Cancer degree first
Leicester University is launching a one-year taught masters degree in cancer chemistry, the first of its kind in the country.
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Homegrown ad star
The University of Central England has turned to one of its own students for its new advertising campaign. James Lee, a graduate from the BA visual communication course, is now studying for a masters...
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Lancaster launch
Lord Rees of Ludlow, president of the Royal Society and Astronomer Royal, has formally opened the third phase of building for the Lancaster Environment Centre. The £8.4 million building provides new...
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Queen's techno boost
Queen's University Belfast has set up a £2.2 million Bioimaging Core Technology Unit - the result of an award from the Science Research Investment Fund (SRIF2).
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Red tape ties up health service studies
Bureaucracy is a chronic probem for any research involving the NHS. A national effort is under way to streamline paperwork, but academics are still struggling with the burden. Tony Tysome reports....
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Hope for Cutty Sark
Academics who have spent years working towards the restoration of the Cutty Sark are still hopeful that the Victorian tea clipper and national icon can be restored to its former glory despite this...
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Find fun in foliage
The key to happiness lies with plenty of plants, according to researchers at Sheffield and De Montfort universities. The academics, led by Richard Fuller of Sheffield's department of animal and plant...
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In praise of guinea pigs
Guinea pigs, fruit flies and evening primroses are among the classic laboratory organisms honoured for their contribution to science in a new book by Sussex University science historian Jim Endersby...
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Who ate all the pies?
The urban West Midlands is England's obesity capital, according to research from health geographers at Southampton and Portsmouth universities. The research is published in the journal Social Science...
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Rare monkeys reprieve
Scientists involved in saving one of the world's rarest species of monkey have successfully helped to prevent a copper mining company from destroying its rainforest habitat. Mika Peck, an...
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Virgin birth for sharks
Female sharks can reproduce without having sex, an international team of scientists has found. The team, including researchers from Queen's University Belfast, found evidence that sharks can...
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Correction
Tim Luckhurst, professor for journalism and the news industry, Kent University, was former duty editor of the Today programme, not its deputy editor, as reported last week.
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I'm engineering change in girls' aspirations
For many people the archetypal image of an inventor probably lies somewhere between the wild-eyed Doc Brown in the film Back to the Future and the pipe-smoking Trevor Baylis, inventor of the...
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Here, it is an honour to work for nothing
Jason Mitchell reports from Argentina on the plight of 'ad honorem' academics forced into working for free. Next time you feel underpaid, spare a thought for the 32,000 Argentine academics who work...
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World encompassed
American labs attack anti-terror audit US higher education institutions will have to undertake a "burdensome" audit of chemicals in their laboratories under proposed anti-terrorism measures, the body...