Project to detect polluters
(Photograph) - Dust bowl: Ian Stone and Jeff Jones check an "inverted frisbee dust deposit gauge" as part of a project to detect polluters. The scientists from Exeter University use X-rays and scan...
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Letter
A typesetting error in Alan Waton's letter last week meant that reservations about working with the Committee of Vice Chancellors were attributed to him instead of to his colleague, Steve Reicher. We...
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A rotten reminder
Anyone wanting a reason for why government should be kept at arms length by the universities need only have turned up a few minutes early for Mrs Shephard's statement and taken in Sir Nicholas's 15...
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Ex-MP Gould in NZ house attack
New Zealand. Students have questioned the NZ$79,000 (Pounds 35,000) cost of renovations to the house of Bryan Gould, Waikato University vice chancellor and former British Labour MP - criticism he has...
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DNA speeds computers
Computers that run on the blueprint of life, DNA, rather than conventional computer chips, could be faster than ordinary computers within a decade, scientists told the conference. They have been...
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New diseases erode coral reef
Aisling Irwin reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Baltimore. Some coral reefs are dying from a new disease, raising fears that their...
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Toyland takes on real life
Aisling Irwin reports from the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Baltimore. Robot toys mean that children no longer draw a sharp line between humans and...
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Dog-fancier: Wolverhampton University student Melanie Adkins
(Photograph) - Dog-fancier: Wolverhampton University student Melanie Adkins with one of her works of art. Seven students and four members of staff of the university's school of art and design...
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Great Scott
You just cannot keep vice chancellors out of the news. Following on from the excitement over the CVCP levy threat comes the furore over the report on arms sales to Iraq whose author Sir Richard Scott...
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A pint, pray
So much for the theory that our state church inspires less fervour than rival Christian sects. This week's Leicester University events listing outlines the Sunday activities of various groups as...
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Pillars of unwisdom
However, the event did prove the value of academic dress on formal occasions. The pillars in the museum crypt, a former workshop now reopened as the museum cafe, had been cleaned but not sealed, and...
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Yorkie bar
Lord Jenkins, chancellor of the University of Oxford, was writing women out of history last week at the opening of the extension to the university's Ashmolean Museum. He described an earlier Duke of...
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Rent split
A clash of campaigns at Liverpool University has left student leaders with a tricky conundrum. The Student's Guild is backing a rent strike by nearly 200 students protesting at conditions in some...
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Unhappy return
An unwanted birthday present for Ken Edwards, vice chancellor of Leicester University, whose 62nd birthday on Monday was marked by a listing in The Guardian alleging that he is chairman of the...
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Feet of engineering
Creators of artificial life, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, fed up with showing visitors round, have built a robot to do it for them. On the grounds that employees will just walk past...