All-round cricketer Rosalie Birch took five wickets for 50 and hit 42 runs off just 38 balls in the final match of England's winning tour of South Africa. She played in four of the five one-day internationals during the month-long tour, in locations including Johannesburg, Pretoria and Port Elizabeth. Rosalie, 20, is a first-year linguistics student at Sussex.

Professor Jon Cohen, Dean of the Brighton and Hove Medical School (BSMS), has been asked to sit on the Department of Health's National Expert Panel on New and Emerging Infections.

A former student in the Sussex European Institute (SEI), Maryla Maliszewska, has won a 2003 Global Development Award from the prestigious Global Development Network for research on development. The prize was for her paper 'EU enlargement: Benefits of the Single Market expansion for current and new member states'. Maryla has just successfully defended her DPhil dissertation on international trade and location of production in transition countries.

The Political Studies Association has awarded its prestigious Lord Bryce Prize for the best dissertation in international relations/comparative studies to Dr Henrike Mueller (a former SEI student) for her doctoral thesis on the regulation of insurance services and the European single market. Henrike's supervisors were Professor Jim Rollo and Professor Helen Wallace.

Canon Paul Oestreicher, Quaker chaplain at Sussex, travelled to Germany yesterday (11 March) to receive the Order of Merit of the state of Saxony. The award is in recognition of Paul's work in forging links between the state's capital, Dresden, and Coventry, where he was the cathedral's international director. Both cities were heavily bombed by enemy forces during the Second World War.

At a ceremony on 3 March, Warsaw University awarded an honorary doctorate of science in economics to Professor Alasdair Smith, the Vice-Chancellor. The honour was in recognition of Alasdair's research on the theory of international trade and on European economic integration, and of the role that he played in creating collaboration in both teaching and research in international economics between Sussex and Warsaw.