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“Explore, dream, discover” was the Mark Twain-inspired message delivered by the University of Plymouth’s Vice-Chancellor in her annual public address to the City this week.

California's anti-gay marriage intitiative Proposition 8 ignited a debate within Los Angeles' African American gay and lesbian communities: Should black same-sex couples come out to family and friend

The five are among 180 artists, scientists and scholars selected from among some 3,000 applicants, according to a news release from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

One of the earliest originals of Magna Carta in existence, belonging to the Bodleian Library, is the latest object to be caught up in the travel disruption caused by volcanic ash - and New Yorkers are the beneficiaries.

Nobel Prize winner and Cambridge graduate, Sir Tim Hunt, will feature in the final part of the BBC Four series 'Beautiful Minds' which looks at the work of contemporary scientists and how their unique perspectives have redefined the world we live in.

Professor Kathleen Coleman, Professor of Latin at Harvard University and renowned author on Latin literature and history will give Newnham's biennial Jane Harrison Memorial Lecture on Friday, 23 April 2010.

NEW YORK - The Columbia men's tennis team claimed its second straight Ivy League Championship title Sunday, with a 6-1 win over Princeton.

The Leverhulme Trust has awarded a large research project grant to King's, to be led by Dr Stephen Baxter, Reader in Medieval History. The grant of over £250,000 will enable King's to employ Dr Chris Lewis, one of the world's leading authorities on eleventh-century England, and to appoint a new post-doctoral research fellow, for the two-year project.

With the historic first televised 'leaders' debate broadcast, The University of Nottingham has announced a collaboration with the BFI National Archive's Screenonline resource ( www.screenonline

Oxford University is to hold the world's first interdisciplinary conference on deserts at the School of Geography and the Environment on April 15-16.

A pioneering architectural study into the history and impact of multi-faith spaces has been launched by a University of Manchester team with a meeting of representatives from the UK's major faiths.

Jackal skulls, mice skeletons, microfossils and volcanic rocks all feature in 'A Crucial Difference', a new exhibition at UCL.

BERKELEY — The University of California, Berkeley, and the Panoramic Hill Association (PHA) have reached a legal settlement agreement that resolves issues related to recent litigation, and esta

The authors of three acclaimed books—a biography of Depression-era photographer Dorothea Lange, a biography of first lady Abigail Adams and a study of the indigenous child-removal policies of t

It is venerated as being the site of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus â€" where the events of the Easter story actually took place.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The skull of a juvenile sauropod dinosaur, rediscovered in the collections of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History, illustrates that some sauropod species went through drastic changes in skull shape during normal growth.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), an emerging psychological treatment which focuses on targeting negative thinking and behaviour, is the subject of new research at the Universities of Bristol and Exeter into ways to prevent relapse of depression without prescription drugs.

A new exhibition launching at the Lakeside Arts Centre in June needs the prayers of religious leaders and representatives of faith groups in Nottingham for a sound installation examining belief and community.

A new exhibition launching at the Lakeside Arts Centre in June needs the prayers of religious leaders and representatives of faith groups in Nottingham for a sound installation examining belief and community.

King's College London has today announced plans to enhance its Centre for Hellenic Studies by significantly broadening the scope of its activities to include for the first time teaching as well as research.

PA67/10 A treasure trove of medieval manuscripts from a rarely-seen and much-prized East Midlands collection goes on show next month at The University of Nottingham's Lakeside Arts Centre.

The Cambridge Central Asia Forum and Kazakhstan Society invited people from across the city and UK to mark the coming of spring over the weekend by celebrating Navroz, a traditional ancient Iranian festival marking the Persian New Year.

The size of food portions and plates in more than four dozen depictions of the Last Supper - painted over the past 1,000 years - have gradually gotten bigger and bigger, according to a Cornell study published in The International Journal of Obesity (April, online March 23), a peer-reviewed publication.

If she actually existed, the Queen of Sheba may have been African. Then again, she could have been Arab. While she may have been from Yemen, near today's city of Ma'rib, she probably was also active in Ethiopia, near the modern city of Aksum. But so far, archaeologists have not found a tomb, palace or temple that can be definitively attributed to the prominent figure from the Hebrew Bible and the Quran.