http://www.ionoxfordtube.com ...going places online Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:00:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.ox.ac.uk/go.rm?id=17108 http://www.ox.ac.uk/go.rm?id=17096 Professor Ewan McKendrick, currently Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education, Academic Services and University Collections), Herbert Smith Professor of English Private Law, and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, has been appointed Registrar of the University of Oxford. http://www.ox.ac.uk/go.rm?id=17092 Great Britain Women’s Volleyball Team cycled a lap of the Iffley Road athletics track to raise funds for their 2012 Olympic bid on Monday (26 July). http://www.ox.ac.uk/go.rm?id=17089 The Ashmolean Museum has been shortlisted for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize, in recognition of its http://www.ox.ac.uk/go.rm?id=17080 Eight Oxford University academics have been elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy, the national academy for the humanities and social sciences. http://www.ox.ac.uk/go.rm?id=17078 Baroness Helena Kennedy, one of Britain’s most distinguished lawyers, has been elected as the new Principal of Mansfield College. http://www.ox.ac.uk/go.rm?id=17059 Ten endangered species have been given common English names, after the results of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History’s ‘Name a Species’ competition results were announced on Saturday (17 July). http://www.ox.ac.uk/go.rm?id=17056 Oxford research suggests the chains of sugar molecules, or carbohydrates, that cover the outside of the highly variable HIV virus remain constant, are different from those found on human cells, and could form the basis of a promising new approach to an AIDS vaccine. http://www.ox.ac.uk/go.rm?id=17043 http://www.ox.ac.uk/go.rm?id=17041