Centenary booster in hunt for malaria vaccine
AUGUST 20 this year marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most dramatic discoveries in medical science. Ronald Ross solved the so-called "malaria problem" by showing that the disease was...
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University of Nairobi
(Photograph) - The back pack: students return to the University of Nairobi, which was closed by police last month, after President Daniel arap Moi accused the students of fomenting opposition to his...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an author best known for his novels of the fourth emperor: "As proof of my...
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The Indian line of duty
The Dynasty - The Idea of India
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Playing to the gallery?
In the Theater of Consciousness - Consciousness Lost and Found
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Speaking Volumes: Karl Marx's Capital
On Karl Marx's Capital. I would love to be able to report that my most formative moment was reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex or Carole Pateman's The Sexual Contract. The truth is, however...
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A collegiate mystery wrapped in an enigma
Our Minerva
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Sadness in sepia
Portraits
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The luxury of chosen loneliness
The End of the Line
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China lid taken off Tibetan treasures
On the Path to Void
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The overlooked in the frame
The Camerawork Essays
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Standard bearer
Gothic Sculpture 1140-1300
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Chairs
University of Bristol H. F. Jenkinson, professor and director of the molecular oral biology unit at the University of Otago, takes the chair of oral microbiology. Readers promoted to personal chairs...
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Honorary degrees
Open University Fellow: Kenneth Berrill, former chief economic adviser to the Treasury, head of the Cabinet Office think tank and first head of the Securities and Investment board. Honorary doctorate...
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Appointments
Cranfield University Alan Cain, former assistant principal (marketing and student affairs) Swansea Institute of Higher Education, has been appointed international development officer. Cardiff,...