News in Brief
Life Sciences - Jan 19
Male butterflies mark their mates with a repulsive smell during sex to ’turn off’ other suitors
Male butterflies mark their mates with a repulsive smell during sex to ’turn off’ other suitors
Health - Jan 19
Successive governments’ approaches to obesity policies have destined them to fail, say researchers
Successive governments’ approaches to obesity policies have destined them to fail, say researchers
Health - Jan 19
Novartis and GSK announce collaboration to support scientific research into genetic diversity in Africa
Novartis and GSK announce collaboration to support scientific research into genetic diversity in Africa
Social Sciences - Jan 19
WHO adopts new guidance into childhood pain informed by Bath’s Centre for Pain Research
WHO adopts new guidance into childhood pain informed by Bath’s Centre for Pain Research
Health - Jan 18
RECOVERY trial closes recruitment to convalescent plasma treatment for patients hospitalised with COVID-19 | University of Oxford
RECOVERY trial closes recruitment to convalescent plasma treatment for patients hospitalised with COVID-19 | University of Oxford
Life Sciences - Jan 18
What the lungfishes’ genome teaches us about the vertebrates’ conquest of land
What the lungfishes’ genome teaches us about the vertebrates’ conquest of land
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Economics / Business - Career - 11.03.2013
Career - 08.03.2013
Career - 08.03.2013
Economics / Business - Career - 04.03.2013
Agronomy / Food Science - Career - 18.02.2013 
New video gallery helps broadcast media promote unbiased coverage of obesity
The Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity has launched a new, free resource to aid members of broadcast media in the creation and delivery of fair, unbiased video coverage of obesity and weight-related topics on television, video, and online.
Health - Career - 15.02.2013
Career - Event - 13.02.2013
Career - 12.02.2013
Career - 11.02.2013 
New magazine showcases Stanford benefits, resources across campus
Stanford Report, February 11, 2013 University Human Resources is launching a new quarterly magazine called Educated Choices that will be mailed to all benefits-eligible Stanford employees this month. There are many advantages to working at Stanford, including comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional and personal goals.
Environment - Career - 05.02.2013 
Survey reveals fault lines in climate change debate
A recent article from a University of Alberta researcher highlights that the province's engineers seem split on the causes of climate change. Some were willing to position their education and expertise to validate themselves as de facto experts while refuting the credibility of those with opposing points of view—even within their own profession.
Economics / Business - Career - 30.01.2013
Career - Economics / Business - 25.01.2013
Career - Continuing Education - 24.01.2013
Career - Event - 23.01.2013
Health - Career - 18.01.2013
Linguistics / Literature - Career - 17.01.2013 
World’s largest natural sound archive now online
After 12 years of work, Cornell's Macaulay Library archive, the largest collection of wildlife sounds in the world, is now digitized and fully available online.
Career - Continuing Education - 16.01.2013 
University repeats success in equality survey
The 2013 Stonewall Workplace Equality Index, the results of which were announced yesterday, ranks the University joint eleventh, the highest placed higher education institution (HEI) ahead of Liverpo
Career - Continuing Education - 15.01.2013
Career - 10.01.2013
Career - Economics / Business - 19.12.2012 
Jobs are the Dish of the Day for unemployed youngsters
19 Dec 2012 The University has launched its first ever 'Skills Academy' aimed at helping unemployed youngsters in Manchester to find their feet in this growing industry.
Career - 18.12.2012 
Mind the Gap – Exploring New Dimensions of Inequality
Women's occupations are healthier, permit greater access to higher status networks, and involve working with better-educated people than men's occupations.
Career - Economics / Business - 17.12.2012 
University serves up a brighter future for young caterers
17 Dec 2012 The University has launched its first ever 'Skills Academy' aimed at helping unemployed youngsters in Manchester to find their feet in this growing industry.
Career - 17.12.2012
Continuing Education - Career - 26.11.2012
Career - Health - 23.11.2012 
Family care taking toll on workplace
Caring for aging family and friends is putting the squeeze on the Canadian workplace, with an average 1.5 million workdays being missed per month by middle-aged caregivers who are also trying to hold down jobs, according to University of Alberta research.
Health - Career - 22.11.2012 
Phone coaching helps weight loss, evaluation finds
An innovative NSW health service featuring coaching sessions conducted over the phone is an effective health promotion intervention, a University of Sydney evaluation has shown.
Career - 22.11.2012
Career - 20.11.2012 
What is the future for the South Wales Valleys?
