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ANN ARBOR-You're not done with high school when you go to college, according to a new study of student culture.

A/Prof. Roger Wilkins 0425 768 807 r.wilkins [a] unimelb.edu (p) au. Nearly a million Australians feel their boss has discriminated against them over recent years, a new University of Melbourne study has found. The representative survey of Australian households has revealed 854,000 workers feel discriminated against by their employer because of their gender, age, ethnicity, religion or parenting responsibilities.

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Children who move three or more times before they turn 5 have more behavioral problems than their peers - but only if they are poor, report researchers at Cornell and the National Employment Law Project. These children have more attention problems, anxiety or depression and are more aggressive or hyperactive at age 5 than those who had moved once, twice or not at all, the researchers said.

UCLA plastic and reconstructive surgeon Reza Jarrahy realized that he was missing something when his young Guatemalan patient developed a mysterious infection after undergoing surgery.

The Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK Survey 2012: Headline results for Scotland The Poverty and Social Exclusion report is the result of two surveys undertaken in 2012 that spoke to over 2700 individuals in Scotland (and 14,000 across the UK).

Today 33 per cent of the UK population suffers from multiple deprivation - it was 14 per cent in 1983, and over 30 million people (almost half the population) are suffering some degree of financial insecurity. These are just some of the stark findings from the largest and most authoritative study of poverty and deprivation ever conducted in the UK.

True fame isn't fleeting. That's what a team of researchers led by Eran Shor from McGill University's Dept.

Gerald Marwell , Richard T. Ely Professor Emeritus of sociology, died on Sunday, March 24 in New York City.

IWM North, part of Imperial War Museums, working in partnership with Manchester Museum, part of The University of Manchester, are today celebrating the news of a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant of £528,700 for a ground-breaking volunteer and learning programme.

Posted under: News Releases , Politics and Government , Research , Social Science Jail stays and costs increase dramatically when federal immigration authorities request that inmates be held under what are called "detainer requests,” according to research by University of Washington sociologist Katherine Beckett.

California teenagers who live close to a park or open space are more likely to get exercise than those who live in areas without parks nearby, a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research shows. While the findings might not be surprising, they are important in park-starved areas of California.

PA 96/13 The University of Nottingham has joined forces with the Universities of Manchester and Oxford to form a consortium which will study long-term political change in British politics.

Having more authority in the workplace comes with many rewards - including greater forms of job control and higher earnings - but University of Toronto research says those benefits are not evenly distributed for women and men. Sociologist Scott Schieman , lead author of the study, found key differences between men and women in both the levels and implications of greater job authority.

Cyber Security and Cyber Crime experts in the University's Schools of Computer Science and Informatics and Social Sciences have been awarded £1.2M to study the human and technical factors in cybercrime.

Parched land in China has prompted Cornell environmental experts to come up with a simple solution to restore soils in arid areas, using wood chips and compost.

Access to Russell Group universities is 'far from fair', according to a new study. The research by Dr Vikki Boliver, a lecturer in the School of Applied Social Sciences , shows that applicants from state schools and from black and Asian ethnic backgrounds are less likely to be admitted to Russell Group universities than their peers with the same A-level results from private schools and white ethnic backgrounds.

Convicted drug offenders who are denied government food benefits upon release from prison are at greater risk of engaging in dangerous, sexual risk behaviors in order to obtain food, Yale researchers have found. Their pilot study appears in the journal AIDS Education and Prevention. Each year, nearly three-quarters of a million people are released from U.S. prisons.

Internationally recognised social and computer scientists at the Cardiff Online Social Media Observatory (COSMOS) at Cardiff University will analyse tweets to help predict offline social behaviour such as crime and disorder.

With a dizzying number of ties in our social networks - that your Aunt Alice is a neighbor of Muhammad who is married to Natasha who is your wife's boss - it's any wonder we remember any of it.

Leaders from Harvard University, York University, and the University of Oxford met on March 4 and 5 to articulate a shared vision of the role of higher education institutions in supporting social innovation and social enterprise.

An exhibition of historical photographs of China, brought together by a University of Bristol project, was opened at the JW Marriott in Beijing today by the British Ambassador to China, Sebastian Wood CMG.

