HIV in small-town America. And, researchers say, it’s often a bleak image.—Kelli Whitlock http://www.ohiou.edu/perspectives/0301/cvr_stry.htm SOBERING TIMES FOR TREATMENT CENTERS U of Georgia Research Magazine Hard hit by healthcare changes, private rehab centers increase survival chances through better programs and fewer risky business practices.—Judy Purdy http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/researchnews/summer2002/sober01.htm THE ASH OF ANCIENT HEARTHS UNC-Chapel Hill Endeavors Eight centuries ago, a community vanished, its people consumed not by fire or flood or plague, but by their own kind.—Neil Caudle http://research.unc.edu/endeavors/win2001/billman.htm THE NATURE WE SHARE UNC-Chapel Hill Endeavors Will banishing Maasai from parks protect Tanzania’s wildlife, or make things worse?—Neil Caudle http://research.unc.edu/endeavors/fall2002/nature_we_share.html THE PHONICS REVIVAL Florida State U Research in Review In a fight to save a proud heritage in literacy, America is finally listening to what a small corps of reading researchers have been saying for three decades. Phonics-based reaching is now the new law of the land.—Frank Stephenson http://www.research.fsu.edu/researchr/summer2002/phonics.html WHAT THE NEEDLES SAID Yale Medicine Yale scientists couldn’t test drug users for HIV so they followed the hypodermics instead and proved the worth of one of the nation’s first legal needle exchanges. A decade later, countless lives have been saved as a result.—John Curtis http://www.med.yale.edu/external/pubs/ym_su01/needle/needle.html WHISTLE-BLOWERS' CONCERN ABOUT RETALIATION JUSTIFIED Virginia Tech Research Sherron Watkins was justified in her concern that she might suffer retaliation for exposing the accounting scandal at Enron, according to Joyce Rothschild, who has conducted the only national study of whistleblowers from all walks of life.—Sally Harris http://www.research.vt.edu/resmag/2002summer/whistleblower.html |
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