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Newly approved drug for metastatic melanoma nearly doubles median survival
Researchers from UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, together with scientists from 12 other sites in the U.S. and Australia, report for the first time that a newly approved drug for metastatic melanoma nearly doubles the median survival time for patients with a common genetic mutation - a finding that will change the way this deadly form of skin cancer is treated.

Neuroscientists join major EU consortium dedicated to advancing new Alzheimer’s disease therapies
Two Bristol University neuroscientists have become the only UK-based academic members of a major European Union-funded consortium dedicated to accelerating the next generation of Alzheimer's disease research and drug discovery.

Professor Timothy M. Frye Discusses the Russian Political Scene
In the late 1980s, Timothy Frye , a recent Middlebury College graduate with a B.A. in Russian language and literature, went for the first time to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, where Mikhail Gorbachev had just come to power.

Leadership tussle - constitutional doubts

Despite Leadership, Maryland Higher Education Is Leaving Citizens Behind, Penn GSE Study Finds
Maryland's higher education system is leaving poor, black and Hispanic residents behind, according to a new study from the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Higher Education Research, " Much

Despite Leadership, Maryland Higher Education Is Leaving Underserved Citizens Behind, Penn GSE Researchers Find
Maryland's higher education system is leaving poor, black and Hispanic residents behind, according to a new study from the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Higher Education Research, " Much

Many young people still underestimate how much they drink
Many young people still underestimate how much they drink A new University of Sussex-led study reveals that many young people still lack the knowledge and skills required to follow the government's guidelines for responsible alcohol consumption.

Making the leap from ’theory to theatre’
A Leeds professor is one of eight of the UK's most promising leaders in medical health research to be awarded a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) professorship.

State-owned oil companies increase price volatility and pollution, Stanford researcher says
State-owned oil companies dominate the world's oil supplies, and politicians often cannot resist getting involved.

InterDigital and Calit2 Launch InterDigital Innovation Challenge
InterDigital (NASDAQ: IDCC) and the University of California, San Diego division of the California Institute for Tele and Information Technology (Calit2) today announced the launch of the InterDigita

Will Anti-Arrhythmic Drug Beat Sudden Cardiac Arrest?
Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is the leading cause of death in the United States. This form of heart attack kills 325,000 people every year, representing one death every two minutes.

Gamelan gangsta
New beats for old sounds on the island of Java are redefining and reviving local identities, writes JAMES GIGGACHER.

FDA requests additional data on Novartis
Basel, February 13, 2012 - Novartis has received a Complete Response letter from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its application for the expanded use of Menveo (Meningo

Rockot to launch two Sentinel satellites
Rockot to launch two Sentinel satellites on Rockot vehicles from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia for Europe's GMES programme.

New deal brings men's and women's boat races onto same day
New sponsorship deals for the boat race will enable the men's and women's races to be held on the same stretch of river on the same day for the first time, it has been announced today (8 February 2012).

UniTV’s first live broadcast
UniTV's first live broadcast UniTV broadcast a show live online for the first time as part of the Students' Union's Full-time Officer elections.

KTH Broadens Commitment to Sustainability Education
At the KTH Symposium, the director of the U.S. National Science Foundation explains how scientific co-operation with Sweden benefits American research.

£4m boost for asthma research
The Medical Research Council (MRC) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have co-funded a groundbreaking programme of asthma research at the MRC-Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma.

NorthStar Initiative launches corporate sustainability webinar series
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (02/03/2012) —The NorthStar Initiative for Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment is launching a free quarterly webina

Applied to autumn 2012 studies at Lund? -This is what happens next
If you made your application online before the deadline 16 January at www.universityadmissions.se for Bachelor's or Master's studies at Lund University starting in autumn 2012 and submitted your docum

New investment aims to establish the UK as a global graphene research hub
Today sees the announcement of full details of how an additional £50 million will be spent to keep the UK at the forefront of research into ‘wonder material' graphene.

A Man of Magnetism
At the KTH Symposium, the director of the U.S. National Science Foundation explains how scientific co-operation with Sweden benefits American research. Reception and service at central level for international students after arrival at KTH. For Master's students For Exchange students Physicist Stefano Bonetti prepares to move from KTH to Stanford on a two-year post-doctoral fellowship studying the smallest and fastest magnetic phenomena known to science.

Is third party funding effectively regulated in the UK?
A study shows that the market for litigation funding, otherwise known as third party funding, is firmly established for commercial disputes in the UK and is extending into cases involving ordinary citizens, such as personal injury and group actions.

Pulitzer’s New York World Reborn as Online News Site
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.

