MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (02/01/2012) —The University of Minnesota Law School's Human Rights Center is sponsoring the 2012 Human Rights and Law Speakers series, presented by the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows, on Tuesdays from 12:15 to 2:15 p.m. in Room 45 Mondale Hall, 229 19th Ave.

AUSTIN, Texas — The type of school a child attends may exacerbate the negative effect that family instability has on academic performance, according to a new study in the January issue of Sociology of Education .

A tiny mountainous region in southern Siberia may have been the genetic source of the earliest Native Americans, according to new research by a University of Pennsylvania-led team of anthropologists.

Poet, painter and photographer Liu Xia has been a noteworthy figure on the contemporary Chinese art scene for more than three decades.

He looked at the technological revolution unfolding around him and recognized the possibility for new kinds of social networks, and the insight catapulted him to the pinnacle of his field and changed popular culture forever.

Fourteen years ago, North Korea's calendar was changed so that time officially began in 1912—the birth year of Kim Il Sung, who ruled the communist nation from its founding in 1948.

ANN ARBOR, Mich - Consumer confidence continued to improve in January due to positive news about potential job gains, according to University of Michigan economist Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.

All images from the Southworth Spanish Civil War Collection in the UC San Diego Mandeville Special Collections Library - "So There Will Be No Forgetting: Images from the Spanish Civil War," an exhibit of materials from the Mandeville Special Collections Library's Southworth Collection, will be on view at UC San Diego's Geisel Library from January 23 through May 11, 2012.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - As the first anniversary of the Egyptian revolution approaches on Jan. 25, sociologist Mansoor Moaddel is available to discuss trends in religious, political and cultural values in Egypt and other Arab countries.

ATTENTION: Reporters covering Asia politics, international affairs and national security - WHAT:   "North Korean Crossroads: International Reaction to the Succession of Kim Jong-un," a discussion by a panel of experts at the University of California, Berkeley.