{"id":109,"date":"2011-05-06T11:29:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/?p=109"},"modified":"2011-05-06T11:29:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:29:30","slug":"1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/2011\/05\/06\/1994\/","title":{"rendered":"1994"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The RAE represents a threat to Sussex\u2019s interdisciplinary      tradition because it is discipline-based. Nonetheless the University does well      in the 1992 exercise<\/li>\n<li>Ten new professors are appointed; six internal and four external<\/li>\n<li>Twelve new Research Centres are set up across the University to      improve PG teaching and research<\/li>\n<li>Quentin and Ann Olivier Bell are awarded honorary degrees in      recognition for their work on Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group<\/li>\n<li>The Sussex Centre for Neuroscience is inaugurated by the Duke      of Kent<\/li>\n<li>Newscaster Julia Somerville (Sussex alumna) is awarded an      Honorary Fellowship at the launch of a new club to promote social and      professional relations among former students living in the area<\/li>\n<li>Harry Kroto with Donald Huffman, Wolfgang Kratschmer and      Richard Smalley are awarded the Hewlett Packard Europhysics Prize for      discovering new molecular forms of carbon<\/li>\n<li>The Alumni office organises a reunion of nearly 200 Sussex who      graduated in 1964-5. They are joined by 23 original lecturers and former VC      Asa Briggs<\/li>\n<li>Members of Sussex African Students Association plant a tree in      front of the Meeting House to commemorate the first multi-racial elections      in South Africa<\/li>\n<li>In May the Students\u2019 Union run the largest student event in the      UK, the Sussex Carnival, lasting three days<\/li>\n<li>Two summer graduations take place for over 1,400 students at      the Brighton Centre. Among the graduands are mother and daughter Frances      Barry and Rachel Gold \u2013 both achieve first-class degrees<\/li>\n<li>Sir Harrison Birtwhistle is awarded an honorary doctorate at      Glyndebourne<\/li>\n<li>The University has a raft of development plans, including the refurbishment      of Essex House; a new student development in Kings Road, Brighton; long-term      plans for an extra 800 study bedrooms; an extension to the Library; the refurbishment      of Falmer House, the Agricultural and Food Research Council (AFRC)      refurbished and adapted for academic purposes; and the building of the Sussex      Innovation Centre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Government freeze on full-time student numbers means that Sussex will focus on increasing part-time student numbers. Links with local colleges as providers of Access courses and foundation degrees is crucial in this work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RAE represents a threat to Sussex\u2019s interdisciplinary tradition because it is discipline-based. Nonetheless the University does well in the 1992 exercise Ten new professors are appointed; six internal and four external Twelve new Research Centres are set up across the University to improve PG teaching and research Quentin and Ann Olivier Bell are awarded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/fiftyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}