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The Judgement revealed
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Magdalen College's magnificent stained glass window,
depicting The Last Judgement, has been restored and reinstalled in
its Chapel, fifty-seven years after being removed for protection
during World War II.
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New head for Natural History Museum
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A new post of director of the Oxford University Museum of Natural
History, as the University Museum is now called, is to be created.
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`Arctic Lives' on show at Pitt Rivers
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Photographs depicting the daily experience and environment of the
peoples of Arctic Canada, Greenland, and Siberia are on display in a
special exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum's Balfour Building.
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New posts to boost Socio-Legal Centre
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Two new research fellowships are being created at the Centre for
Socio-Legal Studies, following
generous donations.
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Erasmus success for prehistorian
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Dr Andrew Sherratt, University Lecturer in Archaeology and Curator of
Prehistory at the Ashmolean Museum, has discovered he is to receive a
share of the renowned Erasmus Prize, after being nominated by the
1996 prizewinner.
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Oxford Zoologist spots return of humpback
whale
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An Oxford zoologist has signalled the return to British waters of the
humpback whale, the supreme acrobat of the marine world, after an
absence of more than 30 years.
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Mapping life expectancy of Earth
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Life on Earth may end in about a billion years or less, argued Dr
James Lovelock, the renowned independent natural scientist who has
developed the Gaian theory, in the second of the 1997 Green College
Lecture series, `The Shape of Things to Come'.
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Sensitive security:
The Robotics Group at the Department of Engineering Science is
working with the Oxford-based company, Pax Surveillance Systems, to
develop a prototype security system with cameras able to follow
intruders moving around a sensitive area.
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Chancellor to speak in Bonn:
The Chancellor, the Rt Hon Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, will be the
guest speaker at a conference to celebrate 50 years of town twinning
between Oxford and Bonn on Saturday 15 February at Oxford Town Hall.
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Award for Professor Paul Harvey:
Professor Paul Harvey, of the Department of Zoology, has received the
1997 US National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Reviewing.
The award, worth £3,125, will be presented at a ceremony in
Washington, in the United States, on 28 April.
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Oxygen FM on air:
Oxygen 107 FM student radio will go on air on 14 February,
broadcasting a non-stop mix of news, comment and music, aimed at the
local student community.
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