Chairs
THE ROYAL SOCIETY. The following research professorships have been appointed: Gerard Evan, principal scientist and head of biochemistry of the cell nucleus laboratory at the Imperial Cancer Research...
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Not drowning. . .
Your whole academic life flashes past you: the successes, the failures, the good marks and the bad. Soon this will be an everyday experience for students at the University of North London, where...
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Get the bug, get a buzz,Books
INSECTS THROUGH THE SEASONS, By Gilbert Waldbauer, Harvard University Press, 289pp, Pounds 15.95, ISBN 0 674 45488 X. THE WISDOM OF THE HIVE: THE SOCIAL PHYSIOLOGY OF HONEY BEE COLONIES, By Thomas D...
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Knees up
(Photograph) - Uneven floors and vertical walls are no obstacle for a remote-controlled robot with spider-like legs, vacuum grippers and the ability to feel intelligently for footholds. Bing Luk (...
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Colliding articles
The row over physicist Alan Sokal's spoof paper in the cultural studies journal Social Text (The THES, June 7) continues. The THES will publish a reply from one of the journal's editors next week....
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Writers' blocs lose the old plot
New forms of narrative that use interactive technology are being researched in Nottingham. A research project at Nottingham Trent University is exploring and utilising cyberspace as a home for new...
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Grants
KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. Research grants Professor R. Poole, Pounds 182,676 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (regulation of respiratory metabolism in the free-living...
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Euro project targets Web for radical overhaul
A pan-European ECU3.3 million (Pounds 2.7m) project to make the World Wide Web a more usable system for researchers has just been launched. Among the 23 partners in DESIRE (Development of a European...
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Design centre
A new Computers in Teaching Initiative centre is now a rare event. The 23 existing centres, which offer advice on the use of information technology in higher education, already cover most academic...
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Honorary degrees
DON STATE UNIVERSITY, ROSTOV. Peter West, secretary of the University of Strathclyde has been awarded an honorary doctorate in recognition of his participation in cooperation between the two...
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UK wins top awards
In a ceremony held in the middle of an Austrian lake, teams from the United Kingdom learned that they had swept up four of the ten European Academic Software Awards for 1995/96. The UK successes were...
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Seeking agreement
If the multi-party talks cannot come up with a solution to Ireland's political differences, perhaps the Internet can. David Newman of Queens University, Belfast is running so-called "online...
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Search
ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY. The Robert Gordon University has launched a Pounds 10 million fundraising campaign to create chairs and research fellowships in primary health care, heritage management,...
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Fast net links eight Welsh sites with new vision
A new computer network facilitating rapid communication between eight university institutions in South Wales is being completed this summer. The system will link the University of Wales's five...
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Address space
Internet addresses - not email addresses but the unique identification numbers of Internet 'host' computers - are running out. But the shortage should be solved over the next few years as hosts...