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Professor Yuri Oganessian celebrates year of periodic table with Nottingham visit
March 15, 2019
Professor Yuri Oganessian, esteemed nuclear physicist and the only living person to have an element named after him gave the Sir Jesse Boot Foundation lecture to a packed audience to help celebrate the 150th year of the Periodic Table. As well as giving the lecture which covered some of Yuri’s world-leading research into superheavy chemical …
Women scientists are here and we’re fiercer than ever
March 8, 2019
By Dr Rebecca Dewey, Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham. We’re experiencing a nouvelle vague of intelligent, prominent women in the media, and the existence of events like International Women’s Day are the icing on the cake. Whether or not you’ve been aware of discussions in the media around Angela Saini’s Inferior campaign and …
Undergraduates join the fight against malaria with new drug discovery programme.
March 4, 2019
The University of Nottingham has embarked on a new drug discovery programme within its School of Chemistry to help in the fight to treat malaria, one of the world’s deadliest diseases. In an extension of the longstanding collaboration between the School of Chemistry and GSK, fourth year undergraduates from UoN have started work on a new …
From the obvious to the obscure – how the Nottingham Periodic Table is shaping up
March 1, 2019
Over 300 suggestions have been made for the Nottingham Periodic Table that is being created to celebrate the International Year of the Periodic Table – a task that has certainly captured people’s imaginations! To mark this anniversary year the University of Nottingham is creating its very own Nottingham version of the Periodic Table and has …
Lecture on ‘How Science Got Women Wrong’ from award-winning broadcaster and journalist
Award-winning science journalist Angela Saini is giving a special lecture on International Women’s Day, 8 March, where she will discuss science’s failure to understand women. Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist and broadcaster. She regularly presents science programmes for the BBC, and her writing has appeared in New Scientist, the Guardian, The Times, and Wired. Her latest book, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong, was published in 2017 to …
From Kurdistan to Nottingham – celebrating top Maths honour
February 28, 2019
Celebrating the Fields Medal awarded to Nottingham’s former PhD student Caucher Birkar – the medal is the highest honour in mathematics and the first such medal awarded to a UK mathematician in the last 20 years The University of Nottingham has recognised the remarkable achievements of PhD alumnus, Caucher Birkar, who studied at the university after …
Women targeted with new digital training programme
February 21, 2019
One hundred women across the north and midlands will have the chance to retrain in the digital sector thanks to a new online programme supported by over £500,000 from the Institute of Coding. TechUP is led by Durham University in partnership with the universities of Nottingham, Edge Hill and York. The programme is open to women …
Science hits the streets for festival
February 18, 2019
Science was bringing smiles to the faces of people in Nottingham this weekend as the Festival of Science and Curiosity hit the streets, shoppings centres and libraries. Volunteers from the University of Nottingham were in action helping people gets hands-on with science with a range of fun activities including: finding out about biofilms and bacteria, …
Musical composition and its impact on culture and research
February 8, 2019
Music and Computer Science may at first appear to sit at opposite ends of the spectrum, but new and creative ways of composing music based on algorithms and complex mathematical structures are enabling researchers and composers to develop new pieces of music which are being performed in the UK. One of these pieces is ‘Pen …
US science superfan has Christmas wish granted with visit to YouTube hero
December 20, 2018
An 8-year-old science fan from California had his Christmas wish come true when he met his science hero and YouTube star Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff. Ajay Sawant and his family took a 12 hour detour en route from California to Mumbai to visit family in India especially to pay Ajay’s hero a visit on Monday …
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