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Boost in arts and humanities research funding
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Oxford is expected to receive more than a million pounds in research funding
grants following the completion of the first round of awards announced by the
Arts and Humanities Research Board—the highest total for any UK
university.
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Oxford academic named `Australian of the Century'
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A former Oxford academic, Lord Florey (1898–1968), who was awarded the
Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1945 for his role in the discovery of penicillin, has
been named `Australian of the Century' in a poll run by Melbourne's
Herald Sun.
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Scientists set to simulate creation of the universe
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Scientists at Oxford are among an international group of physicists devoted
to recreating the immediate aftermath of the big bang, as part of a major
project to study the infinitesimal world of elementary particles.
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Russian professor for Mathematical Logic chair
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Professor Boris Zilber, Professor and Head of Algebra and Geometry
subdivision, Department of Mathematics, Kemerovo State University, Russia, has
been appointed to the Professorship of Mathematical Logic.
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Museum tracks giant dinosaur footprints
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A sixty-metre long reconstruction of the trackway of the giant carnivorous
dinosaur Megalosaurus was unveiled by the Vice-Chancellor, Dr Colin Lucas,
on the lawn in front of the University Museum on 21 March, to mark the
conclusion SET99 week.
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Medical award:
Dr Fran Platt and Dr Terry Butters, University Research Lecturers, have been
jointly awarded the Alan Gordon Memorial Award for their work on Gaucher's
disease, an inherited metabolic disorder affecting the spleen, liver, lungs, bone
marrow, and, in rare cases, the brain. A drug based on their discoveries is
currently in clinical trials with Oxford GlycoSciences.
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Reading award:
Professor Peter Bryant, Watts Professor of Psychology, Department of
Experimental Psychology, has been honoured by the Society for the Scientific
Study of Reading, for his contribution to the scientific understanding of
reading.
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Socio-Legal Studies Fellowship:
The Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies is to create a Research Fellowship
in honour of Mr Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College
(1947–48). The Board of Americans for Oxford, based in New York, is
donating $125,000 over five years towards the fellowship.
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Geological Society award:
Professor John Dewey, FRS, Professor of Geology and Fellow of University
College, has been awarded the 1999 Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society
for `fundamental research in tectonics'.
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Why boys lose out:
Research from the Department of Applied Social Studies and Social Research
has in a joint project helped shed new light on the motivations and attitudes
of young
men across Britain today. The overall report of the Tomorrow's Men project
suggests that low self-esteem may be the key
to boys' poor school
performance.
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