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Architectural rendering of the David Rumsey Map Center, which opens on the fourth floor of Green Library on Tuesday, April 19.

By exploiting some peculiarities of the popular Web programming framework Ruby on Rails, MIT researchers have developed a system that can quickly comb through tens of thousands of lines of application code to find security flaws.

According to recent studies, one in every five college women in the United States has been a victim of sexual assault. This and other alarming statistics have spurred a powerful national discussion around the issue. Kate Harding is a writer who is trying to comprehend and confront the crisis. Her 2015 book "Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture - and What We Can Do About It," tells the story of her quest to identify what makes the problem of sexual assault so common and persistent.

Gaelic researchers at the University of Glasgow have won a major contract to provide linguistic and technical support for a new official pioneering Gaelic language initiative.

The Faculty of Law Library (Toskanatrakt) opens its doors on Friday, 22 April, 2016, from17:00 to 23:00.

Amid China's fast-growing economy, workers' rights have become a flashpoint of activism and protest over the past several years.

You may have read books about Isaac Newton. But have you ever seen a play about him? Now is your chance.

A new Shakespeare First Folio has been discovered at Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute. Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University, has authenticated the First Folio as genuine. Today's announcement comes nearly 400 years after Shakespeare died, on April 23 1616. The Folio can be viewed by the public at Mount Stuart in a special display which will run from today until 30 October.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The first message an audience member receives before a theatrical or music performance or dance is to turn off cellphones and refrain from texting or taking photos.

So you want to write a novel? Of course you do. Everyone wants to write a novel at some stage in their lives.

The University of Pennsylvania and the National Library of Laos have launched the Digital Library of Northern Thai Manuscripts bringing thousands of ancient manuscripts out of monastic temples and making them available as open source material online.

Students from The University of Glasgow, The Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland have joined forces with the musicians of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to create Dream

The Penn Libraries is excited to announce the debut of the online home for their Holy Land collections.

On 3 April, 2016, the first garden tour in 2016 will be held at the Botanical Garden of the University of Salzburg with Andreas Tribsch, Ass Termin.

Blame it on the economy. With a majority of Americans dissatisfied with the state of the country, Seth Harris '83 considers the economy a major catalyst for the current contentious climate of the 2016 presidential election.

On the eve of Shakespeare's 600th anniversary, Dr Edward Wilson-Lee explores the remarkable ways in which the works of England's greatest poet-playwright are woven into the merging cultures of East Africa.

Robert Morgan, the Kappa Alpha Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently released a new novel and a poetry collection.

The Cornell University Library Hip Hop Collection will catalog the archive of Afrika Bambaataa, the groundbreaking musician, DJ and community leader known as "the godfather of hip-hop," thanks to a $260,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Hilary Bronwyn Gail/Bleecker Street The UCLA Film and Television Archive, which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, provided newsreel footage for "Trumbo," starring Bryan Cranston.

A musical about women - for women - will raise vital funds for women's cancer research this May. Brisbane's Twelfth Night Theatre will donate performance proceeds from Menopause the Musical to the Queensland Centre for Gynaecological Cancer Research at The University of Queensland.

The University of Cambridge is to launch a major new research project to study the benefits of multilingualism to individuals and society, and transform attitudes to languages in the UK, as part of the AHRC's Open World Research Initiative.

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.

Since 2002, the Chinese Studies Center at the University of Salzburg in cooperation with Eurasia-Pacific Uninet has annually organized the Chinese-Austrian-EU Summer School for students from Chinese

The prize for German Linquistics of the Hugo-Moser-Foundation has been awarded to Dr. Irmtraud Kaiser from the Department of German Studies at the University of Salzburg.

The earliest-known example of Chinese writing - written more than 3,000 years ago on the bones of an ox - has become the world's first Chinese oracle bone to be scanned and printed in 3D.

A team of academics led by King's College London's Professor Catherine Boyle has been awarded almost £3 million by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to lead research that will seek to inform the future of the study and teaching of Modern Languages.

Technology has changed all aspects of our lives, even ancient fields of study in the humanities. The College of Arts and Sciences' fourth Big Ideas Panel, part of its New Century for the Humanities celebration, explored technology in the humanities March 15 in Klarman Hall's Groos Family Atrium.

Following an initial consultation and feedback from students and other groups, UCL has confirmed its commitment to reinstating a theatre on campus.

The oldest comic book in the world goes on display for the first time in a major comic exhibition opening at the Hunterian Art Gallery in Glasgow (March 18).

Johan Kugelberg, left, Phil Aarons, David Byrne and Lele Saveri sit for the panel "New Paths in Collecting Modern Cultural Material" March 10 at New York City's University Club.

Expressions of unrequited desire quoted in romantic comedies and in poems of everlasting devotion read at weddings have their roots in centuries-old texts. Melissa E. Sanchez says a careful look at the language and history of 16thand 17th-century poetry provides insights on issues of gender, sexuality and romance both past and modern-day.

Roberto Sierra, the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities and professor of music, spoke spoke March 11 at a luncheon hosted by the Latina/o Studies Program.

The U.S. incarcerates a greater proportion of its population than any other country in the world, with dire social and economic consequences for the incarcerated, their children and those who work in the criminal justice system.

By Byron Spice / Carnegie Mellon / 412-268-9068 / bspice [a] cs.cmu (p) edu and Suzanne Thinnes / Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh / 412-578-2458 / thinness [a] carnegielibrary (p) org Learning

ANN ARBOR-During a recent visit to the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, Liz Hill and her daughter found themselves unexpectedly participating in a University of Michigan child development research study. Liz watched intently as her daughter Natalee looked at pictures and answered the researcher's questions.

An image from an installation by new media artist Paul Vanouse, "Ocular Revision," 2010. Vanouse will be giving the opening lecture on Thursday for "Signal to Code: 50 Years of Media Art in the Rose Goldsen Archive" at Goldwin Smith Hall.

The University of Toronto celebrates its 189th birthday on March 15 - and across its three campuses and around the world, students, faculty, staff and alumni are invited to participate.

The list of his functions is impressively long and exudes internationality: President of the International Association for Germanic Studies from 2010 to 2015, Vice-Chairman of the Chinese Ministry of

Lancaster University has been rated among the best universities in Europe. In The Times Higher Education World University Rankings Lancaster appears 59 th in their table of Europe's top 200 Universities.

Some of the world's most valuable books and manuscripts - texts which have altered the very fabric of our understanding - will go on display in Cambridge this week as Cambridge University Library celebrates its 600th birthday with a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of its greatest treasures. What started in 1416 as a small collection of manuscripts locked in wooden chests, has now grown into a global institution housing eight million books and manuscripts, billions of words, and millions of images, all communicating thousands of years of human thought.

From DIY comedian to humanitarian, alumna Milana Vayntrub is more than just the face of AT&T You probably recognize her as the quirky Lily Adams character in AT&T commercials, but there is far more to UC San Diego alumna Milana Vayntrub than what you see on screen.

A heated controversy in linguistics in recent years involves a few hundred people deep in the Amazonian rainforest: the Pirah' tribe of Northern Brazil. Their idiosyncratic language has raised questions about how widely  human languages share certain characteristics. Among the questions at issue is whether the Pirah' language contains recursion, a process through which sentences (and thus languages) can be expanded infinitely.

Marine turtles experienced an evolutionary windfall thanks to a mass extinction of crocodyliforms around 145 million years ago, say researchers.

Since she was a little girl launching air-pressure rockets in her back yard in Houston, Texas, Neerja Aggarwal knew that she loved math and science.