Designer drugs
The protein group in the department of chemistry at York University has been working for the past year on a virtual reality pilot project for modelling the molecular structure of drugs. Rod Hubbard,...
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New terrain
(Photograph) - The geography of the United Kingdom has been mapped out in multimedia on CD-Rom by Peterborough company, Photoair. "The Physical Landscape of Britain" is a fully interactive package...
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The Times Higher Education Supplement Internet Service
(Photograph) - This week The Times Higher Education Supplement launches a new Internet Service. The major features of this service are: *InterView: job advertisements which appear in the paper will...
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P. Markley, who has recently done a three-year course in ecology with the Cambridge University Board of Continuing Education, wants to know of a postal degree course in zoology. Contact: P. Markley,...
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Honorary degrees
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY Yehudi Menuhin, violinist, was awarded an honorary doctorate at a special ceremony at the House of Lords. UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER Tom Foley, former speaker of the US House of...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Research grants Dr C. Savage, Pounds 362,729 from the Medical Research Council (leukocyte-endothelial cell interactions involved in cellular immune responses and sytemic...
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Fellowships
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Fellows: Frederick Bullock, professor of physics and vice-provost; Margaret Clark, professor of nursing and director of the Centre for Advanced and International Studies in...
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Events
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Gerald Dworkin's inaugural lecture at King's College, London, "It's about time. . . how long should intellectual property rights last?" will take place on January 18 in the...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF KEELE Robert Cooper (previously reader in organisation theory, Lancaster University) has been appointed professor of social theory. Peter Croft (clinical epidemiologist, University of...
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Granting last wishes
Clive Seale tells why he hopes to provide some hard evidence in the tricky debate about euthanasia What do people want as they approach the end of their lives? If they are in serious pain or unable...
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A 'zing' of truth
Scientists seek objective reality, but, argues Steven Weinberg, although that is a social process it does not make the end product a social construct. Standing in a bookshop in Harvard Square a...
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Warring faction
Wole Soyinka's outspokenness remains undiminished since becoming Africa's first Nobel literature laureate, as found out. No sooner had the freshly escaped Wole Soyinka begun to address a packed press...
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Surfing on the waves from Durham
Scientists concerned about science's relationship with society feel that those best placed to illuminate it are studying irrelevant issues instead. Meanwhile, sociologists say they already have...
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A challenge to some sacred cows
Our resolutions this new year should be to challenge some of higher education's sacred cows. Free higher education: I fully endorse the principle that higher education should be free at the point of...
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Labour late to the Conservative tax
The latest U-turn from the Labour Party on a graduate tax is surely one of its most spectacular policy reversals in recent days. Conservative Students have campaigned consistently over the past six...