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21 Oct 2011: The current economic climate is encouraging many outside academia to assess universities’ impact in increasingly narrow, utilitarian terms, concentrating only on economic benefit or benefit to individual graduates and their employability.

21 Dec 2011: The key message is that the UK government, like many around the world, now recognises that economic measures such as GDP do not provide adequate information about a society’s progress. ... The study’s lead author, Professor Felicia Huppert of the

2 Mar 2011: Each talk aims to give audiences the opportunity to hear from, and question, leading public figures about some of the most pressing issues affecting the political and economic life of the

11 Aug 2011: Scientists have identified 29 new genetic variants linked to multiple sclerosis, providing key insights into the biology of a very debilitating neurological

1 Jul 2011: He discussed  the issue of Impact, arguing that the arts and humanities have far more economic and cultural impact than they are credited with.

10 Jan 2011: In most cases, their disappearance is a by-product of globalisation, or rapid social and economic change.

9 Sep 2011: The team’s study may also help scientists’ understanding of evolutionary processes such as biological adaptation and how culture and economic developments affect human biology.

14 Jan 2011: Preventing virus transmission in chickens should reduce the economic impact of the disease and reduce the risk posed to people exposed to the infected birds. ... This work could also form the basis for improving economic and food security in many regions

15 Sep 2011: After a brief dip in numbers during the First World War, the economic depression of the 1920s and 1930s forced more women back into service, aided by hostile government benefits policies

2 Nov 2011: But one freezing January day I resolved to put to the test what Roland Barthes called the “degree zero” of writing.

17 Mar 2011: She has a particular interest in the social and economic structure of rural communities, especially in their use of land. ... Recent research on Spain has given her work an added comparative dimension and a productive parallel analysis of the Irish and

18 Nov 2011: Bill Janeway, Co-Chairman of the Campaign Board and Senior Advisor to Warburg Pincus, said: “In a time of economic challenge and global competition, the case for philanthropy and fundraising to

17 Mar 2011: It has also recently become the base for a new MPhil in Modern South Asian studies, which ranges from business management and development economics, through history and politics to the study ... This large-scale study, which was carried out in

9 Sep 2011: We’re very grateful to all those thousands of people across the world who participated in our DNA ancestry tests and thereby contributed to our research.”.

18 Mar 2011: When humans talk to each other they communicate in far greater ways than simply speaking. The way that they speak matters – their facial expressions, tone of

13 Oct 2011: both test tube and mouse experiments.

20 Jun 2011: Rosa Hoekstra added: “We need to conduct a follow-up study to validate the diagnoses and to test the alternative explanations for the elevated rate of autism in Eindhoven, including the

8 Feb 2011: What is most exciting, is that by revealing the similarities between human and mouse immunology of pregnancy, the [teams] lay new foundation for using mouse genetics to test new ideas and ... What is most exciting," Colucci says, "is that by revealing

28 Jun 2011: Children born this year will enter university in or around 2030. The offspring of children born this year will arrive at university-age in the middle of the

17 Mar 2011: Our postdoctoral and early career fellows this year are working on projects that span terror and terrorism, complex simplicity in architecture, educational innovation and the economics of infectious diseases.

22 Jun 2011: Pop into any stationery shop and you will see racks of greetings cards poking fun at human behaviour. Women don’t have a sense of direction and can’t read

20 Oct 2011: Climate change threatens to ‘undermine global prosperity and inflict significant social, economic and environmental costs on the world’, according to a global coalition of companies who today issued an urgent call ... In spite of the unfavourable

1 Dec 2011: The result was a 300-year period of evolution. Maximilian's changes were just the first of different phases of reform which usually emerged because of religious differences, economic problems, social

6 Oct 2011: Unlike heroin users who may benefit from methadone when attempting to quit, there is currently no medication which has proven to be an effective tool in

13 Jul 2011: Those three themes form the backbone of this year’s Festival of Ideas at the University of Cambridge - the UK’s only arts, humanities and social sciences

