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45-yr-old foundation launches journal to support teachers’ professional development in international education.

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FOX Sports Campaign announced in March during National Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month.

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A team of sleep researchers led by UC Riverside psychologist Sara C. Mednick has confirmed the mechanism that enables the brain to consolidate memory and found that a commonly prescribed sleep aid enhances the process.

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The lack of very long chain fatty acids does not cause blindness in children with the incurable eye disease known as Stargardt type 3 retinal degeneration.

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Patrick D. Gallagher, U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, will provide the keynote address for the inaugural Advanced Manufacturing Conference. The conference, a partnership between the Center for Automation Technologies and Systems (CATS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Center for Economic Growth (CEG), will be held April 16-17 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Troy, N.Y.

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Toni Locy, an award-winning reporter with several newspapers and now the Donald W. Reynolds Professor of Legal Reporting at Washington and Lee University, has published a new textbook to help young journalists navigate coverage of the legal system.

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A new report from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies reveals that nonprofit organizations are major employers and major sources of employment growth in countries throughout the world. The report draws on new data generated by statistical offices in 16 countries that have implemented a new United Nations Handbook on Nonprofit Institutions. This Handbook calls on national statistical offices to report on the economic scale and composition of nonprofit organizations in their countries for the first time.

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Adults who’ve smoked daily for at least the past year who want to quit within the next 30 days are needed for a study of a quit-smoking iPhone app being conducted by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in collaboration with the University of Washington and 2Morrow Mobile.

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While video games garner plenty of attention, they haven’t gained much ground in academia as a way to study history – until now. University of South Carolina historian Joseph November is changing that with a new course he launched this spring. He believes video games and looking at how history is presented in them can be a gateway to getting more students into the study of history. That’s why his "Computer Games and History" class is eager for the March 26 release of Bioshock Infinite.

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Pulitzer Prize-nominee Michael Shelden's latest book follows the life of Winston Churchill from 1901 to 1915.

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Research has long linked high socioeconomic status with better health and lower mortality. But what’s remained unclear is whether this association has more to do with access to resources (education, wealth, career opportunity, etc.) or the glow of high social status relative to others.

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When people are denied the chance to cheat or steal, they get frustrated -- and turn to violent video games for release.

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The Tulane University Law School and the Payson Center for International Development are joining forces to offer a Masters in Law and Development.

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An innovative federal family support program in Brazil is avoiding local political interference and helping families in that country improve their children's education and gain access to medical care, according to research at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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John Inazu, JD, first amendment expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, was invited to provide testimony to the United States Commission on Civil Rights briefing on “Peaceful Coexistence? Reconciling Non-discrimination Principles with Civil Liberties.”

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SLU dietitian shares tips for healthy holiday.