Two important messages for the future of the South Wales Valleys will be shared by Kevin Morgan, from the University's School of Planning and Geography at the 2012 Keir Hardie public lecture in Aberdare this Friday.
Economics / Business - Career - 15.11.2012
Career - History / Archeology - 15.11.2012 
Tapestry is more than its seams
Alex Makin –a professional embroiderer who was trained at one the country's most prestigious institutions – says the same group of people were likely to have worked on the 70-metre-long masterpiece under the same manager or managers.
Career - 13.11.2012
Career - 12.11.2012
Career - 12.11.2012
Career - Linguistics / Literature - 12.11.2012 
Dark and brooding border image wins public vote
An image of hundreds of birds flying over a soviet-era war memorial in the Ukraine has been voted as Manchester's best Image of Research.
Career - 01.11.2012 
Campus car-wash drives new jobs into Manchester
UniValet launched earlier today, and this unique social enterprise will provide paid on-the-job training for local people who have been without a job for some time or who may have never worked.
Career - Economics / Business - 24.10.2012 
Hallock demystifies pay in book on compensation
Want to earn more? Learn how your organization's compensation system works and how you fit into the picture, says ILR School Professor Kevin Hallock in his new book, "Pay," released by Cambridge University Press this month.
Economics / Business - Career - 24.10.2012 
Food Day report examines how minimum wage hike would impact both consumers, workers
A new report released today (Wednesday, Oct.
Career - Physics - 15.10.2012
Law - Career - 12.10.2012
Career - 11.10.2012
Career - 09.10.2012
Health - Career - 05.10.2012
Career - 04.10.2012 
Effective communication is about more than simply pronunciation, says a Concordia-University of Bristol research team
With immigration on the rise, the use of English as a second language is sweeping the world. People who have grown up speaking French, Italian, Mandarin or any other language are now expected to be able to communicate effectively using this new lingua franca.
Administration - Career - 04.10.2012
Health - Career - 02.07.2012 
Cancer in childhood can have negative impact on career readiness
A new study by David Strauser, a faculty member in community health, sheds light on why adult survivors of childhood cancer often have trouble keeping employment, particularly if they were diagnosed during a critical developmental period between the ages of 6-12. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, lll.
Career - Administration - 15.06.2012 
After-hours, weekend changes through East Jemez road vehicle access portal begin June 18
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, June 15, 2012—Beginning Monday, June 18, all vehicles entering Los Alamos National Laboratory's (LANL) Vehicle Access Portal at East Jemez Road must use center lane number 4 between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. weekdays and all day on weekends.
Innovation - Career - 01.05.2012
Career - 20.04.2012 
New SNF research grant for Prof. Anu Wadhwa
Anu Wadhwa has been awarded a grant by the SNF to study uncertainty in the venture capital investements practices in the cleantech sector.
Economics / Business - Career - 11.04.2012
Career - Economics / Business - 10.04.2012
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ILR professors identify tradeoffs for women workers
Are American women making headway in the workplace? Yes and no, according to new research by ILR School Professors Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn.
Are American women making headway in the workplace? Yes and no, according to new research by ILR School Professors Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn.
The Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity has launched a new, free resource to aid members of broadcast media in the creation and delivery of fair, unbiased video coverage of obesity and weight-related topics on television, video, and online.
National Debate for Healthcare Training
Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry (PU PSMD) has taken a national lead on the debate around how the healthcare professionals of the future are trained.
Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry (PU PSMD) has taken a national lead on the debate around how the healthcare professionals of the future are trained.
Refocusing important on and off the court
Employees aren't necessarily slacking off when their performance drops in one area, according to a study led by a researcher at University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. Maria Rotundo headed the study, which used NBA statistics to examine how drops in employee performance could mean they've simply shifted and refocused their efforts on a different set of tasks - a positive sign of adaptability that should be considered in performance evaluations.
Employees aren't necessarily slacking off when their performance drops in one area, according to a study led by a researcher at University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. Maria Rotundo headed the study, which used NBA statistics to examine how drops in employee performance could mean they've simply shifted and refocused their efforts on a different set of tasks - a positive sign of adaptability that should be considered in performance evaluations.
Stanford Report, February 11, 2013 University Human Resources is launching a new quarterly magazine called Educated Choices that will be mailed to all benefits-eligible Stanford employees this month. There are many advantages to working at Stanford, including comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional and personal goals.
