The Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College is a dynamic and cosmopolitan intellectual community that extends from Wellesley College to the wider Boston area and beyond. The Newhouse was established by a generous gift from Susan and Donald Newhouse in 2004 to promote innovative, imaginative and influential research …

he Sainsbury Research Unit offers two Visiting Research Fellowships in each academic year for the study of the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas. Normal duration is three months, coinciding with Autumn and Spring terms. Applications are welcomed from scholars of appropriate standing in such fields of the Humanities …

Since its inception in 1995, our fellowship program has supported projects from a wide range of academic fields to promote scholarly research on The Wolfsonian’s collection. Fellowships are awarded for full-time research at the museum, generally for periods of 3–4 weeks. Fellows receive: A stipend Accommodations Round-trip travel The program …

Call for applications is open until January 9th 2020 The Eiffel Excellence Scholarship Program was established by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs to enable French higher education institutions to attract top foreign students to enroll in their masters and PhD programs. It gives opportunity to the future foreign …

Three people succeeded in a hoax in the United States by publishing entirely invented research articles in several sociology journals, with ridiculous conclusions, in order to demonstrate, in their opinion, the lack of rigour of these journals. In total, seven of the trio’s twenty articles were accepted by journals, overcoming …

Facebook a confirmé qu’il travaillait sur une paire de lunettes de réalité augmentée. Les lunettes de science-fiction vous permettraient de voir des objets virtuels dans le monde réel – comme s’ils y étaient réellement. Ficus Kirkpatrick, responsable AR du réseau social, a déclaré à  TechCrunch : “Ouais! Bien sûr, nous y travaillons.” …

For detailed information on the fields of study available for each Partner University the contact details of the contact persons for the Erasmus+ project in each of the partner institutions please download the excel file which summarizes the information in all Erasmus+ signed bilateral agreements. From the Partner Country to Iasi Country …

L’Institut Francophone International (IFI), rattaché à l’Université Nationale du Vietnam -Hanoï (UNVH), lance un appel à candidatures pour le programme de bourses de sa promotion 2018-2020 du Master Informatique, option Réseaux et Systèmes communicants. (Double diplôme remis par l’Université Nationale du Vietnam à Hanoi et l’Université de Lyon 1, France). Date limite après prolongation : 15 novembre …

The Chinese daily China Daily – under state control – reports that the country’s space industry is preparing to launch an artificial moon with the aim of replacing urban lighting at night. Moon-face-face-cache-NASACThis project was presented by New Area Science Society for the city of Chengdu. A first experimental satellite …

1. Sugar Slows You Down When I decided to give up sugar in my early twenties, probably the most remarkable effect and the one that stands out most in my memory was that I became the only person in the office where I worked who didn’t experience the “post-lunch coma.” …

Cela fait vingt-cinq ans. 25 ans qu’est née l’association «Cancer du sein parlons-en» . Objectif, mobiliser les femmes bien sûr mais aussi leur entourage. C’est d’ailleurs le slogan de cette année: «Tous concernés». La première campagne d’«Octobre Rose» est née aux États-Unis en 1993. La France s’engageait un an plus tard. …

Technological progress is constantly changing how we work, from automation to artificial intelligence. With these advancements, firms adopt of new ways of production, helping markets to expand, and societies to evolve. While advances in technology can eliminate the need for some jobs, the World Development Report 2019 notes that it also paves …

Methods and conditions differ, but all animal species rest in one way or another. Standing, sitting, lying, flying, even underwater. Human beings often feel the need for it and generally suffer from the slightest reduction in their sleep quota. Total deprivation can cost him his life. Strangely, some people don’t …

The parents of a newborn baby who died just eight days after her May 2018 birth are warning others about the potential dangers of allowing family and friends to touch and kiss infants. Abigail Rose Friend, who said her daughter Aliza Rose was born healthy but later contracted herpes virus …

Several post-doctoral positions in mathematics are offered in the Henri Lebesgue Center, in partnership with Région Bretagne and Région Pays de la Loire (DéfiMaths project) the ANR project MoHyCon the ANR project CCEM the ERC project Fanfare. The hired applicant will conduct his/her research in of the laboratories of the Henri Lebesgue Center: IRMAR in …