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The disproportionate number of Canadian actors, comedians and musicians who achieve success in the United States has long been noted by commentators south of the border.

Welsh International rugby captain Sam Warburton (Hon 2015) met with the Cardiff University Rugby Union squad ahead of their Welsh Varsity game against Swansea University on Wednesday 20 April.

Researcher Alex Wood calls on new DWP Minister Stephen Crabb to acknowledge distinction between flexible scheduling controlled by managers to maximise profit, damaging lives of the low-paid in the pro

"Math is not a mechanical thing - it's as creative as writing a novel or painting," says Ravi Ramakrishna '88.

A new project to help vet school graduates make the transition into professional practice and a lifelong successful career has been launched by an international group of pioneering vet schools.

AUSTIN, Texas - Vocational training without a strong college-preparatory focus in blue-collar community high schools led some millennials to face wider gender employment and wage gaps than their peers, according to sociologists at The University of Texas at Austin.

Most Seattle employers surveyed in a University of Washington-led study said in 2015 that they expected to raise prices on goods and services to compensate for the city's move to a $15 per hour minimum wage. But a year after the law's April 2015 implementation, the study indicates such increases don't seem to be happening.

What is the key to success for women who work in science? A new website, www.womeninscience.ox.ac.uk , launched this week, delves into the various experiences of successful women scientists at the University of Oxford.

On May 10, the Another Look book club will weigh in on Conrad's "The Shadow-Line," written by one of the darkest and most prophetic voices in English fiction .

The following letter was sent today to members of the faculty by Associate Provost Karen Gleason.

Becoming unemployed changes people's morals around the distribution of money, says a new study from The University of Nottingham. Understanding how becoming unemployed affects people's reasoning is important. Unemployment and the poverty it causes are associated with depression, anxiety, stress, low well-being and self-esteem.

Thirty-eight hundred years ago, on the hot river plains of what is now southern Iraq, a Babylonian student did a bit of schoolwork that changed our understanding of ancient mathematics.

To all Stanford University employees, On Monday, April 4, Stanford's Department of Public Safety and the Information Security Office issued an alert to the university community after receiving a small number of reports from employees of fraudulently filed tax returns.

Three short films, co-produced with local digital media company, Calling the Shots, outline the practicalities and challenges surrounding a collaborative project between the University of Bristol and local partners to explore, research and map the city's history, heritage and culture.

Mitch Tobias/UCLA Since he was 7, Jake Heggie has felt most at home when he's lost in music, performing and composing.

Beginning April 18, those interested in applying for a staff, union, librarian or temporary position at Cornell will enter their information in a new employment application system, Workday Recruitment.

SPRU Professor gives views on energy access to Elsevier "Energy Sessions" Benjamin Sovacool , Professor of Energy Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit and Director of the Sussex Energy Group an

'Invisible impairments' can make it difficult for stroke survivors to maintain a job, according to a study from the University of Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). The findings, published today in the journal BMJ Open , suggest that more needs to be done to make survivors, their GPs and employers aware of the difficulties that they may face.

People in England are visiting their GP practices more often, and are having longer consultations than they were in 2007, resulting in a 16% rise in clinical workload, researchers led by the University of Oxford found. Workload changes were over and above any extra demand from the 5.2% increase in population since 2007.

ANN ARBOR-Lynette Clemetson will be the new director of the Knight Wallace Fellowship and Livingston Awards at the University of Michigan-two of the nation's most prestigious programs.

ANN ARBOR-One state's employee insurance program designed to improve health while reducing costs has successfully encouraged more use of screenings and preventive services, increased medication adherence for chronic conditions, and reduced visits to the emergency department.

In the maelstrom of information, opinion and conjecture that is Twitter, the voice of truth and reason does occasionally prevail.

The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) has warned that the UK public is under-sleeping by an average of almost an hour every night - which amounts to losing an entire night's sleep over the course of a week.

A high BMI could increase a person's health insurance premiums, but the notorious metric is only as accurate as a coin flip A. Janet Tomiyama and Jeffrey Hunger David Richard/AP Even top footb

In a major win for rural health, a former president of the Australian Dental Association (Queensland Branch) has been appointed to Goondir Health Clinic at Dalby.

To see biochemist Ee-Been Goh in the lab today, figuring out how to rewire bacteria to produce biofuels, one would never guess she was once so uninterested in school that she barely made it through junior high.

Berkeley - A proposed gradual increase in California's minimum hourly wage from $10 to $15 by 2023 would raise wages of 5.6 million workers by an average of 24 percent, according to a brief released today by the University of California, Berkeley.

Shanghai-based Baosteel Group will provide approximately $10 million in additional funds to continue the momentum of a successful research and development centre that combines the expertise of four Australian universities with the industrial strength of a global steel giant.

Workers love being at the top of the performance scale and will do their best to stay there. Employees dread being at the bottom of the scale and will scramble mightily to ascend. New findings by Victoria Prowse, ILR School assistant professor and a labor and experimental economist, and other researchers suggest workers at the far ends of the performance bell curve try harder and workers in the middle put in less effort.

With the newly formed Program for Research on Youth Development (PRYDE) , Cornell researchers are joining with the New York State 4-H program and the 200,000 children and teens who participate annually to foster groundbreaking research on youth development.

An exciting "driverless race" is underway among tech giants the United States: In recent months, Google, Uber, and Tesla have made headlines for developing self-driving taxis for big cities.

The recent contamination of drinking water in Corpus Christi is a reminder that the United States has a water infrastructure problem.

Wage poverty is an endemic problem in Britain because of the way wages are thought about - as a price for a job, rather than as a means of earning a living .

Photo: The Australian Crowd by Stephen Baxter (2014). Painted for the National Centre for Biography/Australian Dictionary of Biography on commission.

Münster University sees itself not only as being rooted in the local region, but also as having an international orientation - in teaching, in research, among students and among its administrative staff.

More than 100 international experts have contributed to a world-first online course designed to improve healthcare for people with intellectual disability.

NEW YORK - Senior Nahshon Garrett opened the night and closed his collegiate career with his first national title, and junior Gabe Dean put the cherry on top with his second consecutive crowning in f

Vets who work with farm animals are facing increasing challenges to their professional standing and need to increase and promote their disease prevention services, according to new research by The University of Nottingham's Vet School. The study published in Preventative Veterinary Medicine set out to investigate farm vets' perceptions of current challenges to the profession and attempts to redressing what is seen as a worrying 'de-professionalisation' of the field.