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UCL has been ranked fifth in the world for arts and humanities in the latest league table published by The Times Higher Education.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A one-of-a-kind electric console guitar created by steel guitar performer Letritia Kandle in the 1930s will be demonstrated and on display at ELLNORA: The Guitar Festival.

The University of Glasgow's Arts and Humanities subjects have jumped eight places to 70th in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings which were released today, Wednesday 13 September 2017.

Durham University has been recognised as a global leader in Arts and Humanities in a prestigious international league table.

Building on the success of early rounds of funding provided by the UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative awards, researchers are invited to apply for Round 4 funding.

Translating irregular heartbeats could lead to new insights for computer scientists and medical diagnostics, according to an international project led by a Professor of Digital Media at Queen Mary Un

Music is identified as a key influence on great poets and novelists of the past century in a landmark book by Professor Dominic Wyse (UCL Institute of Education).

New app could transform music teaching in schools A new app is being launched this week that could transform the way music is taught and played in schools.

Art and science are often seen as complete opposites: art is subjective, while science aims to discover objective facts about nature.

Compositions provide a soundtrack for the Cassini probe's final plunge into planet TORONTO, ON - After centuries of looking with awe and wonder at the beauty of Saturn and its rings, we can now listen to them, thanks to the efforts of astrophysicists at the University of Toronto (U of T).

According to the indigenous Kuikuro people in Brazil, artists are itseke, powerful spirits of invisible knowledge.

Distractions diminish people's ability to remember, but important facts still stick, UCLA psychologists report Stuart Wolpert "In a world of computers and iPhones, it's rare that we're fully focused," said Alan Castel, a UCLA professor of psychology. But how much do all of those distractions diminish our ability to remember? A new study led by Castel and Catherine Middlebrooks, a UCLA graduate student, found that while divided attention does impair memory, people can still selectively focus on what is most important — even while they're multitasking.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill.

Alien may have told you "In space no one can hear you scream" but it was wrong! The Space Sound Effects (SSFX) Short-Film Festival , presented by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), has challenge

China Donates 16-volume Edition of Out-of-print Work to Art History Institute of Freie Universität No 222/2017 from Aug 18, 2017 The Art History Institute of Freie Universität received a significant collection of books from the Chinese Embassy and the State Council of China.

Sydney Conservatorium of Music's Professor Liza Lim is appealing to festival and concert programmers in Australia for an equal gender split in music commissions and performances.

A free online course , organised by Lancaster University, will examine one of the best-known men of science of the nineteenth century.

Last year, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Professor of Mammalian Development and Stem Cell Biology, made not one, but two world-changing discoveries.

A new website curated by Stanford faculty and students, the Global Medieval Sourcebook, translates medieval literature into English for the first time.

UQ's recipients this year are: Hai Xia Wang Pole, Sunny van den Berg, Lachlan Thomas-Walters, Vincent Slinger, David Nyeste and John Atherton.

War and displacement, music and gardens, language and earth: These are the themes of Valzhyna Mort's new book of poetry, "Rose Pandemic," just released in Belarus, her native country.

A Lancaster University professor has co-authored and co-directed a new piece of theatre which has been selected by the British Council Showcase for this year's Edinburgh Festival.

What: Interviews, speeches, a brass ensemble fanfare and photo opportunities. When: 10am (sharp), Wednesday 2 August, 2017.

VIENNA, Austria - I wake up for a full day of music making in beautiful, sunny Vienna. I am one of 26 performers here with the University of Illinois Chamber Singers.

New research by the University of Sydney has found women in the Australian music industry are "chronically disadvantaged", in terms of who 'makes it' as a success and who 'makes the decisions' at the board level.

After the Nazi invasion of Austria in 1938, Jewish refugee applications to Australia soared to over 10,000.

Archaeologists from Durham University in the UK have become the first UK team to excavate inside the walls of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China.

Engineers have created a new deep-learning software capable of assessing complex audience reactions to movies using the viewer's facial expressions. Developed by Disney Research in collaboration with Yisong Yue of Caltech and colleagues at Simon Fraser University, the software relies on a new algorithm known as factorized variational autoencoders (FVAEs).

Today saw the launch of a new report, Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing , the result of an Inquiry led by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPGAHW) in collaboration with King's College London.

Shoppers are invited to the vibrant streets of Grangetown for the community's first street market, thanks to Cardiff University's Community Gateway project working with Grangetown Community Action.

The archive of lesbian musician Gretchen Phillips, co-founder of the trailblazing band Two Nice Girls, sheds light on what it was like to be gay in the 1980s, and is now a part of Cornell University Library's Human Sexuality Collection.

A performance and theatre project from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), explores the narrative of young people in care and helps them turn their experiences into theatre.