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Appointments
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES COMMISSION Gillian Shephard has appointed Teresa Rees, professor of labour market studies at the University of Bristol, as a commissioner with special responsibility for Wales,...
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Fellowships
HARKNESS FELLOWSHIP Fellowships for 1996/97 have been awarded to: Darren Shickle, lecturer in the centre for applied public health medicine at University of Wales College of Medicine, for research...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER Research contracts Dr R. Moazzam, Pounds 85,000 from Brunel University (new technique for reduction of amplifier intermodulation); Professor C. Bucke and Dr M. Adlard,...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE DCL: Elsie Tu, senior member of the Legislative Council and Municipal Council of Hong Kong. DLitt: Neil Astley, managing director and senior editor of Bloodaxe Books; Klaus...
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Lectures
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY May 15 at 5.30pm in Lecture Theatre D: Norman Toy, professor of fluid mechanics, "A kaleidoscope of fluid mechanics". ROEHAMPTON INSTITUTE, LONDON May 20 at 6pm in the Froebel...
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Review sets new standard in online history
An electronic review journal is to be launched by the Institute of Historical Research. The journal, Reviews in History, available from July, forms part of a three- year project funded by the Joint...
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'Anytime, anybody' mobile access projects win Pounds 1m
Projects linking telecommunications technology with software invention and hardware development to produce "anytime, anywhere, anybody" technology for disabled people have won European funding of...
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One-stop shop taps image bank wealth
Kodak has turned to United Kingdom academics to solve a problem that the company's founder George Eastman may not have foreseen when he set the world's shutters clicking. Billions of images now exist...
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Never having to say sorry
Andrew Charlesworth looks at criminal liability in the fourth of his series on Internet law. What should or should not be published, what is or is not obscene, and what the general public have or do...
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United goals are a net gain for the city
Whatever the outcome of Newcastle United’s bid for their first championship in nearly 70 years, there is little doubt that the performance of Kevin Keegan’s team over the past three seasons has done...
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In a glass of their own
The extremely hard behind-the-scenes work that has gone into making Strathclyde University's bicentenary a success may not be generally recognised. But the university newsletter is at least giving...
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Blinded by science
Metaphors for divine intervention abounded at the God and Science conference held by King's College London's Centre for Philosophical Studies last week. The more empirically minded delegates hunted...
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Taking Ambridge
Great excitement among radio soap listeners at Heriot-Watt University at the appointment of John Archer as the next vice chancellor, with fans of Radio 4's venerable chronicle of country folk...