A recent article from a University of Alberta researcher highlights that the province's engineers seem split on the causes of climate change. Some were willing to position their education and expertise to validate themselves as de facto experts while refuting the credibility of those with opposing points of view—even within their own profession.
Survival of Euro is critical to UK dragging itself out of depression
James Mitchell says today's GDP figures show that the European Central Bank's promise to save the Euro is critical to the UK's hope that it can drag itself out of the longest "depression" in living memory.
James Mitchell says today's GDP figures show that the European Central Bank's promise to save the Euro is critical to the UK's hope that it can drag itself out of the longest "depression" in living memory.
Birmingham computer scientists take part in national cyber security challenge
The University of Birmingham's School of Computer Science, along with 3 other leading university computer science departments in the UK, is taking part in a unique code-breaking competition as part of this year's Cyber Security Challenge UK.
The University of Birmingham's School of Computer Science, along with 3 other leading university computer science departments in the UK, is taking part in a unique code-breaking competition as part of this year's Cyber Security Challenge UK.
HR Excellence in Research
Cardiff's commitment to improving the working conditions and career development for research staff has been recognised and reaffirmed.
Cardiff's commitment to improving the working conditions and career development for research staff has been recognised and reaffirmed.
After 12 years of work, Cornell's Macaulay Library archive, the largest collection of wildlife sounds in the world, is now digitized and fully available online.
The 2013 Stonewall Workplace Equality Index, the results of which were announced yesterday, ranks the University joint eleventh, the highest placed higher education institution (HEI) ahead of Liverpo
19 Dec 2012 The University has launched its first ever 'Skills Academy' aimed at helping unemployed youngsters in Manchester to find their feet in this growing industry.
Women's occupations are healthier, permit greater access to higher status networks, and involve working with better-educated people than men's occupations.
17 Dec 2012 The University has launched its first ever 'Skills Academy' aimed at helping unemployed youngsters in Manchester to find their feet in this growing industry.
Caring for aging family and friends is putting the squeeze on the Canadian workplace, with an average 1.5 million workdays being missed per month by middle-aged caregivers who are also trying to hold down jobs, according to University of Alberta research.
An innovative NSW health service featuring coaching sessions conducted over the phone is an effective health promotion intervention, a University of Sydney evaluation has shown.
Two important messages for the future of the South Wales Valleys will be shared by Kevin Morgan, from the University's School of Planning and Geography at the 2012 Keir Hardie public lecture in Aberdare this Friday.
US job recovery: Half way there
ANN ARBOR-Over the next two years, the U.S. economy will regain the rest of the nearly 9 million jobs lost in the Great Recession, say economists at the University of Michigan.
ANN ARBOR-Over the next two years, the U.S. economy will regain the rest of the nearly 9 million jobs lost in the Great Recession, say economists at the University of Michigan.
Alex Makin –a professional embroiderer who was trained at one the country's most prestigious institutions – says the same group of people were likely to have worked on the 70-metre-long masterpiece under the same manager or managers.
Telework delivers increases in productivity and wellbeing
Researchers at the University of Melbourne's Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society, (IBES) have found teleworking, increases productivity and wellbeing and results in many positive benefits for individuals. However, Chief Investigator Rachelle Bosua from IBES said it was important to establish the right environment between workers and managers to allow telework to flourish.
Researchers at the University of Melbourne's Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society, (IBES) have found teleworking, increases productivity and wellbeing and results in many positive benefits for individuals. However, Chief Investigator Rachelle Bosua from IBES said it was important to establish the right environment between workers and managers to allow telework to flourish.
Report offers new guidance on family involvement of child abuse case reviews
Child protection professionals are to be offered new guidance on how best to involve families in the case reviews that follow the death or serious injury of a child as a result of abuse or neglect.
Child protection professionals are to be offered new guidance on how best to involve families in the case reviews that follow the death or serious injury of a child as a result of abuse or neglect.
An image of hundreds of birds flying over a soviet-era war memorial in the Ukraine has been voted as Manchester's best Image of Research.
UniValet launched earlier today, and this unique social enterprise will provide paid on-the-job training for local people who have been without a job for some time or who may have never worked.
Want to earn more? Learn how your organization's compensation system works and how you fit into the picture, says ILR School Professor Kevin Hallock in his new book, "Pay," released by Cambridge University Press this month.
A new report released today (Wednesday, Oct.
