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The World Science Festival, cofounded by Brian Greene , professor of mathematics and physics, returns to New York City May 30 - June 3 offering a dynamic set of lectures and programs that bring cutting-edge science to a broader audience.

Lev Manovich and a visiting researcher exploring a visualization of one million manga pages on HIPerSpace visualization system constructed by Gravity Lab at Calit2. Computers have changed the landscape of humanities research. Innovations continue to make it cheaper and easier to digitize and analyze ever larger volumes of data.

Cambridge neuroscientists will be among the members of an innovative educational charity joining a Pink Floyd tribute band to celebrate the transforming power of music.

Massive fair highlights hundreds of great ideas that emerged in courses at SEAS this year By Mureji Fatunde '12 and Caroline Perry Gye Hyun Baek '13 and Madalina Persu '13 exhibit their ES 50 project with course assistant Leonard Kogos '12, right.

In Travis Irvine's application to Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism , he wrote that he wanted his career to include travel, filmmaking, comedy, politics and, oh yes, journalism.

Can a computer be taught to automatically label every song on the Internet using sets of examples provided by unpaid music fans? University of California, San Diego engineers have found that the answer is yes, and the results are as accurate as using paid music experts to provide the examples, saving considerable time and money.

The University of Birmingham will co-host a cultural engagement symposium at the Chicago Cultural Center on Tuesday 8 May 2012 focused on connecting cities, universities and international partners in arts and culture.

Warwick's Director of Music, Paul McGrath, will be mentoring Marcus du Sautoy on the BBC's new series 'Maestro at the Opera', starting on Friday 4 May.

The Bodleian Library is asking the public for help in cataloguing one of its collections. As part of a new project, members of the public are being asked to help describe 4,000 music pieces from the Bodleian Libraries' collections.

The Rotunda has been added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places by the Philadelphia Historical Commission.

Robotic surgery, spray-on-clothing and science stand-up feature among the music, comedy and science demonstrations at Imperial College London's first public festival **Festival open on 11 and 12 May*

Graduates from across the South West will have the opportunity to apply for valuable learning placements thanks to a new internship academy being launched in May.

Girl power for Olympic torchbearers at Durham University Three rising international sportswomen from Durham University have been selected to carry the Olympic Torch.

Artist to artist: Deller's film tribute to art icon Bruce Lacey previews at Brighton Festival Brighton Festival goers will be able to enjoy a University of Sussex-sponsored sneak preview of Turner Pr

An evening at Lucy Cavendish College next Monday will bring together speakers and musicians from Cambridge and beyond to look at the ways in which the literature, art and music of Iran have flourished through revolution and repression.

A pop-up exhibition and drop-in shop is to open in Coventry city centre throughout the month of May, focussing on the history of British pop music programming.

Six of the UK's top science fiction writers are calling for scientists and the creative community to work more closely together to improve the credibility of their work.

A debut feature film by a Clare College alumna is showing at the Arts Picturehouse on Tuesday 24 April and again the following evening.

The ICCI360 Arena will provide a dramatic setting for a range of interactive and multi-national events this summer in Weymouth, and is part of Maritime Mix – London 2012 Cultural Olympiad by the Sea.

A three year project aiming to understand how English popular music shapes identity is looking for people to reveal the songs that inspire them, the objects they treasure and the events they'll never forget.

The University of California, San Diego and the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation have agreed to establish the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (ACCCHI) at UC San Diego.

$1.5M grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will launch CAST. MIT has received $1.5 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a new Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST).

Stanford musicologist Stephen Hinton presents an in-depth portrait of the artistic and cultural contributions of one of the most influential figures in 20th-century musical theater.

India's Bollywood stars have turned to new media in huge numbers to be closer to their fans as part of a radical transformation of the industry in its quest for greater audiences.

AUSTIN, Texas — High school math teachers tend to rate white female students' math abilities lower than those of their white male peers, even when their grades and test scores are comparable, according to a University of Texas at Austin study. Catherine Riegle-Crumb and sociology doctoral student Melissa Humphries conducted the study using nationally representative data from the Education Longitudinal Study (ELS) of 2002.

Reception and service at central level for international students after arrival at KTH.

Staying true to the artist and the artwork is at the heart of each decision made by museum curators, conservators and preparators while installing works by Dan Flavin and Robert Irwin.

ATV music video: Back at the ISS A new music video by Beatles tribute band Love & Mersey celebrates the return of ATV to the International Space Station and sends a rocking musical greeting to ESA Astronaut André Kuipers, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and the Station's entire crew.

Amy Benson , a writer and faculty member at the School of the Arts , was tired of always going to downtown Manhattan for literary events.

PA 88/12 Art and national identity are to be seen in a fresh light with the launch of Ireland on Show, exploring how Ireland displayed its art from the late eighteenth to the early 20th-century.

By exploring the connections between astronomy and music, Professor Bryan Gaensler , from the University of Sydney, will introduce a chamber music concert celebrating Galileo.

At a time when the music of South African jazz great Hugh Masekela is more likely to be heard in an elevator than a bootleg recording, it's hard to imagine an era when combining jazz and African music would have been considered revolutionary.