Happy New Year: Ring in the Changes
January 1, 2013
As we say goodbye to 2012 and welcome in 2013, the University is also undergoing significant change today. Our new Chancellor (Sir Andrew Witty) assumes his new role today. You can read a little more about him on the From the Vice Chancellor’s desk blog. I was fortunate enough to meet him briefly when I …
MOHE Workshop and Proposals
December 31, 2012
You will recall an MOHE workshop that we held last year (details on other MOHE activity can be seen here and details of other workshop activity can be seen here). The aim of the workshop was to give you more information about MOHE proposals and also for you to start thinking about your proposals a lot …
Kajang: Jewel of the south
December 28, 2012
This is not really about research, but it does show how the campus is somehow influencing the local area (search for Nottingham) Kajang Jewel of the South The header picture is courtesy of Malaysia Property News.net
£40m Manufacturing Technology Centre proves smash hit
December 27, 2012
Although this technology centre is based in Coventry, as the article says “It is a partnership between some of the UK’s major global manufacturers and three universities: Birmingham, Nottingham and Loughborough as well as TWI Ltd, the operating division of The Welding Institute.” Header Picture Courtesy of CoventryTelegraph.net
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.
Happy Christmas: The 2011 Advent Calendar
December 25, 2012
Last year (2011), from 1 December through to Christmas Day, The University of Nottingham’s e-Advent calendar showcased festive and wintry items from the University’s Manuscripts and Special Collections department. You can view all of the 24 specially selected items at the blog they set up.
Graduate School Christmas Party
December 24, 2012
It has become something of a tradition that the Graduate School throw a Christmas Party for all our postgraduate students. I have only been able to go to two (2011 and 2012) and both have been very well attended and the students seem to appreciate the opportunity to have an early celebration of Christmas. It …
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 …
Book Launch: Solar Drying: Fundamentals, Applications and Innovations
December 21, 2012
A new e-book was launched recently from a joint effort between academic Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering staff from the Center for Food and Bio-Product Processing and the Transport Processes Research group, NUS, Singapore. The title of the e-book is “Solar Drying: Fundamentals, Applications and Innovations” (ISBN: 978-981-07-3336-0). It is edited by Dr Ching …
The end of journals? Open access, impact and the production of knowledge
December 20, 2012
There is a lot of debate at the moment about Open Access publishing and Warren Pearce (a PhD student) has written an interesting blog post as part of the University’s Making Science Public blog. The post is motivated by the fact that research funding agencies are increasingly insisting that the research they fund is Open …
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