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From left, Don Randel, Mary Beth Norton, Ishion Hutchinson and Paul Fleming participate in the "Transformative Humanities: Faculty Reflections on Life-Changing Creative Works" panel.

It's twilight time for printed dictionaries, whose word-filled bulk weighed down desks, held open doors and by turns inspired and intimidated writers searching for the perfect word.

Symbolic execution is a powerful software-analysis tool that can be used to automatically locate and even repair programming bugs.

Researchers describe IMF as having an "escalating commitment to hypocrisy", as study reveals that strict lending conditions have returned to pre-crisis levels, while 'pro-poor' targets frequently go unmet. These gaps between rhetoric and practice in the IMF's lending activities reveal an escalating commitment to hypocrisy A new study, the largest of its kind, has systematically examined International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies over the past three decades.

Four Stanford dance faculty members created four new dance works, showing how dance interacts and engages with space in different ways.

People in Merthyr will stage a one off piece of theatre and live debate exploring the Wellbeing of Future Generations Act (2016) and how it relates to their lives.

The Slavic collection at the U. of I. is the largest in Illinois, the Midwest and any state-supported U.S. university.

The first cohort of school pupils to benefit from a Welsh Government initiative to encourage modern language learning will be celebrated this week at a recognition event held at Cardiff University.

Illustrating how audiences pay attention to drama, Alan Alda, left, watches Melissa Hines cross the Bailey Hall stage with a water glass filled to the brim.

A couple of centuries from now, will anyone remember the hit Broadway show "Hamilton?" Will they know how popular it was?

Illustrating how audiences pay attention to drama, Alan Alda, left, watches Melissa Hines cross the Bailey Hall stage with a water glass filled to the brim.

Stanford's Hoover Institution Library & Archives is a major scholarly resource for understanding humanity's hot-button topics over the past 100 years.

The £35m redevelopment of one of Glasgow's most famous landmarks is taking shape and on target for completion, but what will the University of Glasgow's new teaching and learning facilites mean for s

One of the National Library of Australia's greatest treasures, a 1663 map of New Holland - the map on which all subsequent mapping of Australia is based - has arrived at the University of Melbourne for expert analysis. The map, Archipelagus Orientalis, sive Asiaticus (Eastern and Asian archipelago) is the first published reporting of New Holland and New Zealand in the Dutch language.

From 10 to 19 June, 2016, the 13th "Week of Botanical Gardens" will be held. Four hundred years ago, the great dramatist, William Shakespeare died (1564-1616).

Nottingham's links to China have been strengthened with a tribute to one of its most famous writers.

It took nearly 40 years for Barbara McClintock '23, M.A. '25, Ph.D. '27, to be recognized for her groundbreaking research, winning the 1983 Nobel Prize for work she completed in the 1940s.

Alumna and faculty member was praised by Martha Graham for ability to see dance through a 'demonic eye' Dawn Setzer It's an indelible image and among the most famous dance photographs ever taken: Modern dance icon Martha Graham performing the work "Letter to the World.

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A dark-haired girl, rendered in angular figures of copper against black as if from ancient Greece, hauls mightily on a water jug, following her mistress.

Stanford Professor of English Paula Moya has found that an interdisciplinary approach to multicultural fiction can powerfully shape a reader's perception of the world and improve racial literacy.

The writer Nan Shepherd (1893-1981), who was quietly acclaimed in her lifetime, is the face of a new Royal Bank of Scotland bank note.

"Listen, only night is watching the night nurse," read Alice Fulton , MFA '82, Cornell's Ann S. Bowers Professor of English, from her poem "Still World Nocturne.

When Rich Medina graduated from Cornell in 1992, he did not imagine he'd return a quarter-century later as an instructor.

An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery features paintings of some of Russia's legendary creative figures.

ANN ARBOR-The Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship program at the University of Michigan has named 13 American and six international journalists for the academic year 2016-17.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has rounded off a four-year project at Cambridge University which explored the "vertical" connections across Dante's Comedy.

The diaries of Captain Scott's widow - and the papers of her second husband, Lord Young - will be made accessible to researchers at Cambridge University Library following their acceptance in lieu of inheritance tax.

By Christina Cook University of Pennsylvania senior Nick DeFina has spent his last four years engaged with the various intricacies, insights and intrigues of scholarly research.

The diaries of Captain Scott's widow - and the papers of her second husband, Lord Young - will be made accessible to researchers at Cambridge University Library following their acceptance in lieu of inheritance tax.

Cornell University Library will develop new tools and methods to better describe libraries' scholarly information resources and share those descriptions among different institutions, thanks to a new grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In collaboration with the libraries of Harvard and Stanford universities and library researchers at the University of Iowa, Cornell has been awarded a $1.5 million, two-year grant to help libraries use linked data to improve the exchange and understanding of information about scholarly resources.

Shakespeare holds lessons on leadership, creativity, and ethics His plays can be used as case studies or as creative exercises Students gain a 360 degree understanding of management problems The Bard

Behind the scenes at the historic A.D. White Library, Cornell conservators have been working to ensure not only that the library looks its best but that its valuable artwork is preserved.

Jim can feel the eyes of his classmates. He stays up nights reading his law books. He knows the information.

Exactly 400 years after Shakespeare's death, new research from Cardiff University will explore how learning to write prayer shaped the world's greatest dramatist.

To coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death on April 23rd, the University of Melbourne marks the year with a program of lectures, exhibitions, performances and screenings to celebrate the legacy of the world's most revered poet and playwright.

In a tale of two life experiences, Mike Hoffmann went to Vietnam for the first time in 47 years: On his first tour of duty, he was a 19-year-old U.S. Marine, and for the March 2016 trip, Hoffmann returned as an environmental scientist.

Third Annual Lecture Series at Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS) to Start April 26 - Organized and Moderated by Arabic Studies Scholar Beatrice Gründler The Long Ninth Cen

Using the Hellboy series as a touchstone, Professor Scott Bukatman has discovered new ways to talk about comics while offering a heightened "adventure of reading.

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 .