Great handbags – but what about the politics?
Audiences are spellbound by Meryl Streep's performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. As a PhD student looking at British politics in the same era, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite was keen to see how the movie portrayed the woman who changed the face of Britain.

Half of L.A. human-services nonprofits are struggling, new UCLA report shows
Roughly half of Los Angeles County's 6,300 human-services nonprofits — which provide such services as emergency shelter, food, hospice care, and support for foster children, at-risk youth and t

How much is an earthworm worth?
After years of paying little attention, both farmers and EU politicians have started listening in earnest to the research findings. The trick is simply to communicate on the recipient’s terms. Professor of Biology Katarina Hedlund and her colleagues have begun putting a price on nature’s own capital.

Commentary in Nature: Can economy bear what oil prices have in store?
Stop wrangling over global warming and instead reduce fossil-fuel use for the sake of the global economy.

Young breast cancer survivors face serious quality-of-life challenges
Quality of life in younger patients treated for breast cancer is seriously compromised, and these women face more physical and mental health issues than women their age who haven't had cancer and women over 50 who have, according to a study by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Ageing UK infrastructure systems need to be more joined up
A research consortium led by Oxford University warns that significant investment will be needed in many cases to replace the UK's ageing infrastructure systems.

More feel ’English’ than ’British’ in England
Voters living in England have become more assertively 'English' and place much greater emphasis on their English rather than their British identity, according to a joint University report.

Yale asks community to "help us discover" cures for disease
Yale University is launching a major effort to recruit thousands of volunteers to participate in clinical trials being conducted at Yale's Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health.

Medicine and public acceptance
Preparedness usually means planning for an emergency and avoiding catastrophic outcomes. Not for Professor Peter Newman - he is planning for a best-case scenario.

Shipwrecked: women and children first?
Romantic notions of heroism - the captain refusing to leave his sinking ship, women and children being ushered to safety - have been shattered by reports emerging from the Costa Concordia.

Fred Conrad to direct U-M Program in Survey Methodology
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Cognitive psychologist Frederick Conrad has been appointed director of the University of Michigan Program in Survey Methodology, based at the Institute for Social Research.

Early Stage Venture Fund launches in Cambridge, Mass
Cambridge, Mass. - January 18, 2012 - When the "next big thing" is invented in a dorm room, ruminated over in a late-night café, or discovered in a laboratory, it will now find more support in - and its inventors will have better reasons to stay connected to - the Cambridge area.

UC San Diego Researchers Review Cessation Studies and Call for Change in Policy
Smoking is a major public health issue and quitting is the single most important thing smokers can do to improve their health. In the 2012 edition of the prestigious Annual Review of Public Health, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have reviewed the landscape of smoking cessation over the past 20 years.

Report backs government-funded older people’s advice service
Analysis of the FirstStop initiative reveals that the service saves money and improves quality of life. With better information and advice about how to deal with the housing, care and financial challenges of ageing, people are able to remain independent in their own homes or move to housing that really suits them." —Gemma Burgess A government-funded information and advice service helping older people to prepare for later life is proving a much-needed resource as Britain becomes an increasingly top-heavy society, a new report says.

Applied to autumn 2012 studies at Lund?
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Managing Distant Network Equipment with Text Messages

Research focuses on youth, chronic illness and employment
Like any 28 year old, Arif Jetha , a fourth-year PhD candidate at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health, is worrying about his future. Once he completes his PhD, should he remain at home with his parents and pursue post-doctoral work or move on to full-time employment and begin establishing his career? Then, he thinks about the participants in his Young Adult, Health and Employment Study (YHES) ) and realizes his own challenges pale in comparison to theirs.

Seeking benefits, avoiding conflicts
A new report on Uganda's emerging oil and gas industry says companies can improve their corporate social responsibility (CSR) to give fairer employment, compensation and land deals to communities. The report Seeking Benefits and Avoiding Conflicts: A Community-Company Assessment of Uganda's Hydrocarbon Industry is the culmination of a year of consultation, validation discussions, roundtables and workshops, conducted by the Ugandan members of the study team and coordinated by the Civil Society Coalition on Oil and Gas (CSCO).

$7 million injection into cancer research
Two University of Sydney cancer research teams have received almost $7 million in NSW government funding, announced at the Bernie Banton Centre today by the Minister for Health and Medical Research, Jillian Skinner.

Half of care home patients suffer drug errors
Errors in administration of medication are a serious problem in long-term residential care.

