For the most part, they are still the children of the century-old marriage between the German research university and the British residential university.
Norman Fenton, a professor of risk information management, studied data for road deaths in Europe and the United States, and outlined his findings for Queen Mary, the public research university that is part of the University of London.
The research by the University of Liverpool found that the seabirds fed in nine areas earmarked for tidal, wind or wave power developments.
"Employed across a variety of sectors, these systems can quickly process huge amounts of information when deciding how to act, " said Dr Wamberto Vasconcelos, who is leading the research at the University of Aberdeen's School of Natural and Computing Sciences.
The research by University of Idaho and Washington State University scientists in cooperation with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory was published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
In the '90s, most of the growth in the Hispanic population was due to in-migration, but today births are the driving force, said David Drozd, research coordinator at the Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Nebraska in Omaha.
The researchers are working to bring their technology to market with the University of Tennessee Research Foundation, a non profit corporation responsible for commercializing the university's technologies and supporting UT research.
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This features in depth research by The Social Disadvantage Research Centre (SDRC) at the Department of Social Policy and Social Research at the University of Oxford.
UC, taking on wherever possible all the academic trappings of the traditional research university.
Consider the research by University of Chicago economist Christian Broda.
The prestigious research university, located in Cambridge, Mass.
The research was partially funded by the University of Minnesota and a research grant from the Medtronic Corp.
The Welsh government said the research by Cardiff University was commissioned to help with the development of the Welsh Bacc.
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Christine Hitchcock, who works at the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulatory Research at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, worries that there is not enough research to show the long-term effects of the extended use of oral contraceptives on the breast.
This will require a major update of the education and research framework under the current university setup which does not allow trans-disciplinary education and research.
Peter Cohen, of the Centre for Drug Research at the University of Amsterdam, followed a sample of cocaine users whom he describes as typical.
Americans who are conscientious earn more money and save more of it for retirement, according to research from the University of Michigan Retirement Research Center.
Some 66, 000 entrepreneurial ventures received angel funding last year, up 7.3% from 2010, according to the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.
Because of a grant from Gates and his wife Melinda, the building that holds the cutting edge genetics research at the University of Washington is named after William Foege.
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Get this: the initial research by University of Manchester and Indiana University academics said the emotions tracked on Twitter would predict market movements up to six days in advance with 87.6% accuracy.
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For retirement wonks, Banerjee presents detailed consumption numbers based on data collected in the long-running Health and Retirement Study, administered by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
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According to a recent study by the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, 100% of universities surveyed use social media to communicate with students, up from 61% in 2007-08.
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Robert Harrison, the deputy director of the Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas, says intelligent systems that will help control congestion are already in place and will become much more prevalent as time passes.
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And indeed many deaths occur there: between 1993 and 1996, according to figures from the Centre for Immigration Research at the University of Houston, almost 1, 200 people died while crossing illegally into the United States, most of them by drowning.
"Arguing about what the company is worth today is a much more emotional argument" than arguing about what the company will be worth in five to seven years, says Jeffrey Sohl, director of the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.
Forbes contributor Steve Denning recently wrote two pieces, one about the most hated jobs, using data from another jobs website, CareerBliss, and a piece about the supposedly happiest jobs from a Christian Science Monitor slide show about a four-year-old General Social Survey by the National Organization for Research at the University of Chicago.
Professor George Fraser, director of the Space Research Centre at Leicester University, was excited by the radiation research.
Nelson of the Metropolitan Research Center at the University of Utah says.
Professor Mike Lord, head of the toxin research group at the University of Warwick, is one of many scientists working in this area.
Dr Julie Rugg, from the Cemetery Research Group at the University of York, says the only solution to the crisis is to return to the "old tradition" of reusing graves.
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