Need a Research Topic on Current or Controversial Issues?

Selected Topics the Rice Library Collection Supports (Suggestion: start by searching the CQ Researcher Database) at http://www.usi.edu/library/dbases2/GeneralMS.htm

The ECONOMY Student Aid/Student Debt Mortgage Crisis Minimum Wage Consumer Debt Exporting Jobs/Offshoring Homelessness Media and Advertising Ending Poverty Equal Pay for Equal Work Speculators & Gas Prices Textbook prices

FAMILY and RELATIONSHIPS Social Networking Consumer Safety Transgender Issues Teen Sex Child Welfare Reform Adoption Gay Marriage Fatherhood Movement Mothers Movement

EDUCATION Drugs/Drinking on Campus No Child Left Behind Standardized Testing Gender and Learning Bilingual Education Religion in Schools Affirmative Action Charter Schools Home Schooling Sex Education Bullying Athletes and Steroids Women in Sports ETHICS

EMPLOYMENT Minimum Wage Affirmative Action Diversity in the Workplace Labor Unions Future Nursing Shortage Teaching Shortage Welfare Reform Work Dress Codes Workaholics

RIGHTS Gun Control Debate Property Rights Free-Press Disputes Freedom of Speech Affirmative Action Animal Rights Gay Marriage Birth Control Debate Race in America American Indians Racial Profiling Cell Phones and Driving RELIGION Rise of Megachurches Cults Evolution vs. Creationism Intelligent Design Prayer and Healing Islamic Fundamentalism New Religious Movements Religion in Schools Sexual Abuse and the Clergy Scientology Understanding Islam

Hunting Controversies Assisted Suicide Cloning Debate Drug Company Ethics Stem Cell Research Whistleblowing Ethics of War Teen Sex Birth Control Debate Right to Die Georgia Russia Conflict

TECHNOLOGY Electronic Medical Records Cyber Socializing Video Games Blog Explosion Alternative Fuels Biotechnology Identity Theft Internet Privacy Genetically Modified Foods Digital Divide Music Downloading Cyber/Computer Warfare

VIOLENCE and CRIME Gun Violence DNA and Crime Domestic Violence Death Penalty Controversies Date Rape Hate crimes Hating America High-Tech Crime Sex, Violence and the Media Child Abuse Honor Killings Campus Security/Violence

POLITICS / LAW US Policy in Iran National ID Cards Electoral College Iraq War Media Blackouts Imminent Domain (I-69) Medical Marijuana Disaster Preparedness Government Secrecy Censorship Illegal Immigration Treatment of Detainees Hating America Terrorism (Bioterrorism, etc.) Lowering Drinking Age Terrorist Watch Lists Homeland Security

HEALTH Battling HIV/AIDs PTSD and Iraq Veterans Students and Stress HPV Vaccine/Legislation Slow Food Movement Cosmetic Surgery/Body Image Universal Healthcare Methamphetamine Eating Disorders Male Contraception Food Crisis/Shortage Depression Childhood Obesity ADD/ADHD Youth suicide Autism Cell Phones and Radiation Food Safety Alternative Medicine See also:
WiseTo http://socialissues.wiseto.com/AZInd ex/ Cato Institute: Hot Topics http://www.cato.org/ OKeefe Library: Hot Paper Topics http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Hot/hoti ndex.htm Public Agenda Online http://www.publicagenda.org/

SCIENCE Disappearing Species Future of Recycling Large Hadron Collider Factory Farms Ecotourism Biofuels Boom Climate Change Energy Efficiency Air Pollution Genetically Modified Foods Oil Production in the 21st Century Water Shortages Saving the Oceans

Additional Topics Feminism and Abortion Celebrity Culture Organic Food Gays on Campus Future of Feminism Celebrities v. Paparazzi Media Bias Pornography Gambling Search for Extraterrestrials Future of Warfare

Compiled primarily for ENG 101, ENG 201 and CMST 101

Rice Library, Instructional Services, 9/2008