Call for US R&D ‘surge’ through ‘heartland’ universities
Universities have the right track record on place-making and innovation, argues Brookings Institution fellow and report co-author
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Mexican universities grapple with how to handle populist Amlo
Sector heads recognise that Mexicans have rallied behind the president’s promises even though problems of inequality and social mobility persist
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Europe needs more research investment if it is to be climate-neutral by 2050
Science is central to the European Commission’s Green Deal, but basic research and new knowledge in the arts and humanities will be crucial to its success, says Jan Palmowski
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What are you reading? – 2 January 2020
Our fortnightly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewersÂ
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A new decade’s resolution
Where scientists led, society is finally starting to follow. But higher education can and must do more to address the climate crisis
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The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists, and Secularisation, 1945-1980, by Callum G. Brown
A. W. Purdue is sceptical about an analysis of the great debates about sexual and other freedoms that marked the dawn of a more permissive era
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Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties, by Peter Hennessy
David Bell enjoys a lively overview of an era by ‘the doyen of post-war British history’
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Korean professors indicted in admissions case tied to politics
Former justice minster and wife alleged to have faked materials for children’s university applications
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![Artistry Thomas and William Daniell, ‘Part of the Interior of the Elephanta [Temple]’, in Oriental Scenery (1800). Yale Center for British Art](/sites/default/files/styles/article_featured_360x240/public/p40_aquatint.jpg?itok=XupzkiI8 "Artistry Thomas and William Daniell, ‘Part of the Interior of the Elephanta [Temple]’, in Oriental Scenery (1800). Yale Center for British Art")
Aquatint Worlds: Travel, Print, and Empire, by Douglas Fordham
Chloe Chard is intrigued by an account of the short-lived fashion for lavishly illustrated hand-coloured travel books
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Michelangelo, God’s Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece, by William E. Wallace
James Stevens Curl is impressed by a detailed account of one of the world’s most celebrated buildings
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Academics’ new year resolutions for 2020
From tackling racism to giving up chicken, academics are not short of ideas about how to improve their professional and personal lives at the dawn of the new decadeÂ
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Hillary Clinton appointed Queen’s University Belfast chancellor
Former US secretary of state hails ‘strong relationship’ with Northern Ireland institution
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Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War, by Duncan White
Book of the week: Andrew Palmer is impressed by a bold survey of literature on both sides of the Iron Curtain
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Interview with Caspar Melville
The former music journalist turned SOAS academic talks about why London’s black music cultures deserve more study
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Marilyn Yalom, 1932-2019
Tributes paid to a pioneering feminist scholar who ‘made conversation glitter’