CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 13 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * "I have yet to meet a professor that cares more for their students" * Since joining the faculty of MIT's Department of Political Science in 2012, F. Daniel Hidalgo, known to many as "Danny," has built a reputation as both a meticulous quantitative scholar and one of the department's most generous and steadfast mentors. A member of the 2025-27 Committed to Caring cohort, Hidalgo is  more

LONDON, England, May 15 (TNSjou) -- BMJ Group issued the following news release about The BMJ: * * * New drug approval pathway benefits industry over patients, argues expert Approval mechanisms must be grounded in patient need and population health * A new UK drug approval pathway, designed to speed up the availability of new medicines, benefits industry over patients and the NHS, argues an expert in The BMJ today. The pathway aligns regulatory review by the Medicines and Healthcare produc  more

GUILFORD, England, May 14 -- The University of Surrey issued the following news release: * * * Brexit did not just shake Britain - it sent financial shockwaves across Europe * Brexit sent waves of financial volatility through European markets, reshaping how risk travelled between countries and exposing how tightly connected the continent's financial systems had become, according to new research from the University of Surrey. Analysing more than two decades of stock market data across the EU  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on May 13, 2026, by veteran foreign correspondent Michael Sheridan: * * * A Global G2? Xi-Trump Summit Spurs Europe-Japan Jitters Talks between the US and China will be anxiously observed by trading powers far from the summit venue. * There are two actors offstage -- the European Union and Japan -- watching the spectacle at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing as the leaders of America and China celebra  more

HANOVER, New Hampshire, May 15 -- Dartmouth College issued the following news: * * * Nina Pavcnik Named Inaugural Dean of Arts and Sciences The economist is committed to advancing liberal arts education and research excellence. Written by Bridget Campolettano President Sian Leah Beilock today announced the appointment of Nina Pavcnik as inaugural dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1--a significant step toward Dartmouth becoming the best undergraduate education within a   more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, May 14 -- Michigan State University posted the following news: * * * Faculty voice: Circling back to what matters on the Spartan Bus Tour * Luke Capizzo is an assistant professor of public relations in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences. After traveling with the Spartan Bus Tour through Flint, Saginaw and Bay City, he shared these remarks at the closing reception on May 7. Thank you to President Guskiewicz, the remarkable bus tour planning team and the i  more

NEW YORK, May 14 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary on May 12, 2026, by director of research and senior fellow Judge Glock to the Washington Examiner: * * * Industrial Policy Is Not Populist As the press regularly remind us, we live in a populist age. Increased bipartisan fury at both government and business has shaken the political parties and scrambled traditional alliances. It is thus profoundly ironic that our age has seen a rebirth in industrial pol  more

NEW YORK, May 14 (TNSLrpt) -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following report on April 9, 2026 entitled "2025 President's Update." Here is the President's Message: * * * 2025: What Civilization Demands PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Dear Friends and Supporters: I recently had the pleasure of reading Lionel Shriver's The Mandibles, a novel published in 2016 that I found newly resonant in 2026. Set in the near future, the novel chronicles the rapid, agonizing descent of a multigenerational American  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- Sen. Raphael G. Warnock, D-Georgia, issued the following news release: * * * Warnock Statement on Governor Kemp Calling Special Session to Further Gerrymander Georgia * According to reporting by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Gov. Brian Kemp is calling a special session set for June 17 to redraw the state's political maps ahead for the 2028 election Georgia is looking to further gerrymander its maps following the Supreme Court's decision to greenlight states' abili  more