Lindsay Brooke
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BBC’s new ‘Tomorrow’s Food’ series checks out Nottingham’s X-ray vision for the future of our crops
November 19, 2015
BBC One – 9pm Monday 23 November – Dara O Briain one of the presenters of ‘Tomorrow’s Food’ looks in on the Hounsfield Facility. The Hounsfield Facility at The University of Nottingham is home to three state of the art 3D microCT (X-ray) scanners and a multidisciplinary team of experts who use non-destructive technologies and …
Antimicrobial resistance – the search for new collaborative research projects
November 16, 2015
A total of £368,000 is on offer to University of Nottingham researchers who can help to devise interdisciplinary research projects into antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The World Health Organization (WHO) – staging its World Antibiotic Awareness Week this week – says this increasingly serious global threat to the effective treatment and prevention of a growing number of …
Typhoon Yolanda – 2 years on and what the future holds
November 9, 2015
A team of researchers from The University of Nottingham in Ningbo and the UK and the University of the Philippines are in Leyte looking at poverty alleviation following the devastating typhoon Yolanda that hit the Philippines two years ago. They will spend the next two years assessing the effectiveness of the rehabilitation and livelihood strategies in …
Tram named after Nottingham’s Nobel Laureate and co-inventor of the MRI scanner
October 28, 2015
Nobel Laureate Sir Peter Mansfield, one of the world’s most celebrated scientists, has had a Nottingham tram named after him. Sir Peter was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 for his role in the development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) – an honour he shared with Paul Lauterbur. Much of that …
Calling all EPSRC science photographers
October 13, 2015
Do you have an eye for imagery that captures the scientific weird and wonderful or those Eureka moments? Would you like to share your photos to support excellence and promote outstanding UK engineering and physical sciences research? If so you might want to take part in the EPSRC 2015 Science Photo Competition. Launched today it runs …
Celebrating the life of Ada Lovelace – the world’s first computer programmer
Sixty Symbols celebrates Ada Lovelace Day. Michael Merrifield, Professor and Astronomy and Dr Meghan Gray an observational extragalactic astronomer in the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Nottingham discuss the genius of Ada Lovelace – the world’s first computer programmer. This video by Brady Haran’s Sixty Symbols (‘cool videos about Physics and Astronomy’ …
Have your cake and rate it!
October 8, 2015
As 13 million of us sat down to watch the final of the Great British Bake Off 2015 last night two academics at The University of Nottingham were putting the final touches to a cake survey – all in the name of research of course! Khaled Bachour and Nils Jaeger in the School of Computer Science …
Blood Moon – Astronomy or Astrology?
September 26, 2015
This blog has been written by Michael Merrifield, Professor of Astronomy in the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Nottingham. One of the minor irritation in every astronomer’s life is in being introduced occasionally as an astrologer. In fact, there really shouldn’t be much confusion, as professional astrologers are far better paid …
Academics and PhD students go behind the scenes at the BBC
September 18, 2015
A big thank you to the BBC – particularly Jo Davies from BBC Radio Nottingham and weather forecaster Anna Church – for a fascinating tour of the BBC in Nottingham last night. The visit was arranged by the University’s Media Relations team for the winners of the press release writing competition which was held earlier …
Virginia shootings – America’s Unexploded Bombs
August 27, 2015
Blog by Peter J. Ling Professor of American Studies, head of the Department of American & Canadian Studies, member of the Centre for Research on Race and Rights. Author of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Routledge Historical Biographies). Vester L. Flanagan II, also known as Bryce Williams, explained his killing of two former TV station colleagues in …
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