University of Essex in the press...

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Parliament Live
University of Essex report on care farming was discussed as part of an adjournment debate on Care farming and disadvantaged groups by Mr Mark Todd in Parliament on 24th November.
Discussion starts at 7hrs 11 and finishes at about 7hrs 45.

BBC
Flagship University Building open
Teaching has begun in the new flagship building for the recently created university in Suffolk. University Campus Suffolk (UCS), in Ipswich, was established by the University of East Anglia and the University of Essex last year. View the clip here.

The University of Essex in the Press

May 2009

Sunday 31

Is marrying for money worth it?
A new book advises women to marry for money rather than love. But is it ever really worth it? Research undertaken by Professor Stephen Jenkins from the Institute of Social and Economic Research found that five years after divorce, men were 25% richer, whereas women still had less money than they did pre-split; and that 31% of mothers receive no payment for children. Read the whole article here.
Sunday Times
The Times

Friday 29

Uni academic gets funding for 'sleaze in politics' study
Dr Sarah Birch from the Department of Government has received nearly £80,000 from the British Academy and the Economic and Social Research Council to look at people's attitudes towards political ethics and politicians' conduct in Britain.
Gazette
Essex County Standard
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Halstead Gazette

Warm up to Essex Uni ball
Essex University's Summer Ball this year will include a performance by the Wombats and this weekend has one of the biggest drum and bass summer warm-ups taking place in Sub Zero.
Gazette

Thursday 28

Hospice play focuses on legacy
Drama students from a local stage school have helped hospice patients stage a show based around their own legacies. The show, called "Don't stop now" was put on by Zoom-In-Arts, a theatre company formed by members of East 15 Acting School in Loughton. They trod the boards alongside patients from St Clare Hospice in Hastingwood after working on the show for the past six weeks. The show was inspired by legacy, focusing on who we are, what makes us individuals and what we leave behind. Read the article here.
Epping Forest Guardian

Listen & learn
Read about The Reith Lectures - an annual lecture in which a leading thinker has been given the chance to address the world on an issue of broad public concern. However, although the comically plummy voices have disappeared, the lectures have always struggled to trawl beyond the pool of white, male, Anglo-American academics. There was not a single female Reith Lecturer between Margery Perham in 1961 and Marina Warner, now Professor of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex in 1994.
THE

Battle to beat the recession
Thousands of people in south Essex are jobless as one of the toughest recessions in modern times has ravaged businesses. Keith Brown, regional organiser of the Essex Federation of Small Businesses, said some industries were being particularly badly hit in the county. His group is holding a seminar at Essex University, in Elmer Approach, Southend, on Friday, as it tries to help ailing businesses in the recession. Read the whole article here.
Echo
Basildon Recorder
Brentwood Weekly News

Students set to debate Europe
Europe will be subject for discussion at an Essex University debate tonight. The Students' Union and European Society are hosting a discussion featuring the European parliamentary candidates ahead of the election on 4 June.
Gazette
 

Wednesday 27

Take a break but get a ready for new term
March officials across the county are being urged to put their feet up over the summer — but not for too long. Essex County Football Association referee development officer David Dixon has unveiled a chain of sessions with respected men in black to ease referees back into the new season once their holidays are over. One of the sessions will take place at the University of Essex. Read the whole story here.
Echo

U.K. parties vie in a reform push
The UK's political system is facing what could be its biggest overhaul in more than a decade, as the country's leading parties push duelling reform agendas in the wake of a scandal over parliamentarians' expenses.  But some analysts warn that politicians ' fervent calls for reform could easily wane if the expenses scandal fades.  "The present constitutional debate is not a debate, it sounds like a bunch of headless chickens running round in a panic", said Anthony King, professor of government at the University of Essex. Read the whole article here.
Wall Street Journal

Money can brighten life
People who are good at managing their money are likely to be happier, research conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at Essex University has shown.  Dr Mark Taylor has produced a report for the independent regulators the Financial Services Authority.
Gazette

As safe as the students make it
County Councillor Julie Young writes about Clingoe Hill safety improvements following the death of two University of Essex students at the site.
Gazette

Punky four-piece is one to watch
Essex University student Dan Wolski, playing Bass in Colchester band Trigga-Boo, can be seen at the Twist, Military Road, tonight.
Gazette

Tuesday 26

Uni crossing hold-up 'adds insult to injury'
Clingoe Hill road safety campaigner Eleanor Smith said recent planting and fences put up by Essex County Council to discourage students from crossing had missed the point and were simply being ignored.
Gazette

