http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Many of the battles to desegregate Southern colleges and universities were fought in public, but efforts to desegregate the standardized testing that is often a prerequisite to admission have, until now, received little attention. Now, a new University of Georgia study reveals how two men traveled the Deep South, facing hostility and risking violence, to ensure that students received fair and impartial treatment. http://www.physorg.com/news150739680.html Other Sciences Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:08:00 EST news150739680 Students' successes in the first grade can affect more than their future report cards. In a new study, University of Missouri researchers found links among students' weak academic performance in the first grade, self-perceptions in the sixth grade, and depression symptoms in the seventh grade. http://www.physorg.com/news150643961.html Medicine & Health Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:32:41 EST news150643961 (PhysOrg.com) -- Winter quarter at UC San Diego begins on Jan. 5 and many students are carrying a variety of New Year`s resolutions along with their textbooks. Students who have resolved to improve their lives can take advantage of an array of wellness programs designed to help them improve their mind, body and spirit in the new year. http://www.physorg.com/news150395132.html Medicine & Health Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:25:32 EST news150395132 (PhysOrg.com) -- Across the University of Colorado at Boulder campus students are sharing answers, checking their responses to questions against those of their neighbors and making adjustments to those answers in hopes of earning a better grade. http://www.physorg.com/news150114718.html Other Sciences Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:31:58 EST news150114718 As the need for engineering professionals grows, educators and industry leaders are increasingly concerned with how to attract women to a traditional male career. A new University of Missouri study found the impact of the engineering curriculum and obstacles, including self-efficacy and feelings of inclusion, can impede women's success in the predominantly male discipline of engineering. http://www.physorg.com/news149865692.html Other Sciences Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:21:32 EST news149865692 A survey of employers in the landscape industry revealed the importance of arming landscaping and horticulture students with technical knowledge, practical application, and problem-solving skills. Teaching students the skills necessary to solve complex landscape management decisions is crucial to their career success. http://www.physorg.com/news149769871.html Other Sciences Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:44:31 EST news149769871 A new study suggests that college students may handle stressful situations better if they have a pet. Research has already shown that pets can improve the quality of life for people who are aging or those who are chronically ill. But researchers at Ohio State University recently found that many college students may also benefit from owning a cat or a dog. http://www.physorg.com/news149248731.html Other Sciences Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:58:51 EST news149248731 A groundbreaking study of popularity by a Michigan State University scientist has found that genes elicit not only specific behaviors but also the social consequences of those behaviors. http://www.physorg.com/news149142491.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:28:11 EST news149142491 A new study of college freshman suggests that African Americans may obtain higher grades if they live with a white roommate. A detailed study of students at a large, predominantly-white university revealed that while living with a white roommate may be more challenging than living with someone of the same race, many Black students appear to benefit from the experience. http://www.physorg.com/news148578200.html Other Sciences Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:43:20 EST news148578200 Facebook and other social networking sites aren't just online spaces where students can connect, they're the frontier of self-definition and identity to the first generation raised with the Internet, according to a new book about online campus life by Boston College Professor Ana M. Martinez Aleman. http://www.physorg.com/news148562329.html Other Sciences Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:18:49 EST news148562329 A study in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that after a one-hour delay of school start times, teens increased their average nightly hours of sleep and decreased their "catch-up sleep" on the weekends, and they were involved in fewer auto accidents. http://www.physorg.com/news148543709.html Medicine & Health Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:08:29 EST news148543709 Medical students frequently suffer from depression, especially during their internship years. New research published in the open access journal BMC Medical Education reveals the extent of the problem and features a detailed analysis of the symptoms and sufferers. http://www.physorg.com/news147698110.html Medicine & Health Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:15:10 EST news147698110 (PhysOrg.com) -- Many students learn best working together on structured, self-directed projects. European researchers have created software that links student blogs and other social software tools into a virtual collaborative learning environment. http://www.physorg.com/news147539553.html Technology Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:12:33 EST news147539553 A new study has found that a school-based asthma education program conducted in the Oakland, California school district was shown to reduce symptoms and increase the number of days that children who suffered from asthma were able to go to school. The study will be published this month in the Journal of School Health. http://www.physorg.com/news147532685.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:18:05 EST news147532685 Students doing research for their classes are increasingly turning to online resources, which raises concerns among many academic instructors who have questions about the quality of material found on the Internet. However, research co-authored by North Carolina State University's Dr. Susan Miller-Cochran offers a teaching approach that attempts to address the problem by encouraging students to do their own critical analysis of the material they use in their work - regardless of whether it was found online. http://www.physorg.com/news147449073.html Other Sciences Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:04:33 EST news147449073 Psychiatric disorders appear to be common among 18- to 24-year-olds, with overall rates similar among those attending or not attending college, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. Almost half of college-aged individuals meet criteria for substance abuse, personality disorders or another mental health condition during a one-year period, but only one-fourth of those seek treatment. http://www.physorg.com/news147373171.