A fat lot of good
Gail Vines talks to Caroline Pond, the zoologist who has uncovered the benefits of adipose tissue. We think of adipose tissue as an ill-defined repository for excess calories - as something to be...
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V-cs' line to MPs under attack
Vice chancellors have criticised the Parliamentary University Group, set up in November, for failing to improve links between higher education and members of parliament. Kenneth Edwards, chairman of...
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Last-minute French reform
The outgoing French government of Edouard Balladur has pushed through controversial university reforms between the two rounds of the country's presidential poll. At its penultimate cabinet meeting...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF WALES COLLEGE OF MEDICINE. M J Owen, senior lecturer in neuropsychiatric genetics (department of psychological medicine and institute of medical genetics), (personal chair). UNIVERSITY...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word is taken from a work which first appeared under the name of Ellis Bell: "I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-...
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Speaking Volumes: Book of Insects
Kenneth Dover on Fabre's Book of Insects . I have sometimes been asked, "How old were you when you first became fascinated by Greek mythology?", and my answer, "I'm not sure I've reached that age yet...
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Lecturer fights for 'rejected' offspring
An honorary senior lecturer at Glasgow University is urging the medical faculty to revise its admissions procedure after his academically qualified son was rejected as a prospective student. Brian O'...
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Getting chemistry right
The blueprint for a broadened chemistry PhD could be a trailblazer for the other sciences, according to the Royal Society of Chemistry. At its annual chemical congress at Heriot-Watt University,...
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Science for all seasons
Future research spending must give much more support to interdisciplinary work, Sir William Stewart, the Government's chief scientist, said this week. He said a research assessment exercise more...
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Why blacks suffer rough justice
Black people face differential treatment at almost every stage of the criminal justice system, and a new study by researchers at Warwick University will be looking into why. The study will try to...
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Cryopreservation
(Photograph) - Frozen moment: Erica Benson, of the University of Abertay and Barbara Reed from the United States department of agriculture examine blackcurrant shoots being used to examine the...
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Cool hands work on crop probe
Scottish and American scientists are collaborating in deep-freeze research which could underpin the future breeding of new varieties of food crops. The University of Abertay Dundee is coordinating...
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Crater holds Earth clues
Geologists at Imperial College, London are to lead an international effort by scientists to discover the shape and structure of the largest known crater on Earth. The Chicxulub crater, in Mexico is...
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Edinburgh University's professorial husband and wife
(Photograph) - Edinburgh University's professorial husband and wife team, molecular biologist Sir Kenneth Murray and molecular geneticist Noreen Murray, will receive a twin double honour this summer...
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Welsh FE grows despite squeeze
Further education in Wales has been described as bouyant after nearly Pounds 150 million was awarded to colleges for an 8 per cent expansion next year. But the squeeze on providers to become more...