Humanities Information

Dr. Joel Jenne is available to discuss the importance of social studies in school systems. In the wake of No Child Left Behind, many states have de-emphasized social studies. A new law in Maryland re-emphasizes the subject's importance, mandating an assessment test in government for high school graduation.

The NYU School of Medicine will host a special screening of GIGANTE, a documentary about Andres "Yungo" Torres, a Puerto Rican professional baseball player currently with the New York Mets and his struggles with acute ADHD. It revisits the pivotal years of his childhood in flashbacks interpreted by children culled from the humble Western Puerto Rican neighborhood where Yungo was raised and flashes forward between his last year as a San Francisco Giant and his new beginning with the Mets. Starring his teammates, coaches, family, and the luminaries of ADHD research, GIGANTE aims to put a light on the man who has achieved so much in spite of one of the most acute manifestations of the disorder. Part cautionary tale, part biopic, it aims to inform, enlighten and inspire.

Most Americans (52 percent) have concluded that figuring out their income taxes is easier than knowing what they should and shouldn't eat to be healthier, according to the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation's 2012 Food & Health Survey.

This Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates the May 25, 1889, birthday of Igor Sikorsky, inventor of the world's first mass-produced helicopter.

The Smithsonian's National Postal Museum has launched a new microsite, "RFD: Marketing to a Rural Audience," telling the story of how an experimental mail service in the late 1800s created a new commercial market.

For best communication, patients and doctors should clarify their goals.

Less than a year after launching an aggressive initiative to increase the number of graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, the University of Mississippi has graduated three African-American students with doctorates in chemistry.

Keuka College is located in the heart of wine country in Upstate New York. In a business entrepreneurship class, students gain practical experience marketing a wine produced by a local winery.

His Royal Highness Prince Charles visited today with students, staff, faculty and alumni at Ryerson University's Digital Media Zone.

Social scientists and marketers expressed dismay when the U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to eliminate the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, a source of data on income, housing, education, labor force and other demographics. However, a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher maintains that this and other surveys, polls, interviews, and focus groups produce unreliable results.

Northern Michigan University has announced the new NMU Veterans Scholarship for all eligible U.S. military veterans who want to pursue a college degree.

Two popular MTV programs about teenage pregnancy -- "16 and Pregnant" and "Teen Mom" -- were met with national debate. Critics said the shows glamorized teenage pregnancy, while supporters said they discouraged it. A new study by an Indiana University professor suggests they're both right.

The "devil is in the details" of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) pending in the U.S. Congress, says University at Buffalo Associate Professor Mark Bartholomew, an expert in intellectual property and cyber law.

Donald Nieman will become the next provost and vice president for academic affairs of Binghamton University. As the current dean of Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, with a long history of administrative service and a stellar academic background, Nieman is well suited to continue the development of Binghamton's academic programs and to strengthen the University's outstanding reputation for undergraduate and graduate education.

SpaceX's launch to the International Space Station opens a new era in commercial spaceflight -- and raises questions about what laws govern private space companies and what legal obstacles affect future human space travel.

Western Illinois University's Titan Arum #3, a plant nicknamed the "Corpse Flower" due to its putrid odor when it blooms, is on the verge of blooming again. The first time it bloomed was June 29, 2010.

Conventional wisdom, backed by years of research, suggests that healthy marriages equals a healthy society. And politicians and government officials have taken note, investing hundreds of millions of dollars each year in education programs designed to promote healthy marriages, focusing specifically on poor couples and couples of color. Is it working? No, says a Binghamton University researcher in a new study published in the current issue of American Psychologist, the flagship journal of the American Psychological Association. And it's because many of these programs were based on research data gathered from White and middle-class marriages, and when applied to poor couples or couples of color, just don't work.

Prof. Danielle Citron, an international authority on privacy and cyber-harassment, issued a statement on the sentencing of Dharun Ravi in the Rutgers spycam case.

"Operation Market Garden" may be one of World War II's most ambitious battles, but it is also one of the least understood, particularly from an American perspective. In his latest book, Dr. John C. McManus tells America's side of the story.

Peter Tsantes, the treasurer of the New York chapter of the American Foundation for Greek Language and Culture (AFGLC), along with Despina, his wife, and their children Vasilios and Sophia, donated $100,000 to strengthen the Hellenic studies program at Stony Brook University. The gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar by the Simons Foundation Challenge Grant, providing a total impact of $200,000.

Rubber loons, based on a traditional rubber duck concept, will drop into an Adirondack waterway Memorial Day weekend for the world's first event of its type using American-made products.

This month, thousands of college graduates are walking across the stage to shake hands, smile for the camera, and pick up their diplomas. Many of those newly minted American college graduates are moving out of their dorm rooms and back into their childhood bedrooms. Johns Hopkins University sociologist Katherine Newman estimates that about 85 percent of today's college students will return home to live at some point after they graduate, based on her research for her latest book, The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition (Beacon Press, January 2012).

Mississippi State will officially serve as host to a presidential library--one of only five universities in the nation to share such a distinction. Ulysses S. Grant Association President Frank J. Williams formally announced the decision of the organization's board of directors to designate the Ulysses S. Grant Collection at MSU's Mitchell Memorial Library as the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library.

Uri Rosset, a lecturer at Sapir College in Sderot, Israel, and an expert on the Middle East, was Western Illinois University in early May as a guest lecturer for the School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration (LEJA) and its Homeland Security Research Program (HSRP). Through his classroom presentations and University-wide lecture covering terrorism, the Middle East and the Arab Spring in the Middle East and North Africa, Rosset provided WIU students and faculty with contemporary and historical perspectives of the Hamas and Hezbollah organizations, as well as of the Arab Spring revolutionary wave.

The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a three-year, $950,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to lead a joint study of city governments' responses to and recovery from the Great Recession.