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Delinquent youths with PTSD need individualized treatment, studies suggest
Oct 6, 2016 8:15 am571 views
Juvenile offenders who have a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder are at 67 percent greater risk of entering substance abuse treatment within seven years, a new study led by a University of Illinois scholar found.
Did news coverage turn Americans against the Vietnam War?
Sep 5, 2017 11:30 am5601 views
News coverage of the Vietnam War did not have the effect on popular support that many believe, says a University of Illinois researcher.
Discrimination, family conflict key sources of stress for Latina immigrants
Nov 19, 2014 9:00 am102 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Racial discrimination and family issues are key contributors to the acculturative stress experienced by Latina immigrant women in the U.S., new research suggests.
Disruptions in daily routine can adversely affect a couple's conversation
Feb 9, 2009 9:00 am73 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Is the communication in your relationship a little frosty?
Distracted much? New research may help explain why
Oct 5, 2016 8:15 am2043 views
A new study offers evidence that one’s motivation is just as important for sustained attention to a task as is the ease with which the task is done.
Do a candidate's promises match their deeds when elected?
Oct 30, 2012 9:00 am31 views
A Minute With™... political scientist Tracy Sulkin
Doctors played a role in ideas about racial differences
Feb 6, 2018 9:45 am794 views
Physicians played a key role in defining racial differences in the age of slavery, planting ideas that have carried to the present day, says a U. of I. historian in a new book.
Does climate change result in civil unrest?
Nov 18, 2015 8:30 am191 views
A Minute With...™ Peter Nardulli, political scientist
Does one-party rule mean all Trump promises become reality?
Nov 16, 2016 12:00 pm1172 views
Donald Trump may not get everything he wants from Congress, despite its Republican majorities, says Illinois political science professor Tracy Sulkin.
Does the Facebook Generation need limits on screen time?
Nov 8, 2013 9:00 am5 views
A Minute With™... Barbara Wilson, an expert on the social and psychological effects of media on youth
Do Google search results reflect racial bias?
Feb 18, 2013 9:00 am8 views
A Minute With™... Safiya Umoja Noble, a professor of African American studies
Don't forget portion control when filling MyPlate
Mar 23, 2009 9:00 am2 views
A Minute With™... Karen Chapman-Novakofski, a professor of food science and human nutrition
Do politics or protests have a place in sports?
Sep 28, 2017 12:30 pm3043 views
A U. of I. professor who specializes in the history of sports says it’s not realistic to see sporting events as free of politics or protest
Do summer jobs provide lifelong benefits for teens?
Jun 11, 2018 8:30 am609 views
University of Illinois Extension educator Kathy Sweedler, whose focus area is consumer economics, spoke recently with News Bureau education editor Sharita Forrest about what teens can gain from summer jobs.
Do voters ever learn anything from campaign commercials, or are the ads all just so much mudslinging?
Sep 26, 2008 9:00 am17 views
A Minute With™... Scott Althaus, a professor of political science and of communication
Do we really know what's driving income inequality?
Jun 6, 2016 8:30 am846 views
Rethinking inequality and its causes: A Minute With™ sociologist Kevin Leicht
Dual-earner families, gender roles, and the economic recession
Nov 8, 2010 9:00 am427 views
A Minute With™... Amit Kramer, a professor of labor and employment relations
Ebert Symposium to feature IMAX film, astronaut videographer, storytelling with data
Sep 13, 2018 10:15 am819 views
The first Roger Ebert Symposium will explore the cinematic presentation of science with help from an IMAX film shot from space, a former astronaut and a diverse group of academics and experts.
E-cigarette use rising dramatically among Illinois teens, survey finds
Nov 8, 2018 8:00 am1071 views
The use of electronic cigarettes has increased by 65 percent among sophomores and by 45 percent among seniors in Illinois high schools over the past two years, according to this year's Illinois Youth Survey.
