Custodians are trained to look for signs of emotional trouble when cleaning out dorms; therapists hold open-door hours at 10 campus locations; and a faculty handbook advises professors about how to spot students' distress in its many contemporary forms, from disturbing artwork to clothes that disguise self-mutilation.
Dr. Winickoff, who advised Professor Connolly on where to publish the study, contended that the tobacco industry was creating novel products partly to entice and addict a new generation of smokers to replace those who die.
"If you are a pumpkin pie lover, I would say buy your cans as soon you come to the store," advised Professor Mohammad Babadoost, a plant pathologist at the University of Illinois.
Its two clinicians devote their days to advising professors, resident advisers and anyone else who alerts them to a student in trouble.
Book extra services ahead of time, advises Chekitan Dev, professor at Cornell's hotel school.
"Pound the pavement," advises Joe Merola, professor and chair of chemistry at Virginia Tech.
"Stretching is an integral part of a home-fitness program for computer users," advises Emil Pascarelli, professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University in New York.
"Be very selective," advised Scott L. Robinson, professor of real estate capital markets at New York University, who is a particular admirer of the retail-oriented Simon Property Group, the nation's largest public real estate company, and who finds REIT shares generally "fairly priced" these days.
They were advised by Professor Roman Baevsky, a space medicine expert who is currently a consultant at NASA and the Mars 500 project, who applied heart rate variability to the space program in the 1960s.
Led by CEO Babak Pahlavan, the service has a strong emphasis on algorithms that are used to customize its suggestions for each user (the company is led by Stanford PH.D. grads, and is advised by Professor Jeff Ullman, who was the Ph.D. advisor for Sergey Brin way back when).
