Earth's planned family
Geographies of Global Change - Land Mosaics
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Water worshipping
Toward Sustainable Development? Struggling over India's Narmada River - Water and Womanhood
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Well briefed
A read-only mailing list on legal issues relating to the use of the Internet has been set up on the Mailbase academic server. It is run by the information law and technology unit at the University of...
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Book bank
The Institution of Electrical Engineers, on London's Embankment, has housed a useful collection of computer books and journals since 1977 when the British Computer Society library was merged with the...
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Free competition
At Edinburgh University Bob McGonigle sportingly welcomed Microsoft's launch of its software for Web sites, the Internet Information Server, even though this is likely to damp down demand for...
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Tiptop condition
(Photograph) - Universities in Sweden, Canada, Austria and Finland are working with the European Physical Society to create a unified resource for physics on the Internet. The Internet Pilot to...
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Multimedia
Nottingham Trent University is among 11 institutions sharing Ecu 1.4 million (Pounds 1.12 million) to build a pan-European teacher training system using the World Wide Web. Teacher trainers and...
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Firms get real with imaging
Nottingham University is hoping to lead the United Kingdom in introducing business to advanced computer imaging techniques which can monitor crops, analyse coal, or plot the progress of slow brain...
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US colleges await Net decency verdict
It is Saturday night and solemn academic study has yielded to casual electronic conversation at the Harvard University computer centre. Students perched before the glowing rows of terminals, many...
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Glacier pioneers to use Net link
A group of young mountaineers will send scientific data and pictures to the Internet from their expedition in virgin Greenland terrain this summer. Expedition leader Richard Pash, a 22-year old...
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Cash-strapped council caps Cern costs
The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council has finally decided to cap its subscriptions to Cern, the particle smashing laboratory in Geneva. The decision, taken at a council meeting last...
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Set96
(Photograph) - Science to go: engineer Mike Rose and parasitologist Janet Spicer being biked about Glasgow to answer technical queries as part of the University of Glasgow contribution to 'Set96',...
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Appointments
OXFORD UNIVERSITY. David Turton, honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester, has been appointed director of the Refugee Studies Programme. ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS Derek...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY. Research grants. Dr M. Silver and Professor A. Adams, Pounds 6,000 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (simulation of advanced strained-layer...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER. Honorary professorship: Edward Gregson, principal of the Royal Northern College of Music. UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING Honorary professorship in psychology: Richard Bell, senior...