Researchers from the University of East Anglia have been flying into storms across the UK to help predict weather more accurately. In a specially-adapted passenger jet, the group has measured the properties of high winds and rain which have hit the country in recent weeks. The project aims to improve forecasting techniques. The condensation and [...]

For William C. Powers, 2011 has been a year full of upheavals. Certain issues were foreseeable for the president of the University of Texas at Austin, the state’s largest and arguably most prestigious public university. State lawmakers were heading into a legislative session with budget axes at the ready, and nationally there were questions about [...]

The 12th annual International Education (IE) Week began this year on Monday, November 14th and ends today. IE Week is a joint operation with the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Education, along with hundreds of colleges, to promote programs that will educate Americans on why global learning is important in this economy [...]

From videotaped lectures to podcasts, universities are rushing to embrace the digital revolution. Yet even as some schools invite the public to view course material online, they’re starting to grapple with how to keep classroom discussions out of the wrong hands At the University of Missouri, a leaked classroom video that went viral in the [...]

With 30 seconds to go before two satellites they built were due to rocket into space, the 20 students or so gathered early this morning in a University of Michigan lab grew quiet. There wasn’t a large celebration when the rocket blasted off. Instead, there was a sense of fulfillment in the lab and an [...]

DENVER—Python blood may hold the road map to effective treatments for human heart disease, according to a new biomedical study by University of Colorado researchers. Researchers at CU’s Biofrontiers Institute have discovered three key fatty acids in python blood that, when reproduced, have the same positive effect on mammal heart growth as that observed in [...]

People march to the White House during the “Save Our Schools” rally in Washington, D.C., on July 30. Marchers chanted and carried signs expressing their demands after hearing speeches nearby. Teachers and their supporters gathered near the White House on Saturday afternoon to chant, cheer, and march for a variety of changes they hope to [...]

Professor disputes contract after staff e-mail announcement A senior academic at Abertay University may be one of the first to test the laws surrounding the abolition of forced retirement, after he rejected claims by his employer that he had retired. Professor Bernard King, principal of Abertay University, denied he had retired after an e-mail was [...]

据最新两岸四地大学排名结果显示，清华大学（北京）和台湾大学并列第一，香港大学位居第三，第四到第十名依次是：清华大学（新竹）、香港科技大学、香港中文大学、北京大学、交通大学（新竹）、中国科学技术大学、浙江大学。前十名大学中大陆的有4所，台湾和香港各有3所。大陆、台湾、香港高水平大学呈现出齐头并进、各具特色的发展局面。澳门特别行政区排名最高的是澳门大学，排在第72名。 排名指标体系 由于历史的原因，两岸四地的高等教育体制差异较大，因此，只能选择那些共同适用于两岸四地大学实际情况、具有跨地区可比性的指标。根据我们从事国际性大学比较与排名的经验和对国内外主流大学排名所采用的指标的研究和分析，我们在世界大学学术排名（超级链接）所采用的指标体系的基础上，又增加了数个同时适用于两岸四地教育状况的指标，形成了包括人才培养、科学研究、师资质量和学校资源4大类13项指标的指标体系。为了更好地体现大学的水平和质量，我们对所有与规模有关的指标都同时使用了绝对数和相对值。在指标权重的安排上我们遵循了《高等教育机构排名的柏林原则》（超级链接）中要求优先考虑产出指标的原则，对于7项产出指标各分配10%的权重，对于另外6项投入和过程指标各分配5%的权重。计算单项指标得分时，令表现最好的大学的该项指标为100分，其它按其与最高值得比例得分，一所大学的总得分由各单项指标加权得出。

A new university study shows that as we age, it gets tougher to successfully “multitask,” or remembering to complete one task while distracted by another. Using brain scans, a team of UC San Francisco researchers have discovered that people over age 60 are less agile in switching from one neural network to another — which [...]