Two out of three is just not enough
If it's promotion you're after, you need to make your mark in teaching, research and administration, reports Olga Wojtas, while Gerald Mars, with a nod to Francis Cornford, advises his nephew on how...
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Take my advice, boy, forget scholarship if you want to get ahead
Dear Adam, So you're considering a career in academia but are worried about the prospects. Don't be. So many good people have already been turned off that prospects for the less than good have never...
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Swiss balls expected to make big splash
In part two of our series tracking how academics are helping the British swimming team prepare for the Olympics, Ben Carlish meets the physiotherapist. As Great Britain's swimming team picks up the...
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Calling the old boys' network
When it comes to raising cash from alumni, could the UK learn from the US? Tony Tysome and Walter Ellis investigate. Universities in the UK are quickly realising that they are going to have to ask...
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Why bigger is most definitely better
They say size doesn't matter. But for US universities, to be well endowed is everything. A graph in the student newspaper of Boston's Northeastern University once showed a monstrous erect penis...
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The clock ticks as life follows its own rhythm
We may be on the threshold of developing drugs that allow us to work at peak levels for 22 hours at a time. Society needs to decide whether to embrace or reject this option, says Russell Foster. We...
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Sensitive scenarios
Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry - The Analysis of Controlled Substances. First edition - Methods for Environmental Trace Analysis. First edition
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Decode and start reacting
The Penguin Dictionary of Chemistry. Third edition
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Don't be shy, try a little bonding
Keynotes in Organic Chemistry. First edition - Organic Chemistry at a Glance. First edition
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Generate a mutant
Advanced Genetic Analysis - Genomics - Principles of Genome Analysis and Genomics. Third edition
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Dance to the music of entropy
Why Chemical Reactions Happen. First edition
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A blast of earth, wind and fire
Geochemistry
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How the ostrich got his thick knees
Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. First edition
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Fossils à la mode
Principles of Human Evolution. Second edition
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Leaps in learning
Principles of Developmental Biology. First edition - Developmental Biology. Seventh edition