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Harvard Announces Return to Mandatory Testing Protocols
Students applying to Harvard College for fall 2025 admission will be required to submit standardized test scores, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced on Thursday. This new policy will be applied to the Class of 2029 admissions cycle…
Harvard University: Three Honorees to Receive 2024 Harvard Medal
The Harvard Alumni Association has announced that Scott A. Abell ’72, Katherine N. Lapp, and M. Lee Pelton, Ph.D. ’84, will receive the 2024 Harvard Medal.
First awarded in 1981, the Harvard Medal recognizes extraordinary service to the…
Research Indicates Adolescent Stress Could Heighten Risk of Postpartum Depression in Adults
In a new study, a Johns Hopkins Medicine-led research team reports that social stress during adolescence in female mice later results in prolonged elevation of the hormone cortisol after they give birth. The researchers say this corresponds…
Research Reveals COVID-19 Pandemic Resulted in Minimal Developmental Milestone Delays in Infants and…
Infants and children 5 years old and younger experienced only “modest” delays in developmental milestones due to the COVID-19 pandemic disruptions and restrictions, a study led by Johns Hopkins Children’s Center finds.
In a report on the…
Lancaster University’s Work Foundation Warns 1.4 Million Workers Face Insecurity at Work and…
New analysis from the Work Foundation at Lancaster University reveals that 1.4 million people face the ‘double jeopardy’ of working in severely insecure jobs – meaning they face a combination of insecure work conditions such as low or…
New Report Highlights Greater Risk of Children in the North Entering Care
A new report has revealed the £25 billion burden of children in care which has been placed on stretched services in the North of England.
Published by Health Equity North on behalf of the Child of the North All-Party Parliamentary Group…
Inaugural National Cyber Force ‘Hackathon’ Challenges Future Cyber Skills
Lancaster University has teamed up with the National Cyber Force (NCF) to deliver a trailblazing ‘hackathon’ event for cyber experts of the future.
The event, the first of its kind delivered by the NCF, saw some of the North West’s…
Lancaster Researchers Pioneering Efforts in Ensuring Cyber Security of Future Digital…
A major new research programme involving Lancaster University experts will address the grand challenge of providing cyber security at societal scale.
The SCULI (Securing Convergent Ultra-large Scale Infrastructures) programme has…
Lancaster University: Shire Hall Transforms into ‘A Kingdom for a Stage’ for Henry V…
An innovative production of Shakespeare brings together Lancaster University, professional theatre practitioners from the North West and volunteers from Lancaster and Morecambe, at Lancaster Castle next month.
By staging Henry V in the…
Lancaster University: Parliament Launch Highlights Bay Curriculum’s Net Zero Initiatives
The Morecambe Bay Curriculum (MBC) features in a new climate change report, proposing innovative ideas to Government on how to reach net zero.
Lancaster University nominated the MBC as a project that showcases how a community can help…