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:59:31 EST news147373171 U.S. science and engineering students emerge from graduate school exquisitely trained to carry out research. Yet when it comes to the other major activity they'll engage in as professors - teaching - they're usually left to their own devices. http://www.physorg.com/news147015768.html Other Sciences Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:42:48 EST news147015768 Want to quickly improve your happiness and satisfaction with life? Then the pen may be a mighty weapon, according to research done by Kent State University's Dr. Steven Toepfer. http://www.physorg.com/news146830747.html Medicine & Health Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:19:07 EST news146830747 In this week's issue of PLoS Biology, a team of Marseilles University lecturers led by Pascal Hingamp, describe the Annotathon - an innovative bioinformatics teaching approach that appeals to undergraduate biology students. http://www.physorg.com/news146812004.html Biology Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:06:44 EST news146812004 A new article in the journal Communication, Culture & Critique illustrates the ways some college students bear the costs of silence-mediated racialized communication in their everyday classroom activities. Specifically, the essay shows that White privilege enables racially laden communication that regenerates, albeit unintentionally, the social exclusion of American Indian students. Moreover, as the essay argues, this exclusion results not only in myriad unearned stresses for American Indian students but sometimes also in their ultimately abandoning their academic objectives. http://www.physorg.com/news146399909.html Other Sciences Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:38:29 EST news146399909 Non-white medical students are more likely to embrace orthodox medicine and reject therapies traditionally associated with their cultures. That is one finding from an international study that measures the attitudes of medical students toward complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). While seemingly counter-intuitive, white students view CAM more favorably than their non-white counterparts, the study authors say. http://www.physorg.com/news146160351.html Medicine & Health Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:05:51 EST news146160351 A new study in the journal Mind, Brain, and Education reveals that certain types of thinking are best suited to solving certain types of problems. Specifically, geometry problems are best solved by a combination of verbal and spatial strategies, but not shape-based imagery strategies. http://www.physorg.com/news145714643.html Medicine & Health Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:17:23 EST news145714643 With childhood obesity increasing, school administrators and public health officials are reducing availability of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) in schools. In a study published in the November/December 2008 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, researchers found that reduction or elimination of SSB from school menus has little effect on total consumption by adolescents. http://www.physorg.com/news145513814.html Medicine & Health Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:30:14 EST news145513814 Elementary school students will eat more whole grains when healthier bread products are gradually introduced into their school lunches, a new University of Minnesota study shows. http://www.physorg.com/news145280372.html Medicine & Health Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:39:32 EST news145280372 Why are the number of students studying soil science as a major declining across the United States? Mary Collins, University of Florida, Gainesville, writes about this in an article published in the 2008 Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education. http://www.physorg.com/news144928384.html Other Sciences Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:53:04 EST news144928384 (PhysOrg.com) -- Students who just meet Illinois testing standards in eighth grade have virtually no chance of scoring a 20 or above on the ACT, according to a study released Friday by the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. http://www.physorg.com/news144680055.html Other Sciences Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:54:15 EST news144680055 (PhysOrg.com) -- Conventional wisdom holds that diversity pays off in higher education. Now researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found scientific evidence that multiculturalism improves students' experiences on college campuses. http://www.physorg.com/news144605487.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:11:27 EST news144605487 It is not surprising that people are more willing to participate in a task if it does not require too much effort. What is interesting, however, is the way we determine just how easy a task will be and therefore, how motivated we are to complete it. New research from University of Michigan psychologists Hyunjin Song and Norbert Schwarz investigates how thinking about a task (i.e., how complex or simple it will be) affects our attitude toward the task itself. http://www.physorg.com/news144580532.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:15:32 EST news144580532 In a study of medical students, more serious cardiac risk estimates were given to Christians and less serious estimates for Muslims despite the patients being otherwise identical in their characteristics and symptoms, according to research in an upcoming issue of Medical Decision Making published by SAGE. Risk assessment, the first step in a medical triage process, determines subsequent treatment. http://www.physorg.com/news143996380.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:59:40 EST news143996380 Lack of sleep, excessive television/computer screen time, stress, gambling, alcohol and tobacco use and other health-related issues are taking a toll on college students' academic performance, according to a study released by the University of Minnesota Boynton Health Service. http://www.physorg.com/news143809940.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:12:20 EST news143809940