Minnesota State University, ( 10 July 2008 ).

Cambridge University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-84299-0.

In a June 2008 issue of the journal Autoimmunity Reviews, researchers S Planque, Sudhir Paul, Ph. D, and Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Ph. D of the University Of Texas Medical School at Houston announced that they have engineered an abzyme that degrades the superantigenic region of the gp120 CD4 binding site.

The Atlantic Baptist University Act was passed by the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 2008.

On 4 January 2008, Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb decided to step down as President and Vice Chancellor of the University before her term expired.

The Institute of Medical Psychology at the University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany has set up a Research Department Ayahuasca / Santo Daime, which in May 2008 held a 3-day conference under the title The globalization of Ayahuasca-An Amazonian psychoactive and its users.

Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008.

In 2007, he was elected a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and in 2008 received an Honorary Doctorate from the Stockholm University Faculty of Humanities for contributing importantly both to the preservation and the growth of the Swedish folk music tradition.

Final Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1972 – 2008 ( University of Nebraska Press, 2010 ) 344 pp. ISBN 978-0-8032-5965-2

In the Beano's home city of Dundee, a special exhibition was held at the University of Dundee featuring original artwork and other memorabilia loaned from D. C. Thomson-it ran until 20 September 2008.

* 2008: Although confirmed before his death in June 2008, an honorary degree was posthumously conferred upon Diddley by the University of Florida in August 2008.

A 2008 expedition from the University of Washington's School of Oceanography collected sediment cores from the lagoon to study climate change over the last millennium.

* Lucy Chesser, Parting with My Sex: Cross-dressing, Inversion and Sexuality in Australian Cultural Life, Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2008.

On October 22, 2008, the soccer team snapped a 201-game losing streak with a last-second goal against Cal Lutheran University, 1 – 0.

* Xiaoming Wang, Richard H. Tedford, Mauricio Antón, Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008 ; ISBN 978-0-231-13528-3

Thompson also blamed Counter-Strike for the February 14, 2008 Northern Illinois University shooting perpetrated by Steven Kazmierczak on the day after the shooting.

The Book of Peace by Christine de Pizan. University Park: Penn State Press, 2008.

President James Wright announced his retirement in February 2008 and was replaced by Harvard University professor and physician Jim Yong Kim on July 1, 2009.

A 2008 University of Pennsylvania study of 6, 000 dog owners who were interviewed indicated that dogs of smaller breeds were more likely to be " genetically predisposed towards aggressive behaviour ".

* Peter Brass, Advanced Data Structures, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

The first video images of an electron's energy distribution were captured by a team at Lund University in Sweden, February 2008.

* E. Rubiola, Phase Noise and Frequency Stability in Oscillators Cambridge University Press, 2008.

* 2008 – Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 6 fatalities ( including gunman ) and 18 injuries.

On 6 December 2008 Crowded House played the Homebake festival in Sydney, with warm up gigs at small venues in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney.

The ' Clash for Cancer ' match against Melbourne has become an annual event, repeated in 2008 and 2009.

On 4 July 2008, the official F1 site reported that more than 300, 000 people attended the four-day Melbourne Grand Prix, though actual ticket sales were later disputed by the local media.

Many international artists such as Banksy have left their work in Melbourne and in early 2008 a perspex screen was installed to prevent a Banksy stencil art piece from being destroyed, it has survived since 2003 through the respect of local street artists avoiding posting over it, although it has recently had paint tipped over it.

In 2008, in an interview on Melbourne radio, Lewis said he had signed composer Marvin Hamlisch and dramatist Rupert Holmes to write the show.

In January 2008, Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella launched an attack on Fraser, after a speech he gave at Melbourne University on " the Bush Administration ( reversing ) 60 years of progress in establishing a law-based international system ", claiming errors and " either intellectual sloppiness or deliberate dishonesty ", and that he tacitly supports Islamic fundamentalism, should have no influence on foreign policy, and that his stance on the war on terror has left him open to caricature as a " frothing-at-the-mouth leftie ".

* Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1994 ; St Martin's Press, New York, 1995 ; reprint 2008.

A clash in 2008 ended in a controversial draw, Sydney 8. 16 ( 64 ) – Nth Melbourne 9. 10 ( 64 ).

It was given in May 2008 by Opera Boston, a now-defunct company, which used to present unusual or rarely staged works, and the Melbourne City Opera staged it in March / April 2009.

‘ Lamb, William, second Viscount Melbourne ( 1779 – 1848 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 ; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 27 Dec 2009.

Before season 2008, the Archer-Hird Medal was created honouring Hird and former North Melbourne Football Club star Glenn Archer.

In 2008, Newton-John raised funds to help build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

The race subsequently returned to Sandown but moved again to the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit ( 2008 – 11 ) but will return to its traditional home at Sandown Raceway in Melbourne in 2012.

In 2008, Müller's Anatomie Titus was translated into English by Julian Hammond and performed at the Cremorne Theatre in Brisbane, the Canberra Theatre, the Playhouse in the Sydney Opera House and the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne by the Bell Shakespeare Company and the Queensland Theatre Company.

In 2008, it was rumoured that Kennett was intending to stand for Lord Mayor of Melbourne.

The 2008 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition was titled " Art Deco 1910 — 1939 " and ran from 28 June to 5 October 2008.

In November 2008, DeLaria completed a tour of Australia, playing Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane.

" Taco Teatro ", a Spanish-language, University of Melbourne-based theatre company produced the first adaptation of Rojo Amanecer on stage in May 2008 depicting the events happened in the Plaza de Tlatelolco at the Guild Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.

In 2008 the club celebrated what was claimed to be the 150th anniversary of the first meeting of its founding members, published " Melbourne FC – Since 1858 – An Illustrated History " and commemorated its formation by naming " 150 Heroes " as well as a birthday logo which appears on its official jersey.

A European tour of the Homeland work in progress took place during the late summer and fall of 2007, including performances on September 28 and September 29, 2007, at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin ; on October 17 – 19 at the Melbourne International Arts Festival ; in Russia at the Moscow Dom Muzyky concert-hall on April 26, 2008.

The two were to do battle on June the 24th 2008 in Melbourne, Australia.

In October 2008, The Vines commenced a national Australian tour in support of Melodia, playing small venues across major cities throughout Australia, including The Metro Theatre ( Sydney ), ANU Bar ( Canberra ), The HiFi Bar ( Melbourne ), The Great Northern Bar ( Byron Bay ), The Tivoli ( Brisbane ), The Governor Hindmarsh ( Adelaide ), and The Rosemount Hotel ( Perth ).

On 19 June 2008, the Melbourne Museum released the findings of the forensic investigation conducted by Dr. Ivan Kempson, University of South Australia, and Dermot Henry, Natural Science Collections at Museum Victoria.

Nine has posted journalists overseas to cover major European stories following the closure of its European bureau in late 2008, with the last European correspondent, James Talia, being redesignated to his former role as a senior Melbourne Nine News journalist.