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The Slade School of Fine Art at UCL is hosting a multi-screen video exhibition to coincide with the London Olympics.

A grant from the Avon Foundation will allow researchers at the University of Pennsylvania to take an in-depth look at how the Internet plays a role in preventing violence against women.

A new study by the University of Chicago Crime Lab , in partnership with the Chicago Public Schools and local nonprofits Youth Guidance and World Sport Chicago , provides rigorous scientific evidence

Deaths by suicide among mental health patients treated at home have reached 150 to 200 a year in England, latest national figures reveal - but suicides among patients on mental health wards continue to fall.

New guidance developed by Cardiff experts to improve mental health outcomes for people affected by violence has been published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

The Department of History's 'Historical Photographs of China' project is the focus of a documentary 'Old Photographs Fever: The Search for China's Pictured Past' to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 11am on Wednesday 11 July.

Fudan University in Shanghai, China is partnering with the University of California to establish a Fudan-UC center to foster academic exchange and collaborative research on China.

For thousands of people in Britain, prison is a grim reality. For the rest of us, it holds a fascination that is all too often simply prurient.

A University of Manchester team researching urban violence has developed a new method which can help city authorities to assess the conditions where conflict could potentially tip into violence. Participatory Violence Appraisal (PVA), used in Kenya and Chile, could have helped to anticipate the 'tipping points' that led to last summer's riots in cities across the UK, say the team based at the University's Global Urban Research Centre (GURC) .

Koala conservation, lowering emissions from buildings, an evaluation of immigration policy and the better use of fruit and vegetable waste are some of the University of Sydney research projects to benefit from the latest round of Australian Research Council Linkage Project grants.

Enrique Peña Nieto says he's going to control the country's violence more than he'll fight drug lords.

CHAMPAIGN, lll. Girls with poor self-control become as physically aggressive as the average boy when they're bullied, suggests a new study by psychologists at the University of Illinois. Whether victims become more aggressive or mired in self-blame and despair after being victimized is influenced by their temperament, gender and the type of bullying they experience.

to encourage the use of Earth observation in China. Building on the success of the past years, the programme is taking on more momentum as it enters its third phase. The Dragon Programme started in 2004 as a joint undertaking between ESA, the National Remote Sensing Center of China (NRSCC) under the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of China.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Consumer confidence posted a sizable loss in June, with most of the overall decline in how consumers viewed future prospects for the national economy, according to Un

In an ambitious initiative designed to expand the boundaries of humanistic study, the University of Chicago is establishing a center devoted to addressing questions that transcend any single field or methodology.

Durham University to be Church of England's sole validation partner for ministerial training Durham University - one of the UK's leading universities for Theology and Religion - has been chosen to partner with the Church of England to validate ordination training of its ministers across England.

Aung San Suu Kyi told attendees at the University of Oxford's annual Encaenia ceremony this afternoon that her Oxford experience 'helped me to cope with the many challenges I had to face' and that it taught her 'respect for the best in human civilisation'.

A campaign to republish an out-of-print classic on the subject of African culture, using funds donated by academics, enthusiasts and general readers, has been launched online.

It's the place to look for the plumber's phone number, the date of the next doctor's appointment, that photo from your summer vacation and the spelling test your kid aced last week.

Professor Alan Neal, Director of the Employment Law Research Unit in the University of Warwick's School of Law, has been appointed to undertake a 3-year research project together with colleagues in t

Professor Mark Macgowan, an expert in social work research, has been appointed as the next Fulbright-Scotland Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Globalization is a benefit to U.S. scientific achievement, not a threat.

The event, which is being hosted by the Glasgow Human Rights Network (GHRN) is entitled 'Protecting Human Rights: The Duties and Responsibilities of States and Non-State Actors' and takes place at the university on 18 and 19 June 2012.

Society expects a great deal from universities, but through its history, the University of Chicago has had a singular purpose: Edward Levi, president of the University from 1968 to 1975, clarified this purpose when he wrote, "The University of Chicago.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. CT scans of fossilized primate skulls or skull fragments from both the Old and New Worlds may shed light on how these extinct animals moved, especially for those species without any known remains, according to an international team of researchers. The researchers looked at the bony labyrinth in fossil remains and compared them to CT scans previously obtained from living primate species.

The 21st century's first new state Timor-Leste gained independence from a powerful Indonesian regime by swapping guns for diplomacy, a groundbreaking study from The Australian National University has revealed.

New legislation on forced marriage could put vulnerable adults and children with learning disabilities at risk, according to experts at the Ann Craft Trust.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Infant death rates in Appalachia remain significantly higher than much of the rest of the country, and are especially high in the central Appalachian region, according to Penn State health policy researchers.

During a discussion at the Freeman Spogli Institute, foreign policy experts say elections can turn on international issues, debunking the dictum that 'all politics is local.

Elsie M. Pinkston, professor emeritus at the School of Social Service Administration and a nationally recognized authority on child welfare and parental interactions, died May 31.

Elsie M. Pinkston, professor emeritus at the School of Social Service Administration and a nationally recognized authority on child welfare and parental interactions, died May 31.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Scientists working in many nations are contributing to the world's store of scientific, technological and engineering knowledge.

The death of long-time North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il has seen his son Kim Jong-un rushed into the country's hot seat.

Lucy Williams is from Essex, UK, and is studying a PhD on the lives of female offenders in Victorian England at the University's School of History.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Consumer confidence improved in each of the past nine monthly surveys, rising to its highest level this month since October 2007, according to University of Michigan economist Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Each year, millions of children are exposed to domestic violence, a traumatic experience that has been associated with cognitive, behavioral, social and emotional problems in childhood as well as a higher incidence of depression and premature death in adulthood. Numerous studies over the past two decades also have indicated that exposure to domestic violence (EDV) places children at higher risk of abuse and neglect.

A new film launched on Thursday (24 May) co-curated by a University of Manchester lecturer and shown at the prestigious Imperial War Museum in London, is to argue that winning the peace is just as important as winning the war.

A collection of artefacts made by prisoners from the Channel Islands in World War II has gone on display in Jersey to mark the 70th anniversary of the Channel Island deportations, with the help of a Cambridge researcher.

The newest building on the University of Cambridge's Sidgwick Site has been named in honour of the previous Vice-Chancellor.

Fifteen years ago today (March 20), the United States invaded Iraq. The goal was to eliminate an aggressive dictatorship that had invaded its neighbors and developed weapons of mass destruction.

An Oxford University study has put the number of children who were living in the UK without legal immigration status in 2011 at around 120,000 - about 0.9 per cent of the total population of children below the age of 18.

A film about the downfall of the East German head of state, Erich Honecker, which includes an astonishing with his apparently unrepentant widow, will receive its UK premiere next week.

University of Birmingham archaeologist, Jeffrey Rose is among the 15 visionary, young trailblazers from around the world who have been named as the 2012 class of National Geographic Emerging Explorers.

The vast but little known north-western Chinese region of Xinjiang has presented a University of Sydney archaeologist with exciting new evidence of early between China and the West. The findings of the Chinese-Australian collaborative team will be presented at East and West: Past and Future , an upcoming archaeological workshop examining early ties between the West, Xinjiang and Central Asia.