Leftist girls, rightist boys the effect of fatherhood on politics
New research shows that daughters have an even more profound effect on their daddies: Fathers, say Andrew Oswald from the University of Warwick and Nattavudh Powdthavee, of the University of York, will shift their political allegiance for their daughters. Using research from the British Household Panel Survey, Oswald and Powdthavee found that the more daughters there are in a household, the more likely their father is to vote Labour or Liberal Democrat. Read the full story here.
The Observer
The Daily Mail
The Telegraph
Taipei Times
The Huffington Post
Hindustan Times
India News
India Times
NewsRx.com
New Zealand Herald
Netindia123.com
Toronto Star
Brown University News Service
U-Wire
KMSP-TV online
WJBK- TV
WAGA-TV Online
WFXB-TV
 

Friday 22

Accounting professor: break up the Big Four audit market
Professor Prem Sikka from the Essex Business School has called for the big accounting firms to be stripped of their bank audits and for an independent enquiry into the 'continuing failure of auditors to deliver meaningful audits'. Read his article here.
Financial Director
Accountancy Age
Best Practice
vnunet.com

Barbadians could base Olympics squad in town
Athletes from Barbados could be coming to Colchester to prepare for the Olympics in 2012. A delegation from the Barbados Olympic Association visited facilities in Colchester to see if they suited their needs. A consortium made up of Colchester Council, Essex County Council, Colchester Garrison and Essex University is promoting the town's sporting facilities.
Essex County Standard

Uni venue goes back to the days of rave
For one night only, at Essex University, you can relive rave culture when Mindwarp returns to Sub Zero.
Gazette

Thursday 21

Royal opening for university building
A new landmark university building in Ipswich will be given the royal seal of approval next month when Prince Edward officially opens the site. His Royal Highness, The Earl of Wessex, will officially open University Campus Suffolk's Waterfront building on Thursday June 18. The royal visit will coincide with the Suffolk Higher Education Convention, which will see more than 3,000 year 12 students from across Suffolk and Essex visit the building to find out more about higher education courses available to them. Read the full story here.
EADT 24
 

Town doctor will be sadly missed
Dr John Steeds, a much-loved Colchester GP has died at the age of 92. One of his achievements was to set up the medical centre at the newly-established University of Essex at the request of its vice-chancellor Dr Albert Sloman. Read the whole article here.
Essex County Standard

Time to count the cost of failure
Accounting firms are trying to shield themselves from the consequences of the financial crisis despite being partly to blame. Read Professor Prem Sikka's article here.
The Guardian

Love in the open air for star-crossed pair
It was love at first sight for East 15 graduate Jennie Christo and Lawrence Green when they met at an Italian restaurant and shared a plate of spaghetti. Or rather it will be, when this handsome couple play the world's most celebrated lovers, Romeo and Juliet, in this year's much-anticipated offering by Chiltern Shakespeare Company, which will take place, as it has for 20 years, in the open air amid beautiful surroundings on the Hall Barn Estate in Beaconsfield in June. Read the full story here.
Buckinghamshire Advertiser

Grant Winners
Professor Harald Clahsen from the Department of Language and Linguistics has been awarded £6,740 as a partner with a colleague at Başkent University in Turkey to research the processing of inflectional and derivational morphology in L1 and L2 Turkish.
THE

How to become an active consumer
Don't rely on prospectuses to choose where to study, make sure you go there too. Liz Hilditch, who graduated from the University of Essex last year, says it was an inspiring talk from a linguistics lecturer that helped her make one of the biggest decisions of her life. Now working for the university as a student recruitment officer, she is keen to get plenty of academics involved so there is time for both structured talks and informal consultations with students. Read the full article here.
The Independent

Change we can believe in
How do we restore trust and revive our politics? Gordon Brown plans a constitutional debate – and to launch it we asked 14 leading thinkers for their big ideas for reform. Professor Anthony King from the Department of Government thinks that hard work brings reward. Read the full article here.
The Independent

How old bikes are changing lives in Africa...
Colchester's emerging status as a cycling town means a charity which provides lifelines across the developing world has been able to reach an important milestone. Re-Cycle ships second-hand bikes from Colchster to the Third World and has just sent its 30,000th "trusty steed" overseas. The University of Essex, Braintree and Colchester Councils and the Royal Mail have all helped to contribute to this total.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard

Wednesday 20

Fond memories of Cenla going to Nigeria with LSUA graduate
Samira Saddieq graduated from LSUA earlier this month with a degree in psychology after attending the university for three years. She and her older sister, Nana Aisha Saddieq, transferred here after attending a university in the Mediterranean island of Cypress for a year. After spending three months at home in Abuja, Nigeria, Samira Saddieq plans to go the University of Essex in the United Kingdom to get her master's in management psychology. Read the full story here.
The TownTalk.com

MPs' expenses: Even as a scapegoat, Michael Martin is a failure
Once revered around the world, the office of Speaker is now in disrepute, suggests Anthony King
The Daily Telegraph

Fight for the Right to Work conference is key step in campaign
The Fight for the Right to Work conference will take place in central London Saturday 13 June. The conference is supported by several students' unions including University of Essex SU.
Socialist Worker

Free meditation course in Enfield for depression sufferers
The course, which will be held in Enfield next month, is being run in conjunction with a medical study by the University of Essex.
Enfield Independent

Tuesday 19

Free meditation course in Enfield for depression sufferers
A Meditation course will be held in Enfield next month to help sufferers of depression and anxiety. The three-day course teaches transcendental meditation as an alternative to conventional medicines. The course is run by the Meditation Trust, set up by Colin Beckley, who suffered with depression during the Seventies and Eighties. The course is being run in conjunction with a medical study by the University of Essex, in Colchester, for the Essex NHS Trust, into meditation and it usefulness in treating conditions such as depression.
Enfield Independent

'Ideas' man active in community
Tributes have been paid to an "ideas" man with a deep love of philosophy and culture. Michael Jude James, of Wedmore, Somerset, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly aged 56. Mr James went on to study government and politics at Essex University. It was here that he really developed his political ideals and life philosophy. He later took his MSc at Southampton University.
Western Daily Press

Fight for the Right to Work conference is key step in campaign
The next major date in the jobs fight is Saturday 13 June. That is when the Fight for the Right to Work conference will take place in central London. Workers from Visteon and stewards from the Waterford Glass occupation are backing the conference. The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the London regions of the RMT and UCU unions have backed the conference. The student unions at Goldsmiths College, the University of Essex and the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) are also supporting it. Socialist Worker Online

Monday 18

Sir Charles Lucas Art College's future still in doubt despite improving
A Teaching Union says Essex County Council should alter its academy plans in Colchester after another school registered a “dramatic improvement”.
The school is set to become an academy under county council plans, expected to be rubber-stamped in the next few months and it is hoped the academy will be sponsored by leading educational institutions, such as Colchester Institute and Essex University. Read the whole story here.
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard

Jason Rogers Appointed Senior Editor in Asia Pacific Region for Dow Jones Newswires
Jason Rogers has been appointed senior editor for Dow Jones Newswires in the Asia Pacific region. Based in Singapore, Mr. Rogers will will lead Dow Jones Newswires editorial operations in the region. Jason is a graduate of St. Hughs College, Oxford, and holds an M.A. in Japanese studies from the University of Essex and Dokkyo University, Japan. Read the whole story here.
KOTA Territory News
Yahoo! Finance
PR Newswire
BizJournals
Columbus Business First
FinanzNachricten
Associated Press
KMTV

Van Buren given Robert Wertheim Junior Faculty Research Award
Professor Harry Van Buren from the University of New Mexico has been awarded the prize for his research in  several areas including the involvement of religious institutions in shareholder activism, issues related to race/ethnicity and gender in organizations, the ethical implications of low-wage work and the ethics of human resource management. Van Buren says he will use his award winnings for research-related purposes and plans to spend part of the summer at the University of Essex taking a class on case-study research.
Federal News Service

Uni will keep its bars open
Anglian Ruskin University in Chelmsford has announced it is closing some of its bars due to falling customer numbers. Essex University says it has no plans to close any of its Student Union bars and that its new alcohol-free lunchtime promotion had proved a hit.
Gazette

Sunday 17

MPs expenses... voter reaction
Read the views of Professor Paul Whiteley from the Department of Government here.
BBC

Saturday 16

Let's get metaphysical
Martin Newell talks to Dr Todd Landman from the Department of Government about his impressions of Essex, his work at the University and and his interest in magic.
East Anglian Daily Times

Friday 15

Partnership agreed
A plan to change a hotel into a hospitality school has moved a step forward. Essex University wants to transform Wivenhoe House into a four-star boutique hotel which will double as a leading training centre. The University's Council agreed this week to form a partnership with the Edge Foundation to take the project forward.
Essex County Standard

