From today's UK papers

FINANCIAL TIMES

Douglas Breeden has been named dean of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, North Carolina.

THE GUARDIAN

University of Surrey biologist Johnjoe McFadden argues that unless we embrace genetic engineering, we will grow into a sickly and frail species.

THE INDEPENDENT

Archaeologists from Leicester University have discovered one of the first forts built by the Romans during their conquest of Britain, about 10 miles north of Oxford.

DAILY MAIL

Children who are too young for school when their mothers return to work may go on to get lower A-level results, research from Essex University suggests.

THE TIMES

Gillian Evans, a Cambridge University theology lecturer and a former member of the university's governing council, has called for an investigation into multi-million pound donations made to Cambridge by the Hinduja brothers.

Manil Suri, a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland,  United States, has received critical acclaim for his first novel, set in his home city of Bombay.

A new device developed at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France, allows blind people to "see" with their mouths.

MISCELLANY

Scientists from Stanford University in California have discovered that people who have a "glass half empty" view of life are not miserable by choice. Their brains work differently from those of optimists. ( Daily Mail , Times )

Drug development company Oxford Biomedica is to get exclusive access to a gene associated with nerve repair under an agreement with a team of scientists at King's College London. ( Guardian , Independent , Daily Telegraph )