Toward the Integration of Meditation into Higher Education: A Review of Research Prepared by Shauna L. Shapiro, Kirk Warren Brown, and John A. Astin. Edited by Maia Duerr. This report is available as a .pdf file.
The Cultivating Emotional Balance research project is working to determine whether or not secularized Buddhist practices (in this case, a training program developed by Dr. Paul Ekman and Dr. B. Alan Wallace) would be helpful to Westerners dealing with "destructive" emotional experiences.
UCLA Mindfulness Awareness Research Center: Mindfulness Bibliography A bibliography for those who wish to locate theoretical and empirical sources on the topic of mindfulness, dating from 1975 to February 2008. Prepared by John C. Williams, M.S. (State University of New York, Binghamton) and Lidia Zylowska, M.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)

Articles

“Mindfulness training modifies subsystems of attention,” Jha AP, Krompinger J, Baime MJ. Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.

"Mindfulness Training for Elementary School Students: The Attention Academy," Dr. Maria Napoli. Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2005.

"Treating Anxiety with Mindfulness: An Open Trial of Mindfulness Training for Anxious Children," Randye Semple, Ph.D. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2005.

"Tai Chi and mindfulness-based stress reduction in a Boston Public Middle School," Robert B. Wall M. Div., MSN. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, Volume 19, Issue 4, July-August 2005, Pages 230-237.

“Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice,” Antoine Lutz, Lawrence L. Greischar, Nancy B. Rawlings, Matthieu Ricard, and Richard J. Davidson. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 101, pp. 16369-16373, Nov. 16, 2004, .

“Mental Training Affects Distribution of Limited Brain Resources,” Richard Davidson, et al. Public Library of Science: Biology, June 2007, vol. 6, issue 6, e138.

 “Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness,” Sara W. Lazar et al. NeuroReport, vol. 16, 28 November 2005, pp. 1893-1897.

“The Evaluation of a Mind/Body Intervention to Reduce Psychological Distress and Perceived Stress in College Students,” Gloria Deckro, Herbert Benson et al. Journal of American College Health, vol. 50, pp. 281-287 (May 2002).

“Academic Performance Among Middle School Students After Exposure to a Relaxation Response Curriculum,” Benson H., Wilcher M., Greenberg B., Huggins E., Ennis M., Zuttermeister P.C., Myers P., Friedman R., Journal of Research and Development in Education, Vol. 33: No. 3, Spring 2000.

"Mindfulness and the psychology of presence," Childs D., Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 2007 80(3), 367-376.

“Mechanisms of Mindfulness.” Shauna L. Shapiro, Linda E. Carlson, John A. Astin, Benedict Freedman. Journal of Clinical Psychology, (2006), DOI 10.1002/jclp20237.

"Self-compassion and reactions to unpleasant self-relevant events: The implications of treating oneself kindly," Leary, M. R., Tate, E. B., Adams, C. E., Batts Allen, A., & Hancock, J. (2007). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(5), 887-904.

"Applying acceptance, mindfulness, and values to the reduction of prejudice: A pilot study," Lillis, J., & Hayes, S. C. (2007). Behavior modification, 31(4), 389-411.

 “The Meeting of Meditative Disciplines and Western Psychology,” Roger Walsh, Shauna L. Shapiro, American Psychologist, vol. 61, pp. 227-239 (April 2006).

Books

	The Dalai Lama at MIT. Anne Harrington and Arthur Zajonc (Harvard Univ. Press, 2006). Documents the Mind and Life/MIT 2003 conference, Investigating the Mind, with particular focus on attention, emotion and mental imagery. DVDs from http://www.investigatingthemind.org/dvd.cd.html.
	“Meditation and the Neuroscience of Consciousness.” Antoine Lutz, John D. Dunne, Richard J. Davidson. From The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness, edited by Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch and Evan Thompson (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
	The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force, Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley (Regan Books, 2002).
	The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being, Daniel J. Siegel (Norton, 2007).
	The Plastic Mind: New science reveals our extraordinary potential to transform ourselves, Sharon Begley (Constable, 2009).