Barbados eyes up town
Athletes from Barbados could be coming to Colchester to prepare for the 2012 Olympics. The town's sports facilities have been approved as training campus for the games, and a delegation from the Barbados Olympic Association visited yesterday to inspect Colchester's facilities. A consortium made up of Colchester Council, Essex County Council, Colchester Garrison and Essex University are promoting the town's sporting facilities.
Essex County Standard
Gazette
Harwich and Manningtree Standard
Halstead Gazette

How technology has changed us
If there is one thing that students are good at - it's being socially active. That's the title for an exhibition taking place at Essex University, curated by a group of MA in Gallery Studies and Critical Curating students.
Essex County Standard

Watchful Tour for Charity
One hundred species and £1,000 for a good cause. They were the targets the Neighbourhood Birdwatch Team set when they set out at the crack of dawn on an 18-mile tour from Essex University to Brightlingsea.
Essex County Standard

Concert with an Italian Twist
Essex University's Musician-in-residence, John Law premieres his new work, Aquileia: Mosaics for Small Ensemble this weekend in the Lakeside Theatre.
Gazette

Thursday 14

Boutique Hotel in Uni sights
Plans to create a training hotel for the hospitality industry at Essex University has moved a step forward. Members of the university's governing body approved proposals to close its Wivenhoe House Hotel in January 2010 for major refurbishment and then re-open as the Edge Hotel School in 2011.
Gazette

An Orchard Invisible
Jules Pretty from the Department of Biological Sciences unearths the roots of epic tales of life and death. Read his review of Jonathan Silvertown's new book here.
THE

Invitation to film night for villagers
Four men keen to make their village more self-reliant have formed a Transition Nayland group. Its purpose is to raise awareness of the issues of energy consumption, climate change and carbon emissions, in order to take positive steps to lower the village’s carbon footprint. They have organised a film night followed by a talk by group member Professor Jules Pretty from Essex University’s department of Biological Sciences.
Suffolk Free Press

UNB to grant five honorary degrees in May
Alex Neve, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada and an Essex graduate in international human law from the University of Essex will be receiving an honorary degree from the University of New Brunswick
The Fiddlehead

Wednesday 13

The prince who built up a reputation for demolishing architects
The Prince of Wales has been invited back to deliver another lecture celebrating 175 years of the RIBA despite his controversial remarks and intervention into the Chelsea Barracks scheme. Last year he described a £6m lecture hall at the University of Essex as looking like a "dustbin" and criticised the proliferation of tall buildings across London as threatening to leave the capital with a "pockmarked skyline". Read the whole article here.
Yorkshire Post

Campaign to rebrand Southend
A new £50,000 marketing strategy for Southend has been revealed as council leaders try to rebrand the town. The council, working with other groups has come up with a series of logos including Smiles-on-Sea, and Safety-on-Sea to try and publicise the town across the country. The council hopes the new slogans will be adopted by such diverse organisations as the University of Essex, Royals shopping centre and seafront traders. Read the whole article here.
Southend Echo

Get ready to rock at celebration of metal
The Deranged Live Metal Night takes place in the Level 2 bar on Essex University's Wivenhoe Park campus.
Gazette
Halstead Gazette

Line up for ska-funk night
Taking place at Top Bar at Essex University, Essex Rocks is back this weekend with a line-up of local bands.
Gazette
Halstead Gazette

Prince of Wales always outspoken on modern architecture
Over the years, the Prince has passed comment on a variety of landmarks, including describing the Ivor Crewe lecture hall at University of Essex' Colchester campus as 'looking like a dustbin'.
Telegraph

Miriam's factory job led to her textbook future
Miriam Glucksmann, currently a Professor of Sociology at Essex University, was inspired by her experiences at the assembly line at a motor mechanics factory in London to write the book 'Women on the Line', which was republished last summer.
Echo

Tuesday 12

University Guide
The University of Essex was placed 48th in the Guardian's University Guide. It also appeared in  top 20s for American Studies, Computer Sciences and IT, Nursing and paramedical studies, Sociology and Sports Science. View the tables here.
The Guardian

MP fears nuclear plant fish threat
An MP has backed fishermen over their concerns a new nuclear power station could kill off huge numbers of Colchester’s world-famous oysters. Bernard Jenkin, MP for North Essex, is to press Government ministers on the effects a new power station at Bradwell would have on the marine ecology of the Blackwater estuary. And if studies are not available, he will press them to commission some research, possibly enlisting academics from Essex University. Read the full story here.
Halstead Gazette
Gazette

