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Announcement of lectures and seminars

The following lectures and seminars will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:

Criminology. David Downes, Professor of Social Administration and Director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice at the London School of Economics and Political Science, will give a lecture on Thursday, 7 March, at 5.30 p.m. in Room B16 in the Faculty of Law, West Road. The lecture is entitled The skeletons in the closet: the politics of law and order over the last decade.

MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit Seminars. Seminars will be held at 3 p.m. on Wednesdays, in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road. For enquiries, please contact Jean Seymour or Penny Cousins (tel. 01223 252704).

6 March Hydrogenosomes - convergent adaptations of (proto?)mitochondria to anaerobic environments, by Dr Johannes H. P. Hackstein, of the Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Host: John Walker.
20 March A tale of canaries, crystals, and chewing trees, by Professor John Burn, of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Host: Sheila Bingham.
24 April Mitochondrial intermembrane junctional complexes and their role in cell death, by Dr Martin Crompton, of University College London. Host: Martin Brand.

University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate. The University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate's Advisory Council for New Technologies in Assessment (ACNTA) regrets to announce the postponement of its next seminar which was scheduled to be held at 4.30 p.m. on Thursday, 7 March, in Downing College. The seminar was entitled Technology in support of language assessment and vicarious learning, by Professor Charles Alderson, Lancaster University and Professor Terry Mayes, Glasgow Caledonian University.

The postponement is due to unforeseen circumstances whereby one of the speakers has had to withdraw at this time. It is planned to hold the seminar during Autumn 2002. Further details regarding this seminar series, on the uses of ICT in assessment, can be found at http://ital.ucles-red.cam.ac.uk/ACNTA/

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Cambridge University Reporter, 27 February 2002
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