A former chairman of the council, Professor David Nutt, who was dismissed after saying that LSD and ecstasy are less harmful than alcohol, is currently conducting research into psychedelics' effects on the brain.
"We have a huge opportunity to develop a really coherent strategy for 'big science,' to increase our influence in international organizations and make a step change in the exploitation of the resulting technology," said professor Keith Mason, the council's new chief executive officer.
"What Ambrose did is something I could haul students before the honor council for," Professor Carlton said.
At a seminar this week held by the Political Studies Association – electoral number-crunchers of the kind who monitor Plaid Cymru's council results – Professor John Curtice gave Labour a dark warning: history showed a party can't win without soaring ahead in the years before an election, and Labour's lead is far too feeble.
In conservative San Diego, voters elected progressive Bob Filner -- a former Freedom Rider (he spent two months in a Mississippi jail for defying segregation laws), college professor, school board, city council member and 10-term Congressman (and a founding member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus) -- to be the city's first Democratic mayor since 1992 and only its second since 1971.
For their helpful comments on the paper, we thank Stephen Guy, Chris Graham, Anna Knight, Ann Ryan and Mark Lloyd at Durham County Council and Professor Martin White at Newcastle University.
Professor Aynsley-Green announced that an expert group co-chaired by child health specialist Professor David Hall and Cheshire county council social services director Jo Williams would help develop the new standards.
After leaving Hampshire county council, Colin became professor at Portsmouth University's School of Architecture in 1992 in the hope of bringing academia and practice closer.
But in a polemical article she just wrote with Janet D. Rowley, a council member (and professor of medicine at the University of Chicago), the focus is on scientific realities and "progressive technologies," as if they were sufficient in themselves.
The report by Professor Le Grand said the council should be stripped of control of children's services, following a "legacy of failure".
This will be determined over the next few weeks in a series of meetings between each research council head and Professor Smith.
