Research initiative brings fillip to North
Investment in energy and molecular engineering centres will boost job and career options. Tony Tysome reports New research opportunities are expected to open up with the launch of five new research...
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Nerc goes to work on ?1bn climate change partnership
Research council aims to integrate science and policy in flagship programme. Zoe Corbyn reports.
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The book of the week: Castles, Battles and Bombs
What price victory? Huw Dixon weighs the odds
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Re-searching women in science and technology
Brussels, 08 Mar 2006 A conference entitled 'Re-searching women in science and technology' will take place in Vienna, Austria, on 15 and 16 May. The event is intended to give a new impetus to...
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Strike it rich by drilling into the vulnerable core
Halting dropous could bring big rewards, says Ormonjd Simpson in our series on new ideas for higher education New students entering British universities this autumn are taking a considerable risk....
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Grant winners
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILThe ESRC has announced funding for five public heath centres. Each will receive ?4 million over the next five years. Funding is in conjunction with the Department...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural RightsBy Bill Ivey, founding director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy,...
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Appointments
The University of Bristol has made two senior appointments at its Centre for East Asian Studies. Yongjin Zhang will join from the University of Auckland as director of the centre and as professor of...
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EGEE becomes world largest scientific grid
Brussels, 04 Oct 2006 The EU funded 'enabling Grids for e-science' (EGEE) project is processing more than 30,000 computing jobs a day - over a million a month - making it the world's largest...
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Cardiovascular disease in the EU
Brussels, 6 November 2006 Cardiovascular diseases (mainly coronary heart disease and stroke) are the main cause of illness and premature death in the European Union. This group of medical problems...
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Dutch put up ?70m to seal a lucrative marriage
Dutch universities are drawing up applications for a €100 million (?70 million) research programme intended to support collaboration with industry. The programme's emphasis on exploiting academic...
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A new chapter for readers and writers
Although a believer in books, Tara Brabazon welcomes Amazon¡¯s wireless reading device and its potential to transform reading and researching
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Theories of Population Variation in Genes and GenomesBy Freddy Bugge Christiansen, professor of population biology, Aarhus University. Princeton University...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARCHAEOLOGY- Rome and Environs: An Archaeological GuideBy Filippo Coarelli, professor of Greek and Roman antiquities, University of Perugia, translated by James J. Clauss,...
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Appointments
Sir Martin Harris, the head of the Office for Fair Access, has been elected president of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Sir Martin, a former vice-chancellor of the universities of Essex and Manchester and a...