Remembering founder of MRI and Nobel Prize winner, Professor Sir Peter Mansfield FRS (1933-2017)
February 9, 2017
Tributes have been paid to Nobel laureate Professor Sir Peter Mansfield, who has died at the age of 83. Sir Peter pioneered the creation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), one of the most important and revolutionary breakthroughs in modern medical science. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2003 for his …
£3.2m funding for high performance computing centre
February 2, 2017
The Midlands Innovation group of universities and Queen Mary University of London have been awarded £3.2million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to establish HPC Midlands Plus – a centre of excellence in high performance computing (HPC). High performance computing is used to undertake complex simulations, to find solutions for challenging problems …
New-look super laboratory to benefit Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine students
January 31, 2017
Teaching space within North Laboratory Building at Sutton Bonington has been refurbished and named in honour of a world-leading Nottingham academic to acknowledge his contribution to animal science. The new laboratory was opened in a celebratory ceremony that took place on Friday 27 January. The Peter Buttery Teaching Laboratory will be a multidisciplinary, open-plan facility …
Put your own oxygen mask on first?
January 30, 2017
January is notoriously the toughest month for many people – the depths of winter with the sparkle of Christmas behind us, dark days still ahead and the warmth of summer feeling far from reach. But it’s also an excellent time to evaluate our own mental health and devise strategies for protecting our resilience for the …
Academics join former Minister to debate a threat bigger than cancer
January 26, 2017
University of Nottingham experts joined the economist behind a Government Review on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) to spark debate on a crisis that kills 700,000 people a year. Lord Jim O’Neill, along with a panel of academic and industry experts, spoke to a packed audience at the Royal College of Physicians as part of the University’s …
Fifty Years of the 1967 Abortion Act: Time to rethink
Dr Anne-Marie Kramer from the School of Sociology and Social Policy looks at the 1967 Abortion Act as it reaches its 50th anniversary this week. The 1967 Abortion Act allows abortion under certain conditions and on certain grounds. It requires that two doctors certify that an abortion is appropriate. The conditions under which they can …
American Disruption
January 23, 2017
Professor Todd Landman reviews the inauguration of Donald Trump and the days that followed. Friday 20 January and Saturday 21 January 2017 will go down in American history as some of the most dramatic and starkly contrasting days in US politics for some time. The inauguration of Donald Trump on 20 January 2017 as the 45th …
The tougher the target, the greater the gain?
January 17, 2017
In the latest of our New Year, New You blog mini series, Dr Amanda Avery, an expert in diet and nutrition in the School of Biosciences discusses how setting your sights high can be more successful in achieving the healthy lifestyle of your dreams. Healthcare professionals often encourage us to set realistic targets when it comes …
MRI anniversary celebrations
January 16, 2017
MRI experts past, present and those destined to be the MRI researchers of the future gathered at The University of Nottingham on Friday to mark 25 years of the MRI centre and 40 years of MRI research in Nottingham. Among the guests was Sir Peter Mansfield, the Nottingham physicist who won the Nobel Prize for …
Student design could solve African grain wastage problem
January 12, 2017
A product design and manufacture graduate at The University of Nottingham recently received a major design award for his low-cost grain storage unit which aims to help prevent post-harvest crop losses on small African farms. Anthony Brown, 22, from Walton-on-Thames, near London, won the “Waste Not, Want Not” challenge in the RSA Student Awards 2016; a …
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