Research at the University of Essex has provided new information about gender
Dr Emilia Del Bono from the Institute for Social and Economic Research has produced a paper looking at disentangling the role of gender and partnership status in the caring commitments of older people (age 65 and over).
Life Science Weekly
Women's Health Weekly

Frosty relationship between Prince and Industry
The Prince of Wales has always been an outspoken critic of modern architecture, with his opinions sparking fury within the industry in the past. Now he has been invited back by RIBA to deliver the lecture to mark 175 years of the institution.
RIBA president Sunand Prasad described it as a chance for a reconciliation. Over the years, the Prince has continued to pass comment on a variety of landmarks.
In February last year, he described a 21st-century stainless steel £6m university lecture hall at the University of Essex's Colchester campus as looking like a "dustbin".
Press Association
 

Monday 11

MPs' expenses: where do they go from here?
Public faith in the integrity of politicians looks terminally damaged, but to attempt a quick fix of MPs' expenses would be a mistake, says Professor Anthony King. Read his article here.
The Telegraph

Woman is taken to hospital after bus accident
A woman needed hospital treatment after her car was involved in a collision with a bus. Police shut Boundary Road, on the Essex University campus following the crash.
Gazette
Essex County Standard

Production link sortie turned into lifetime's labour of love
In 1977, Miriam Glucksmann took unpaid leave from her academic job to work on an assembly line at a motor mechanics factory in London in order to embark on a study into women workers. Now Professor Miriam Glucksmann's book 'Women on the Line' has been republished. Read the article here.
Gazette

Sunday 10

David Mellor
David Mellor, who has died aged 78, designed, made and sold high-quality cutlery, tempering the skills of a craftsman and artist with those of a commercial entrepreneur; his success sprang from his belief that the designer's function was to control a product through every stage from concept to customer.  In 1954 Mellor set up a silversmithing workshop in Sheffield, designing and making silver for the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, the Cutlers' Company, Southwell Minster, Essex University, and Darwin College, Cambridge. Read the full obituary here.
The Telegraph
Yorkshire Post

So Mr Cameron, what are your policies?
I hope you are not planning to sneak into power without saying what the Conservatives are selling – please answer my letter. Read Professor Prem Sikka's letter to David Cameron here.
The Guardian

Saturday 9

Nigeria: Trovan Vaccine - Shekarau Leads Delegation to London for Compensation
Kano State Governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau is to lead a Nigerian delegation to London to finalize negotiation for compensation with the Chief Executives of Pfizer over 1996 Trovan vaccine test in state. While Governor Shekarau is in London he is expected to present a paper entitled 'the right of the accused under Shari'a, a case study of Kano state at the University of Essex, Centre of Human Right. Read the full story here.
allAfrica.com
The Guardian, Nigeria
Nigerian Tribune
African Leader

Friday 8

'The skills you learn at university last you a lifetime'
Mark Coates, 23, from Ipswich, was the first in his family to go to ­university. He graduated last year with a degree in history and politics from the University of Essex. As an outreach worker for the university, he now encourages others to go on to higher education. Read the article here.
The Guardian

Hospitality training plan to revamp hotel
Essex University wants to turn Wivenhoe House into a four-star boutique hotel  that would train caterers, managers and chefs on the job.  It would close in January 2010 and re-open in early spring 2011.
Evening Gazette

Historic house to become top hotel and training centre
Wivenhoe House, in the grounds of the University of Essex, a popular wedding and conference centre is to undergo a £9 million transformation and could become a unique training centre for the hotel and restaurant industry.
Essex County Standard

Talking paper celebrates new studio opening
Now in its 37th year, the Colchester and District Talking Newspaper has opened its new facilities at Essex University which gives it the room to look at going digital. A free 90-minute audio cassette tape recording of local news and features from the Gazette is produced each week and available to all visually impaired people living within ten miles of Colchester.
Gazette
Halstead Gazette

Breakfast DJ's serving of indie mash at university
London's hottest alternative party, CLub XFM is coming to Essex University this weekend.
Gazette

Hundreds protest again car clamping
Students, academics and staff at Essex University joined together to protest against an "unfair" car clamping regime. Several hundred people marked through Wivenhoe Park campus to call fro changes to how car parks are managed, with a 1,700-signature petition handed to Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Rob Massara.
Essex County Standard

