QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST

Research grants

Dr M. A. Lomax, Pounds 262,124 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sc iences Research Council (nutrient signals regulating muscle); Professor R. L. Robson, Pounds 113,716 from the BBSRC (pathways for the synthesis of metal sulphur clusters in living cells); Dr N. H. Battey, Pounds 86,632 from the BBSRC (intracellular factors controlling exocytosis in plant cells; Professor P. J. Gregory, Pounds 110,204 from the BBSRC (examination of root/soil interactions using computer-assisted tomography); Mr C. C. Guy and Dr J. R. Miles, Pounds 78,287 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (teaching company scheme); Professor J. Bennett and Ms N. A. Garnett, Pounds 70,769 from the EPSRC (benchmarking for construction); Dr R. J. Loader and Ms R. McCrindle with the Teaching Company Centre, Pounds 84,341 from the EPSRC (teaching company scheme);

Dr M. J. Usher and Mr L. Comley with the Teaching Company Centre, Pounds 77,421 from the EPSRC (teaching company scheme); Professor P. J. Lowry, Pounds 111,490 from the Medical Research Council (investigation of the significance of the CRF binding protein and its isoforms); Dr A. Culham, Pounds 178,258 from the National Environment Research Council (origins and relationships of perlargonium with emphasis on the African/Australian divide); Dr I. N. James, Pounds 92,079 from the NERC (feedbacks between sea ice and baroclinic storm tracts in the southern hemisphere); Dr D. Marshall, Pounds 50,170 from the NERC (semigeostrophic modelling of the Gulf Stream and its interactions with topography); Professor A. O'Neill, Pounds 105,000 from the NERC (coupled ocean- atmospheric modelling project) and Pounds 830,000 from the NERC (centre for global atmospheric modelling); Dr P. Kerswill, Pounds 134,370 from the Economic and Social Research Council (role of adolescents in dialect levelling); Professor R. Burch, Pounds 58,988 from EPSRC (designer catalysts by modification of mesoporous solids) and Pounds 149,645 from EPSRC (steady state isotope transient kinetic analysis of real catalists) and with Dr N. Isaacs, Pounds 163,718 from EPSRC (clean organic synthesis using catalysis in supercritical fluids); Dr T. Hardman, Pounds 111,570 from EPSRC (effect of solid particles on emulsion stability);

Mr C. Gray, Pounds 53,028 from EPSRC (30 per cent real cost reduction of construction); Professor C. Chaplin and Dr I. Ridge, Pounds 68,510 from EPSRC (rope degradation and fatigue behaviour); Professor G. Jeronomidis, Pounds 82,550 from EPSRC (design of integral strain sensors in composite laminates based on biomimetics of insect sense organs); Professors M. Breheny and I. Gordon, Pounds 60,831 from EPSRC (densities in the sustainable city); Professor D. Bassett, Pounds 128,455 from EPSRC (quantized molecular folding, spherulitic growth and lamellar microstructure in monodisperse paraffins); Dr B. Evans, Pounds 26,426 from EPSRC (formation of a regular array of nanometre sized metallic particles); Dr A. Wright, Pounds 50,000 from EPSRC (new opportunities for amorphous state science); Professor J. Almond and Dr D. Evans, Pounds 1,093,890 from Medical Research Council (molecular cell biology and pathogenesis of human picornaviruses); Dr W. Barclay, Pounds 136,636 from MRC (analysis of the Cis-acting signals of influenza B virus RNAs); Drs J. Keating and C. Dean, Pounds 156,659 from MRC (functional significance of VIV2 sequence variation in the cascade of events leading to HIV-1 envelope-cell fusion); Dr E. Gaffan, Pounds 125,336 from MRC (neural basis of visuo-spatial and episodic memory in the rat); Dr A. Culham, Pounds 191,639 from NERC (origins and relationships of pelargonium with emphasis on the African/Australian divide); Dr G. Marston, Pounds 92,177 from NERC (studies of gas-phase reactions of ozone with alkenes);

Mr R. Hunneman, Pounds 36,700 from NERC (high resolution dynamic limb sounder) and Pounds 135,560 from NERC (research development and supply of infrared filters for the high resolution dynamics limb sounder); Professor R. Gurney, Pounds 6,125 from NERC (NERC unit for thematic information systems) and Pounds 140,056 from NERC (cloud structures: observations and representation in weather forecasting and climate models); Professor A O'Neill, Pounds 32,586 from NERC (global modelling of atmospheric chemistry Phase II); Drs A. Parker and J. Rae, Pounds 62,521 from NERC (extent and mechanisms of uptake of pesticides by aquifer sediments).

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European funds

Dr M. Bryant, Pounds 112,599 from the European Commission (improvement of market-oriented small ruminant production systems and sustainable land use in arid/semi-arid regions of Southern Africa); Dr J. Grainger, Pounds 32,034 from the European Community (initiative for biotechnology education).

QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE

Ilse Schmitthof bequeathed more than Pounds 1million in trust for the Centre for Commercial Law Studies in memory of her husband, Professor Clive Schmitthof. The Clive Schmitthof Foundation will be established for the advancement of teaching, research or study of international trade or a related subject in commercial law.

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UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND

European funds

Pounds 1.2 million from Regional Development Fund for the School of Computing and Information Systems.

UNIVERSITY OF SURREY

Charities

Dr B. Griffin, Pounds 2,000 from the Nuffield Foundation (diet and small dense LDL); Professor P. Jarvis, Pounds 34,540 from Pre-Retirement Association of Great Britain (preparation for death) and Pounds 9,645 from Help the Aged (an inquiry into the extent to which the knowledge and skills of seniors is being used in a teaching capacity); Drs J. McFadden and J. Newcombe, Pounds 85,792 from The National Meningitis Trust (further development of the PCR for detection and typing of meningococcus and the pneumococcus); Mr R. Tafazolli, Pounds 10,596 from The Daphne Jackson Memorial Fellowships Trust (research fellowship mobile communication).

Research contracts

Dr M. Adams, Pounds 106,566 from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Fisheries (removal of pathogenic viruses from mulluscan shellfish during depuration); Dr J. Bowler, Pounds 116,000 from British Aerospace Airbus Ltd. (fastener hole damage characterisation and inspection reliability improvement by Rototest Eddy Current inspections systems development).