A million NHS users are suffering preventable or inadequately treated pain
At any one time a million people in England are living with long term pain which could have been prevented or be being significantly better treated, according to joint UCL School of Pharmacy and UK Clinical Pharmacy Association report published today.

For crying out loud!: Baby cries get a speedy response
The sound of babies crying is uniquely able to get adults to react at speed, Oxford University researchers have found. They compared the scores of 40 volunteers on the classic arcade game 'Whack-a-mole' after listening to babies crying with their scores after hearing sounds of adults in distress or birdsong similar in pitch and variability to infants' cries.

Law Prof. Nate Persily to Oversee Connecticut Redistricting Process
State Legislature Failed to Reach Agreement; State Supreme Court Has New Deadline of Feb. 15 Media : Public Affairs, 212-854-2650 or publicaffairs [a] law.columbia (p) edu New York, Jan.

What happens to the young and educated without a job?
A new study led by the University of Oxford is looking at how young educated people who are unemployed become politicised in different ways - either through violent struggle or as reformers working for a more equal society.

If you plan, then you’ll do... but it helps to have a friend
While you are more likely to do something if you plan it in advance, new research from the University of Leeds shows that partnering up can really boost the likelihood of sticking to your resolutions.

Slaves or not, Babylonians were much like us, says book
They got married, had children, made beer. Although they lived 3,500 years ago in Nippur, Babylonia, in many ways they seem like us.

San Diego’s Algal Biofuels Research Enterprise Continues Rapid Growth
Scientists at UC San Diego are among the workers in the region transforming algae into transportation fuels. Credit: Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Despite the sluggish economy, San Diego's research efforts to produce new transportation fuels from algae continue to grow at a rapid pace, generating more than double the number of jobs for local workers in 2011 than were available in the region just two years ago.

Stanford political scientist maps militant groups around the globe
A supporter of Indonesian militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir wears a shirt with the image of Osama bin Laden.

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Schulich School of Music scholars among winners of Digging into Data Challenge
Will use computers to study changes in Western musical style from 1300 to 1900 An international team of scholars led by Julie Cumming, Associate Dean of McGill's Schulich School of Music, is amo

‘Extreme Sleepover #3’ – gathering the views of indigenous women in rural Ecuador
In the third of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, geographer Sarah Radcliffe describes her work with women from impoverished indigenous communities in Ecuador.

Violence Prevention
A successful violence prevention model developed at Cardiff University is set to be implemented in the Dutch capital Amsterdam.

‘Extreme Sleepover #1′ – Breathless at Everest base camp
In the first of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, physiologist Andrew Murray studies responses to extreme altitude as part of a programme that will improve hospital treatments for critically ill-people.

Ethnic differences for heart disease risk
Scots of Indian and Pakistani origin also have much greater levels of hospital admissions for both conditions than people of white Scottish ethnicity. University researchers found that Sots of Pakistani origin were twice as likely to be admitted to hospital with chest pain compared with white Scots.

New Cambridge study measures countries’ well-being
The key message is that the UK government, like many around the world, now recognises that economic measures such as GDP do not provide adequate information about a society's progress." &m

Site of earliest house is scheduled by the Government
21 Dec 2011 One of Yorkshire's most outstanding historical sites has been given protection by Heritage Minister John Penrose.

UCLA political scientist heads to Iowa, New Hampshire for survey of presidential campaign
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.

ANU to boost public service performance
New research from The Australian National University is set to help public servants step up a gear, by developing a high performance culture in the Australian Public Service.

FCC Names Engineering Prof. Schulzrinne Chief Technology Officer
Columbia Engineering School Professor Henning Schulzrinne has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.

Saving on Energy Bills: Meeting Families in the Middle
Technical : Mark Zimring (510) 486-2088, MZimring [a] lbl (p) gov A study released today by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) identifies steps that energy effi

FCC Names Engineering Prof. Henning Schulzrinne Chief Technology Officer
Columbia Engineering School Professor Henning Schulzrinne has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.

Making a difference to women
Improving the quality of care for childbearing women and their families is the focus of a new Professor of Midwifery appointment at the University.

Stanford University reports FY 2011 financial results
Stanford University reported its financial results for fiscal year 2011 (FY2011), which ended Aug. 31, 2011.

Engineer becomes new dean of Science
In the new year, Professor of Chemistry Olov Sterner will become the new Dean of the Faculty of Science.

European particle physics plots course for the future
European particle physics plots course for the future Geneva, 15 December 2011. CERN 1 Council today announced an Open Symposium to be held on 10-13 September 2012 at Cracow, Poland for the purpose of updating the European Strategy for Particle Physics.

