{"id":100,"date":"2011-05-06T11:19:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/?p=100"},"modified":"2011-05-06T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:19:38","slug":"1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/2011\/05\/06\/1991\/","title":{"rendered":"1991"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Sussex is in the top 10 of research universities. Six of the seven subject groups at Sussex came in the top ratings of four and five of the UFC research-selectivity exercise which denotes national and international excellence<\/li>\n<li>For the third year running Sussex becomes the highest ranking university in the country outside the \u2018golden triangle\u2019 of Oxford, Cambridge and London for receiving 41 British Academy postgraduate studentships<\/li>\n<li>The Sussex Centre for Neuroscience begins a \u00a34 million project on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of the nervous system<\/li>\n<li>Professor Roger Silverstone is appointed as the first Chair of Media Studies<\/li>\n<li>The University\u2019s state-of-the-art Computing Centre is opened in November by Sir Lindsay Bryson, Chairman of the University Council<\/li>\n<li>The University of Sussex Society presents its first honorary Fellowships to Lord Briggs, Sir Richard Attenborough and Adrian Mugridge, the first President of the Student Union<\/li>\n<li>In December Professor Harry Kroto is awarded the 1992 Prize for New Materials for the discovery of Buckminster Fullerenes<\/li>\n<li>During January\u2019s Winter Graduation at the Gardner Centre Levon Chilingirian is made an honorary graduate. The Chilingirian Quartet has been in residence at the Gardner Centre since 1978<\/li>\n<li>A major new exhibition \u2018<em>The Art of Death<\/em>\u2019 is organised at the V&amp;A by Dr Nigel Llewellyn, Sussex art historian<\/li>\n<li>During February Sussex researchers begin a project to assess the extent to which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been successful in influencing policy matters and national policies<\/li>\n<li>In March four local teachers receive honorary degrees in recognition of their contribution to the University\u2019s pioneering PGCE course for school-based teacher-training programmes<\/li>\n<li>Brighton Festival artistic director Gavin Henderson is made honorary graduand at the Court Graduation Ceremony<\/li>\n<li>The Wolfson Lab for solid state chemistry research officially opens in April<\/li>\n<li>Two former Sussex students are elected as MPs at the general election and join the new Government: Nigel Forman and Tony Baldry<\/li>\n<li>Work begins on the new Sussex European Institute: Helen Wallace has been appointed the first Director<\/li>\n<li>In May Emeritus Professor John Maynard Smith donates \u00a370,000 of his 1991 Balzan prize to the University to set up a new PG studentship scheme for research students within BIOLS<\/li>\n<li>June sees the long-term future of the University\u2019s conference centre at the Isle of Thorns secured with the purchase of the freehold of the estate<\/li>\n<li>In July a record number of students graduate in person: over 1,000 attended the two ceremonies Among the honorary graduands was Terry Waite collecting the award he should have received in 1987<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Student numbers<\/h3>\n<p>6,659 students; an increase on last year of around 10 per cent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sussex is in the top 10 of research universities. 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