Thursday 7

Fishermen fear for industry as new reactor at Bradwell considered
Fears have been raised Colchester’s world-famous oyster beds could be decimated if a new nuclear power station is built at Bradwell. Last month, the Government earmarked Bradwell as one of 11 potential sites for a new nuclear power station. Professor Graham Underwood, Professor of Ecology at Essex University, said native oysters, such as the famous Colchester variety, would be particularly affected by changes in the estuary’s environment. Read his comments here.
Gazette

Global food crisis focus for Foreign Policy School
Is the world food crisis more important to New Zealand than the world financial crisis? That will be one of the fundamental questions to be asked at the University of Otago’s 44th Foreign Policy School next month. Professor Jules Pretty from the University of Essex is one of the speakers' at the conference.
Scoop
National Business Review

Car-clamping provokes fury
Banner-waving students and angry staff at Essex University staged a demonstration yesterday as fury mounted over its allegedly "aggressive" wheel-clamping policy.
East Anglian Daily Times

The great clamping revolt on uni campus
Students, academics and staff at Essex University joined together to protest against an "unfair" car-clamping regime.
Evening Gazette

Art show promises a textual adventure
If there is one thing students are good at, its being socially active. And that's the title for an exhibition taking place at Essex University being curated by a group of MA in Gallery Studies and Critical Curating students.
Evening Gazette
Halstead Gazette

There is room for improvement, but no sign of systemic failure
Higher education standards are in the spotlight, but investigation has found no evidence of serious deficiencies. Read Professor Colin Riordan's article here.
THE

Where in the world...
Britain's university libraries are home to a historically rich and frequently suprising treasure trove of artefacts from every corner of the globe and the University of Essex holds the SDP archives including administrative records, policy papers, speeches, newspaper cuttings and videotapes as well as starting marzipan busts of leaders David Owen and Roy Jenkins.
THE

Three seniors say goodbye to LSU
John Casey is about to graduate from LSU with a degree in biological engineering and a minor in Chinese.  John also took part in the study abroad program studying at the University of Essex in England.
TigerWeekly.com
 

Wednesday 6

Make the great outdoors your gym
Heading outside to work up a sweat is not only good for your body but your
mind too. A University of Essex study found that outdoor exercise reduced depression in nearly three quarters of those tested, compared to less than half for the same exercise indoors. Even just looking at greenery has a positive effect on health -patients who overlooked trees were found to recover faster from surgery. Read the full article here.
Daily Mirror

Godfather of online gaming
Dr. Richard Bartle was a young undergraduate at Essex University in 1978 when he devised Mud - short for Multi-User Domain - with help from fellow student Roy Trubshaw.
Gazette

Marshalls take their marks for the Race for Life
Volunteer race marshalls will be marking out the course and making it safe for entrants.  Volunteers are still being sought to join the Race for Life Special Action Squad at the Essex University event on Sunday, July 26.
Harwich and Manningtree Standard

Last big push for Rising Dogs' hopes
Colchester band Rising Dogs are determined to make it through to the national final of the Live and Unsighted competition. Most recently, the band performed at Essex University for a fundraiser for Amnesty International.
Gazette

Peter's plan to pedal to Paris for charity
Colchester Green Party member Peter Lynn regularly cycles two-and-a-half miles to work at Essex University. Now he plans on riding the 270 miles between London and Paris this July, in aid of the Big Issue Foundation.
Gazette

Tuesday 5

Monday 4

Scientists at University of Essex release new data on biotechnology business
A new study, 'Probes containing runs of guanines provide insights into the biophysics and bioinformatics of Affymetrix GeneChips,' is now available.
NewsRX.com
Biotech Week
Pharma Business Week
Science Letter

Saturday 2

Friday 1

Wheelchair operates by power of thought
Spanish university scientists have developed a wheelchair controlled by the power of thought.  The wheelchair is not the first to be controlled by brain waves, but is the first to incorporate mind-control in a system of real-time navigation, route planning and collision avoidance, computer science lecturer Palaniappan Ramaswamy of Britain's University of Essex, told New Scientist magazine.
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derStandard.at
pressetext.austria

Robot fish to play their part
Robot fish developed by British scientists are to be released into the sea off northern Spain to detect pollution.  Rory Doyle of the BMT Group, which developed the robot fish together with researchers at Essex University, said there were good reasons for making a fish-shaped robot; 'building on hundreds of millions of years' worth of evolution which is incredibly energy-efficient'.
Gulf Industry Magazine

Well done! Marathon runners pound the streets of London to raise thousands for charity
Former Essex University student Amanda Godber crossed the line in 4hrs 50mins, raising about £1,800 for a Mersea Island-based charity.
Essex County Standard