Building the smart grid of the future: UCLA teams with Korea’s energy research institute
Imagine a home in which every appliance — computer, television, washing machine, refrigerator, air conditioner — can carry on a minute-by-minute "conversation" with the local power grid,

UC San Diego Center for Transplantation "VAD Destination Therapy" Approved
The Joint Commission (TJC) has approved UC San Diego Health System's Disease-Specific Care (DSC) Certification for Ventricular Assist Device (VAD).

Formula for success in increasing smoke alarm use
PA 392/11 The most effective strategy to encourage more people to have a working smoke alarm in their homes has been revealed by a team of healthcare researchers. A combined approach of offering education, free or low-cost equipment and a home safety inspection is likely to have the most impact, the study by a research team involving academics from the Universities of Leicester, York and Nottingham has discovered.

Solar power generation more powerful in Europe this century
Climate change will increase the amount of electricity generated by solar power in some parts of the world while decreasing it in others. The University of Leeds findings, published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science , have major impacts for countries looking at what type of solar power to build, where to build it and financial rates of return.

Researchers win major health grants

Grant funding will lead to a healthier Australia
More effective cancer treatments, heart disease research and evidence-based health care are the focus of some of the major successful programs announced today by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

University of Sydney achievement and ambition inspires donors to a record 2011

Playback: 130-Year-Old Sounds Revealed
(Adapted from a news release issued Dec. 14 by the Smithsonian Institution) In the early 1880s, three inventors - Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter, collectively making up the Volta Laboratory Associates - brought together their creativity and expertise in a laboratory on Connecticut Avenue in Washington, D.C., to record sound.

ANU honours Chubb’s service to education

Journalism Professor Adds Up the High Cost of "Zero-Sum Politics"
Tom Edsall has covered every presidential campaign since 1968. He has reported on politics from more than 30 states and written five books on the subject.

U.S. Energy Secretary Visits KTH
At the KTH Symposium, the director of the U.S. National Science Foundation explains how scientific co-operation with Sweden benefits American research.

Scientists develop pioneering telescope
University scientists are helping design and launch a satellite that will map more of the Universe than ever before. The satellite, known as Euclid, will follow on from the Hubble telescope, launched by in 1990. The Hubble broke new ground in space observation and led to many discoveries in our knowledge and understanding of physics.

Wildlife broadcasters ’should pay for ecosystem services’
Media corporations that make and broadcast wildlife programmes and films should pay towards the cost of nature conservation under an existing innovative funding mechanism for the 'use of ecosystem services'.

New year, new names for Stanford retirement plans
The merger of Stanford's retirement plans will take place without any action required by participating employees.

UC San Diego One of Top 20 Best Research Universities in the World
UC San Diego was ranked the 19th best research university in the world in the Leiden Ranking 2011/2012 by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies of Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Older Californians with disabilities struggle to remain at home as public programs lose funding
California's low-income seniors with disabilities are struggling to remain in their homes as public funding for long-term care services shrinks and may be slashed even further, according to a new study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research conducted with support from The SCAN Foundation.

Transport Day: Building Bridges from Research to Government & Industry
At the KTH Symposium, the director of the U.S. National Science Foundation explains how scientific co-operation with Sweden benefits American research.

Australians prefer investment in urban rail over high-speed services
More Australians want improved rail services in major cities than they want high-speed intercity rail, the latest quarterly national transport survey from the University of Sydney shows.

Impact of injuries in the UK more than two and a half times higher than estimated
PA 378/11 Injuries in the UK are having a much greater impact on peoples' lives than previously estimated, a study has found. The research, involving academics from The University of Nottingham, used data direct from patient experiences combined with information on the number of patients treated in emergency departments and admitted to hospital to reveal that the true impact of injuries in the UK is actually 2.6 times higher than experts believed.

European ministers emphasise the role of space for the security of Europe and its citizens
European ministers emphasise the role of space for the security of Europe and its citizens PR 34 2011 - Council underlined the importance of space systems for security.

‘These rough notes and our dead bodies…’
The story of the Terra Nova expedition, explored through the letters, diaries and photographs of its members, is to be told during a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition at Cambridge University's Polar Museum.

With changes, the grid can take it
MIT report shows that with new policies, U.S. electric grid could handle expected influx of electric cars and wind and solar generation.

Improving older people’s hospital care
Action to tackle the sometimes shocking standards of hospital care for older people was priority at a high-level University-hosted conference.

Current benefit and taxation system - unfit for purpose
The tax and benefit system needs a radical redesign to fit it for the 21 st century according to a new policy paper from experts at the University of Birmingham and The Centre for Welfare Reform.

