Professor Hugh Mellor has been appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor until 31 December 2001. His chief responsibilities will be academic co-ordination of the University's submissions for the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) and advising the Vice-Chancellor on support for the humanities.

Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who will be giving his views on the upcoming Intergovernmental Conference.

One of the long-standing mysteries of the sea-floor has been solved. In this week's Nature, scientists from the University of Cambridge set out a model which shows why hot springs occurring deep beneath the ocean can never reach temperatures of more than 400 degrees centigrade.

The Lord Chancellor and Professor John Baker, the current Downing Professor of the Laws of England, inspecting computer facilities in the Maitland Legal History Room.

A student in a first-year practical class in the Department of Plant Sciences Teaching Laboratory.

Mary Baxter with one of the objects of her research.

Members of the early music group Gothic Voices, which is directed by Dr Christopher Page (second right), a Reader in the English Faculty.

The creation of the Cambridge-MIT Institute took a major step forward today, when MIT announced the appointment of John Vander Sande as the US director, acting as the transatlantic equivalent of Dr David Livesey who is heading up the operation from Cambridge. In Cambridge UK, the academic community is preparing to discuss the details of the Institute.

Over the last few months, the Independent has had full and open access to all stages of the admissions process at Clare College, Cambridge. Everything, from the application forms, the internal meetings to the interviews themselves, has come under scrutiny as the College has shown the time and care needed to make the right decisions about its future students.

n01se, a major set of related exhibitions, is now open at Cambridge.