U-Michigan researcher awarded 2012 Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering
Sarah Aciego ANN ARBOR-A University of Michigan researcher is among 16 scientists from universities across the country named as 2012 recipients of the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
Sarah Aciego ANN ARBOR-A University of Michigan researcher is among 16 scientists from universities across the country named as 2012 recipients of the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
2012 Minnesota Justice Forum to examine collateral consequences of criminal records
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (10/12/2012) —For the nearly one in three American adults with criminal records, the consequences of crime include not only punishment but also collateral sanction
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (10/12/2012) —For the nearly one in three American adults with criminal records, the consequences of crime include not only punishment but also collateral sanction
Uproar over recent job figures: Much ado about nothing?
ANN ARBOR-The hullabaloo surrounding last week's release of the nation's employment numbers was a bit overblown, says a University of Michigan economist. While U.S. employers posted modest job gains in September, the unemployment rate fell sharply from 8.1 percent to 7.8 percent-the lowest point in nearly four years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
ANN ARBOR-The hullabaloo surrounding last week's release of the nation's employment numbers was a bit overblown, says a University of Michigan economist. While U.S. employers posted modest job gains in September, the unemployment rate fell sharply from 8.1 percent to 7.8 percent-the lowest point in nearly four years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
GP’s need to recognise occupational asthma
A new report published today in the scientific journal, Occupational Medicine, finds that many people who develop work related asthma are not correctly diagnosed by GPs.
A new report published today in the scientific journal, Occupational Medicine, finds that many people who develop work related asthma are not correctly diagnosed by GPs.
With immigration on the rise, the use of English as a second language is sweeping the world. People who have grown up speaking French, Italian, Mandarin or any other language are now expected to be able to communicate effectively using this new lingua franca.
A new study by David Strauser, a faculty member in community health, sheds light on why adult survivors of childhood cancer often have trouble keeping employment, particularly if they were diagnosed during a critical developmental period between the ages of 6-12. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, lll.
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, June 15, 2012—Beginning Monday, June 18, all vehicles entering Los Alamos National Laboratory's (LANL) Vehicle Access Portal at East Jemez Road must use center lane number 4 between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. weekdays and all day on weekends.
Switzerland and South Africa step up cooperation on science
Bern, 01.05.2012 - A high-level Swiss delegation led by the State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) arrived in South Africa last week and met their counterparts from the Sout
Bern, 01.05.2012 - A high-level Swiss delegation led by the State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) arrived in South Africa last week and met their counterparts from the Sout
Anu Wadhwa has been awarded a grant by the SNF to study uncertainty in the venture capital investements practices in the cleantech sector.
Roche sends open letter to Illumina shareholders
Roche sends open letter to Illumina shareholders Letter recommends Illumina shareholders vote the GOLD proxy card Roche today sent an open letter to shareholders of Illumina, Inc.
Roche sends open letter to Illumina shareholders Letter recommends Illumina shareholders vote the GOLD proxy card Roche today sent an open letter to shareholders of Illumina, Inc.
What Higher Gas Prices Mean For Texans This Summer
Memorial Day weekend kicks off the annual summer driving season, but like a bad movie we have watched several times before, this holiday weekend is waiting to greet us with higher gasoline prices.
Memorial Day weekend kicks off the annual summer driving season, but like a bad movie we have watched several times before, this holiday weekend is waiting to greet us with higher gasoline prices.
News in Brief
Life Sciences - Jan 19
Male butterflies mark their mates with a repulsive smell during sex to ’turn off’ other suitors
Male butterflies mark their mates with a repulsive smell during sex to ’turn off’ other suitors
Health - Jan 19
Successive governments’ approaches to obesity policies have destined them to fail, say researchers
Successive governments’ approaches to obesity policies have destined them to fail, say researchers
Health - Jan 19
Novartis and GSK announce collaboration to support scientific research into genetic diversity in Africa
Novartis and GSK announce collaboration to support scientific research into genetic diversity in Africa
Social Sciences - Jan 19
WHO adopts new guidance into childhood pain informed by Bath’s Centre for Pain Research
WHO adopts new guidance into childhood pain informed by Bath’s Centre for Pain Research
Health - Jan 18
RECOVERY trial closes recruitment to convalescent plasma treatment for patients hospitalised with COVID-19 | University of Oxford
RECOVERY trial closes recruitment to convalescent plasma treatment for patients hospitalised with COVID-19 | University of Oxford
Life Sciences - Jan 18
What the lungfishes’ genome teaches us about the vertebrates’ conquest of land
What the lungfishes’ genome teaches us about the vertebrates’ conquest of land