Sweet charity
A local charity has donated Pounds 350,000 towards the cost of research at De Montfort University on a "chemical pancreas" to alleviate the effect of diabetes. The Edith Murphy Foundation,...
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BSE rate declining
SCIENTISTS at Oxford University say that the incidence of BSE and Great Britain and Northern Ireland is declining rapidly and is likely to continue to do so over the next three years. A team led by...
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Prizes for star ideas
Leading British firms and institutions have launched an award scheme aimed at rewarding outstanding students in science, engineering and technology. The 12 categories for the awards cover the main...
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Reactor sideline sheds light on possible cancer cure
Tony Tysome and Martin Ince (bottom) report on the work of the 'laboratory of Europe' ASKED to justify the cash that goes into the Joint Research Centre, its managers would probably point to the...
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Grants to help Scots bring ideas to market
Scottish Enterprise is investing Pounds 750,000 in a fellowship scheme to help young academics commercialise their research. The Royal Society of Edinburgh this session awarded four enterprise...
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Green light for Oxford spin-offs
OXFORD University has spawned two new companies, one focusing on new electronic display technologies, the other on developing treatments for brain diseases like Alzheimer's. Display firm Opsys has...
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An exchange of peasantries
Why do British scientists succeed in Europe? We look at careers, funding and the expatriate life. Teodor Shanin is founder of research into peasantry and rector of the Moscow School of Social...
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Voyage to the top of the sea
Why do British scientists succeed in Europe? We look at careers, funding and the expatriate life. Oceanographer Jacqueline McGlade is riding on the crest of a wave. She tells Martin Ince how...
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Abroad horizons
Why do British scientists succeed in Europe? We look at careers, funding and the expatriate life. Ayala Ochert continues her series with a look at European research opportunities According to Edith...
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Continental drifter who never looked back
Why do British scientists succeed in Europe? We look at careers, funding and the expatriate life. Despite a 26-year absence from Britain, Mary Osborn has won a new UK women in science award. Martin...
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High-flyers swoop on the UK
Why do British scientists succeed in Europe? We look at careers, funding and the expatriate life Physicist Jorg Heber from Germany is studying for a PhD at Imperial College, London, thanks to backing...
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Euro vision winners
Why do British scientists succeed in Europe? We look at careers, funding and the expatriate life. YAHOO-Molecular biologist Victoria Shingler went to Sweden for a year. That was in 1985. Michael de...
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Visions of a synchronised continent
This week's Royal Society 'Science in Society' meeting, Science Funding: The European Dimension, covered both national and EU-wide issues. You can hear it all at THESIS, The THES Internet Service (...
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Sources for research funding in 1998
Each month this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www.echo.lu www.europa.eu. int/comm/...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a classic of the Russian civil war: "The Melekhov farm stood on the very edge...