Water, water everywhere, but will there be water to drink?
January 3, 2013
We know the Earth as the blue planet, that beautiful image from space, where we see the majority of our world is water, but we forget that water, our staff of life, is a precious resource. Lord Deben, who gave the second annual Papplewick Pumping Station lecture here at the University last November, is Chair of the …
An indecent proposal
January 2, 2013
An interesting article in the THE last week, Walls and boundaries, set me thinking. Tweeting at conferences and at talks or lectures on campus is becoming normal. It does have drawbacks, academics present research in progress at conferences and value the feedback, and tweeting may reveal more to the public domain than intended, but there …
Launch of the Centre for Advanced Studies
October 25, 2012
CAS, the Centre for Advanced Studies, was relaunched last week in its new home, Highfield House; our visitors were wreathed in smiles and the sun shone, well, for two days out of three. Sally Bowden had the unenviable task of putting in place the three days of events and Friday evening must have been a …