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Policymakers should understand the risks and limitations associated with choosing to continue growing federal debt, according to an expert at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

More needs to be done to support victims and survivors of domestic abuse who are homeowners or private renters, according to a new report from the University of Bristol.

Jakarta has a population of 10 million and is rapidly sinking. The Indonesian Government announced plans to relocate the country's capital to the island of Borneo, but will it improve living and environmental conditions?

The supervision of doctoral students has long been the subject of intense debate both within and beyond the walls of our university.

A major new public attitudes survey on fracking reveals very little public support for relaxing the rules and regulations around fracking - a key demand of major shale gas extraction companies.

Cardiff University's Wales Governance Centre has published its latest analysis of Wales' public finances.

Black enlisted men load ammunition onto a train car at Port Chicago while a white officer supervises.

Virtual reality pilot training and better monitoring of water pollution are among University of Queensland research funded in the latest round of Australian Research Council Linkage Projects.

The state of Wales' public finances will be discussed today (2 July) by experts from Cardiff University's Wales Governance Centre.

Professor Jeffrey Hill has been appointed as the new Director of the Sussex Drug Discovery Centre ( SDDC ) within the School of Life Sciences.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency replaced the Obama-era Clean Power Plan this week with one that focuses on efficiency improvements at generating stations.

Today, 18 June, and tomorrow, 19 June, the University of Münster will host the annual Federal Conference of the "EU Cooperation Centre for Science Organisations" (KoWi).

To the Campus Community: Our university's first and highest obligation is to the communities we serve.

The Constitution is being attacked, says Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. (Photo by Dieter Spears via Wikimedia Commons) Until recently, Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley Law, didn't want to be alarmist by shouting "constitutional crisis" from the rooftops.

Stanford scholars outline a detailed strategy for how to protect the integrity of American elections - including recommendations such as requiring a paper trail of every vote cast and publishing information about a campaign's connections with foreign nationals. Scholars from Stanford University put forward a comprehensive strategy for what needs to be done to protect the integrity and independence of U.S. elections, with a keen focus on the upcoming presidential campaign in 2020.

Researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences are the first University of Sydney academics to receive research support from Facebook.

A great success for the University of Münster: the German Research Foundation (DFG) will fund for a new Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) at the University with nine million euros.