Funding boost for Nottingham dementia scientists
September 21, 2016
Dementia researchers based at The University of Nottingham have been awarded £13,000 of new funding from Alzheimer’s Research UK for state-of-the-art equipment that will help scientists reveal more about the genetics of diseases like Alzheimer’s. The announcement comes on World Alzheimer’s Day (Wednesday 21 September), a global initiative to highlight the impact of Alzheimer’s and …
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 …
First chemical reaction takes place at Nottingham’s green lab
August 26, 2016
The first chemical reaction has taken place at the GSK Carbon Neutral Laboratory for Sustainable Chemistry (CNL) . The momentous experiment was carried out by undergraduate project student – Lisa Morrison along with Ana Santos and Margarida Trindade, both PhD students in Chemistry at the University. The group, which is led by Professor Peter Licence, …
Christmas Lectures – The Royal Institution assistant required
August 25, 2016
Christmas might seem a long way off but The Royal Institution (Ri) is already gearing up for the festive period! The Institution is looking for an assistant with scientific knowledge to work on this year’s Christmas lectures – Britain’s most prestigious public science lectures. Marking 80 years of television history, since the world’s oldest science …
Is Pokemon Go just the beginning?
July 15, 2016
I’m both excited and intrigued by this week’s hullaballoo around Pokémon Go. These are the words of Steve Benford, Professor of Computer Science & EPSRC Dream Fellow and Professor of Collaborative Computing in the Mixed Reality Laboratory in the School of Computer Science at The University of Nottingham. So what’s his take on the latest Pokémon …
Master’s students brew and launch their own beer in the name of academic research
July 13, 2016
In February this year three students taking an MSc in Brewing Science and Practice at The University of Nottingham, got the opportunity to brew and market their own beer with Castle Rock brewery as part of their project dissertation. Last night saw the official launch of Alternate Universe – described by the team as a …
What happens when sports rules go awry?
July 5, 2016
As Wimbledon quarter finals beckon and the semi-finals of Euro 2016 are about to kick off, operational research scientists have been looking at what happens when the rules of sport are changed or when existing rules lead to unforeseen consequences. They’ve been assessing how administrators and supporters deal with these situations and if their decision …
What Brexit means to London’s aspiration as an Islamic Finance Hub
July 1, 2016
Dr Nafis Alam is an Associate Professor of Finance and Director for the Centre for Islamic Business Finance and Research (CIBFR) at University of Nottingham Malaysia campus (UNMC). Here he writes about the implications of Brexit on London’s aspiration as an Islamic Finance Hub. When Manchester, under the patronage of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister …
Galaxy clusters – what are they?
June 24, 2016
Over 500 scientists are descending on the Jubilee Campus at The University of Nottingham next week to discuss the latest breakthroughs and discoveries in astronomy. Many of these astronomers will be discussing massive agglomerations of galaxies called clusters. Dr Elizabeth Cooke and Kshitija Kelkar who studying distant clusters of galaxies here at the The University of Nottingham. Here …
The importance and consequences of colliding galaxies
June 22, 2016
Five hundred astronomers will gather in Nottingham at the end of June for the Royal Astronomical Society’s annual National Astronomy Meeting – #NAM2016. The UK’s biggest astronomy meeting takes place this year at The University of Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus for one week from the 27 June to the 1 July. In the run up to this prestigious event …
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