2012 Video Highlights from the Press Office
December 26, 2012
If you get a bit fed up of Christmas TV, take a look at the University Of Nottingham’s video highlights from 2012, brought to you by the Press Office.
Starter for ten, fingers on the buzzers University of Nottingham
December 23, 2012
If you not spent much time in the UK, you may not have come across a TV programme called University Challenge but many of us will realise that it is almost a national institution (it has been running for about 50 years). This piece, from Midlands Business News, starts “Four prominent University of Nottingham alumni …
400 pupils to get a Christmas lecture
December 18, 2012
This is the opening from a recent piece that appeared in thisisnottingham.co.uk: “Hundreds of schoolchildren will get an insight into engineering at the University of Nottingham. More than 400 14- to 16-year-olds will attend the …. “. The full article is available here. The header image is courtesy of http://www.krakatau-tour.com/
Quentin Willson visits The University of Nottingham to refuel hydrogen car
December 17, 2012
Published on the 21st Oct 2012, this youtube video reports on a visit to the Jubilee Campus by motoring journalist Quentin Willson. The blurb for the video reads: “TV presenter and motoring expert Quentin Willson visited The University of Nottingham to film part of a short film put together by ITM Power about their Ecoisland …
Dominic Foo: Book Launch on Process Integration
December 15, 2012
A book launching event was held during the 26th Symposium of Malaysian Chemical Engineers, in conjunction with the 4th International Conference On Chemical And Bioprocess Engineering (SOMChE-ICCBPE-2012) recently at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Malaysia (21-23 November 2012). The new book entitled “Process Integration for Resource Conservation”, was authored by Professor Ir Dr Dominic Foo, the Founding …
Seeing the world through the eyes of an orangutan
December 14, 2012
I was just digging around youtube (as you do), searching for the University of Nottingham and I came across this video from Neil Mennie. It was posted on the 27th Nov 2012. It’s well worth a watch if you want to know what the Cognitive and Sensory Research Group at UNMC are up to. Or, …
Thar’s gold in them thar vaults: Martyn Poliakoff has seen it!
December 13, 2012
You might recall the Royal Society Rutherford lecture that we hosted recently, was given by the University of Nottingham’s Professor Martyn Poliakoff. One of the things that Martyn is famous for is his youtube The Periodic Table of Videos. They must have made an impression as Professor Poliakoff was recently allowed into the Bank of …
Engineers need higher salaries to stop them leaving the profession early
December 11, 2012
This is the opening to a report that recently appeared in the Daily Telegraph in the UK. “Sir James Dyson is right to point out that we need engineers to stay in Britain for the long-term good of the country (Letters, November 30). We also need our best engineers to stay in the profession. There …
Cost of a degree: Malaysia looks good?
December 9, 2012
I know that UNMC are sometimes thought of as an expensive option (I like to think that it is value for money) when studying for a degree in Malaysia. The Independent (a UK newspaper) suggests that the true cost of doing a degree in the UK is about £100,000. See the article here. Suddenly we …
A new era of food coatings
December 7, 2012
An article has just appeared on the National Geographic web site. It focuses on the work of Asgar Ali. The article begins: “Every day we face a maximum payload of packed shelves deburring, sticky texture of fruits, home and fret that the sticky coating used to protect crops, almost impossible to wash off.” The full …
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