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Research in the arts and humanities deserves wider recognition for the broad range of palpable contributions it is making to the life of the nation, a new report suggests.

December 31, 1969 — Coral Gables — A new study by researchers from the University of Miami shows that maternal sensitivity may influence language development among children who go on to develop autism.

BERKELEY — At a century-old Buddhist temple in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo, seven elderly Japanese American artists appeared recently in a once-in-a-lifetime performance of music, dance, and theater.

Cambridge, Mass. June 3, 2010 - Malika Zeghal, who has examined the changing relationship between Islam and governments across the Middle East, has been appointed Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life at Harvard University, effective July 1, 2010.

Maria Balshaw, Director of The Whitworth Art Gallery at The University of Manchester, has been awarded £260,000 as one of five recipients of the 2010 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Breakthrough Fund.

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Poetry is firmly in the spotlight at Oxford University this week as the nominations for the prestigious Professor of Poetry post closed at 4pm on Wednesday 5 May.

Cambridge, Mass. May 5, 2010 - Stephen Burt, a published poet and prolific critic of contemporary poetry whose scholarly interests range across the verse of many nations, has been appointed professor of English at Harvard University.

Holocaust research has traditionally portrayed Jews as passive victims - but John and Mary Felstiner study how some took up the pen, the paintbrush or the piano to send a message to future generations.

BERKELEY — A surprising sound greets visitors who come to University Health Services during Tuesday's midday hour.

Creative collaboration between trumpeter-composer Dave Douglas and experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison re-imagines a story with "a great sense of longing for what we can't have - and perhaps for what we've already screwed up.

From October 2009 through January 2010, four documentary photographers — Farhad Parsa, Arash Saedinia, Parisa Taghizadeh and Ramin Talaie — focused their lenses on second-generation Iranian Americans in Los Angeles, home to the world's largest population of expatriate Iranians.

The James S. Coleman African Studies Center at UCLA will celebrate its 50th anniversary Saturday, April 17, with an 8 p.m. concert at Royce Hall presented by UCLA Live and a post-performance gala reception featuring popular Senegalese musician Baaba Maal.

Hollywood loves a good comeback story – and sometimes it is the films themselves that are resurrected from the dead. In tribute, Peninsula Arts is set to screen five classic films under the banner of ‘Revival’ – with many of them playing on the big screen in Plymouth for the first time. The Revival season opens with an international double bill in the University of Plymouth’s Jill Craigie Cinema on 22 April.

Berkeley is in the midst of Global Outreach Week, a student-initiated demonstration of the campus's commitment to making a difference in the world — and an invitation to get involved.

The achievements of local organisations in their attempt to reduce the impact of global poverty were showcased yesterday, Thursday 1st April when the UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband visited Cambridge.

"Given Princeton's deep strengths in cross-disciplinary energy research and the recent establishment of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment , we felt that energy would be a terrific t

On March 27 the composer Pauline Oliveros will be the first woman to receive the William Schuman Award.