15 Sep 2011: Fluctuations of serotonin levels in the brain, which often occur when someone hasn’t eaten or is stressed, affects brain regions that enable people to regulate

24 Sep 2011: Dr Louise Joy is speaking at this year’s Festival of Ideas at Cambridge  – the UK’s only festival covering the arts, humanities and social sciences – which

5 Jul 2011: Lucca is a picturesque town in Tuscany, known for its intact town walls and picturesque centre. But while its ancient ramparts symbolise an ancient technique

16 Mar 2011: ‘Is there a female brain?’ will be led by Melissa Hines, Professor of Psychology at the University of Cambridge. Discussion will also be opened up to the

1 Apr 2011: Brain scans of aggressive and antisocial teenage boys with conduct disorder (CD) have revealed differences in the structure of the developing brain that could

21 Jun 2011: Researchers at the University of Cambridge have identified abnormal brain structures in the frontal lobe of cocaine users’ brains which are linked to their

4 Jul 2011: The scientists can already model many aspects of plant development and then test if the hypotheses about plant behaviour are correct.

15 Apr 2011: We now need to see an extension of this study, one which tests larger numbers of people, and then take it out of the hospital and in to the home setting.”.

12 Nov 2011: Her intelligence, however, was evident: when she was given an IQ test, she came out top of the MENSA scale.

9 Feb 2011: Its first product, VeriPsych, is the first and only blood test to aid psychiatrists in the diagnosis of recent-onset schizophrenia.

10 Jan 2011: This agreement signals the faith we have in the Eastern region to deliver economic growth from our exceptionally strong science and technology base. ... This agreement signals the faith we have in the Eastern region to deliver economic growth from our

5 Apr 2011: A Levels and GCSEs, aptitude tests, school background and gender were all considered.

14 Mar 2011: A team from the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh and Cardiff has created a range of motor neurons - nerves cells that send messages from the brain and

4 Jul 2011: Visitors to Science Live will be able to test their skills in a specially-devised “Nanoblocks” game which will allow them to design their own nanostructure and see what colours it

24 Jun 2011: Participants taking drugs with a combined ACB of five or more scored more than four per cent lower in a cognitive function test than those taking no anticholinergic medications – confirming evidence

21 Mar 2011: But discriminating which overweight individuals without current risk factors for cardiovascular disease will go on to develop those risk factors, and ultimately clinical cardiovascular disease, remains a challenge-here, blood tests

5 May 2011: Dr Andrea Ferrari. The ambitious and large-scale initiative aims to achieve new breakthroughs both in terms of technological innovation using graphene, and the economic exploitation of the material.

1 Feb 2011: We now need to see an extension of this study, one which tests larger numbers of women, and then take it out of the hospital and in to the home setting.".

29 Dec 2011: All the telescope components arrive here for assembly and testing. Only when the systems pass stringent tests are the 100-tonne antennas allowed up to what we all call “the high ... the planned series of test observations.

17 Feb 2011: Our first issue contained original works from within and outside of that tradition – to test them against each other, and in some cases show how closely allied they can be.”.

9 Feb 2011: Both Hitler and Stalin coupled their plans to reshape Eastern Europe’s political and economic map with a grim determination to take aim at any population that happened to stand in

4 Jan 2011: Researchers have taken the novel step of asking the biochemists at Addenbrooke’s Hospital to test these samples for the amount of the ‘male hormone’, testosterone. ... The lab is going on to test much larger samples (thousands, instead of hundreds)

14 Oct 2011: As the Victorians were forging remarkable economic and technological innovations, they were also obsessed with understanding their own history.

28 Nov 2011: The University of Cambridge and Elan Corporation today announced the launch of The Cambridge-Elan Centre for Research Innovation and Drug Discovery

24 Dec 2011: Spending time with women and their families gives me insights into the daily economies and relations that underpin social and economic transformations. ... Sarah's fieldwork in Ecuador was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council.