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These results have implications for how smoking cessation programs for pregnant women should be designed. Health care providers need to be cognizant of their approaches and attitudes when addressing the subject of smoking cessation. Specific educational suggestions include "putting a face" to the issue of tobacco use during pregnancy. More research is needed on how best to implement the 2008 clinical practice guideline in specific populations.

While monetary benefits from higher education are extensive, there appears to be an absence of empirical evidence on how higher education contributes to civic engagement behavior after college. This study investigated the relationship between college characteristics of students completing a bachelor’s degree, such as academic programs and types of institutions, and their postgraduate civic engagement behavior. Coupled with hierarchical linear modeling, a sample of 2,443 college graduates drawn from a national database was used in this study. After controlling for collegiate volunteer behavior and other student demographic characteristics, study results suggest that students’ academic programs were found to significantly impact civic engagement after college.

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T his article provides a brief history of in formation literacy efforts at Binghamton University (BU) Libraries and a description of the work of the Critical Research Practices Committee. This committee conducted a survey of teaching faculty and teaching as sistants in collaboration with the university's assistant provost for curriculum, instruction, and assessment and subsequently worked to promote successful critical research practices among students at BU.