Education debate tonight at Columbia a duel of 'fundamental opposites'
Oct 21, 2008 9:00 am8 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - If there's one issue the candidates have been near silent on in the run-up to Election Day, it's education. But when the education advisers for John McCain and Barack Obama square off in a surrogate debate about where their candidate stands on the issues tonight (Oct. 21), it will be a battle of "fundamental opposites" on the educational policy spectrum, says James D. Anderson, the Gutsgell Professor of educational policy studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Educators to discuss how to better serve Latino pupils
Oct 10, 2011 9:00 am7 views
CHAMPAIGN,Ill. - A panel of local educators who specialize in meeting the needs of immigrant children will discuss strategies for providing early childhood and elementary education to young Latinos at noon on Oct. 14 (Friday).
Egypt historical study shows 'traditional' marriage more modern than we think
Jun 15, 2015 9:00 am529 views
Mention traditional marriage and family and it’s easy to think you’re talking about age-old customs. Those “traditional” ideals and practices, however, are more likely a product of the last two centuries, says a University of Illinois history professor.
Election recap: Illinois elected a Republican governor, but Democrats retain the legislature
Dec 5, 2014 9:00 am11 views
A Minute With™... Christopher Z. Mooney, the director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs and the W. Russell Arrington Professor of State Politics on the Springfield campus.
Emancipated blacks often targeted for relocation to the tropics
Feb 19, 2018 10:45 am428 views
Every significant emancipation of black enslaved people in North America came with plans to relocate them to tropical areas, says a U. of I. historian.
Emotional suppression reduces memory of negative events
Mar 13, 2018 8:15 am1704 views
By peering at the brains of study subjects prompted to suppress negative emotions, scientists have gained new insights into how emotional regulation influences negative feelings and memories. They hope the findings will lead to new methods to combat depression.
Epidemic played large role in shift of attitudes on abortion, author says
Jun 23, 2010 9:00 am82 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Before Roe v. Wade, there was ... German measles.
EU ambassador to speak Nov. 9 as part of EU Day at Illinois
Nov 1, 2018 2:15 pm251 views
The EU’s ambassador to the U.S. will discuss the U.K. Brexit process and transatlantic relations as part of EU Day on Nov. 9.
Exercise to let students experience what it's like to live on low income
Sep 27, 2010 9:00 am72 views
CHAMPAIGN,Ill. - About 150 students who are taking an introductory course in social work at the University of Illinois this semester will experience the problems that
Expert compares high cost of health care to goods consumers can relate to
Nov 16, 2007 9:00 am9 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - If Americans spent the same amount of money on health care as counterparts in Canada and a number of other countries, the difference between what they spend now and what they would save annually would be enough to pay for two plasma TVs or three Big Macs a day.
Expert says state policies can have an impact on public health
Mar 12, 2010 9:00 am13 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - In a new study, Tom O'Rourke, a professor emeritus of community health at the University of Illinois, examined 25 variables in four categories to see how state policies might affect residents' health.
Experts should be thinking -- now -- beyond Katrina rescue effort
Sep 2, 2005 9:00 am6 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - While post-Katrina rescue and evacuation operations continue to be the priority in New Orleans, urban planning expert Rob Olshansky says now also is the time to be staging the next phase of the city's disaster-recovery plans.
Facebook, 'soft surveillance,' and the Millennial Generation
Oct 2, 2006 9:00 am16 views
A Minute With™... Noshir Contractor, a professor of speech communication and of psychology
Fair play in sport not easy to define in a high-tech age, expert says
Jul 26, 2012 9:00 am323 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The technological edge can come in a swimmer's revolutionary suit, in a cyclist's specialized bike, in any athlete's drug of choice - whether legal, untraceable or not yet banned.
Family debt hurts children's chances for success in college, study says
Jan 9, 2012 9:00 am14 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Families that have high amounts of unsecured debt, such as outstanding credit card balances and payday loans, diminish their children's prospects of attending or graduating from college, according to a new study by social work professors Min Zhan at the University of Illinois and Michael Sherraden, the founder of the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis.
Family thought to play part in reducing stress for young Mexicans, study shows
Jan 8, 2013 9:00 am15 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Family members may play a unique and influential role in buffering Mexican youth against the negative effects of stress as they transition into adulthood, suggests a new study by an interdisciplinary group of researchers at universities in Mexico and the U.S.
