Don's diary: communicable diseases
Saturday Yesterday, the World Health Organisation website showed only two recorded cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) in Malaysia, fewer than in the UK. But Singapore is nearby, so it...
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Bristol bucks trend in Asian study
Bristol University is opening an East Asian studies department barely a month after Durham University announced plans to close its department, writes Caroline Davis. In contrast to several...
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Something to clear the air
Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
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FP6 project coordinates mobile and wireless research worldwide
Brussels, 04 Apr 2005 The European Commission is financing a project aimed at ensuring that European research on mobile and wireless communication continues to be the motor for the research and...
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Veiled might of the harem
Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World - Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800
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Humanities Research Centre
Deadline: 31/01/2003
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Today's news
Oxford and Cambridge join elite research alliance Oxford and Cambridge have joined a global group of 10 elite universities to collaborate in research and to exchange staff and students. Launched in...
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Waterborne Transport Technology Platform starts work on strategic vision
Brussels, 26 Jan 2005 Major players from Europe's waterborne transport sector gathered in Bremen, Germany, on 25 January to launch a new Technology Platform in the sector and to begin work on...
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A phenomenon in phases
The Indus Civilisation - A Peaceful Realm
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Nobel Prize winners share views on future of research with Commission
Brussels, 16 Mar 2005 Research must be a top priority, but must be carried out in a truly European way and not be based on the US model, said Commission President José Manuel Barroso after...
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Today's news
Soas resumes talks over library cuts Negotiations over the future of one of the UK's leading specialist libraries will resume tomorrow, amid protests from academic staff. The School of Oriental and...
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Supply of Arabic teachers impeded as demand soars
World events have fuelled growing demand for Arabic language courses at American universities, but visa restrictions have created a shortage of people who can teach it, writes Jon Marcus in Boston....
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Commission to speed up Europe’s world-leading networking infrastructure for scientists and students
Brussels, 14 June 2005 From today onwards, GÉANT2, Europe’s world-class research networking infrastructure, will use pulsed light (photons), rather than electrons, to carry huge...
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Mysterious origins of African who charmed Russian court
Gannibal - The Moor of St Petersburg
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International research cooperation on juvenile diabetes
Brussels, 06 Dec 2005 On 2 December, the European Parliament hosted a meeting gathering European stakeholders on type 1 diabetes and representatives of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF...