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A University of Manchester researcher has been awarded more than £150,000 by a leading eye-research charity to examine the genetic causes of glaucoma - one of the chief causes of preventable blindness in the UK.

BERKELEY — Following a national search, the University of California, Berkeley, has chosen the world renowned, New York City-based design firm of Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) to design the new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA).

School pupils from Nottingham have become pioneer scientists as part of a research project aimed at designing an innovative approach to learning.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Normal weight and underweight teenage girls who falsely believe they are overweight are at significantly greater risk of succumbing to unnecessary and unsafe weight-loss behaviors than girls who can accurately assess their weight status, according to new research by a University of Illinois expert in eating disorders and body-image perception.

Youngsters learn strategic negotiating skills from one another and their carers as they acquire a sense of moral awareness, a key University of Birmingham and Canterbury Christ Church University study into child development has found. Early childhood years lay the groundwork for character development, as families, early educational professionals and peers play a vital role in shaping children's moral awareness, said Professor James Arthur, of the University of Birmingham's School of Education.

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The San Francisco-based Jim Joseph Foundation has awarded $12 million to Stanford's School of Education to create a concentration in education and Jewish studies focused exclusively on preparing doctoral scholars and researchers.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Most Americans live within 25 miles of their mothers, according to a report issued by the University of Michigan Retirement Research Center.

The teaching of literacy and language skills, both in the UK and overseas, needs significant reform to curb the "unproductive" effects of government standardisation, a major new study suggests.

One of the country's leading experts in tobacco control studies says it is time to take smoking completely out of children's lives.

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

Birmingham families with youngsters aged six and below are being called on by the University of Birmingham to take part in new studies into children's development.

While entering college freshmen of all racial and ethnic groups display an equal interest in attaining degrees in science or technology, disparities exist among these groups in degree-completion rates, according to new research by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA.

Cambridge, Mass. February 1, 2010 - Daycare workers and kindergarten teachers tend to offer young humans a lot of coaching about the idea of sharing. But for our ape cousins the bonobos, sharing just comes naturally. In fact, according to a pair of papers published by researchers at Harvard University and Duke University in the latest issue of the journal Current Biology, it looks like bonobos never learn how not to share.

Zurich - University of Zurich Die Soziologien Nina Jakoby untersucht die Bedeutung verwandtschaftlicher Beziehungen über die Kleinfamilie hinaus: Tanten und Onkel, Neffen und Cousinen sind bisher ein vernachlässigtes Forschungsgebiet, obwohl ihre gesellschaftspolitische Bedeutung wächst.