Campus round-up - 18 April 2013
Source: ReutersPeak performance in aid of breath of lifeScientists at a UK university are working in one of the harshest environments on Earth to further vital research into the effects of low oxygen...
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V-c applies military lessons in leadership
The Army’s teamwork ethos shaped the management style of the University of Essex’s Anthony Forster
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Odds and quads - 18 April 2013
These items come from the archive of the Nobel prizewinning novelist J. M. Coetzee, which was acquired by the Harry Ransom Center, the humanities research library and museum at the University of...
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UCL Institute of Making’s cabinet of curiosities
Research club offers hands-on access to fascinating materials from aerogel to baby teeth
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Old Bailey Online: 10 years of making crime pay for scholars
Vast digital archive of court records 1674-1913 is ‘dead people’s big data’
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A stage for the battle-scarred to tell their tales
Theatre director uses fellowship to give dramatic shape to the stories of ex-combatants
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Bumps on Dubai’s university highway
Western universities are refining their offerings as the city-state’s economy gets back on track. Jack Grove reports from the UAE
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Grant winners - 18 April 2013
Economic and Social Research CouncilDFID-ESRC Growth Research ProgrammeAward winner: Christopher WoodruffInstitution: University of WarwickValue: £361,028Training, productivity and upgrading:...
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Appointments - 18 April 2013
University of CambridgeDavid MacKayDavid MacKay, who has recently been appointed the Regius professor in engineering at the University of Cambridge, said that despite a brief phase when he had other...
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Bob Godfrey, 1921-2013
Academics have paid tribute to “the godfather of British animation” for playing a pivotal role in putting the subject on university syllabuses
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Applying changes
A rising proportion of university applicants will have vocational qualifications. The sector must respond, says Mary Curnock Cook
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It's another world
Kevin Fong boldly takes science to pupils in post-Thatcher, post-Spock galaxies
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The week in higher education - 18 April 2013
After two years of taking flak from the Left for setting up an £18,000-a-year liberal arts college, A.C. Grayling is now in the cross hairs of the Right. His crime: not enough deference to the late...
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The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle by Bernhard Rieger
Ulrike Zitzlsperger on the evolution of an iconic vehicle