Taking over from A/Prof Grace Ong and Dr William Koh as Associate Directors are A/Prof Lim Lum Peng and A/Prof Ter Kah Leng, representatives from the Faculties of Dentistry and Business Administration respectively. Their term of appointment will run from 1 February 2001–31 December 2002. We welcome both A/Prof Lim and A/Prof Ter and look forward to working closely with them.

We also welcome Mrs Angeline Leigh Carpenter-Ames who joined us on 2 January 2001 as our new Research Assistant.