Lindsay Brooke
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Make a New Year resolution to improve the world around you
January 3, 2014
A new online course introducing learners of any age to the key issues surrounding sustainability starts next week and you can still sign up because it is free and open to everyone. This is the first free online course run by The University of Nottingham as part of a new venture with FutureLearn. The eight week …
TimeOutKL award adds to list of accolades for fast food sensation
January 2, 2014
Alumni from The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus are hoping 2014 will be as successful as 2013. Their special recipe for fast food Malaysian style has cooked up rack of awards. They’ve added TimeOutKL’s award for Best Western Restaurant 2013 to their growing list of accolades. MyBurgerLab, in Petaling Jaya, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur …
Underwater archaeology comes of age.
December 11, 2013
Using some of the very latest technology Dr Jon Henderson is digitally recording the world’s oldest known naval battlefield off Sicily and has surveyed the oldest submerged town in the world off the coast of Greece. Tomorrow he will give the prestigious Honor Frost Foundation Annual Lecture at the British Academy on ‘Coming of Age: …
Study physics girls and start a revolution!
December 9, 2013
Cosmologist tells girls to reach for the stars! In many ways I am the worst person to write about why young women chose not to study physics because I have been studying physics since I picked my A-levels in 1999. I’ve never regretted that decision, it was the first step on a path that has …
Dementia patients need the ‘real deal’
We need to use every means at our disposal to improve the lives of people with dementia and their carers, says Tom Dening, Professor of Dementia Research at The University of Nottingham. Professor Dening heads a research group at the University dedicated to high quality, useful research looking at how people with dementia spend their …
News from our scientists at Westminster
December 5, 2013
Professor Philip Moriarty and Dr Clare Burrage from Physics and Astronomy have been spending the week at Westminster. Check out the latest on Philip’s blog on physicsfocus.
Scientists go behind the scenes at Westminster
December 3, 2013
A physicist who studies the building blocks of matter and a cosmologist who delves into the evolution of the universe are spending a week at Westminster to find out how government works. They are leaving their lab and equations behind to discover how science policy is formed and to gain an understanding of the working …
BBC’s Matthew Bannister launches New Theatre appeal
November 14, 2013
This weekend, the award winning Nottingham New Theatre (NNT) welcomes BBC broadcaster and Nottingham alumnus Matthew Bannister to an event to launch a new ‘seat naming’ appeal. Remarkably for a university with no dedicated drama or theatre related course the NNT is the only entirely student run theatre in the country. Since 1969 the theatre …
Lancet debate on benefits of ‘brown fat’
November 12, 2013
Professor Michael E Symonds from The University of Nottingham’s School of Medicine, comments in the Lancet today on new research, published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, which suggests ethnicity might affect the function of brown fat – the body’s good fat. Professor Symonds and his team are studying the benefits of brown fat – …
Elephant research on BBC Radio 4
November 8, 2013
Elephants don’t forget! The BBC Radio 4 programme ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ presented by Kate Adie reports from Malaysia on The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus research into the management and ecology of Malaysian elephants – MEME. Journalist Bob Walker took a field trip with MEME earlier this year. Listen to the story he filed …
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