Warwick economist to lead £15 million research initiative into private enterprise in developing countries
Warwick economist to lead £15 million research initiative into private enterprise in developing countries University of Warwick economics professor Christopher Woodruff will oversee a new initiative that plans to invest £15 million into research on private enterprise development in low-income countries, it was announced today.

Alan Turing pardon petition launched
A University of Leeds academic is supporting an e-petition calling on the Government to posthumously pardon the mathematician and computer pioneer Alan Turing for his conviction of gross indecency.

Maximizing access to physicians
“Linking compensation to time worked or services provided, as opposed to forms of pay that are unrelated to time worked, will better ensure the goal of increased work hours,” say three professors at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

Innovative approaches help sleep apnea sufferers benefit from CPAP
Penn State, PA Coalition Against Rape join to fight child sexual abuse Penn State Town Hall Forum provides open discussion Football head coach search committee formed University launches hot

HIV uncertainty uushes Malawians to want children earlier
Football head coach search committee formed University launches hotline for reporting abuse Student government leaders to host forum for students, administrators Penn State faculty offer tea

Project to target lung cancer tumours takes top ranking
A University of Sydney researcher developing significant advances in lung cancer treatments was recognised with a major award last night at the National Health and Medical Research Council's 75th Anniversary Gala Dinner and Awards.

Thai field research grant to address human trafficking in Asia
1 Dec 2011 The United Nation estimates that at any given time 2.5 million people are in forced labour as a result of human trafficking, with 56 per cent of these people in the Asia Pacific region.

Grassroots effort helps shape future IT community at Stanford
More than 300 information technology professionals at Stanford gathered on campus earlier this month for an "unconference" to share information face-to-face, to raise awareness around common IT issues and to lead discussions on a theme.

Dealing with a lifetime of disease
How individuals and communities can better deal with increasing rates of chronic illness in Australia will be the main focus of a health policy roundtable taking place at The Australian National University today.

Penn State science is among the best in the U.S., national study shows
Football head coach search committee formed University launches hotline for reporting abuse Student government leaders to host forum for students, administrators Penn State faculty offer tea

ANU Chancellor named top global thinker
ANU Chancellor Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AO QC has been named one of Foreign Policy magazine's Top Global Thinkers of 2011.

Find & Connect launched to assist Forgotten Australians
For many people who grew up in 'care', the search for records and information - so vital to identity and to the process of reconnecting with family - can be frustrating, complicated, time-consuming, expensive and traumatic.

UCLA Nursing’s teen-mom intervention program to receive funding under Affordable Care Act
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has chosen an adolescent pregnancy-intervention program designed by the UCLA School of Nursing as a model program for funding under the health care reform law.

KTH Joins Australian Low-Carbon Research Centre
At the KTH Symposium, the director of the U.S. National Science Foundation explains how scientific co-operation with Sweden benefits American research.

Karolinska Institutet and Mayo Clinic strengthen their cooperation
The scope of Karolinska Institutet's cooperation with one of the world's leading health organisations, Mayo Clinic, is now being extended through a formal contract.

Plans for partnership in North West London aim to bring innovations to healthcare
Imperial College London and healthcare providers in North West London today announce plans to form a new partnership to improve the health and care of the local population of 1.9 million people.

Study will help guide women’s choices in where to give birth
Women with straightforward pregnancies can choose whether they'd like to give birth in a hospital obstetric unit, a midwifery unit or at home, knowing that giving birth is generally very safe. But there are some important differences between these birth settings in benefits and risks for the mother and baby, the Birthplace in England study has shown.

UK recovery will require strong public sector leadership confident of its special role and more closely connected with those it serves
Leadership in the public sector is facing an unprecedented crisis of confidence at a time when public services are facing huge challenges.

Satellites respond to humanitarian needs
Satellites respond to humanitarian needs A review of crisis response using Earth observation techniques is now available online.

Professor Jane Waldfogel Analyzes the Divide Between Rich and Poor
At the Republican presidential debates, the recent Occupy Wall Street protests and kitchen tables across the nation, Americans are debating the impct of government, taxes and programs on the the rich and the poor.

Achieving Recognition and Support for Carers
Carers could benefit from gym membership, laptops or short holidays to help keep them well when giving a high level of care to sick, frail or disabled relatives, a major study has found. Researchers led by Professor Sue Yeandle of CIRCLE (the Centre for International Research on Care, Labour and Equalities) at the University of Leeds studied the impact and effectiveness of 25 multi-agency projects set up to explore new ways of supporting some of England's most hard-pressed carers.

