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Public Release: 10-Feb-2012
 Eastern Economics JournalHigh school students test best with 7 hours' rest New research finds that 16- to 18-year-olds perform better academically when they shave about two hours off what current guidelines prescribe. Contact: Joe Hadfield
Public Release: 9-Feb-2012
Journal of Cross-Cultural PsychologyKids show cultural gender bias Talk about gender confusion! A recent study by University of Alberta researchers Elena Nicoladis and Cassandra Foursha-Stevenson in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology into whether speaking French influenced how children assigned gender to objects yielded some interesting observations. Nicoladis and Foursha-Stevenson found some differences between the monolingual English children and the bilingual French-English children they surveyed. Contact: Jamie Hanlon
Public Release: 9-Feb-2012
Psychological ScienceAnyone can learn to be more inventive, says UMass Amherst cognitive researcher After studying common roadblocks to problem-solving, Anthony McCaffrey has developed a toolkit for enhancing anyone's creativity and inventiveness. Contact: Janet Lathrop
Public Release: 9-Feb-2012
Nano Letters'Dark plasmons' transmit energy Microscopic channels of gold nanoparticles have the ability to transmit electromagnetic energy that starts as light and propagates via "dark plasmons," according to researchers at Rice University. 
Robert A. Welch Foundation, Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation, American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, Nontenured Faculty Grant
Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 9-Feb-2012
Maryland Commission recommends 'common sense' immigration policy Immigrants to Maryland contribute significantly to the state's economy, and were vital to its workforce expansion in both technical and less-skilled occupations from 2000 to 2010, concludes a new report by a Maryland state commission. During this period, immigrants mostly complemented rather than competed with US-born state residents for jobs, it adds. The Commission, a state panel coordinated by the University of Maryland, evaluated immigrants' economic contributions and the cost of government services for them. Contact: Neil Tickner
Public Release: 9-Feb-2012
'Flipped classroom' teaching model gains an online community Researchers at Harvard University have launched the Peer Instruction Network, a new global social network for users of interactive teaching methods. PI, developed by Eric Mazur, Area Dean for Applied Physics and Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is an innovative evidence-based pedagogy designed to improve student engagement and success. Contact: Michael Rutter
Public Release: 8-Feb-2012
Child DevelopmentNew study: Adolescents suffering from depression more likely to be bullied A new study provides evidence that adolescents who suffer from depression are more likely to develop difficulty in peer relationships including being bullied at school. It's often assumed that being bullied leads to psychological problems, such as depression, but the study doesn't support this line of thought.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Julie Newberg
Public Release: 8-Feb-2012
Child DevelopmentDepression forecasts difficulties with peers in middle childhood A longitudinal study of children in the middle years of childhood has found that depression forecasts problems in peer relationships, including being victimized by peers and problems being accepted by peers. For the study, researchers looked at 480 youths from fourth through sixth grades and used child, classmate, parent, and teacher surveys to gather data.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Sarah Hutcheon
Public Release: 8-Feb-2012
Child DevelopmentPlaying school sports affects youths' smoking A new study of middle schoolers and their social networks has found that teammates' smoking plays a big role in youths' decisions about smoking, but adolescents who take part in a lot of sports smoke less. The study looked at 1,260 ethnically diverse, urban, middle-class sixth through eighth graders and used a new social network method designed by the researchers to examine how participation in sports with teammates who smoked affected adolescents' smoking behavior.
