My time at Nottingham
April 3, 2014
By Zoe Ashton (BA Hons English Language and Literature, 2013) As a child, I came to University Park campus with my Grandma, who lived in Beeston, and feed the squirrels. After spending three years at the same campus in a more academic fashion, studying English, my love for the green campus didn’t dwindle. Right up …
Falling in love at Nottingham…
February 14, 2014
As we celebrate Valentine’s day today, I got to thinking about the couples who found love while studying here. As well as gaining a world class degree many also found their partners for life…. Like Pat and Dickie Bond from Devon who met at the University ‘hop’ in Christmas 1954. They were never an item …
Why did you choose The University of Nottingham?
February 6, 2014
Cast your minds back to when you were applying to University, what were the main factors which affected your decisions? Why did you choose to come to Nottingham? Making the decision to continue onto further education is arguably more complicated than ever before, with a multitude of factors playing a role in which institutions to …
How the Cascade funded Lakeside Literacy project inspired me to teach…
December 11, 2013
Written by Abigail Blaylock When I was small, I had this favourite picture from The Wind in the Willows. It was of Mole, Ratty, Badger and Toad having a picnic in the middle of a hollow tree. For children, hollow trees were everywhere, in the chronicles of Narnia, for the Famous Five to hide in, for …
Malaysian Rainforest Project
November 20, 2013
Biology student James Mudie took part in a trip to the tropical rainforests of the Krau Wildlife Reserve, Malaysia this summer. While he was there he assisted with research into the agriculture carried out by local people and its impact on forest regeneration. Funded thanks to donations from alumni and friends to the Cascade fund, …
Playing with fire!
October 10, 2013
Over the last 100 years there have been iconic people, places and events associated with The University of Nottingham. Alumni remember them all and many stories about them have been featured in Alumni Exchange Magazine. For the first time the Remembering Nottingham Blog will reproduce some of these articles. Feel free to add your own …
When volunteering is a good idea….
September 27, 2013
Alumna Clare Harvey, Creative Writing 2012, reflects on her involvement this year with the Lakeside Literacy Project which has been supported by the University’s Cascade fund. So, you’re doing a full-time masters, wading through all that reading and writing and meanwhile your husband is on a six-month operational tour of duty in Afghanistan and so …
Class of 2013 – Their favourite memories
July 31, 2013
We asked our Class of 2013 to tell us their favourite university memory, what is your favourite memory from your time at Nottingham?
Graduation – and my favourite uni memories
July 12, 2013
By Tom Barnes (English 2012) For many, graduation is a formality at the end of three years of boozing, library all-nighters and rushed deadlines. That last lecture seems an age away, and that last scrawled exam answer is already long forgotten. But the important bit is that you made it to graduation, collecting your degree …
Remembering Nottingham – The Manchester Chapter
June 25, 2013
We asked all our alumni who attended the recent alumni reception in Manchester to leave their favourite memories of the university. These will be posted here shortly. In the meantime what were your favourite memories? Please leave these in the comment section below.
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