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AUSTIN, Texas - The majority of black and Latino voters in Texas oppose the new state law that allows for the concealed carry of handguns on college campuses, according to the first public opinion po

Concrete is the world's most widely used construction material, so abundant that its production is one of the leading sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Yet answers to some fundamental questions about the microscopic structure and behavior of this ubiquitous material have remained elusive. Concrete forms through the solidification of a mixture of water, gravel, sand, and cement powder.

The lighter the better. That is the golden rule, at least in the automobile, aircraft and aerospace industries.

An Oxford University led study, working with the University of Cape Town in South Africa, has found that text message reminders can help reduce people's blood pressure.

How many of Seattle's residents could live off food grown in their city? If abundant P-Patches and backyard gardens teeming with kale come to mind, you're like many residents who assume urban agriculture in Seattle could support 50, 80 or even 100 percent of the people who live in the city.

For News Media : David Drake or Marcus Mueller, uwurbancanidproject [a] gmail (p) com photos × A still-groggy adult coyote stirs in the brush after being caught, sedated and tested at Curtis Pra

In the spending review and autumn statement announced by the UK Chancellor, George Osborne last week, construction work on the UK Collaboratorium for Research in Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC) hub, which has secured £138million of funding, was included in the key project starts for next year.

King's and Warwick partner with NYU to establish Centre for Urban Science and Progress in London King's College London, the University of Warwick and New York University (NYU), have signed an agreeme

One of the key insights of MIT historian Jennifer Light's career came when she was a summer intern at the RAND Corporation, the think tank famed for its analysis of Cold War military systems.

Public health and thriving urban green spaces go hand-in-branch, a panel of experts told a group of Yale alumni gathered at the Yale School of Public Health.

Analysis: The world's urban population is growing - so how can cities plan for migrants? By Dr Michael Collyer , Reader in Geography at the University of Sussex The world's population is becoming increasingly urban.

A new Urban Systems Lab at Imperial is aiming to help cities like London adapt to the technologies of the 21st Century.

The Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) and Perry World House will host an event Wednesday, Nov.

The University of Chicago Urban Labs and the Delhi Dialogue Commission signed an agreement on Oct. 23, forming a first-of-its-kind partnership focused on improving air and water quality in Delhi.

Dr Alasdair Rae from the University of Sheffield's Department of Urban Studies and Planning comments on what can be learned from mapping England's inequalities.

Timothy Knowles , the Pritzker Director of Urban Labs , announced on Oct. 12 the winners of $2.15 million in Innovation Challenge grants from the UChicago Health, Poverty and Energy & Environment Labs.

Suddenly he moves from the street onto the sidewalk, sidling through the traffic, right to the front, and is one of the nimblest of road users: the cyclist.

Head-up display on the windshield, connected simulations, tactical behavior of bicyclists and phased traffic lights for trucks: These are among the technologies being presented by the Technical Unive

The sat nav announces the next turn-off, a road sign indicates a slow zone - and suddenly an ambulance pulls up alongside.

Fully-loaded trucks take longer than cars to accelerate after a stop. This impedes the flow of traffic and leads to more pollutant emissions and noise.

In her new book, Changing Chinese Cities: The Potentials of Field Urbanism ,   UC Berkeley professor of architecture and urban design Renee Chow suggests planners and architects searching for new des

Coordinated work with local and federal agencies could provide a template for capture and reuse of stormwater in dry regions such as the American West.

The following email was sent today to the MIT community by Executive Vice President and Treasurer Israel Ruiz.

The University of Chicago announced Sept. 14 that the National Science Foundation has awarded a $3.1 million grant to support the development of Array of Things, an urban sensing instrument that will serve as a fitness tracker for the city.

Carnegie Mellon, City of Pittsburgh Help Create New Network To Address Challenges Facing Nation's Urban Infrastructure and Services-CMU News - Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University an

Cyberattackers would bear primary responsibility but manufacturers and car owners could face some liability, too John Villasenor ng Connect Program/Flickr The growth of the Internet-connected car has opened up a new potential vulnerability that computer hackers could exploit.