NIH/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH/National Cancer Institute
Contact: Sarah Hutcheon
Public Release: 8-Feb-2012
Child DevelopmentStudy examines role of bilingualism in children's development A Canadian study looked at monolingual and bilingual six year-olds on three verbal tasks and one nonverbal task of executive control. The study found that different factors were responsible for the language- and non-language-related outcomes of bilingualism than found in previous research. This study is also unique in that it controlled for other factors that are often associated with bilingualism, including differences in culture, socioeconomic status, immigration history, and language.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Sarah Hutcheon
Public Release: 7-Feb-2012
Psychonomic Bulletin and ReviewNew insights into how to correct false knowledge The abundance of false information available on the Internet, in movies and on TV has created a big challenge for educators. Students sometimes arrive in classrooms filled with inaccurate knowledge they are confident is correct, indicating it is deeply entrenched in their memory. According to Duke University researchers, educators might be able to help students overcome their misconceptions by correcting inaccurate information then having the students practice retrieving it from memory. Contact: Steve Hartsoe
Public Release: 6-Feb-2012
Journal of General Internal MedicineDo patients pay when they leave against medical advice? There are ways in which patients who leave the hospital against medical advice wind up paying for that decision. Being saddled with the full cost of their hospital stay, however, is not one of them. Contact: John Easton
Public Release: 3-Feb-2012
Journal of PsychopharmacologyMaking sense of addiction terminology A new editorial released this week offers clarity and structure on confusing drug and alcohol addiction terminology for prescribers, users and regulators. Contact: Mithu Lucraft
Public Release: 2-Feb-2012
ScienceUAHuntsville business faculty investigate research ethics; Results are published in Science magazine Two UAHuntsville faculty members from the College of Business were published today in the prestigious journal Science for their investigation of an important issue in research ethics. Contact: Chrystal Morgan
Public Release: 2-Feb-2012
AIDS and BehaviorLecture or listen: When patients waver on meds According to a new analysis of hundreds of recorded office visits, doctors and nurse practitioners typically issued orders and asked closed or leading questions when talking to their HIV-positive patients about adherence to antiretroviral therapy. Attempts at problem-solving with patients who had lapsed occurred in less than a quarter of visits.
NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, NIH/National Institute of Drug Abuse, Department of Veterals Affairs, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Contact: David Orenstein
Public Release: 2-Feb-2012
EARTH: Dangerous dust What would you do if you found out that the roads you drive on could cause cancer? This is the reality that residents face in Dunn County, North Dakota. For roughly 30 years, gravel containing the potentially carcinogenic mineral erionite was spread on nearly 500 kilometers of roads, playgrounds, parking lots, and even flower beds throughout Dunn County. Contact: Megan Sever
Public Release: 2-Feb-2012
Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and PolicyHand counts of votes may cause errors, says new Rice University study Hand counting of votes in postelection audit or recount procedures can result in error rates of up to two percent, according to a new study from Rice University and Clemson University.
National Science Foundation
Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 1-Feb-2012
ACS NanoNano-oils keep their cool Rice University scientists have created a nano-infused oil that could greatly enhance the ability of devices as large as electrical transformers and as small as microelectronic components to shed excess heat. Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 1-Feb-2012
Social Science and MedicineImpoverished schools, parent education key factors in student weight Attending a financially poor school may have more of an effect on unhealthy adolescent weight than family poverty, according to Penn State sociologists.
NIH/National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
Contact: Matt Swayne
Public Release: 1-Feb-2012
Strategic Management JournalIn times of scandal, corporations are likely to use others' misconduct to justify their behavior Among corporations involved in the 2006 stock-option backdating scandal, those implicated earlier were more likely to dismiss their top executives than those that surfaced later on, according to new research from Rice University and the University of California at Irvine.
Rice University, University of California at Irvine
Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 31-Jan-2012
Academic RadiologyWomen not following through with recommended breast screening MRI A study of 64,659 women, recently published in the journal Academic Radiology, found that while 1,246 of these women were at high enough breast cancer risk to recommend additional screening with MRI, only 173 of these women returned to the clinic within a year for the additional screening. Contact: Garth Sundem
Public Release: 31-Jan-2012
Quality medical journal news releases can help newspapers do a better job informing public Medical journal press releases are the most direct way that journals communicate with the news media about new research. According to a study in the British Medical Journal, press release quality appears to have an important effect on the quality of subsequent newspaper stories. Contact: Annmarie Christensen
Public Release: 31-Jan-2012
ACS NanoPerfect nanotubes shine brightest A painstaking study by Rice University has brought a wealth of new information about single-walled carbon nanotubes through analysis of their fluorescence. The researchers found that the brightest nanotubes of the same length show consistent fluorescence intensity, and the longer the tube, the brighter.
Welch Foundation, National Science Foundation, Applied NanoFluorescence
Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 31-Jan-2012
Facebook can get you fired: UC research reveals the perils of social networking for school employees In a January publication for Ohio educators, a University of Cincinnati researcher highlights a top-10 list of recommendations for schools as they consider the legal implications of social media. Contact: Dawn Fuller
Public Release: 31-Jan-2012
Journal of Marriage and FamilyCollege reduces odds for marriage among disadvantaged For those with few social advantages, college is a prime pathway to financial stability, but it also unexpectedly lowers their odds of ever marrying, according to a study by Cornell University sociologist Kelly Musick being published in the February issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family. Contact: Syl Kacapyr
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