Faludy now a scribbler
Whatever happened to Alexander Faludy, last heard of in 1998 as he started his first day at the University of Cambridge, aged 15. The Peterhouse undergraduate, studying art history and theology, who...
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One relaxed v-c
The pressure of the past few weeks has not robbed Colin Lucas, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, of his humour. At the opening of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Lucas...
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Francis Collins
It took months of deliberation - and one refusal - before Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, agreed to take on such a key role in producing the "first draft of...
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On the move
Eric Thomas, dean of the faculty of medicine, health and biological sciences and recently appointed deputy vice-chancellor (designate) at the University of Southampton, has been recommended to...
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Glittering prizes
Joanna Bourke, professor of history at Birkbeck College, is joint winner of this year's Wolfson Prize for historical writing for her book An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in 20th...
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From Nasa to knickers
Space technology is being used to solve the problem of incontinence. Geoff Watts reports. A medical system that can transplant a failing heart or rejoin a severed limb still cannot offer a wholly...
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Cutting edge
University museums once took the lead in conserving our heritage. With a little modest investment, they can do so again. According to Phillips' New World of Words (1706), a museum was "a study or...
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The hard drive for humankind
John Sulston is about to reveal the secrets of self to the world. Martin Ince meets the modest man leading the Human Genome Project. John Sulston, director of the Sanger Centre in Cambridge, has been...
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A novel look at inventionin inventory
Is the decoding of genetic material something that should be patented? Margaret Llewelyn examines intellectual rights and the human genome. The completion of the draft of the human genome has focused...
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Barcelona
A judge has suspended language regulations at Barcelona's Pompeu Fabre University for "imposing the preferential use of Catalan" over Spanish. The case was brought by a rightwing pressure group...
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Strasbourg
A two-year, (500,000 ($311,000) project aimed at regenerating Kosovo's higher education system has been agreed between Gabriele Mazza, director responsible for education at the Council of Europe, and...
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Cochabamba
The mayor of the Bolivian municipality of Chimore is pressing the government to implement its plans to create a university in the region. Mayor Epifanio Cruz said that many local families could not...
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Lagos
Staff and student unions at Nigeria's 34 universities have begun an indefinite strike in support of 12 million workers already taking industrial action to press the government of Olusegun Obasanjo to...
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Cold logic that kills learning
A punishing bureaucratic formula and outdated system have led to crisis in Denmark, says Marlene Edelstein In common with much of the faculty of humanities at Copenhagen University, the English...
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Eyewitness
A row over an ancient Jewish cemetery discovered during redevelopment in Prague has exposed deep divisions within Judaism. Discovery of human remains from a long-lost Jewish graveyard halted...