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THE TECHNOLOGICAL University of the Shannon (TUS) has become the first Irish university to lead a European University Alliance.

Students applying for a specialty program in Prince William County schools have until Feb. 1 to turn in their applications.

A lawyer for a group of Apple iPhone users whose devices allegedly slowed down after software updates argued for a B.C. Supreme Court judge to accept a settlement agreement in Vancouver on Monday.

The lack of suitable housing aggravates Amsterdam’s teacher shortage, according to recent research by Dorien Manting of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Stan Majoor of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA). More teachers are moving out of the city, and they’re increasingly also leaving Amsterdam education, Parool reports.

Hundreds of people gathered on Sunday in Amsterdam for the National Holocaust Remembrance Day. At the Mirror Monument in Wertheim Park, people remembered how the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated 79 years ago. At 11 a.m., the participants in a silent march reached the park from Amsterdam City Hall. Outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema, and South African Ambassador to the Netherlands Vusi Madonsela were at the forefront.

Recording the activity of large populations of single neurons in the brain over long periods of time is crucial to further our understanding of neural circuits, to enable novel medical device-based therapies and, in the future, for brain–computer interfaces requiring high-resolution electrophysiological information.

Hong Kong: Education chief returns from Finland

Utrecht University of Applied Sciences has temporarily canceled a lecture series on the Holocaust. The educational institution reports that it will hold the series at a different time on Sunday, because "the safety of speakers, students, teachers and visitors cannot be guaranteed".

In September last year I embarked on a 5 week trip throughout Italy and France. We swam in the waters of Cinque Terre, ate the best pizza we’d ever had in Naples, and walked blisters into our feet through the streets of Paris.

<p>An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the <a href="https://seas.harvard.edu/">Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences </a>(SEAS), in collaboration with The University of Texas at Austin, MIT and <a href="https://axoft.us/" target="_blank">Axoft, Inc</a>., developed a soft implantable device with dozens of sensors that can record single-neuron activity in the brain stably f...