Alia Sabur has always been a newsmaker. She was the youngest student to attend college, when she was 10, and four years later, the youngest woman to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from Stony Brook University. By 18, she had her doctorate degree in Materials Science and Engineering. And now, the young New Yorker has made headlines again.

Professor Dame Kay Davies, Dr Lee’s Professor of Anatomy and Fellow of Hertford College, has been honoured today as a 'Woman of Outstanding Achievement'. Her photograph is being shown at the annual photographic exhibition at the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (UKRC).

Honorary President of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, C N R Rao has been elected as the Distinguished Research Professor of Materials by the University of Cambridge.

Internal Revenue Service Chief Counsel Donald L. Korb has selected Gregg D. Polsky as the 2007-2008 Professor in Residence.