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New awards unveiled for overseas students
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A raft of new overseas scholarships schemes is being established
to start next year (October 1998) with University co-funding,
specifically aimed at supporting students admitted from the
University's current priority regions of Africa, China, and South
America.
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Boost for AIDS research with African
children
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An Oxford academic has received a grant, worth $650,000
(c.£392,300) over five years, to continue her work with
colleagues in Kenya and the Gambia investigating immunity to HIV
among African children.
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French Studies Professor appointed
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Professor Alain Viala, Professor of French Literature at the
Sorbonne, Paris, has taken up a chair in French Studies for five
years, with a Fellowship of Wadham College.
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New grant brings meningitis vaccine
closer
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University scientists hope that new clinical trials will help
identify a vaccine against meningitis within the next two years.
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`Lost' Donizetti opera scored by Music
Faculty
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An opera by the nineteenth-century Italian composer, Donizetti,
resurrected by Professor Roger Parker and four undergraduates
from the Music Faculty, will be performed this month by the Royal
Opera House.
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Archaeologists trace early Britons in
Brittany
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Recent excavation work by University archaeologists has unearthed
evidence of the early history of Brittany—including its
strong cross-channel links with Britain.
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Meritorious Oxonians:
Lord Denning (Magdalen, 1916), who became perhaps Britain's most
famous judge, and Sir Norman Foster (D.Litt., Oxon.)
world-renowned architect, have been appointed to the Order of
Merit.
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Grant for Ashmolean:
The Ashmolean Museum has received £65,000 from the Heritage
Lottery Fund to buy an Italian Renaissance bronze bowl, which
commemorates a marriage involving two prominent Milanese families
in 1580. The Lottery money covered half the cost, with grants
also coming from other bodies.
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Heart research award:
The British Heart Foundation has awarded £95,000 for
research into the genetics of an often fatal heart condition,
known as dilated cardiomyopathy, led by Dr Joanna Poulton,
University Research Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics at
the John Radcliffe Hospital.
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