Main stories - July 2002

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Schools in battle of the bunsens
SECONDARY school pupils from across the south east had a chance to experience some real practical chemistry when the university hosted the Salter's Festival of Chemistry in May.

Future fabrics
NOVEL uses for industrial fibres are a common feature of the two outstanding winners of the university's 2002 Innovation Awards.

Peace is the goal for Israel trip
A PIONEERING peace project that uses sport to bring together children from divided communities is to fly out to war-torn northern Israel in August.

New database will speed up cancer research
THE Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is to lend its expertise to a £1.6 million project to turn NHS medical records into a computerised database.

Ex-BBC Director General to become new Chair of Governors
FORMER Director General of the BBC Sir Michael Checkland has been elected Chairman of the university's Board of Governors.

UK housing policy is 'crumbling'
PROFESSOR Peter Ambrose delivered a clear message to the Chancellor Gordon Brown in his lecture at the Falmer Campus in June that chronic under-investment in Britain's housing stock is a very expensive 'economy'.

Rise of the robots
WARRING robots have taken over the university's School of Engineering - and it's all the fault of lecturer Ian Watts' young son Joe.

The 'studentification' of a city
'GENTRIFICATION' is a term coined in the late 1960s to describe the colonisation of formerly run-down areas by the middle classes, and the subsequent displacement of the working classes. But the massive expansion of higher education has now given us a new term - 'studentification'.

Student on placement helps UK resist terrorism
WILL Morris, a BA(Hons) Computing and Information Systems student at the University of Brighton, was working in the British government's emergency engine room when the planes struck the twin towers on 11 September.