Amy Stamper
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Christmas opening hours
December 19, 2014
Happy Christmas to all our staff and students in the UK, China and Malaysia! Most buildings on the University’s UK campuses will be closed from 5pm on 24 December, re-opening on 5 January. However, the main University libraries will be open on the dates and times shown below: Hopper buses There will be no University …
Legal compliance podbriefings
November 11, 2014
The University of Nottingham has created a series of videos designed to inform and raise awareness of important legal topics and issues of compliance amongst university staff. Each video contains an interview with a practising lawyer who is an expert in the relevant field and who explains the law (current at the time of filming) …
Update on the Jubilee Campus fire
September 13, 2014
The University of Nottingham’s Registrar Dr Paul Greatrix said: “We can confirm that a major fire at our Jubilee Campus on the evening of Friday September 12 has completely destroyed our new GlaxoSmithKline Carbon Neutral Laboratory for Sustainable Chemistry which was under construction. “We are incredibly grateful to our staff and students for their fantastic …
Fire on Jubilee Campus
September 12, 2014
Dr Paul Greatrix, Registrar at The University of Nottingham said: “Firefighters are currently on site dealing with a major fire at our GSK sustainable chemistry building on Jubilee Campus.“Thankfully, there have been no casualties as this is a building that was still under construction. Our number one priority is to ensure that the fire does …
Best of the blogs: May
May 23, 2014
Student life: revision tips you may not have heard before! As the exam period is in full swing, student blogger Ollie takes us through some of his unusual tips for revision. There is method to his madness as he explains why he likes to scribble along illegibly as he reads over his work, or outlines how 10-hour long …
2012 Video highlights
December 21, 2012
In the year that saw the University’s YouTube EDU channel hit 1 million views, we thought it was a good idea to showcase some of our video highlights from the last 12 months. Viral videos One of our biggest viral YouTube hits was the Vortex Cannon, produced by students involved in URN, the University’s award-winning …
Go Tom Go!
June 2, 2012
The University of Nottingham has yet another alumnus in the final of the hugely popular BBC programme The Apprentice. Tom Gearing (History 2009) from South West London, will be battling it out in Sunday’s final and is tipped as one of the hot favourites to win the competition. The programme, fronted by multi millionaire tycoon …
Politics lecturer, Andrew Mumford, on the Syrian uprising
February 27, 2012
Politics lecturer, Andrew Mumford, writes in the Nottingham Evening Post on the Syrian uprising: When comparing Syria to other countries wrapped up in popular uprisings across the Arab world it is clear there are haunting echoes of Libya: an intractable regime unleashing the full force of military power against rebel areas with no heed for …
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