December 14, 2017, by Liz Cass
The 12 Days of Christmas according to the University of Nottingham news
This year to celebrate a year in the life of a University of Nottingham press office we’ve put our own spin on the 12 Days of Christmas.
You can watch this video, recorded with the University’s A Cappella Society providing the vocals.
Or sing your own version with our lyrics below:
On the first day of Christmas Nottingham gave to me a brand new President and VC.
On the second day of Christmas Nottingham gave to me two royal visits and a brand new President and VC.
On the third day of Christmas Nottingham gave to me 3D selfies, two royal visits and a brand new President and VC.
On the fourth day of Christmas Nottingham gave to me four Dolly sheep, 3D selfies, two royal visits and a brand new President and VC.
On the fifth day of Christmas Nottingham gave to me five pound note destroyed, four Dolly sheep, 3D selfies, two royal visits and a brand new President and VC.
On the sixth day of Christmas Nottingham gave to me six beacons of excellence, five pound note destroyed, four Dolly sheep, 3D selfies, two royal visits and a brand new President and VC.
On the seventh day of Christmas Nottingham gave to me seven lifecycles cycled, six beacons of excellence, five pound note destroyed, four Dolly sheep, 3D selfies, two royal visits and a brand new President and VC.
On the eighth day of Christmas Nottingham gave to me eight MRI scanners, seven lifecycles cycled, six beacons of excellence, five pound note destroyed, four Dolly sheep, 3D selfies, two royal visits and a brand new President and VC.
On the ninth day of Christmas Nottingham gave to me nine dino fossils, eight MRI scanners, seven lifecycles cycled, six beacons of excellence, five pound note destroyed, four Dolly sheep, 3D selfies, two royal visits and a brand new President and VC.
On the tenth day of Christmas Nottingham gave to me ten geese-a-tunnelling, nine dino fossils, eight MRI scanners, seven lifecycles cycled, six beacons of excellence, five pound note destroyed, four Dolly sheep, 3D selfies, two royal visits and a brand new President and VC.
On the eleventh day of Christmas Nottingham gave to me 11 lefty snails, ten geese-a-tunnelling, nine dino fossils, eight MRI scanners, seven lifecycles cycled, six beacons of excellence, five pound note destroyed, four Dolly sheep, 3D selfies, two royal visits and a brand new President and VC.
On the twelfth day of Christmas Nottingham gave to me 12 Thistlegorm dives, 11 lefty snails, ten geese-a-tunnelling, nine dino fossils, eight MRI scanners, seven lifecycles cycled, six beacons of excellence, five pound note destroyed, four Dolly sheep, 3D selfies, two royal visits and a brand new President and VC.
With thanks to
Lucy Bailey 3rd yr English and Philosophy student, Abigail Chubb 2nd year Computer Science and AI student, Nancy Gutteridge 2yr Zoology student, Carlyle Shaw PG Chinese English translation and interpreting student and Christoper Shaw 1st Natural Sciences student.
And the best of the rest…
We celebrated a bumper year of press coverage and news with our stories reaching billions of people around the world.
January
We unveiled the future of MRI, celebrating 25 years of the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre.
And we celebrated a chance meeting which lead to the creation of Antibiotic spider silk.
February
We saw the sad passing of Nobel Prize winner Sir Peter Mansfield, the rock on which MRI was founded.
The French election and the 90 blogs he penned on the subject continued to keep Dr Paul Smith in the news.
March
Horny sheep provided an interesting headline as we revealed the missing link that makes sheep horny in the winter
A cake competition went viral when science met baking
April
Eat more wild venison to protect the birds was a call from our expert ecologist Dr Markus Eichhorn
We celebrated a world first as we launched a masters course in ending slavery
May
Black death has polluted European air for 2,000 years according to a new study
Olympians gave their seal of approval to the new David Ross Sports Village at its official opening
June
We made waves with black hole research
And we achieved a Gold award in the Teaching Excellence Framework
July
Slavery made the news again as we talked about using satellites to track slavery from space
And how an MRI scan can show how a placenta feeds the baby in the womb
August
Why yawning is so contagious and why should it matter
And what is the difference between Asian and African elephants?
September
Nottingham’s flying motorcycle prepared for take-off
While a UoN scientist proved the theory chemists have waited two decades to understand
October
Masterchef inspired an engineer to cook up a new recipe for self-healing roads.
While a new species of ichthyosaur was found in a storeroom
November
We created Scotland’s first coast-to-coast land motion map
And radiographs of Dolly the sheep’s skeleton showed no signs of abnormal osteoathritis
December
We revealed new insights in the life and death of Jumbo the elephant
And we traced the fingerprint of a parasitic hook worm.
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