A detailed academic study into internet access reveals the gap between urban and rural broadband speeds, which it says risks damaging business, adds to farming costs, and could be driving young people  away from the areas in which they grew up.

Research released on Monday by UC Berkeley's Urban Displacement Project is finding a resounding audience, as shown by the work headlining several newscasts this week.

A consortium of 14 U.S. academic institutions received a $12-million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address challenges that threaten urban water systems in the United States and around the world. University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science researchers David Letson and Kenny Broad are among the network's principal investigators.

The San Francisco Bay Area's transformation into a sprawling, exclusive and high-income community with less and less room for its low-income residents is just beginning, according to UC Berkeley researchers who literally have it all mapped out.

Three SPRU researchers; Professor Fiona Marshall , Dr Saurabh Arora and Dr Ralitsa Hiteva, have been awarded a grant by the ESRC for a project investigating ' Resilience and vulnerability at the urban Nexus of food, water, energy and the environment (ResNexus)'.

'Green infrastructure' project aims to make urban areas more sustainable The University is partner in a multilateral prestigious research grant awarded by the UK and US governments to develop and implement 'green infrastructure' in urban areas around the world.

Stories from The Road is a new story-telling project that casts light on life and work along Oxford Road.

A new white paper just released by the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) finds that university-based research and development (R&D) affects the spatial development of universities, as well as their surrounding urban areas. The paper, titled "From Science Parks to Innovation Districts Research: Facility Development in Legacy Cities on the Northeast Corridor," explores the spatial aspects of university-led R&D in older, industrial Northeast cities that have experienced significant population and job loss in recent decades.

ANN ARBOR-The University of Michigan is one of nine research universities in a new international effort, funded by a $12 million award from the National Science Foundation, to build better cities of the future.

Princeton part of $12 million project to set up urban water-sustainability research network Posted August 11, 2015; 02:00 p.m. Princeton University researchers will join 14 academic institutions and partners nationwide on a $12 million project to address the challenges that threaten urban water systems in the United States and globally.

Making skyscrapers safer by understanding phenomena such as 'travelling fires' are discussed by an Imperial researcher in an. Dr Guillermo Rein , from Imperial's Department of Mechanical Engineering, is a world-leading expert on the combustion of solid fuels in fires. The aim of his work is to reduce the impact of accidental fires and to protect people, their property, and the environment.

Stanford scholar Iris Hui found that political party affiliation can change desirability of a residential location by as much as 20 percent. As a result, legislative districts may become more lopsided, creating more partisan legislatures. Americans today appear more divided along partisan lines than ever, and this polarization extends to where they choose to live, a Stanford scholar has found.

James Adams, lecturer in history at Penn State Abington, recently published Urban Reform and Sexual Vice in Progressive-Era Philadelphia: The Faithful and the Fallen (Rowman & Littlefield).

More than 60 civil rights leaders, scholars and community organizers from across the country recently gathered at the University of Chicago to participate in the first of a series of three roundtable

Two global trends - bigger cities and more data - converged last week at MIT, where an international conference on computing and urban studies showed how researchers are harnessing more and in an att

Imagine you are an asthma sufferer who works in a downtown Chicago office building. One morning, the weatherman warns of a high pollen count, but with no details beyond the city's overall pollen level that day.

Fiber-reinforced rocks discovered at the site of Italy's dormant Campi Flegrei volcano are similar to a wonder-material used by the ancients to construct enduring structures such as the Pantheon, and may lead to improved construction materials today.

Mathematics Without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation By Michael Harris Princeton University Press What do pure mathematicians do and why do they do it?

Woman and children at a water standpipe in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The Lotus Water project will use its Realizing Environmental Innovation Program grant to implement a new approach to water disinfection in low-income urban areas.

Retreating sea ice in the Iceland and Greenland seas may be changing the circulation of warm and cold water in the Atlantic Ocean and could ultimately affect the climate in Europe.

The urban street network is one of the most permanent features of cities. Once laid down, the pattern of streets determines urban form and the level of sprawl for decades to come.

In an effort to find effective ways to reduce youth violence in Chicago, the University of Chicago Crime Lab will evaluate three promising programs, selected from more than 200 ideas submitted during its inaugural design competition.