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Comprehensive guidelines from the Healthy Out-of-School Time Coalition help ensure healthier snacks and more active playtime for 8 million children in out-of-school programs CHICAGO, Aug. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the Healthy Out-of-School Time Coalition (HOST), comprised of leaders in out-of-school time care and health promotion, brought together by the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, the University...

Health officials in Boston are tracking a measles outbreak and say there are now a total of five confirmed cases. The confirmed cases include an incidence of measles in a woman living in the same building as a woman diagnosed last month. Boston city health officials said final lab results are expected sometime next week in the three additional suspected cases, Reuters Health is reporting.The first confirmed victim in Boston was a young woman employed at the French Consulate who health...

While superheroes of the past made good role-models for children, the same cannot be said for their modern-day counterparts, who are too violent and focus too much on reinforcing male stereotypes, according to a presentation given by mental health experts Sunday at the annual American Psychological Association (APA) convention."There is a big difference in the movie superhero of today and the comic book superhero of yesterday," psychologist Dr. Sharon Lamb, distinguished professor...

Living in a three-generation household can significantly enhance the economic well-being of children, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Southern California and the University of Massachusetts, Boston.Their findings, to appear in the November 2009 Journal of Family Issues and now available online, indicate children living in single-mother families that also include a grandparent are substantially less likely to be living below or near the poverty line compared to...

Lisa Cosgrove, a psychologists at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, is one of many critics that say there are damaging conflicts of interest in the financial ties between drug companies and leaders who revise psychiatric diagnoses, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders (DSM-V), as well as guidelines on the best treatments.USA Today reported that, Darrel Regler, research director for the American Psychiatric Association, says that the 160 experts appointed by the...

- Firm Creates Coherent, Memorable System to Communicate to Wide Variety of Institutional Audiences - WATERTOWN, Mass., March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Corey McPherson Nash (CMN), a leading national branding and design firm based in Watertown, Massachusetts, announced today that it has completed work on a branding and visual identity system for the University of Massachusetts Boston, nationally recognized as a model of excellence for urban universities. (Photo:...

BOSTON, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Project Nur is collaborating with the Department of Anthropology and the Native American Student Society ("NASS") at the University of Massachusetts-Boston ("UMass Boston") and the Plimoth Plantation on an event entitled, "A Native American History Symposium, Erasing Indians: Investigating Accounts and Denials of Genocide in Native New England." The event will take place on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Media Theatre,...

To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Mary Ann Strombitski, +1-303-299-3609, mstrombitski@ecs.org, or Ashley Zaleski, +1-303-299-3698, azaleski@ecs.org, both of ECS; Tara L. Parker, Ph.D., of UMass Boston, +1-617-287-7728, tara.parker@umb.edu DENVER, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Education Commission of the States (ECS), in collaboration with the National Access and Remediation Policy Project (NARPP) at the University of Massachusetts Boston, announces receipt of a Lumina...

By NANCY REARDON Making it to the lecture hall on time at the University of Massachusetts at Boston is only a T ride away for most of its students. Imagine if it were closer. That's the vision Chancellor J. Keith Motley has for the Dorchester campus, where he wants to provide university housing to 2,000 students. The new face of UMass-Boston will be a more traditional campus, he says. The university's $900 million, 25-year strategic plan calls for rebuilding the campus on the same site,...

When a tiny, quantum-scale, hypothetical balloon is popped in a vacuum, do the particles inside spread out all over the place as predicted by classical mechanics?The question is deceptively complex, since quantum particles do not look or act like air molecules in a real balloon. Matter at the infinitesimally small quantum scale is both a wave and a particle, and its location cannot be fixed precisely because measurement alters the system.Now, theoretical physicists at the University of...