Dr Viv Griffiths' poem 'Evensong' was displayed as part of the 'Chalking' exhibition in Lewes Barbican Museum. The idea was to write a poem that went with one of the exhibition's paintings of the South Downs. The curator commented on each pair (poem and painting). Viv's included comments on the intense personal response to the landscape.

The editorial board of Measurement Science and Technology journal has selected an article by Dr Chris Harland, Professor Terry Clark and Dr Robert Prance from EIT for its Best Paper Award 2002. The article describes new research by the three authors on remote sensing of the human body.

Former Sussex DPhil student Sam Leach has been awarded the Ogden Prize, awarded annually for the best UK thesis on cosmology. Sam is invited to the University of Durham to give a presentation on his thesis and to receive the £500 award. Sam's work, supervised by Professor Andrew Liddle in the Astronomy Centre, was on the inflationary cosmology, which seeks to explain the large-scale properties of the Universe. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Geneva, but continues to collaborate with Sussex astronomers.

Professor Andrew Liddle, head of the Astronomy Centre, has been awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC). This award will enable him to fully focus on his research in cosmology for the next three years.

Noel Sladen, Insurance and Risk Manager, has been re-elected to the Council of the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) for a period of three years from May 2003.