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The International Women’s Forum (IWF) has awarded Professor Dame Sandra Dawson its highest honour by inducting her to their International Hall of Fame.

Links between researchers and the electricity industry have been given a boost this week with the appointment of Dr Wendy Kneissl as Electricity Policy Forum (EPF) Director.

A new book examines the future of electricity in the UK, edited by experts from the Judge Business School and the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ.

Budding entrepreneur, Oliver Griffin, has been awarded top marks at a summer school run by the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL).

Eleven ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ lecturers have been recognised for their excellence in teaching, at an award ceremony for the 2006 Pilkington Prizes on July 6.

India’s Minister for Science, Kapil Sibal visited ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ last week, together with a high level delegation from his country’s High Commission.

The UK’s biggest provider of Helium is joining forces with a major user and ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ academics to sponsor a three year research project, the results of which are expected to reveal how much longer industry can rely on this increasingly scarce resource.

Seven ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ scientists have been recognised for their contributions to science, engineering and medicine with their election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.

Salil Shetty, Director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign to cut poverty worldwide, will be at the Judge Business School tonight (3 May) to launch a speaker series jointly organised by a ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ student society and the UN Millennium Campaign.

The final ’‘Spotlight on Science’ lecture of the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ Science Festival will discuss the issues facing the human race and our planet.