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A video created by a student at the University of Sheffield is stirring up debate on the controversial issue of whether prisoners should be given the right to vote.

ANN ARBOR-A grant renewal of $2.7 million will enable the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research to continue its work to improve the health of older African Americans.

ANN ARBOR-The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research are joining forces to encourage open access to research data and closer links between publications and the data on which they are based.

The University of Nottingham's biggest ever fundraising campaign is on target to reach its goal of £150m — and the appeal, which has already reached £81m, is about to go global.

With NSF grant, researchers will enhance technologies and policies to protect personal data used in research studies : Michael Patrick Rutter , (617) 496-3815 The real-time data of cyberspace, detail

She likens researchers who travel round to use major research centres to a nomadic people. “The children grow up cracking physics jokes with one another. The families often mostly socialise with other travelling research families and don’t generally integrate very much in the city where they live, as they are only there temporarily”, says social anthropologist and Hedda Andersson Professor Sharon Traweek, who is at Lund University to study the preparations for ESS and MAX IV.

China's investment in the European Union is rising but remains a tiny fraction of the country's overseas investments, according to research from Leeds University Business School.

Although the federal government's 1996 reform of welfare brought some improvements for the nation's poor, it also may have made extremely poor Americans worse off, new research shows.

For the latest installment of  his Documents that Changed the World podcast series, Joe Janes takes a look at a small book that had a huge impact.

A new free online program which aims to provide an alternative to hearing aids for people living with acquired hearing loss has been developed from research at The Australian National University.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Increasing racial and ethnic diversity has long been apparent at the national level and in our nation's largest metropolitan gateways.

Top wheat experts reported a breakthrough in their ability to track strains of a deadly, rapidly mutating wheat pathogen called stem rust that threatens wheat fields from East Africa to South Asia.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Consumer confidence improved slightly in August due to consumers' more favorable evaluations of their present financial situations, according to University of Michigan economist Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.

Karen Okigbo really is a mover and a shaker. And the University of Pennsylvania is the right spot for her.

Looking at the effects of a similar immigration policy from 1986, Stanford doctoral candidate Scott R. Baker calculates that the legalization of undocumented workers under the new policy could lead to 50,000 fewer crimes per year nationwide.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-What if every U.S. worker got an automatic 10 percent pay raise at age 55? According to a new University of Michigan study, most people would work quite a bit longer to enjoy the extra income before they retired. By eliminating social security payroll taxes starting when workers are 55-years old, the study shows that take-home pay would jump by 10.6 percent and they would work 1.5 years longer on average, paying more income taxes and helping to reduce the Federal deficit.

Around ten social sciences researchers from some of China’s absolute top universities have just been in Lund for a three-day workshop.

Sree Sreenivasan assumes his new job as Columbia's first chief digital officer at a moment when online and distance learning are hot button issues in higher education.

Geraldine Downey has spent most of her life contending with rejection. Not her own, happily. As a professor and onetime chair of the psychology department, she studies the ramifications of rejection on individuals and members of various groups.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-The global financial crisis has contributed to an increase in the rates of suicide and attempted suicide for economic reasons in Italy, new research shows.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Preschool children exposed to domestic violence and additional traumatic events are at increased risk for developing traumatic stress disorder, a new University of Michigan study shows. Researchers sampled 120 children between ages 4-6 who were exposed to domestic violence in the past two years.

Public sector workers are under attack from customers, colleagues and managers, according to a new book by researchers at Plymouth University and their counterparts in Cardiff.

A ground-breaking new study of suicides in New South Wales has found that drought significantly increases suicide risk among rural males aged 30-49 years. The multi-disciplinary study, led by PhD student Ivan Hanigan from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at The Australian National University in collaboration with ANU researchers Colin Butler and Michael Hutchinson and CSIRO researcher Phil Kokic, took data on suicides in NSW between 1970 and 2007, and compared it with climatic drought information.

Reading between the lines of China's 'official story' will be a lot easier thanks to a new book from The Australian National University.

The Umeå band Deportees seems to be loved by everyone - music enthusiasts as well as seasoned industry professionals.

Professor Harry Collins has been made a Fellow of the British Academy for his role in establishing the sociological study of science.

The University of Pennsylvania has established the Department of Africana Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Consumer confidence slipped in July, according to University of Michigan economist Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.

Public sector workers are under attack from customers, colleagues and managers, according to a new book by researchers from the School of Social Sciences.

Rape, domestic violence and stalking not taken seriously enough by police, according to survey Women do not think the police take rape, domestic violence and stalking as seriously as they should do, according to research by Durham University. The study found that only half the women would definitely report domestic violence if it happened to them.

Television coverage of the shooting at a cinema in Colorado last week may traumatise children who watch it, according to a leading psychiatrist at The Australian National University.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-The University of Michigan Board of Regents approved moving forward with construction of a $29 million addition to the Institute for Social Research at its July meeting.

A film launched tomorrow (20 July May) and co-curated by a University of Manchester lecturer and shown at IWM North, part of Imperial War Museums, is to argue that winning the peace is just as important as winning the war.