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A new Discovery Centre to inspire budding young scientists and showcase cutting-edge research 'as it happens' is being planned for The University of Manchester's famous Jodrell Bank Observatory.

A cutting-edge machine, which could transform the lives of kidney disease sufferers by making it easier for them to do their own dialysis treatment at home, is set to undergo clinical testing over the next few months.

Jump to: home | search | phonebook | banner navigation | site navigation | main content | footer navigation LOS ALAMOS, N.M. June 16, 2009 — Los Alamos National Laboratory today announced that William S. Rees, Jr.

University of California, Berkeley, officials recently decided that the campus will, in fact, use waitlists as part of its freshman admissions process.

During spring break last year, tenth-grader Brandon Small toured colleges in Boston and Cambridge and set his sights on MIT.

A new book has shown how dissatisfaction with the Labour Party and the absence of credible Tory campaigning has contributed to rising numbers of BNP strongholds.

Imperial celebrates International Women?s Day with a look at women in science Two photography exhibitions highlight the work of women in science at Imperial - %0A " City Hall photo exhibition provide

The 39th Two Cities Boat Race, an annual rowing regatta between The Universities of Manchester and Salford, will take place on Saturday 8th May 2010.

Breakthrough Breast Cancer has launched a £5 million appeal for its pioneering Research Unit at The University of Manchester which aims to find new treatments for breast cancer patients.

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Researchers have launched a unique project to improve early diagnosis and management of dementia among Deaf people who use British Sign Language (BSL).

February 25, 2010 - Initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) during tuberculosis therapy significantly reduced mortality rates by 56 percent in a randomized clinical trial of 642 patients co-infected with HIV and tuberculosis.

It was a magical Olympic Winter Games for Canada and McGill is proud to be part of the formula for success.

International cancer experts are gathering in Sheffield this week (3-4 March 2010) to discuss the long-term health problems of people who have been treated for cancer. As many more people are surviving cancer, their long-term health and consequences of the treatments they received are becoming increasingly more important.

The University of Plymouth is to host Defra Minister for the Marine Environment, Huw Irranca-Davies, on behalf of the South West for a special 'question time' on the topic of the marine environment.

economic correspondent Peter Goodman about the financial downturn, their respective new books and whether there's a light at the end of the economic tunnel in a program called "Economic Myths, Markets, and Main Street.

UCL's Deafness, Cognition and Language research centre is part of a project to improve early diagnosis and management of dementia among Deaf people who use British Sign Language.

There is no small irony embedded in the subtitle of the Shriver Report on women's inroads into the American workforce: "A woman's nation changes everything.

Elizabeth Boluch Wood, assistant vice president of development for capital giving and a major architect of the University's $1.75 billion Aspire Campaign , has been named Princeton University's vice president for development, effective March 1.

For immediate release: February 22, 2010 Media contact: Cass Cliatt, (609) 258-6108, ccliatt [a] princeton (p) edu Wood named to succeed McDonald as vice president for development Elizabeth Boluch Wo

Boston - MIT MIT will welcome British Foreign Secretary David Miliband to campus to deliver the March 2010 Karl Taylor Compton Lecture.

UCLA's Jeffrey Brantingham works with the Los Angeles Police Department to analyze crime patterns. He also studies hunter-gatherers in Northern Tibet. If you tell him his research interests sound completely unrelated, he will quickly correct you. "Criminal offenders are essentially hunter-gatherers; they forage for opportunities to commit crimes," said Brantingham, a UCLA associate professor of anthropology.

North Korean propaganda is rife with left-wing-sounding terminology such as "the masses" and "revolution.

Columbia alumnus Kian Tajbakhsh was supposed to join the faculty of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation last fall.

A law professor specializing in ethics, criminal law, and legal and political philosophy, Chris Kutz has served since August 2009 as chair, and before that as vice chair, of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate.

Despite claims that proposed state budget cuts to programs that provide in-home care to disabled senior citizens will not affect those with the highest level of need, a new analysis by the UCLA Cente

PASADENA, Calif.—Using arrays of long, thin silicon wires embedded in a polymer substrate, a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created a new type of flexible solar cell that enhances the absorption of sunlight and efficiently converts its photons into electrons.

The session filmed was a survey undertaken by UCL archaeologists (including students from the Institute of Archaeology) recording the remains of a wooden warship that had been broken up at Charlton on the Thames foreshore.

A radical overhaul of the adult social care system is being called for by Birmingham University researchers following an independent analysis of the social and financial gains that could be reaped.

They have helped to develop the Virtual Disaster Viewer (VDV), a unique web portal that aid agencies rely on to target emergency food and medical supplies, prioritise repairs to infrastructure, and plan reconstruction and recovery.

The Office of Religious Life has appointed coordinators for Hindu and Muslim life as part of efforts to enhance support for Princeton students from a variety of backgrounds.

John Foster Dulles, who served under President Eisenhower, was the most traveled secretary of state of his time.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will deliver the opening keynote address for the 2009 Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs at 9:30 a.m. Friday, April 17, in the McCarter Theatre Center's Matthews Theatre on the Princeton University campus.

In the largest national survey of its kind, researchers from UCLA and UC San Diego measured medical students? attitudes and beliefs about complementary and alternative medicine.

Princeton - Princeton Paul Ominsky, director of public safety at Mount Holyoke College, Smith College and Hampshire College, has been named director of public safety at Princeton University.

MIT - MIT MIT on Thursday issued a report by its Initiative on Faculty Race and Diversity that provides important findings about how race affects the recruitment, retention, professional opportunitie

Engineer Tal Golesworthy was suffering from a defect in his aorta ? the main artery for carrying oxygenated blood ? that left it in danger of splitting.

San Francisco - Berkeley UC President Mark Yudof today announced the appointment of UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor Administration Nathan Brostrom as Executive Vice President Business Operations at the UC Office of the President.

In the largest national survey of its kind, researchers from UCLA and the University of California, San Diego, measured medical students' attitudes and beliefs about complementary and alternative med