A dangerous combo - schoolies warned
Pharmacy researchers at the University of Sydney are warning HSC students to take it easy on caffeine, alcohol and smoking during Schoolies Week, particularly young women using oral contraception.

Columbia University Acquires Archives of X-Men Writer Chris Claremont
NEW YORK, November 15, 2011 – Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired the archives of renowned comic book writer and novelist, Chris Claremont.

SDSC’s Gordon Ranks Among Top 50 Fastest Supercomputers in the World
Gordon , a unique data-intensive supercomputer using flash-based memory that will enter production in January at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Die

Feminist questions impact of religion on women’s human rights
Well known feminist and University of Melbourne academic Professor Sheila Jeffreys has questioned the impact of region on women's human rights.

Study on infant pneumonia deaths
About one in four of all infants who die from flu-related pneumonia live in India, according to a new University study.

Space and its benefits for citizens and society: A top priority for Europe
Space and its benefits for citizens and society: A top priority for Europe After the recent launch of the first Galileo satellites - an event of paramount political importance for Europe - politi

FDA accepts Roche’s New Drug Application for vismodegib in advanced form of skin cancer
FDA accepts Roche's New Drug Application for vismodegib in advanced form of skin cancer The vismodegib application has been granted priority review Roche today announced that the U.S. F

No room in the womb for alcohol
A flagship Indigenous health care initiative in Western Australia's remote Fitzroy Valley has received vital funding that will allow it to progress to a new phase.

Degree education ’more equal’ than league tables claim
A new study suggests a competitive market for university students which uses standardised information about courses to highlight differences in ‘quality' is misleading.

Lives of soliders, important Canadians to be documented
As Canadians prepare to honour fallen soldiers this Remembrance Day, the federal government has announced funding for a website which chronicles the lives of war veterans, including U of'T graduate Lt.

Lives of soliders, important Canadian to be documented
As Canadians prepare to honour fallen soldiers this Remembrance Day, the federal government has announced funding for a website which chronicles the lives of war veterans, including U of'T graduate Lt.

Potential for odd outcomes in election with ranked-choice voting system, says Stanford mathematician
Ranked choice voting – in which voters rank candidates in order of preference – is an increasingly popular alternative to voting for only one candidate in each race.

Soldiers phone in for help with substance use
The caller tells his UW counselor that he consumes 8 to 12 alcoholic drinks every night. He needs them to relax after work he says, even though he has a wife and two children who need his attention.

The political agenda of Occupy Sydney
Contrary to some media reporting, the Occupy Sydney movement has a focused and coherent political agenda, researchers from the University of Sydney believe.

University enters collaboration to develop text mining applications
The University of Manchester has joined forces with Elsevier, a leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, to develop new applications for text mining, a crucial research tool. The primary goal of text mining is to extract new information such as named entities, relations hidden in text and to enable scientists to systematically and efficiently discover, collect, interpret and curate knowledge required for research.

Medical Center Appoints Faculty Members as Special Advisors for Community Health Affairs
VIDEO: Richard Mayeux discusses ongoing Alzheimer's Disease research. MEDIA INQUIRIES Main number: (212) 305-3900 cumcnews [a] columbia (p) edu Community Leaders Applaud CUMC's New Special Advisors for Community Health Affairs Published: October 31, 2011 Rep.

Galileo satellites handed over to control centre in Germany
Galileo satellites handed over to control centre in Germany Europe's first two Galileo satellites have reached their final operating orbits, opening the way for activating and testing their navigation payloads.

How should society pay for services ecosystems provide?
Two U of M faculty join the world's leading ecologists in addressing this issue MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (11/03/2011) —Over the past 50 years, 60 percent of all ecosystem services have declined as a direct result of the conversion of land to the production of foods, fuels and fibers.

Business Professor David Beim Argues for Radical Action on Euro Crisis
The eurozone is in trouble. What began as a sovereign debt problem in a few countries has exposed major weaknesses in the euro project.

New social media Same old, same old, say Stanford experts
Two scholars of the 17th and 18th centuries say the earlier era prefigured the "information overload," with its own equivalents of Twitter, Facebook and Google+.

Cain and Perry Neck and Neck in Texas, Poll Says
AUSTIN, Texas — If the 2012 Republican primary for president were held this fall, Herman Cain and Rick Perry would be in a virtual tie in Texas, according to a University of Texas at Austin/Texas Tribune poll.