A recent readership survey showed that the majority of people who read the daily email found it "useful," "easy to read," "engaging" and "inclusive.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Comparing yourself to others who are either worse off or are not coping well may increase your motivation to take better care of yourself when facing an illness or disease, according to researchers at Penn State and Drexel University. "Sustaining motivation for self-care behaviors involving illnesses or diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, is challenging, and the role of social influence on motivation and behavior is underappreciated," said Joshua Smyth , professor of biobehavioral health and of medicine, Penn State.

A video project demonstrates how academic research can be communicated in an engaging format that puts across complex ideas in a nutshell.

As the United States reconsiders immigration policy reform - particularly between the United States and Mexico - the focus should be on immigration and integration instead of tougher border security, 

A three-year study into the extent of premature death in people with learning disabilities has found that those with learning disabilities are more likely to have a premature death compared with individuals in the general population.

Jordanna Bailkin is a University of Washington professor of history and author of the new book "The Afterlife of Empire.

Bullet trains fuel real-estate booms, improve quality of life and create other unintended consequences by sharply reducing commute times from smaller cities to large megacities, economists from UCLA and China's Tsinghua University observed in a new study in China.

Sociologist Mary Blair-Loy, founding director of UC San Diego's Center for Research on Gender in the Professions and author of the award-winning book "Competing Devotions.

Ira Katznelson 's first political memory dates to when he was 8 years old. His parents were ardent supporters of Adlai Stevenson, the Democrat running against Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, and they were stunned to learn that Katznelson's grandmother did not plan to vote at all.

Stirring an inner Stuart Smalley, Facebook profiles reassure our self-worth, because they offer a place where we can display the personal characteristics and relationships we value most, says a Cornell communication expert in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (March 2013).

An Oxford University study shows poverty is shrinking in many parts of the world. The index devised by researchers at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) measures reductions in multidimensional poverty - overlapping deprivations in health, education and living standards - rather than income.

Stanford Report, March 15, 2013 Stanford English scholar Saikat Majumdar traces the roots of modern literature to a fascination with the mundane.

Children with autism are often described as visual thinkers, so by externalising the mental image somewhere else in their reality, it may help them pick up the concept of imaginative play Zhen Bai In

Key speakers at an International Women's Day conference held on campus Friday encouraged women to help pursue their own dreams through giving back.

A forum that disseminates Oxford University research to policymakers and business leaders via the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has held its inaugural meeting.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. In 1998, the Real Irish Republican Army, an IRA splinter group, detonated a car bomb in a shopping area of Omagh, Northern Ireland, that killed 29 people.

Sexual abuse has an often devastating and long-term impact on the lives of many children and young people - for these children the future can be very dark indeed. A new study will evaluate the effectiveness of a therapeutic service designed to help children and young people who have been affected by sexual abuse.

Higher mortality rates among Americans younger than 50 are responsible for much of why life expectancy is lower in the United States than most of the world's most developed nations.

ANN ARBOR-The "Arab street" is a popular cliché used to describe what people are thinking in the Middle East.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. A pair of newly discovered stars is the third-closest star system to the sun, according to a paper that will be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters. The duo is the closest star system discovered since 1916. The discovery was made by Kevin Luhman , an associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State and a researcher in Penn State's Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds.

Posted under: Environment , Research , Science , Social Science , UW and the Community Turns out, the secret to fostering the emerging field of sustainability science is based on some simple and straightforward principles.

Atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, has been widely assumed to be a disease of modern times, brought on by modern foods and lifestyles - until now.

The survey, being conducted by Plymouth University, will assess how people’s attitudes towards the impacts and the potential solutions to this growing environmental problem vary between countries and

New research carried out by Sussex academics suggests that 'lad culture' is widespread at universities in England and Scotland.

Parody as resistance, religious broadcasting in the Arab world and China's relationship with the Gulf will all come under scrutiny as academics from Cambridge's Centre of Islamic Studies gather in the Gulf on March 10.

The year is 1974. A young American anthropologist with Marxist sympathies settles in to study in a Romanian village.

European women who reject feminism often see it as obsolete or associated with extreme views, according to research from King's College London.