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Southampton Institute

Edward Chaney, senior lecturer in fine arts valuation, has been appointed professor of fine and decorative arts; David Piper, dean of academic information service, professor of higher education development; Gerald Vinten, associate dean of the business school, professor of management; Omar Khattab, head of maritime technology, associate professorship in hydrodynamics; Chris Colbourn, course leader in psychology, associate professor in psychology; Sue Lewey, acting head of maritime research, associate professor.

University of Edinburgh

Mark Woolhouse, Royal Society research fellow at the Universityof Oxford, chair of veterinary public health and quantitative epidemiology; Nigel Seaton,fellow of Clare College,Cambridge and visiting professorat Cornell University, chair ofinterfacial engineering in thed epartment of chemical engineering.

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Paul O'Brien has been appointedto the Sumitomo/STS chair ofmaterials chemistry for five years; S. Brown of the Medical Research Council has accepted a three-year visiting professorship in the school of medicine; K. Cuthbertson has been appointed professor of finance in themanagement school.