Verulam (readers' letters – August 2014)

Undergraduate course lecturer, Harry Partridge, discusses the importance of developing the more intuitive and creative side of the brain – and describes how a short course in art given to final year civil engineering students at Sydney University has endeavoured to encourage students in this direction.

Student Sally Jones put in the effort to organise to undertake a year of her study in the United States. She tells Jackie Whitelaw it was one of the best decisions she's made so far.

A team from University Federico II of Naples present a novel semi-active friction damper device for seismic control.