Grants
Queen's University, Belfast Research contracts Dr W. Kernohan, Pounds 72,639 from Zimmer Co.UK (continuation of IBIJ audit); Dr R. Mark, Pounds 44,700 from Department of Environment Northern Ireland...
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Honorary degrees
University of Durham DCL: Steven Redgrave, oarsman, sports consultant, Olympic gold medallist. DSc: Terence Burns, permanent secretary at the Treasury, former lecturer in economics at London Business...
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Appointments
Queen's University, Belfast Brian Hogg, professor and provost of the college of engineering at Queen's University, Belfast, has been elected to the board of the Conference of European Schools for...
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Victims of justice
Why, when reported rape is rising, are prosecutions falling? Sue Lees tells Kate Worsley that it is because the childish misogyny of the playground is still acted out in court. Take any bus down the...
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Come in humans, your time is up...
Kevin Warwick believes tomorrow belongs to the machines. How can we, the human race, be so sure that just because we are in a number one position on earth that is how it will always be? At the moment...
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Pundit becomes a prof
Phil Baty talks to Will Hutton, the Observer editor who has recently added an economics professorship to his portfolio. Will Hutton, editor of The Observer and veteran economics correspondent, has...
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The tanks that think
With the smell of cordite still pungent in the air after the byelection battle of Wirral South,The THES begins today a weekly series in the run-up to the general election on those intelligence units...
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Stakeholding: the concept on very few people's lips
Will Hutton's stakeholding society would be one in which everyone had a stake, not just the top 40 per cent. "It's about being nice to people," says Hutton. Firms would be made more accountable to...
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Wise men or mystic mugs?
Below one of the chancellor's wise men, Martin Weale, asks if economic forecasting owes more to luck than to skill. The Independent has identified the National Institute, to which I belong, as the...
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Their hands on your genes
The demotion of a member of the US navy after he refused to give a sample of his DNA to the authorities has sparked fears among civil libertarians that Big Brother is doing something ominous with the...
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The American serviceman who refused to play ball
Looking at Don Power, it is hard to see how he differs from other US militarypersonnel. Outwardly he looks like any other young marine. But the 31-year-old father from Oregon haslost almost...
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Transatlantic thought war: causalities heavy
French intellectuals have responded with verve (or spurious profundity) to Anglo-Saxon derision (or spurious clarity)of their ideas. Ayala Ochert reports. The opening of EuroDisney in Paris five...
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Recipes for a longer life
In the second of our occasional series on academics and food, reproductive biologist Roger Gosden suggests a little healthy eating. John Davies reports. On his return from a day in London to his home...
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Awards
Louis Jeantet Prize The 1997 prize for medicine from the Fondation Louis Jeantet has been awarded to the following: Philip Cohen, professor and director of the Medical Research Council protein...
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Revolution required to keep boom on track
Graduate education needs to be broadened to meet the needs of the 21st century Graduate education is one of the main successes of United Kingdom higher education in the 1990s. But the increased...