Two Mikados, one university
March 13, 2014
Of all the things you could list to justify the assessment of The University of Nottingham as ‘the nearest Britain has to a truly global university’*, you might expect a comic musical written almost 130 years ago to be somewhere near the bottom. However, two independent productions of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado have provided …
Prestigious stateside trip for Nottingham’s green chemistry expert
February 25, 2014
The University of Nottingham’s green chemistry expert and YouTube star Professor Martyn Poliakoff has recently returned from a prestigious visit to the US and Canada, as part of a mission to showcase the excellence of UK science. Professor Poliakoff accompanied David Willetts, the Minister of Universities and Science, in his capacity as Foreign Secretary of …
Posters in Parliament
February 20, 2014
When third year Art History student Emma Hardiman first set eyes on Hubert the deer, little did she know that just a few short months later she would be invited to the House of Lords. On Tuesday 25 February Emma will present at the Posters in Parliament event arranged by the British Conference of Undergraduate …
Don’t miss your chance to see the Pop Art to Britart at Lakeside Arts Centre
January 30, 2014
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to see Robbie Williams, Princess Diana & Paul Smith in the Same Room before the exhibition closes on 9 February! David Ross, co-founder of the Carphone Warehouse and alumnus of the University, has opened up his extraordinary private art collection to the public and this is a rare opportunity to …
Protecting young people from self harming and suicide
January 23, 2014
Concern is growing over the number of young people taking their own lives as well as an unprecedented increase in cases of self-harm. In the hope of finding ways to tackle the problem professionals who encounter suicide and suicidality in children and young people will be taking part in a conference at The University of Nottingham on …
Prestigious award for Nottingham professor
January 21, 2014
A Nottingham professor has been recognised for his services to social sciences with a prestigious award. Professor Paul Crawford has been elected as an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, the leading body for promoting the public benefit of the social sciences and comprises around 900 individual academicians representing nearly 90,000 social scientists in …
25 Years on Kegworth survivors meet the man who saved their lives.
January 15, 2014
It is 25 years since the Kegworth aircrash and tomorrow morning (Thursday 16 January 2014) the BBC One programme Real Lives Reunited captures the moment two of the survivors are reunited with the man they credit with saving their lives. Professor Angus Wallace, from The University of Nottingham, is one of the country’s leading orthopaedic …
So life-like it’s virtually alive
January 13, 2014
How do you tell if something is alive? The answer to this question should be fairly obvious, but a computer controlled starfish created by a Nottingham PhD student shows that reality isn’t always what it seems. Whilst Richard Brown was a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, he created the computer-controlled installation called …
Pop Art to Britart – the unveiling
November 22, 2013
Pop Art to Britart – Modern Masters from the David Ross Collection opens at Lakeside Arts Centre on Saturday 23 November. This is the first public exhibition of one of the most important collections of modern art in private hands in this country. There will be 60 works in the exhibition, including works by David …
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 …
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