10 February 2006

NEWS

Boost for regenerative medicine
The University's Centre for Regenerative Medicine has been successful in its bid for a €1.2M EU Marie Curie grant for early stage researcher training in regenerative medicine. The CRM is an interdisciplinary research centre with staff members drawn from the Departments of Biology & Biochemistry, Pharmacy & Pharmacology and Chemical Engineering.

Ethnic conflict: Why people keep killing each other and what we can do about it
Stefan Wolff, professor of political science, will explain why nationalism and ethnicity are such powerful mobilising forces in turning neighbour against neighbour at his inaugural lecture next Wednesday. Tickets are free but must be reserved from: Sheila Willmott ext 6631

Sold out! TV presenter to give Science Week lecture in bath
All tickets for Adam Hart Davis' lecture have been reserved.

Fr Bill in hospital
Fr Bill OSM, the University's Roman Catholic Chaplain, suffered a heart attack on 5 February and is currently in hospital in Bristol. He is, therefore, unable to attend appointments. We wish him a speedy recovery.

New scheme to help students get good vacation work experience
The University has launched a new Enterprise Bursary Scheme to help students get good vacation work experience.

Ariadne web magazine publishes its 10th anniversary issue
Over its ten years of existence Ariadne, which is published by UKOLN, has covered an increasingly wide range of projects in all forms of digital information management, both in the UK and abroad.

topˆ

INFORMATION

Tutors/Lecturers
Please encourage your final year undergraduate students to complete the National Student Survey which elicits feedback about students' experiences at the University.  Thank you. www.thestudentsurvey.com

RAE criteria and working methods published
The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) criteria and working methods by subject panels have been published by the four UK HE funding bodies. Along with the guidance on submissions, these will provide the key information for institutions as they prepare their RAE submissions.

Up-to-date travel information page
A new web service giving up-to-date information on conditions of travel to the University has been launched. Please email delay@bath.ac.uk if you are aware of delays on the roads, buses or trains.

Annual Report now online
The University's Annual Report for 2004-05 is now available in PDF format on the web. Hard copies are available from Claire Hornshaw, ext 6319.

Improvements to lifts
Over the next two weeks improvements will be made to the lifts in Wessex and Norwood House to comply with the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act. The lifts are also being changed from "Down Collectives" to "Full Collectives" to improve the service between floors in both directions. The Department of Estates apologises for the noise and disruption this work will cause.

LeVel 1 Café now open
Choices has reopened as LeVel 1 Café, serving a variety of hot food from 11.30am to 3pm.

RICE Memory Challenge - 6-12 March 2006
How good is your memory? Do you think you could remember more information than your work colleagues, family or friends? Are you prepared to put this to the test by taking part in the third annual RICE Memory Challenge? Sign up and help RICE to support vulnerable, older people. Contact Tricia on 01225 835866.

IWMW2006 - Call for speakers
The call for speakers for this year's Institutional Web Management Workshop, to be held at the University of Bath on Wednesday 14 to Friday 16 June 2006, is now open. The event will provide an opportunity for those involved in the provision of institutional Web services to hear about institutional case studies, national initiatives and emerging technologies.

Kathryn runs for charity
Kathryn Yuill (Pharmacy & Pharmacology) will be running the London marathon this year for the charity, Whizz-kidz. This charity aims to provide disabled children with equipment to aid their mobility (tricycles, motorised wheelchairs etc). Please consider sponsoring her.

Jobs:
Vacant posts: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs

topˆ

IN THE MEDIA www.bath.ac.uk/news/bathinpapers

• University senior management have spoken out against B&NES' road block proposal Bath Chronicle
• Postgraduate student Abdullah Al-Qenaei had a letter published in the Chronicle giving his views on the recent controversey over Danish cartoons
• Economics & international development graduate Charles Bairsto has made history with his team mate by becoming the youngest people to row across the Atlantic.
  

TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

• The Role of the Safety Co-ordinator 15 February
• Voice Matters 20 February
• EPSRC: 'Mock Panel' Peer Review 22 February

topˆ

WHAT'S ON www.bath.ac.uk/whats-on

Monday 13
5:15 PM  Millennium Lecture - The search for cold dark matter

Tuesday 14
12:15 PM  Women's lunchtime development - Infant or Cabbage?
12:30 PM  SfH Learning Seminar - Establishing a research agenda in learning and teaching in healthcare
12:30 PM  UBSA Lunchtime Bingo Session
12:45 PM  Oxfam Lunch
1:00 PM  Adult recreational netball
1:15 PM  Chemical Engineering Seminar - Reaction engineering of homogeneous and biocatalytic systems
4:30 PM  ICE Seminar - Sustainable procurement: Training the public sector

Wednesday 15
1:15 PM  Psychology Seminar - John Locke, third earl of Shaftesbury & the roots of psychology
2:15 PM  Senate
2:15 PM  Learning & Sustainable Development Seminar - The Earth Charter: an holistic approach to sustainable education?
5:15 PM  GULP Lecture - Ernest Shepard, storyteller
5:30 PM  GULP Lecture - The Lydiard Park Project
6:15 PM  Inaugural Lecture: Professor Stefan Wolff - Ethnic conflict: Why people keep killing each other and what we can do about it
7:30 PM  Gardening Club: A horticulturally endowed tale

Thursday 16
2:15 PM  Learning & Sustainable Development Seminar - Pupils' perspectives on environmental education in geography
7:30 PM  Film - Respiro

Sunday 19
7:30 PM  Film - Broken Flowers

topˆ

ARTS www.bath.ac.uk/icia

ICIA classes start next week, so book your place now. Please call into the office in 1 East 2.1, phone ext 6777 or check out the website for further details.

Now gravel is under my shoes; now grass by BUST
Wednesday 15-Saturday 18 February | 8pm Theatre Royal Bath, Ustinov Studio | £7, £5 BUSU
A new performance piece inspired by and in loose response to Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, The Waves. This group of students with a passion for theatre layer movement, text, sound and video to create an atmospheric and choreographed collage, a poetic dreamscape to swim in.

Jacqui Dankworth Trio
Saturday 18 February | 7.30pm ICIA Arts Theatre | £9, £7 concs & University staff, £5 BUSU
Daughter of the legendary Cleo Laine and John Dankworth comes to ICIA arts theatre. Now regarded as one of Britain's finest jazz singers in her own right Jacqui presents a programme of smoky blues, swing, reinvented standards, Latin pop, folk music and semi-classical. This intimate gig is a great chance to get close to music royalty.

SPORT www.teambath.com/news

Netball: TeamBath topple Bedford to stay top of table
TeamBath, still at the top of the figleaves.com netball superleague, bounced back from last week's defeat to arch–rivals Loughborough, to record a 55–31 away win against Bedford Mavericks.

Football: TeamBath Buzz but get no points
TeamBath played entertaining football but picked up no points in a 1–2 home defeat to Bedford Town at Twerton Park in the Southern League Premier Division.

topˆ