Dr Ian Wilmut who was one of the team behind the cloning of Dolly the sheep is to get an honorary degree from the University. One-third of children under the age of two are given alcohol by their parents according to Dr Elizabeth Murphy from sociology. Only 22 per cent make a full recovery. University graduate Peter Collins is touring the country with the Compass Theatre Company's Tempest. Professor Sir Colin Campbell urges medical schools to work together in their bids to train the 1,000 new students a year Britain urgently needs.
Social scientists are to move closer to having their own academy.
A meeting of the Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences took place to consider the proposal and a paper by newly-elected chair Professor of Politics Ian Forbes. Dr Sarah Lewis commented on the findings that UK has the highest rate of asthma in the world. Professor Clair Chivers, Dean of University's Graduate School, has been appointed to the Further Education Development Agency's management board. Psychology lecturer Dr Alan Gauld has investigated well over 100 hauntings and found rational explanations for all but a handful. Professor of psychology Andrew Derrington looks at how plants' reaction to frost can be speeded up.