Lindsay Brooke
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4 December – what’s the story behind door number four?
December 4, 2016
Food for thought – how accurate are our bathroom scales! In March physiology experts in the Division of Medical Sciences and Graduate Medicine helped BBC TV’s The One Show solve a domestic mystery – how accurate are our bathroom scales? Dr Beth Phillips agreed to help presenter Dominic Littlewood investigate five different, newly bought domestic bathroom scales, …
3 December 2016 – what’s the story behind door number three?
December 3, 2016
Claudia’s cause – a story that captured our hearts in February 2016. On what would have been her 10th birthday, researchers at the Children’s Brain Tumour Research Centre at The University of Nottingham gave their thanks to Claudia Burkill’s fundraising which has raised a staggering £250,000 to fund research into the disease that claimed her life. Claudia …
2 December – what’s the story behind door number two?
December 2, 2016
Celebrating 80 years of a Nottingham-born beauty brand In January 2016 Lakeside Arts celebrated the 80th anniversary of the iconic Nottingham-born beauty brand No 7. ‘Inspiring Beauty. No 7 – 80 years of making up the modern woman‘ was the most popular exhibition staged in the Weston Gallery. It showcased previously unseen material from the Boots …
1 December 2016 – what’s the story behind door number one?
December 1, 2016
Trust me I’m a press officer! Back in January 2016 Emma Rayner decided to go the extra mile and volunteer herself for the BBC’s flagship TV health programme ‘Trust Me, I’m a Doctor’. BBC had asked our researchers in musculoskeletal ageing over at the Royal Derby Hospital to set up a small study for their first programme of …
Advent Calendar 2016 – artcodes take the advent calendar into the digital age
It’s a long time since children were satisfied with a printed picture when they prized open the doors of their advent calendar. They have grown to expect some kind of treat – a sweet or toy – as well. But the advent calendar has moved on again – into the digital age. Computer scientists at …
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