Prizewinning excuse
The fragrant Mary Archer has been given the opportunity to correct two errors she made in the obituary of Max Perutz that she wrote for Chemistry in Britain . In a letter to this month's issue, she...
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Pole position
The Diary receives word that Plymouth University's student union is in dire financial straits and has resorted to holding pole-dancing evenings to generate cash. Great story - but a phone call to...
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Trains of thought
Entries have been arriving for the competition to name the train on which vice-chancellors will travel to the annual Universities UK residential meeting, which will be held in Aberystwyth in...
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Screen test
Following last year's fire at City University, vice-chancellor David Rhind has become one of the select band of university bosses who toil in an open-plan office, coping without his now-vanished...
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Rik's top of the profs
The Diary is looking forward to a new television series staring Rik Mayall as a scheming university professor. He will play Adonis Cnut - pronounced "Canute" - in a follow-up to his role as sleazy...
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In the news: Wendy Piatt
Wendy Piatt is owed much of the credit for the proposals for student support unveiled this week by the Commons' education select committee. Dr Piatt, a senior research fellow at the Institute for...
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Renal disease amongst ethnic communities in the UK
Deadline: 16/09/2002
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Environment & Human Behaviour Programme
Deadline: 13/09/2002
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Agricultural futures and their implications for the environment
Deadline: 09/09/2002
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The Community Impact of Drug Dealing
Deadline: 03/09/2002
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Have you packed the porter?
Early guidebooks to Greece told of hazardous melons and handy haberdashers. Mary Beard tracks how travel trends have changed in the first of our summer series on tourism In September 1886, a letter...
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Old Marxist still sorting global fact from fiction
Historian Eric Hobsbawm has seen his subject shed its conservatism. He says history is finally free to examine the totality of man's progression from caveman to controller of the internet age - and...
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Making 'madness' more about all of us
Rufus May believes his openness as a 'mad' psychologist helps his students break down barriers in mental health You could say that I have had two careers in psychiatry. The first was fairly short-...
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'Playing God' in shades of grey
The comforting certainties of what is natural are constantly being eroded. But we must keep our heads, argues Mary Warnock, and remember that as the brightest animal humans have a duty to modify...
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Exit, centre-left? Giddens bids goodbye to the LSE
Anthony Giddens is renowned for having furnished new Labour with the 'third way' but, asks Harriet Swain, will he leave a similar imprint on the London School of Economics when he retires next year?...