Fashion, sex, 'gray market of power' helped lead to French Revolution
Nov 22, 2013 9:00 am198 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Today we call it influence, clout, "who you know." It gets junior into the top school, swings the big business deal, gets legislation passed or killed.
Fear of Germany's destruction drove Nazism's appeal, scholar says
Jun 17, 2008 9:00 am293 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Seventy-five years after the Nazis rose to power, historians still struggle to explain how the Nazis could take such effective hold of Germany and bring it to such murderous extremes in war and in the Holocaust.
Federal health care reform law holds hope for mental health services
Dec 15, 2011 9:00 am6 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Uninsured adults with serious mental illnesses may have a harder time finding care because state budgetary cutbacks are dramatically affecting services and staffing levels at community mental health agencies in Illinois and other states. But full implementation of the federal health care reform law could help alleviate that, according to scholars in the School of Social Work at the University of Illinois.
Feeling anxious? Check your orbitofrontal cortex and cultivate your optimism, study suggests
Sep 22, 2015 10:00 am2808 views
A new study links anxiety, a brain structure called the orbitofrontal cortex, and optimism, finding that healthy adults who have larger OFCs tend to be more optimistic and less anxious.
Filmmaker's documentary tells story of groundbreaking church-state suit
Sep 29, 2010 9:00 am152 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Prayer in the schools, Ten Commandments in the courthouse, Christmas mangers on public property.
Film screening and panel to mark anniversary of church-state ruling
Feb 26, 2013 9:00 am2 views
CHAMPAIGN,Ill. - Recognizing the 65th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision McCollum v. Board of Education, the award-winning documentary "The Lord is Not on Trial Here Today" will be shown at 7 p.m. March 7 in the auditorium of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana.
Financial education programs would benefit low-income people, scholars say
Oct 11, 2004 9:00 am53 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Personal finance education is a growing trend in schools and workplaces, but it misses many of those who need it most, say social work professors Steve Anderson and Min Zhan.
Financial penalties trigger welfare exits, study finds
Dec 16, 2013 9:00 am13 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Welfare recipients in Wisconsin who received financial sanctions for failing to comply with the program's work requirements were from two to 33 times more likely to exit welfare - with or without jobs - and the effect increased with the duration of the sanctions, according to a new study by a University of Illinois expert on poverty.
First dogs in the Americas arrived from Siberia, disappeared after European contact
Jul 5, 2018 1:00 pm3170 views
A study reported in the journal Science offers an enhanced view of the origins and ultimate fate of the first dogs in the Americas. The dogs were not domesticated North American wolves, as some have speculated, but likely followed their human counterparts over a land bridge that once connected North Asia and the Americas, the study found.
Five years after the Arab Spring: Despair, but also hope
Jan 21, 2016 11:15 am958 views
A Minute With...™ Asef Bayat, sociologist and Middle East expert
Forum Feb. 1 to explore world response to tsunami disaster
Jan 19, 2005 9:00 am2 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - How the world has responded to the Dec. 26 tsunami will be the topic of a 90-minute forum beginning at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 1 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Forum to look at earthquakes, including potential in central U.S.
Feb 1, 2006 9:00 am2 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Should the October earthquake in Pakistan, and the widespread devastation it caused, raise concerns in the central United States?
Four-day Katrina 'Summit' at U. of I., elsewhere, strives for positive change
Sep 14, 2006 9:00 am10 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - A year after hurricane Katrina's devastation of the Louisiana and Mississippi gulf coasts, rebuilding efforts are finally moving forward. But it's the remaining, deeper tears in the region's social fabric that will be the main focus of a unique series of dialogues and events at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign designed to build community, connect diverse local and national audiences and ignite real and long-lasting positive change.
Gang presence in urban parks complicates lives of residents
Aug 20, 2009 9:00 am426 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - When most people think of parks, images of slides and swings, ball fields and basketball hoops, Rollerbladers and moms pushing strollers may come to mind.
Gangs, violence rob inner-city kids of physical activity, study says
Jul 27, 2011 9:00 am1023 views
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Many of the adults living in Chicago's South Lawndale neighborhood are first-generation immigrants, raised in Latin American communities where people feel close to nature, leave their doors wide open to their neighbors and the outdoors is an extended space for socializing with the community.

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