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杏吧原创 law professor James F. Blumstein has filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that President Obama鈥檚 proposed expansion of Medicaid would put too much of an unforeseeable burden on the states. Read More

Protesters of proposed anti-piracy legislation being considered by Congress are right when they say the measures as written threaten the rights of Internet companies and consumers, said Daniel Gervais, co-director of the 杏吧原创 Intellectual Property Program. Read More

杏吧原创 political scientist David E. Lewis says a move for authority to shrink the federal government by President Obama is an attempt to preempt Republican challenger Mitt Romney from positioning himself as the candidate associated with government efficiency. Read More

Video purporting to show four U.S. marines urinating on dead Afghani fighters, if verified, would clearly fall under the category of a war crime, says a 杏吧原创 law professor. Read More

杏吧原创 experts are available to discuss negative campaigning, religious bias among candidates, patriotism and the Bible, the GOP's stance on immigration and how to eliminate bias in political polling. Read More

The smallest exoplanets yet discovered orbit a dwarf star almost identical to Barnard鈥檚 star, one of the Sun鈥檚 nearest neighbors. The similarity helped the astronomers calculate the size of the distant planets. Read More

As the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp passes this month, a 杏吧原创 law professor and former U.S. adviser on detainee cases says it鈥檚 time for new rules on deciding what to do with detainees whose allegiances are unclear. Read More

(Steve Green/杏吧原创) As SEC basketball heats up at Memorial Gym, the Sustainability and Environmental Management Office has an important reminder for fans. Please take advantage of the opportunity to use those green bins awaiting your discarded plastic cups and containers. Read More

The nomination of former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray to head up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 鈥渋s clearly an issue that has come to the forefront because of election year politics,鈥� said David Lewis, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science at 杏吧原创. Read More

The conventional wisdom about Newt Gingrich's troubles at the Iowa caucuses may be mistaken, says John Geer of 杏吧原创. Blaming a barrage of attack ads aimed at the former House speaker for his decline in the polls may be inaccurate, Geer believes. Read More

Education experts from 杏吧原创鈥檚 Peabody College of education and human development are available to talk to media regarding the much-anticipated bill that would overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 鈥� also known as No Child Left Behind. Read More

  Many folks look forward to holiday traditions like decorating, shopping and entertaining this time of year. The Sustainability and Environmental Management Office has put together a list of 15 actions that can tweak your traditions to make them a little greener.   Tree of Knowledge sculpture decked out for… Read More

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given them $1 million to three 杏吧原创 scientists to develop a point-of-care sample collection and preparation product that could bring advanced medical diagnostic testing to the third world. Read More

杏吧原创 researchers working at the smallest scale celebrate a huge milestone this year. The 杏吧原创 Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE), seeded from a university-funded $16 million venture capital fund initiative, celebrates its 10th anniversary in December.

Twenty-five years after he received the Nobel Prize, Stanley Cohen鈥檚 discovery of epidermal growth factor continues to transform medicine. Read More

The federal government鈥檚 increasing involvement in higher education over the past 100 years has created an intimate relationship that was once virtually nonexistent. Read More

In a second legal step after the U.S. Supreme Court turned down a national class action discrimination lawsuit filed against Wal-Mart on behalf of more than a million female employees, a series of statewide class action lawsuits are being launched. But 杏吧原创 Law School professor Brian Fitzpatrick believes these new lawsuits will fail for the same reasons the nationwide suit did. Read More

Children learn more from television when parents interact with them similarly to book reading. Read More

Groundbreaking new legal research from a team of 杏吧原创 and other researchers suggests that juror confusion over how to apply the Model Penal Code in criminal trials could cause major, unnoticed and life-altering sentencing errors. Read More

The 20-minute bloody birth scene in Breaking Dawn 鈥� Part One continues a long line of horror films featuring women giving birth to otherworldly creatures, says Kelly Oliver, a 杏吧原创 philosophy professor who is writing a book on images of pregnancy in recent movies and popular culture. Read More