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  1. In the News: Brian Spratt

    Public concern about the possible health hazards associated with the use of depleted uranium in munitions has led Brian Spratt to chair the Royal Society's working group on depleted uranium. The 53-...

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  2. On the Move

    Michael Blatt , former professor of biological sciences at Imperial College, London, has been appointed to the regius chair of botany at the University of Glasgow . Michael Clarke , pro vice-...

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  3. Glittering Prizes

    Anthony Challinor , of the University of Cambridge, has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society 's Michael Penston prize for his PhD thesis on the cosmic microwave background. The University of...

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  4. Don's Diary

    Saturday It is the final day of the annual meeting of Arnova (Association for Research on Non-profit Organisations and Voluntary Action). We are in New Orleans and everyone wants to get a feel for...

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  5. Cruising for a lecture

    Teesside University administrators were taken aback last week when they learnt that a gay website was recommending the university's library as the perfect place for sexual rendezvous. Site visitors...

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  6. Voluntary redundancy?

    Royal Holloway has a new visitor - but one who risks putting himself out of a job. Lord Irvine of Lairg took up the post on January 1. However, in his role as lord chancellor, he introduced...

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  7. Science's golden couple

    Move over Posh and Becks. The new golden couple are the husband-and-wife team of Bill Graham, professor of experimental physics at Queen's University, Belfast, and Bernie Hannigan, head of Ulster...

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  8. Low note for TV show

    William Paterson University is one New Jersey location unavailable for the filming of the cult TV show The Sopranos , whose second series ended in Britain last week. University officials blamed...

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  9. Latest international news

    Australia's students demand funding commitment As Australia enters a federal election year, the country’s National Union of Students has demanded a substantial increase in funding for universities....

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  10. Latest UK news

    Cost of dropouts £200 million and rising University dropouts are costing the taxpayer an estimated £200 million a year. Mantz Yorke, professor of education at Liverpool John Moores University, told...

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  11. From today's UK papers

    THE GUARDIAN Four anthropologists from the Universitry of Michigan in the US have thrown the story of human origins into confusion with the claim that new evidence shows that modern humans could have...

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