Appointments
CITY OF BRISTOL COLLEGE. Keith Scribbins has been elected the first chair of the college, formed from the former Brunel and South Bristol colleges on August 1, 1996. He is a former deputy director of...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL G. Macdonald, former reader in applied social studies at Royal Holloway College and research fellow at Green College, University of Oxford, has been appointed to the chair in...
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Fellowships
INSTITUTE OF UNITED STATES STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON John Adams Fellows for 1996-97 are: John McCusker, Ewing Halsell distinguished professor of American history and professor of economics at...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF READING (continued) Research contracts Professor D. Bassett, Pounds ,642 from New Energy & Industrial Technology (fundamental studies on crystallisation of polymer with emphasis...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Honorary master of arts degrees have been awarded to: John Thaw, actor and star of Morse and Kavanagh QC; Paula Thomas, international athlete and key figure in the Sports Aid...
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Free speech limits probed
London University's vice chancellor-to-be Graham Zellick is to head a new working party on extremism and intolerance on campus. Set up by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, the six-...
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Don's Diary
Saturday The entire team has arrived now. Very odd for a Scot who has lived most of his adult life among the English to be surrounded in this distant Bedouin village in Jordan by so many unrestrained...
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Spin doctorates?
Universities are fast becoming training grounds for DJs. There may not be any university courses that teach students how to DJ, but there is a well-trodden path from standing in a student bar putting...
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The guru in the quad
John Kay is stepping down as chairman of consultancy London Economics and stepping into controversy as director of Oxford's school of management studies. Romesh Vaitilingam reports on the Tony Blair...
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As blue as her blood
Simon Targett meets historian and royal biographer Ben Pimlott, who reveals that, despite recent reports claiming that the Queen is a 'bit of a leftie', our monarch is in fact more of a pre-Thatcher...
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Federal farewell
Britain should preserve its free trade status in Europe but cut loose from the tentacles of political union, argues Patrick Minford. John Major went to war with Europe over our cows. With him marched...
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Rebirth of the native
American Indian Greg Sarris tells Tim Cornwell how he escaped glue-sniffing gang land to become a professor, novelist and screenwriter. The literary figure Greg Sarris most admires is William Blake...
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The x and y generation
Mathematics is increasingly being used to unravel the relentless complexity of the natural world, including the way animals behave (bottom). Graham Lawton reports How does a tumour grow? How do...
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Why leaping gazelles are too game for dinner
Mathematics is increasingly being used to unravel the relentless complexity of the natural world, including the way animals behave (bottom). Graham Lawton reports The mathematical exploration of...
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Stand up and be quoted
How should academics deal with the press? Take it on the chin, Ronald Amann tells media-shy social science researchers, or you're not doing your job properly. In order to carry out their projects at...