The echoing chamber of Persephone
Women in the Classical World
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Trawlers, snoopers and branding popes
Companion Encyclopedia of Marketing
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF YORK Research contracts Drs A. Marvin and J. Dawson, Pounds 51,307 from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (study of low frequency performance of GTEM cells with particular emphasis on...
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Virtual village
An electronic village hall has opened to provide education, information and employment for the 140 villagers in Newcastle-on-Clun, South Shropshire. The University of Wolverhampton is providing...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND Paul Rylance, former head of department of law at Bournemouth University, associate dean and designate head of professional legal studies, succeeding George Miles,...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. Thrash down the M5 en route for the family summer holiday. Ten days' away from the 8.30am to 7pm routine of estimates, year-end figures and restructuring for Durham University's estates and...
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Block buster
Leonie Winson has gathered an international group of 12 writers to collaborate electronically on an interactive science fiction/fantasy novel. It is all part of the MA in writing that she hopes to...
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Knowledge as you like it
Print-on-demand technologies are changing the way students and lecturers access information worldwide. Debby Raven tracks UK experiments in 'instant courseware' Printing out articles and chapters as...
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Up close and personal
With Peter Thomas of the University of the West of England as editor and a stellar editorial board, Springer's new journal Personal Technologies will explore the implications of information gadgetry...
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Knowledge as you like it
Print-on-demand technologies are changing the way students and lecturers access information worldwide. Jon Marcus, left, explains how a landmark US court case prompted publishers to rethink their...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL A. Campbell, professor of biomedical ethics at Otago Medical School and director of the bioethics research centre, has been appointed to the chair in ethics in medicine; R....
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Distilled information
United Kingdom chemists will already be familiar with the web sites of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Chemistry and Industry magazine. Now the American Chemical Society has gone online at http://...
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Experiment with another life form
Richard Dawkins tells Stephen Pritchard what academics can expect if they are chosen as multimedia stocking-fillers. The reputation of multimedia CD-Roms for putting form before content is a...
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Appointments
(Photograph) - Bolton Institute has presented an honorary fellowship to football commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme. Fellowships were also awarded to Harry Tuley, former chairman of the north-west...
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Scan plan
The University of Hertfordshire has been awarded Pounds 462,000 to set up a digitisation centre which will convert more than a million pages of text a year into electronic form, making printed...