The defining moment in the life of Leo Beranek came in 1935, when at the age of 21, on Main Street, Mount Vernon, a small town in Iowa, he offered to help the owner of a Cadillac with a flat tyre....
The 19th century was the great age of the founding of public institutions, when many of the great private collections passed into public control and when collection, exhibition and research became...
(J) = Review forthcomingANTHROPOLOGY- Unstrange Minds: A Father Remaps the World of AutismBy Roy Richard Grinker, professor of anthropology, international affairs, and human sciences at the George...
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an unfinished sensation novel:“An ancient English Cathedral Town?”Entries, including postal address,...
As class sizes increase, remembering students’ names is a growing challenge – and word association can help
Intimidation and victimisation at work can destroy health, confidence and careers
Lecturers in fine art at the Norwich School of Art and Design have teamed up with scientists at Cranfield University to investigate how nanotechnology can be used to change the way that artists draw...
A study of the reported dreams of many of the best-known al-Qaeda and Taleban leaders carried out by Iain Edgar, a social anthropologist at Durham University, has found that many use the dreams they...
Two prominent members of the University and College Union branch at the University of Nottingham who posted a comment to the Times Higher Education website criticising their colleagues are to stand...
A university is collaborating with the British Library and the British Museum to offer two new masters programmes. Students on King's College London's new MA programmes in "Early modern English...
Women, as well as men, held positions of power in Ancient Greece by right of birth, according to new research from the University of Manchester. A team of researchers tested ancient DNA from a high-...
The new Centre for Respiratory Infection Research at Imperial College London aims to tackle colds and flu. The research centre is funded by a £3.4 million award from the Wellcome Trust and will bring...
White Space, a £2.5 million multipurpose development bringing together computer arts and games students and staff, business people, broadcasters and artists has opened at the University of Abertay...
Control of the school curriculum should be taken away from politicians and passed to an independent education commission, an educationist has argued. But the commission needs to be protected from "...
Global warming could cause major famine in Asia within decades, according to Peter Clift of the School of Geosciences at the University of Aberdeen. Professor Clift predicts in his newly published...