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Making buildings and bridges safer during earthquakes. Printed 3-D blood vessels and capillaries for regenerative medicine.

The Moby-Dick Big Read has been two years in the making and will run for more than three months from its launch at the Plymouth International Book Festival in September.

The New Hall Art Collection is Europe's foremost collection of art by women. Don't miss the chance to book for a free guided tour of the Collection on Friday, 7 September as part of Open Cambridge.

Beams of light could one day replace the jumble of wires under a car bonnet, leading to lighter-weight and more fuel-efficient vehicles.

World famous Chinese concert pianist, Lang Lang, has been announced as Global Ambassador for the Leeds International Piano Competition and will visit the Competition on Sunday 9 September.

A landmark exhibition marking the novel's anniversary opens at the John Rylands Library, Deansgate. 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of A Clockwork Orange, the controversial novel by Manchester-born writer Anthony Burgess.

Complicated concepts from the world of engineering, nanoscience and chemistry have been communicated on canvas thanks to postgraduate students from the University of Bristol who contributed to the huge success of See No Evil - the UK's largest permanent street art project.

Grants will digitize Obama memorabilia, early maps Cornell University Library and the College of Arts and Sciences have awarded 11 new grants to create new digital content in support of visual and interactive learning, teaching and research.

A skateboard made from grass, work inspired by Glasgow indie band Belle and Sebastian, and a lounger that encourages older people to snuggle up are highlights of a major art and design show.

Mark di Suvero's large-scale sculpture settles in on the School of Medicine Dean's Lawn. Moving art can get complicated very quickly.

Sussex researcher reveals rare art works at Proms exhibition tribute to composer Delius The death mask of Frederick Delius and a rarely seen and important portrait of the composer are among the items

Warwick is set to bolster its complement of Arts studies as it introduces Hispanic Studies to its range of courses.

The Umeå band Deportees seems to be loved by everyone - music enthusiasts as well as seasoned industry professionals.

Alison Duthie joins King's as Director of Programming, King's Cultural Institute.

Celebrated Indigenous Hawaiian artist Carl Pao is taking new ideas about the Pacific and committing them to canvas, painting a visually stunning and colourful mural at ANU.

The University of Pennsylvania has established the Department of Africana Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences.

Professor Cohen: "There has been little or no detailed analysis of how and why particular popular music histories are constructed” Events planned as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad wi

Internationally renowned music theatre expert, Oscar Hammerstein III, will headline a major Music Theatre Symposium at the Victorian College of the Arts, on August 13th.

The Centre for Robert Burns Studies at the University of Glasgow have launched a new website to connect the thousands of Burns enthusiasts around the world.

The University of Bristol is calling on members of the public across the South West to help with a new research project which aims to preserve and present the most imaginative, quirky, diverse and entertaining visual responses - photos, drawings, paintings etc - to London 2012.

Think back to the last birthday party you attended. When the candles were lit, did you join everyone else in belting out the "Happy Birthday" song - or were you too self-conscious to do more than mouth the words?

A new app game developed by a Cambridge student challenges people to sing the right note at the right time in order to smash down a wall and advance to the next level - surreptitiously engaging them with basic music theory at the same time.

German Studies doctoral student Melissa Kagen examines where music was played in Nazi concentration camps, uncovering how music can function as a means for controlling and torturing prisoners in present-day detention facilities.

World première for Sussex grad at BBC Proms Tune in to BBC Radio 3 at 7pm today (18 July) and you'll get to hear the world première of a new composition by a Sussex music alumnus.

Robin Makin and Nicholas Wong with the documents discovered in a safe Business documents discovered in the former Rushworths building in Whitechapel have been donated to the University of Liverpool's research project into the business.

Professor Forsdick: "Translating Cultures will stimulate arts and humanities scholars” Professor Charles Forsdick, Head of the Department of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies has been announ

Local Metrics: Majeed, Mooses, Myrie features the works from the 2011-12 artists-in-residence with Arts & Public Life and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture.

Mark Applebaum, associate professor of music, is this year's "Three Books" moderator. He selected Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural Nörth Daköta by Chuck Klosterman, the 2007 film My Kid

An exciting cinema-scale installation by Oxford University's Legacy Fellow will premiere this week at an exhibition in a disused power station in Oxford.

Nottingham's Broadway cinema is giving film fans the rare opportunity to see Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia, commissioned by Hitler to document the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

The sacred songs and rhythms of Morocco and Burkina Faso will be bringing some musical sunshine to the Botanic Garden at the first Sounds Green cushion concert tonight, 6.15pm start.

A group of 10 young Indigenous singers will celebrate NAIDOC Week by taking part in an intensive training program for classical vocal music at the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development at the University of Melbourne.

Visitors to The Hunterian this July will have the unique opportunity to see London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic gold medals before the Games begin.