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First published in CommUnicate issue 316

German Department Associate Professors Jim Jordan and Steve Lamb recently met Günter Grass, author of The Tin Drum and Nobel Laureate for Literature. As board members of the Ernst Toller Society they were in Neuburg, Bavaria, representing the University at a ceremony to award Grass the Ernst Toller Prize for his contribution to literature and politics.

The German department celebrates a double victory this week, following the announcement that two of the department’s final-year undergraduates, Adam Walther and Oliver Hopwood, have carried off first and third prize respectively in a national essay competition.

First published in CommUnicate issue 315.

Professor Susan Bassnett of the Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies is to Chair the Literary Studies panel of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) for 2007.

Professor Simon Swain, Head of the Department of Classics and Ancient History, has been awarded one of 26 Major Research Fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, for his study into Bryson's Household Management.

Professor Peter Elias, from the Institute of Employment Research, is to become the Chair of all of the multi-disciplinary evaluation panels for the scientific evaluation of the European Commission's Framework Programme 7 Research Infrastructure bids.