Stakes are high for problem gamblers
People with gambling problems are unlikely to identify as having a problem or to seek help unless they have experienced serious impacts or harms, according to new research released today. Tanya Davidson the Director of the Centre for Gambling Research at The Australian National University is one of the authors of two new reports profiling help-seeking and problem gambling in the ACT.

Government Programs Don’t Work and Suggests a Blueprint for Change
Richard Gelles has written a book, and he is pretty sure about one thing: He is going to upset a lot of people - liberals and conservatives alike.

Access to legal aid depends a lot on where you live, report says
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - According to one estimate, half of Americans are confronting a civil legal problem at any one time.

Government needs to listen up on hearing aids
Evidence is mounting of an aggressive campaign by private providers to push hearing aids onto people who are not psychologically ready for them, according to an Australian National University sociology expert.

Disconnect Between U.S. Wireless Demand and Infrastructure Capacity
Wireless Point of Disconnect report Global Information Industry Center How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers How Much Information? 2010 Report on Enterprise Server Informat

Shark hunts a Hollywood response to real horror
By PhD candidate Christopher Neff. First published in the Sydney Morning Herald. 25 October 2011 This year may be remembered as the summer of the shark hunt.

Faith in democracy tumbles: poll

Abandon ship or keep the faith Cameron’s EU test
Abandon ship or keep the faith? Cameron's EU test Prime Minister David Cameron is enduring a rocky ride at home and abroad over matters European this week.

Breast tenderness following combo hormone therapy linked to increased breast density
Post-menopausal women who experience breast tenderness after starting combination hormone therapy have a higher risk of breast cancer than women who don't, a study by researchers with UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has shown. One reason for this, they now say, may be that these women's breasts are becoming more dense.

Housing, healthcare contribute most to rising costs of living in Washington
Download a pdf of the Self-Sufficiency Standard for Washington State 2011 The self-sufficiency calculator: www.thecalculator.org It costs 8 percent more on average than it did two years ago for

Happy birthday, Harvard!
A photo slideshow from the SEAS celebration of Harvard's 375th birthday Harvard celebrated its 375th birthday on October 14, 2011.

Lies, buys and revolutions: Social media -- revered or reviled -- is here to stay, says Hancock
Lies, buys and revolutions: Social media - revered or reviled - is here to stay, says Hancock The explosion of social media is allowing social scientists to extract meaningful "knowledge" from

Visions of a ’car-free future’ created by Leeds researchers
City centres could become virtually car-free over the next 20 years under new plans proposed by University of Leeds transport researchers.

Professor Steven Bellovin Discusses Computer Security
Steven Bellovin always had a knack for catching computer hackers—even before most people knew what they were.

U-M Ford School poll: Most local leaders in Michigan report ongoing financial woes
Oct.

CryoSat rocking and rolling
CryoSat rocking and rolling ESA's ice satellite is rolling left and right in orbit to help it continue its precise measurements of the vast ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica.

Universities to get their teeth into oral health problems
The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) is to support the Universities of Glasgow and Dundee with £132,000 to strengthen their collaboration on dental and oral health research, which will contribute to better dental health services and care across Scotland.

Lightning research advances
Cardiff University has launched a new research facility, the Morgan-Botti Lightning Laboratory today (13 October).

Research calls for government funding to boost NSW cycling

The Fourth National Assembly Election
Was the result of the 2011 National Assembly election a vote in favour of the Labour party, or one against the UK government?

Children’s intensive care comes under scrutiny
Standards of care in children's intensive care units come under scrutiny in a new audit report published today by the University of Leeds and the University of Leicester.

Cyber war might never happen
Cyber war, long considered by many experts within the defence establishment to be a significant threat, if not an ongoing one, may never take place according to Thomas Rid of King's College London.

American Football Head Coach selected for IFAF World Development team
University of Birmingham Sport's (UBSport) American Football Head Coach has been announced as the only UK representative to be part of the International Federation of American Football (IFAF) World Development team.

New study finds 42% of countries have no provision for palliative care
A new study by the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance (WPCA), and co-authored by Professor David Clark of the University of Glasgow has found that only 136 out of the world's 234 countries have one or

NASA’s Moon Twins Going Their Own Way
October 06, 2011 PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-B spacecraft successfully executed its first flight path correction maneuver Wednesday, Oct.

Constitutional referendum on the cards: experts examine the need to protect Indigenous Australians in the Constitution
6 Oct 2011 A University of Melbourne forum will consider the need to better represent Indigenous Australians in the Constitution ahead of a possible referendum next year.

Carrier bag confusion
A new report shows that Welsh shoppers are not clear on the reasons behind the minimum 5p charge for a single use carrier bag.

