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One of the authors of a challenging new manifesto on the country’s response to the economic downturn has given a keynote speech at the University of Plymouth.

J.R. DeShazo, the director UCLA's Luskin Center for Innovation, has long studied how governments can promote and help implement environmentally friendly energy policies.

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger and Lee Goldman, Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine, today sent the following message to the University community: "We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, FAAN, as the new dean of the Columbia University School of Nursing .

Phobos flyby images 15 March 2010 Images from the recent flyby of Phobos, on 7 March 2010, are released today. The images show Mars? rocky moon in exquisite detail, with a resolution of just 4.4 metres per pixel. They show the proposed landing sites for the forthcoming Phobos-Grunt mission. ESA's Mars Express spacecraft orbits the Red Planet in a highly elliptical, polar orbit that brings it close to Phobos every five months.

In a visit to the University's Informatics forum, Mr Russell, the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, learned about the work of the Edinburgh Pre-Incubator Scheme ( The role that universities play in Scotland's economy is crucial.

Families of multiple births face significant financial hardship according to a major new study by researchers from the University of Birmingham.

Southern California receives the most intense average daily intensity of solar irradiation (red), while extreme northwestern California (blue) receives about half as much.

Liverpool, UK - 12 March 2010: University researchers have found that Liverpool's historic stereotypical image, often associated with social deprivation, has been replaced by a renewed emphasis on th

PA 49/10 Relentless pressure on computer users to upgrade their software could see almost 2.5 billion PCs needlessly junked by 2013, academics have warned.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today named Jeffrey Jaffe ?76, SM ?77, PhD ?79 its new chief executive officer.

Oxford and Cambridge Universities have announced their crews for the 2010 Xchanging Boat Race, this year held on Saturday 3 April.

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, March 8, 2010—Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has selected Simtable and Southwest Bio Fuels as recipients of $100,000 awards from the Los Alamos National Security, LLC Venture Acceleration Fund.

MIT will raise undergraduate tuition and fees next year by 3.8 percent ? among the smallest percentage increases in more than a quarter-century ? while also increasing the undergraduate financial aid budget by 6.7 percent.

The University of Manchester has assembled a group of its renowned experts who will be able to take media enquiries on a range of issues which may feature during the General Election campaign.

UC Berkeley professor of political science Wendy Brown was among the more than 200 Berkeley faculty members who traveled to Sacramento on March 4.

The Parallel Tracking and Mapping [ PTAM ] software is a camera-tracking system which maps the environment around you as seen through a camera and turns real world surfaces into platforms for virtual objects or characters without the need for pre-stored maps or tags.

With the United States and many other governments mired in red ink, the University of California, Berkeley’s Bancroft Library couldn’t have picked a timelier topic than the U.S. national debt for the initial focus of its new Shorenstein Program in Politics, Policy and Values.

AUSTIN, Texas - As emerging markets in the Middle East and North Africa become increasingly attractive for business opportunities, they also have become more prone to ethical infractions in advertisi

Erin Gore, Berkeley's associate vice chancellor for budget and resource planning, arrived on campus on July 1, 2009, as UC Berkeley was beginning to tackle the most difficult financial crisis in its history.

Shareholders approve 14 th consecutive dividend increase to CHF 2.20 (+5%) per share for 2010, representing a payout of approximately 55% of net income from continuing operations, marking cont

economic correspondent Peter Goodman about the financial downturn, their respective new books and whether there's a light at the end of the economic tunnel in a program called "Economic Myths, Markets, and Main Street.

Bill Clinton had barely begun his third year in the Oval Office when the beleaguered president, reeling from a stunning political backlash that left Republicans in control of Congress, insisted at a

Problems are concealed and decision-making takes longer. This is how some significant differences appear between Russian and Swedish project culture in the construction sector.

Seattle and Zurich, 25 February 2010—IBM (NYSE: IBM) Research today unveiled a breakthrough method based on a mathematical algorithm that reduces the computational complexity, costs, and energy usage for analyzing the quality of massive amounts of data by two orders of magnitude. This new method will greatly help enterprises extract and use the data more quickly and efficiently to develop more accurate and predictive models.

Older women who are divorced, separated or widowed or who have never married have twice the uninsured rate of their married peers, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

President Obama's newest health reform proposal expands access to coverage and affordability for many low- and middle-income Californians by creating a new health insurance exchange and expanding Medicaid, according to a new study by UC Berkeley's Center for Labor Research and Education.

University of Birmingham scientists are carrying out pioneering research which aims to improve care for diabetes patients in south Birmingham where more than 14% of all deaths are related to the condition.

Elizabeth Boluch Wood, assistant vice president of development for capital giving and a major architect of the University's $1.75 billion Aspire Campaign , has been named Princeton University's vice president for development, effective March 1.

For immediate release: February 22, 2010 Media contact: Cass Cliatt, (609) 258-6108, ccliatt [a] princeton (p) edu Kindle pilot results highlight possibilities for paper reduction Managers of Princet

For immediate release: February 22, 2010 Media contact: Cass Cliatt, (609) 258-6108, ccliatt [a] princeton (p) edu Wood named to succeed McDonald as vice president for development Elizabeth Boluch Wo

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education report that an excise tax on high-cost employer health insurance plans as proposed by the U.S. Senate would affect more non-union than union workers.