Green team tackle waste dilemma
Two research councils have joined forces to launch a Pounds 7.5 million research programme on waste and pollution management. The initiative by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council...
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Mersey beat tunes in to Big Easy boom
The unique relationship between music and the city is to be explored in a study of New Orleans and Liverpool, officially twinned in 1988, by the Institute of Popular Music at Liverpool University....
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Mutant oil palms come to aid of margarine and soap industries
The margarine and soap industries could benefit from British research into improving techniques for the harvesting of oil palm fruits in Malaysia and South East Asia. Researchers at the Open...
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Water rations for the almond
Spanish researchers have devised a method of boosting almond harvests by depriving the trees of water during the dry summer. This discovery, which comes as Spanish agriculture is wilting under the...
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Ancient waterworld
The remains of Scotland's ancient floating houses, built on the lochs and inhabited from the Bronze Age to the 17th century, are for the first time being studied under water, with techniques used...
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Progressive bastions of learning city
The Lyceum is a posh restaurant in the heart of Liverpool. Under a classically domed ceiling, thick-walleted patrons sit at candle-lit tables, sip coffee on gentleman's club-style leather sofas, and...
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Comedy becomes a serious business
If the likes of IBM and the FBI can take humour seriously, so presumably can universities. Lancaster University is hoping to house the first British comedy archive and Leeds Metropolitan University...
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Transfer stuns Bodmer
The retiring director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund was 'amazed and astonished' by the recent fate of the OST. He explains why to Kam Patel. Sir Walter Bodmer, the leading geneticist and...
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Nottingham leads way with doctors and nurses merger
Nottingham University's faculty of medicine and health sciences has taken on 1,800 new nursing students and more than Pounds 12 million of contracts after merging with the Mid-Trent College of...
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Students nurse lowly ambitions
Student nurses struggling to make ends meet have low expectations about their future career prospects and earning power, a national survey has found. Nearly half of trainee nurses earn less than...
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Dual support fails
University researchers believe that the dual support system has collapsed, causing them difficulty in obtaining the equipment necessary for their work. A report from the Wellcome Trust, which has...
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Metabolic rate: a Gas Exchange Measurement calorimeter
(Photograph) - Metabolic rate: a Gas Exchange Measurement calorimeter has been developed by the department of anaesthesia at the University of Manchester and Europa Scientific to treat patients...
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Baby girl brings hope to infertile
Staff at Aberdeen University's assisted reproduction unit are celebrating the safe arrival of the first Scottish baby conceived using a new infertility treatment. The little girl was born earlier...
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Vice den
Not an easy life, that of a telephonist in a higher education that spawns long and unwieldy names like Higher Education Funding Council for England, Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals and...
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Joyce choice
Alumni to be proud of No. 4: William Joyce, aka Lord Haw-Haw, executed after the Second World War for broadcasting for the Nazis, was the proud possessor of a first-class degree in English from...