Campus Round-up

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People

Dr Tony Binns (AFRAS) has been awarded a Leverhulme Study Abroad Fellowship for 2000/2001 to work on 'Local development in South Africa'. Only 25 of these fellowships have been awarded this year. Tony will be based at Rhodes University, Grahamstown.

Serena Margadonna (CPES) was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry 'Laurie Vergnano Award' for research in inorganic chemistry. The award took the form of a lecture during a plenary session of the Young Researchers' Meeting at the recent RSC Annual Conference. Serena, who is from Italy, gave her lecture on 'Current issues on super conducting fullerides'. She is currently in the third year of her DPhil in chemistry.

Professor Keith Pavitt (SPRU) has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain.

Leila Senkoro (EIT) has become the first female winner of a prize for outstanding performance in computer engineering. She was awarded the prize, which was sponsored by Brighton-based ROCC Computers, after gaining a first class BEng degree in Computer Systems Engineering. She is now studying for a DPhil in EIT.

Professor Peter Townsend (EIT) has continued his fencing success by becoming the Veterans National Champion in the 60+ age-group for the foil. He was amongst 200 competitors, many of them only in their forties, and came 14th overall. This latest success qualifies him for the World Championships, which will take place this August in Hungary.

Study part-time at the University in CCE

Continuing Choice and Open Evening Wednesday 10 May

Why not discover how pleasant it is not only to work on campus, but also to study here? Many members of the University's staff are already studying in CCE. Several members of staff received awards in landscape studies, art history and arts management at the winter awards ceremony.

CCE offers part-time courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level, allowing you to update your skills or build up credits towards a first degree. Whether you have studied with CCE before or would like to take another course but are not sure which one, then come to the Continuing Choice and Open Evening on Wednesday 10 May.

The event will be held from 5.00-8.00 pm on the top floor of Bramber House (formerly the Refectory Building). This is an opportunity to find out more about the programmes, talk to faculty and meet other students.

Some free places are available to members of staff - the earlier you apply, the more likely it is that you will get a free place.

Come along and have a glass of wine, see displays of students' work, and discuss the options for returning to study where you work (or similar).

For further information contact Mary Hoar, telephone (67)8449, email m.hoar@sussex.ac.uk.

Teaching and Learning Development Fund

Bids are now invited for the next round of the University's Teaching and Learning Development Fund. The deadline for bids is Friday 2 June 2000.

When preparing bids, please consult either Lilla Funge, tel (67)8714, e-mail E.Funge@sussex.ac.uk (general enquiries) or Richard Inskip, tel (67)8579, e-mail R.F.Inskip@sussex.ac.uk (multimedia enquiries), at least one week before the deadline. Summaries of recent approved projects can be found at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/TLDU/ along with full guidelines for bidding to the TLDF. A paper version of the guidelines is also available on request from the TLDU.

Final proposals should be submitted to Lilla Funge in TLDU, Arts D421 by 2 June.