An invitation to dine at the periodic table
When Lutz Tietze hung up his lab coat, his students presented him with a collection of recipes from the world's top organic chemists. Karen Gold found the work far from formulaic. A Buchner funnel,...
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Analysis: More staff earn £50K-plus
Growing numbers of academics are earning six-figure salaries, a É«ºÐÖ±²¥S survey has revealed. But what about those lower down the scale? Alison Goddard reports. More and more university staff are earning...
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Alan Hale's open letter
"I was inspired by the scientific discoveries taking place during my childhood to pursue a career in science only to find, after completing the rigours of undergraduate and graduate school, that the...
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How to get a job in science policy
Tired of doing research? Why not switch camps and helpdecide who gets the vital funding In universities all over the country, one of the great topics of common-room conversation is the allocation of...
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You need tunnel vision to spend summer here
Why are particle physicists from all over the world converging on a three-and-a-half-mile tunnel in Illinois? In the third in our series on what researchers do in summer, Terry Wyatt reports from...
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Partnership is the way forward
Dear Ron... Our two final open letters to the Dearing committee of inquiry into higher education urge it to conisder the student point of view. Jamie Darwen chair of the National Postgraduate...
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For whom the Bell tolls?
Allegations of research fraud have scandalised physics. Steve Farrar reports. The machine sitting in Jan Hendrik Schön's old laboratory at the University of Konstanz in Germany did not appear out of...
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Time government master freed the research servants
This week, unusually, education secretary David Blunkett has turned his attention to research, especially in the social sciences (page 36). The attention is welcome, but the message is muddled. Mr...
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Funds needed to employ best
The extra Pounds 1 billion for science announced by chancellor Gordon Brown this week must be matched with funds to attract top lecturers and researchers, universities have warned. Tony Bruce, policy...
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Signposts to the end of the European rainbow
John Bosnell gives a guided tour of EU grants for research. Money to go somewhere else in Europe to work, attend conferences or visit large facilities is available from the European Commission's...
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Don's Diary
Monday Marathon 9am-3pm haematology class. By 11am more than 80 have turned up - maybe blood cells aren't so bad after all. Shake off last student by 3.30pm and retreat to office. Twenty-minute...
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How to write a resume
A good resume is about self-promotion, but unlike the traditional CV, it is about raising questions rather than trying to answer them  Occasionally you will see a job advertisement asking for a...
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Star scholars shine in all skies
So compelling was the picture painted by Professor Blackburn et al about opportunities in North America for har-assed United Kingdom academics (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, July 30) that I thought some ex-ex-pat should...
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On the ladder
This academic life is fraught with difficulty - jobs are scarce, insecure and increasingly clogged up with teaching and administrative duties that prevent our brightest minds from pursuing their...
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How to get a job in research policy
If research is getting you down and you believe it could be better organised, maybe a career in research policy is the answer. Guy Rickett, a research council employee on secondment to the House of...