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Important medieval records to go online
The most important unpublished records of the Hundred Years War, the Gascon Rolls, will be made available to academic researchers and the general public, thanks to a project led by Oxford.
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Flying start for young entrepreneur
Dr Thomas Whitfield of Oxford University has been marked out as one of the country’s most promising young entrepreneurs, being selected as one of this year’s Flying Start Global Entrepreneurs by the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE).
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High-yield rice to feed the world
Oxford university scientists will take part in an international effort to re-engineer photosynthesis in rice. The initiative is led by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and has received an $11m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Death surge linked with mass privatisation
As many as one million working-age men died due to the economic shock of mass privatisation policies followed by post-communist countries in the 1990s, according to a new study published in The Lancet.