Less than minimum wage for some care workers
The number of social care workers being paid less than the minimum wage is five times higher than previously believed, according to research from King's College London. A study by Shereen Hussein, Senior Research Fellow at the Social Care Workforce Research Unit (SCWRU), found that nine per cent of the care workforce in England is earning less than the statutory minimum wage, which is now £6.08 per hour for adults over the age of 21.

Stanford wins National Poverty Research Center grant
A new web portal will make it possible for anyone – scholars, the general public and journalists – to track trends in hundreds of key measures of poverty and inequality and to gain access to the most important research on those trends.

LBJ School of Public Affairs and William Wayne Justice Center collaborate on ‘Contract for Deed’ Study in Colonias
Oct.

Governments urged to rethink policy on young people’s aspirations
A new University of Glasgow study challenges widely-held assumptions about the aspirations of young people from deprived backgrounds.

Caltech Named World’s Top University in New Times Higher Education Global Ranking
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has been rated the world's number one university in the 2011–2012 Times Higher Education global ranking of the top 200 universities, displacing Harvard University from the top spot for the first time in the survey's eight-year history.

Road and Rail Research Initiative Launched
In a bid to improve future transportation capacity and safety in Sweden, KTH has joined the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) and the National Road and Transport Research Institute

New broadband laboratory to drive innovation in the digital economy
Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the Minister for Broadband, and the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy, today toured Victoria's first Broadband Application Laboratory at the University of Melbourne.

Costly treatment ’ineffective for babies’
A worldwide study involving University of Sydney researchers has concluded that a costly and controversial treatment for neonatal sepsis is ineffective.

Surprising number of divorcing parents are open to reconciliation, new University of Minnesota study finds
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (09/29/2011) —There is a surprising level of interest in reconciliation among couples with children involved in the divorce process, something no research had examined before, according to a new study done by University of Minnesota researcher Bill Doherty in collaboration with Hennepin County District Court Judge Bruce Peterson.

$5 million boost for Indigenous health
In a major boost for Indigenous health research, the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute (APHCRI) at The Australian National University has won $5 million in Commonwealth Government funding for two new Centres of Research Excellence (CRE) in primary health care.

A thousand jobs in Manchester
A thousand unemployed people have now been found work thanks to the efforts of the city's two universities to recruit workless residents.

SDSC Announces Scalable, High-Performance Data Storage Cloud
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) SDSC Cloud UC San Diego Arista Networks OpenStack SDSC Announces Scalable, High-Performance Data Storage Cloud Web-based System Offers Hig

UK homes need to warm to new sustainable heating technologies, says report
by Colin Smith UK homeowners need to be encouraged to replace gas boilers and adopt new low carbon sustainable heating systems in the future, if the country is to meet its CO2 reduction targets, according to a briefing paper released today .

Nursing a direction on policy
Why are so few nurses involved in developing health policies when they are at the heart of implementing them?

Studying visual impairment and depression
New research under way at Cardiff University's School of Optometry and Vision Sciences could provide new hope for visually impaired people suffering from clinical depression.

Stressed and strapped: Caregivers for friends, relatives suffer emotional and financial strain
Family members or friends caring for aging or disabled individuals in California are under both financial and emotional strain and are likely to face even greater burdens, given recent cuts in state

Hogg Foundation Funds New Initiative to Provide Safer, More Effective Alternatives to Seclusion and Restraint
Sept. 20, 2011 AUSTIN, Texas — The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at The University of Texas at Austin is funding a new statewide initiative to help residential treatment centers adopt safer, more effective tools than traumatic and potentially deadly seclusion and restraint practices commonly used to manage the behavior of children and youth.

Crisis nursery kids more likely to return to families from foster care
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Children who receive crisis nursery services prior to being placed in out-of-home care are twice as likely to be reunited with their biological families as other children in Illinois' child welfare system, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Illinois.

UN to address the Physical Activity on Prescription concept
A Swedish delegation including researchers from Karolinska Institutet is to visit the UN headquarters this week to promote the use of physical activity to combat chronic diseases.

Cabinet Secretary for Education re-opens The Hunterian Museum
After almost two years of closure, the University of Glasgow's Hunterian Museum has been formally re-opened by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Michael Russell MSP.

Is the Swedish welfare state a social disaster permeated by crime?
The Swedish police force appears on our television screens, year in and year out. The socially critical police narratives in novels and films have a tremendous impact.

Renowned astrophysicist explores the "dark side of the Universe" in Sept. 20 lecture
What : 6th Annual Misel Family Lecture: "The Dark Side of the Universe" When : 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.