Emma Lowry
International Media Relations Manager, University of Nottingham
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How could sustainable engineering prevent a need for a supermarket ban of palm oil?
May 17, 2018
As UK frozen food retailer Iceland vows to ban palm oil from all its products, Prof. Denny Ng, from University of Nottingham Malaysia, explains why we don’t need to stop using this controversial vegetable oil if it is produced sustainably, and how his research supports this greener approach. Why is palm oil in so many …
Remembering founder of MRI and Nobel Prize winner, Professor Sir Peter Mansfield FRS (1933-2017)
February 9, 2017
Tributes have been paid to Nobel laureate Professor Sir Peter Mansfield, who has died at the age of 83. Sir Peter pioneered the creation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), one of the most important and revolutionary breakthroughs in modern medical science. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2003 for his …
New-look super laboratory to benefit Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine students
January 31, 2017
Teaching space within North Laboratory Building at Sutton Bonington has been refurbished and named in honour of a world-leading Nottingham academic to acknowledge his contribution to animal science. The new laboratory was opened in a celebratory ceremony that took place on Friday 27 January. The Peter Buttery Teaching Laboratory will be a multidisciplinary, open-plan facility …
Student design could solve African grain wastage problem
January 12, 2017
A product design and manufacture graduate at The University of Nottingham recently received a major design award for his low-cost grain storage unit which aims to help prevent post-harvest crop losses on small African farms. Anthony Brown, 22, from Walton-on-Thames, near London, won the “Waste Not, Want Not” challenge in the RSA Student Awards 2016; a …
Nottingham health-tech innovations shown at Parliament
October 25, 2016
The City’s finest health and life science innovations were on display at Westminster for Nottingham in Parliament Day, organised by The University of Nottingham. The day-long event (on 25 October) was designed to demonstrate and celebrate the institutions, businesses and people that make Nottingham great. Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) led a Health and …
Women less likely to negotiate salary on first job than men
Following a recent survey by the Complete University Guide which showed male graduates earned a higher starting salary than their female counterparts in many fields, Professor Susan Marlow, from the Haydn Green Institute, University of Nottingham discusses why this disparity occurs and why women are bucking the trend in STEM subjects. The Complete University Guide …
Pick of the crop in national apprentice challenge
October 10, 2016
Episode two of Farmers Apprentice 2016 saw the 10 finalists, including three agriculture students in the School of Biosciences at the University of Nottingham, undertake their first farming task. Split into two teams, Team Tom and Team Camilla, the contestants were set the challenge to put together a cropping plan to grow wheat against the …
Nottingham civil engineering student wins finalist place in Ford Women in STEM competition
A University of Nottingham civil engineering undergraduate was one of just three finalists in the UK-wide Ford Prize for Women in STEM Study Competition, which recognises the achievements of women working in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, which are traditionally male-dominated fields. Serena Gough, 19, a second-year student at Nottingham, who was announced one of only …
Major power electric aircraft contract signed in China
September 20, 2016
The University of Nottingham in Ningbo, China (UNNC) has signed a 9 million RMB contract with Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd (COMAC) to develop high-power starter generators and controllers, after successfully entering a public bidding process. The project will be delivered by UNNC team leader Professor Chris Gerada, fully supported by the PEMC Group (Power …
A Level success for first sixth-formers at Nottingham University Academy of Science and Technology
August 19, 2016
Nottingham University Academy of Science and Technology (NUAST) is congratulating its first ever cohort of Year 13 students on an outstanding set of A Level and BTEC results. Many NUAST students have secured places at top UK universities in Science, Computing and Engineering qualifications; while others have been accepted onto prestigious Level 3 apprenticeships with …
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