External Notices

University of Oxford

Department of Engineering Science: Three Professorships are currently being advertised:

Laing O’Rourke/RAEng Professorship of Automation in Construction, closing date: 11 March 2013;

Professorship of Mechanical Engineering, closing date: 18 March 2013; and

Professorship of Sustainable Energy Engineering, closing date: 18 March 2013.

Further particulars: http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/fp/.

Department of Materials: Wolfson Professorship of Metallurgy; closing date: 25 February; further particulars: http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/fp/

Radcliffe Department of Medicine: Field Marshall Alexander Professorship of Cardiovascular Medicine; closing date: 4 March 2013; further particulars: http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/fp/

Department of Zoology: Varley-Gradwell Travelling Fellowships in Insect Ecology 2013; value: up to £2,500; closing date: 5 April 2013; further particulars: email claire.harvey@zoo.ox.ac.uk or see http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/trustfunds

Museum of the History of Science: Directorship; closing date: 11 March; further particulars: http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/fp/

Wolfson College: Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies – textual sources and material culture; closing date: 18 March 2013 at 4 p.m.; further particulars: http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/fellowships/

Woolf Institute, Cambridge

Dr Yaron Peleg will give a Woolf Institute Open Lecture entitled A tale of two nations: irony and history in the works of S. Yizhar and Anton Shammas, at 5 p.m. on 13 February 2013. Dr Peleg is the current Kennedy Leigh Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Studies and comes to Cambridge from George Washington University, where he taught courses on modern Hebrew literature and Israel Studies. Further details are available at: http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/events/.