Steeling beauty
Unabomber victim David Gelernter tells Tim Cornwell how lucky he feels to be alive and about his theory of machine beauty When Theodore Kaczynski made his first appearance at his bombing trial in...
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Poetic licence
Huw Richards talks to reluctant revisionist Roy Foster about his role as official biographer of W.B. Yeats, 'the greatest poet in English of his time' When, in the mid -1970s, critic and academic...
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Hungry for change
Why do people eat what they do? Researchers from across Britain have come up with different answers, reports Anne Murcott At the beginning of the 1990s, Britons were perhaps more food conscious than...
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Trials with too much error
Julia Hinde reports on growing concerns that patients are suffering because of the inflexible methodology of clinical trials Thousands of British patients and volunteers were last year involved in...
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Award
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine The Mary Kingsley Medal was presented to Philip Lever, viscount, in recognition of his contribution to the work of the school and in conjunction with the...
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Appointments
University of Sussex Sir Richard Attenborough, actor and film director, patron and president of the Gardner Arts Centre, will succeed Charles Gordon, duke of Richmond, as chancellor of the university...
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Loans for part-time students
LOANS may be extended to poorer part-time and further education students if the Treasury agrees to change accounting rules. Higher education minister Baroness Blackstone said it would be "enormously...
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Seeing red
(Photograph) - Seeing red: Dorrie Halliday, a multimedia artist, led a multimedia project at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester last month. A new Multimedia Access Centre will open in...
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David Womack is keen to learn of any organisations funding innovative research into the use of young children's intuitions of numbers to aid in their mental mathematics. He has carried out similar...
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QMU appoints principal
London University's Queen Mary and Westfield College has appointed Adrian Smith as its new principal to take over from Graham Zellick on September 1. Professor Smith is currently head of the maths...
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Fellowship
Medical Research Council The council's clinical scientist fellowship has been awarded to Paul Little, University of Southampton. It is the first time that general practice has attracted such an award.
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Grants
University of Birmingham (continued) Research contracts Dr D. Weaver, Pounds 40,455 from Magnox Electric (radiological site contamination and characterisation); Dr M. McDonagh, Pounds 59,007 from...
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Fact File
The higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1996/97 reveal that: 7 per cent of those gaining a first degree obtained a first class honours award, and 41 per cent obtained an upper second -...
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Fashion statement
(Photograph) - Fashion statement: Alice Daley was one of six De Montfort University photography students to work on a publicity campaign organised by Lincolnshire Health Promotion's Smokefree Lincs...
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Place pledge for 12-year-olds
THE University of Abertay Dundee has launched a recruitment drive aimed at 12-year-olds. An agreement signed by the pupil, parent, school and university will guarantee the pupil a university place...