Children’s body fatness linked to decisions made in the womb
New born human infants have the largest brains among primates, but also the highest proportion of body fat. Before birth, if the supply of nutrients from the mother through the placenta is limited or unbalanced, the developing baby faces a dilemma: should resources be allocated to brain growth, or to fat deposition for use as an energy reserve during the early months after birth?
Scientists at the University of Southampton have shown that this decision could have an effect on how fat we are as children.
Climate change stories from the abyss
A team of scientists including those from the University of Southampton have shed new light on the world’s history of climate change.
The Pacific Ocean has remained the largest of all oceans on the planet for many million years. It covers one third of the Earth’s surface and has a mean depth of 4.2 km. Its biologically productive equatorial regions play an important role particularly to the global carbon cycle and long-term climate development.
Modern human culture could have emerged 44,000 years ago
The University of Bergen professor in African archaeolgoy, Christopher Henshilwood, was awarded a Europen Research Council Advanced Grant in 2009.
Social Media Study
Associate Professor Ariadne Vromen from the University of Sydney has won a $312,000 grant to study whether social media applications such as Facebook and Twitter can help to reduce young people’s disenchantment with politics.
Chinese Politics in Globalized World
The Chinese Politics in a Globalized World program for the Spring semester 2013 is up and running!
London’s bridge is not one too far
All is right on the night. The naysayers are dispersed. As the Olympics roll on, London and the Brits are cresting the wave with a superb backdrop of history, humanity and style.
University of Leeds Alumni take Olympic Gold and Bronze
Brownlee brothers, both University of Leeds Alumni, take the Gold and Bronze medals for Team GB in the London 2012 Triathlon
New AAG representative appointed at Penn State
Professor Martin Trethewey, the Arthur L. Glenn Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State University, has been appointed to the WUN Academic Advisory Group (AAG).
Professor Trethewey will take over the role of developing the WUN program at PSU and represent the university on the AAG. He takes over the role from Peter Schiffer, who was former Chair of the AAG and is moving on from Penn State.
Funding international research collaboration
WUN today announced the 2012 round of the Research Development Fund (RDF).
