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Liliana Hiris has been named Romania's first honorary consul in Scotland for her work to improve her homeland's image

YolanDa Brown successfully combines management science studies and an award-winning career as a jazz musician

Norman Barry, one of the country's leading exponents of classical liberalism, has died.

Martin Bean is looking to use IT know-how gained at Microsoft to ensure the continued success of The Open University

Willie Doherty uses his art to explore the underlying issues and complexity behind the politics in Northern Ireland

Enock Matovu's groundbreaking research into sleeping sickness is helping to save lives and winning him honours

Tim Thompson uses his skill as a forensic anthropologist to help identify bodies by looking at their tattoos and piercings

Anneliese Mackintosh is one of the postgraduates at Glasgow who produce an online journal to boost their skills

Jeff Yan and a colleague at Newcastle have developed a tool to help web companies beat the spammers

Pharmacologist Robin Plevin's 'health entertainment' uses drama and humour to spread the word on coronary disease

Talking dust-bowl blues: historian and resolutely amateur musician Will Kaufman hymns the world of Guthrie and Steinbeck

Former NUS president Gemma Tumelty remains focused on modern universities with a public affairs role at Million+

Richard Evans, Cambridge's new Regius professor of modern history, finds much to be optimistic about in his discipline

John Hills is to chair a panel that will analyse Britain's continuing social divisions, writes Rebecca Attwood

Paralympic coach Ross Hall explains the psychological side of wheelchair rugby - known as 'murderball' - to Olga Wojtas

The University of Auckland may soon become a big draw for UK students, David Baker tells Olga Wojtas

Heriot-Watt's Greg Michaelson has traded writing computer science textbooks for a work of fiction, discovers Olga Wojtas

A pioneer of multidisciplinary cancer research, described as a true visionary in the field, has died.

'Cyberpsychologist' Mark Griffiths studies the addicts and adepts of online dating and gambling. Melanie Newman reports

Earth scientist Dougal Jerram is giving television viewers a bird's-eye view of Britain from his 'motorbike on wings'

Gerard Kelly, a former president of lecturers' trade union Natfhe, died of liver failure on 2 August at the age of 40.

Misha Ahrens looks forward to spending the four years of his Henry Wellcome Fellowship studying our perception of time