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Geneva, 28 November 2012. CERN1 and the City and Canton of Geneva today announce the second open call for entries in the Collide @ CERN-Geneva2 award. This year, the award funded by the City and Canton of Geneva, will be made specifically in film. The competition is open to film makers and screenwriters who work in any area of film making – including documentary, fiction, drama, animation and feature film.

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In an effort to raise awareness and generate public discussion about the troubled state of higher education in the United States, the editors of Contexts have produced a special issue of the magazine.

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UIowa law professor and criminal law expert Jim Tomkovicz analyzes the legacy of the Supreme Court's Gideon v. Wainwright decision, argued 50 years ago next month, that guarantees legal representation for indigents.

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Gearing up to start an exercise program — especially for those over 40 — can be filled with pitfalls. Experts at UAB say start slow and low.

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UNC Charlotte is one of five colleges and universities selected, nationally, to participate in the International Academic Partnership Program's India initiative by the Institute of International Education.

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When he left, he was your child whose meals you prepared and whose laundry you dutifully did. Now he’s home from college for an extended winter break – possibly bringing with him more laundry for you to do. For parents readjusting to life with their college students at home for a few weeks, it can be…an adjustment, according to a psychologist at Saint Joseph's University.

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The University of Chicago has established the Science of Philanthropy Initiative to explore the underpinnings of philanthropy by employing an interdisciplinary approach that includes strategic partnerships with the fundraising community.

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Building on the success of his previous books about Italian-American identity in the New World, George Guida has released his new fiction collection, The Pope Stories and Other Tales of Troubled Times (Bordighera Press, 2012).

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Norman Rockwell defined the winter holidays for an entire generation with his depictions of rosy-cheeked children and their doting parents set against a heartfelt winter wonderland. But much has changed since the Post War heyday of Rockwell, says Melanie Heath, assistant professor in McMaster’s Department of Sociology. The family unit has become a lot harder to define, and many holiday traditions are simply changing with the times.

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Leading voices to gather at National Press Club to present candid views, inform and shape national dialogue on bill’s programmatic outcomes.

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Case Western Reserve University is launching its first online degree program, a master’s degree offered by the university’s nationally ranked Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.

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A change as small as moving the logo in an ad makes you more likely to buy, a study by a University of Delaware marketing professor found.

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Researchers at the University of Iowa have explained how infants learn by looking, and the crucial role these activities play in how infants gain knowledge. Their computer model of babies aged 6 weeks to one year shows how infants use looking to create knowledge and to sear that knowledge into memory. The model also explains how infants' looking and learning changes as they develop. Results appear in the journal Cognitive Science.

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Case Western Reserve University’s entrepreneurial tradition got a boost. Inspiring entrepreneurship as a viable career path takes a major step forward with the appointment of Bob Sopko as director of the university’s Blackstone LaunchPad (BLP)—a program for helping students turn their ideas into thriving businesses.

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New sociology study from The University of Texas at Austin shows telecommuters are significantly less likely to work a standard 40 hour schedule and more likely to work overtime than their office-working counterparts.

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Santa Expert, Professor Emeritus of English at Canisius College Dr. Frank Riga, shares the wonderful story of the origins of Santa.

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The University of Washington Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) today announced the early completion of an $8 million, three-year challenge grant from the Bezos Family Foundation to advance the institute’s groundbreaking research on how infants and young children learn and develop. The funds will accelerate critical research in child brain development and early learning.