AUSTIN, Texas — In an age in which "multitasking" is often cited as a core competency for employees, organizational communication researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have begun to better understand the nuances of how different individuals accomplish multiple tasks.

The gift establishes a first-of-its-kind bi-coastal Institute for Media Innovation, bringing together the best in West Coast technology with East Coast content.

Interactive Multiview System with Low Complexity Decoder, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Multimedia - Interactive multiview video system with non-complex navigation at the decoder - Thomas Maugey and Pascal Frossard - Multiview

After watching in frustration as the nation's press corps has written the history of one presidential election after another, UCLA political scientist Lynn Vavreck finally decided something had to give.

The Hon Gareth Evans AO QC from the University of Melbourne's School of Social and Political Sciences has been named as one of Foreign Policy magazine's Top Global Thinkers of 2011.

Some items about some British and American authors: Poet and essayist Charles Lamb had a sister who stabbed their mother to death.

Last fall, a private bus company operating under a city contract permitted its passengers, primarily Orthodox Jews, to enforce a religious tradition—in order to prevent physical between the sexes, women were required to sit in the back of the bus.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - University of Michigan faculty are available to discuss tonight's State of the Union address, in which President Barack Obama will talk about the economy, taxes and other issues.

Erik Lithander will join the ANU Executive team next year, in the newly created position of Pro Vice-Chancellor (International & Outreach), Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young announced today.

Politics and the media - A Fatal Embrace? - Professor Tim Bale is one of the panelists who will be talking at the Sussex Salon event at Brighton Dome on Tuesday 6 December.

Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) announced today that Cyndi Stivers has been appointed the editor-in-chief of the publication.

31 Oct 2011 - Leading media commentator, journalist and author Margaret Simons has been appointed as the Director of the Centre for Advanced Journalism and coordinator of the new Master of Journalism at The University of Melbourne.