The Gerontological Society of America announces Hartford Fellowship recipients
...overcome their greatest obstacles, such as limited teacher training and career guidance. These fellowships cultivate the next generation of geriatric social work faculty as teachers, role models and mentors for future generations of geriatric social workers. Nickle will be writing her dissertation on the "Sy...Researchers track program's success in curbing aggressive behavior
...ve from the rest of the class, Dr. Brown said, the teacher draws on the powerful influence of a students' peers to collectively reinforce positive behavior. "The intervention also was effective over the long term for the boys at highest risk -- their rate of aggression was much lower in middle school, and ...Mother's depression associated with increased risk of child's antisocial behavior
...ages five and seven was determined from mother and teacher reports. The researchers found that children of mothers who were depressed during the child's first five years of life had significantly higher ASB levels at seven years of age. A mother's depression taking place after the children's birth was associ...Northwestern Memorial chosen to be featured in first-ever mini-med school TV airing on PBS
... physician and researcher, but also a professor a teacher by nature and it's a dream to be given the opportunity to educate people across the nation through television, the most accessible outlet in the country," said Dr. McCarthy. "The more we can do to talk about medicine in an interesting, easy to und...Social development program in childhood aids in positive functioning as an adult
...ticipants at 21 years of age. The project included teacher training, child social and emotional skill development, and parent training. The full-intervention group (n = 156) consisted of children who received an average of 4.13 years of intervention during grades one through six. The late-intervention group ...Dairy Council of California program receives high marks from teachers & students
...ty within the food groups and providing supporting teacher materials. Teachers also found that the program was easy and fun to teach because their students were enthused about the lessons. The majority of teachers were highly satisfied with the program components and outcomes, and plan to use it again....Methylphenidate improves attention, behavior of children surviving leukemia, brain tumors
...by specific tests and according to both parent and teacher reports. They ranged in age from six months to 14.3 years when they were first diagnosed with cancer, and 6.7 to 17.9 years when they were in the study. The researchers identified specific children as having attention or behavior problems through v...The NYU Child Study Center presents the inaugural State of the Science lecture
...and adolescent mental health. As a researcher and teacher he is particularly interested in building bridges between knowledge of child development on the one hand and clinical child psychiatry on the other. Initially, his work focused on autism and on questions surrounding origins of the disorder. His res...Fewer fizzy drinks can prevent childhood obesity
...of 0.2%. "Our intervention was simple, involved no teacher training, and could be easily implemented by a health educator working in several schools," say the authors. "Although our targeted approach was modestly beneficial, other external influences on children's eating habits and leisure activities need to...Environmental educators win 2004 Tyler Prize
...according to its Web site. "It's a place where the teacher is thelearner and the learner is the teacher. It's a place where no degreesand certificates are given because in development there are noexperts - only resource persons. It's a place ... where all are treatedas equals, and there is no hierarchy." ...Experience is more effective than classroom learning in changing age bias in dental students
...d a universal truth: Experience is a more powerful teacher than words. Findings from a survey administered to the dental students before they took part in an intervention developed to increase their knowledge of the elderly and again at the end of the school year showed that bias actually increased in studen...Helping teachers use keys to vocabulary building
...ch vocabulary," said Bromley, a former third-grade teacher and K-6 reading specialist, who conducts research ...rds. "That was disquieting to me because a reading teacher ought to love the language," she said. Approximately 70 percent of the words students need for every...New endowed chair established at Vanderbilt to promote brain resesarch
...e lives of people; he is a committed and inspiring teacher of undergraduates, who actively participate in his research; and he is deeply committed to being part of a community engaged in serious and civil debate on basic questions of science, research and higher education. We are fortunate that Robin and Ri...Study finds classroom study groups more effective when organized by social networks
...lso less effective was a third method in which the teacher both selected the leaders and assigned the student...y comparing it with two other methods: random and teacher selection. Some 1,961 sixth-graders in 16 Los Angeles-area schools took part in the smoking prevent...Researchers fly away from gravity on the 35th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign
...ording the results on ESA 3D cameras," says Centre teacher Pierre-Emmanuel Paulis. "We will put them on display at the Centre as soon as possible, and use them to teach young children about space." ESA also organises parabolic flight campaigns for students. Do you have a promising idea for a weightlessness e...'Voice academy' Web site, funded by NIDCD grant, helps teachers address voice problems
...mplification. "If a classroom can't be improved, a teacher might wear a portable amplification system, which costs around $300," Ostrem said. "College professors may not have as many speaking hours per week as an elementary school teacher, but sometimes the acoustic conditions in college settings are quite p...Sept/Oct Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...cade, Sax and Kautz researched the extent to which teacher recommendations and parental preferences play a role in the diagnosis and treatment of the disorder. The researchers found that teachers and other school personnel are often the first to suggest the diagnosis of ADHD. That fact may be one explanati...Sudden cardiac death: New risk factor first identified in Illinois family by SLU cardiologist
...fibrillator implanted on Aug. 13. Mary Hill, 55, a teacher at St. Peters and Paul School in Collinsville, Ill., delayed her surgery until Sept. 29 so that she could get the school year started for her second-graders. "This is an electrical phenomenon of the heart and it's a treatable condition," Dr. Bjerreg...Irvine chemist wins national award for new drug techniques
...erest in chemistry until I was inspired by a great teacher in college. What ultimately intrigued me was not only the idea of studying the natural world but also creating things that didn't exist before." Overman received his undergraduate degree from Earlham College in 1965 and his doctorate from the Univers......r, very little seems to be known about it from the teacher standpoint," Cooper said. "Most teachers aren't tr...Cooper said the team also plans a pilot in-service teacher program on normal toileting for children. "We've identified a problem and now we need to figure out ...