On your marks?
January 10, 2017
It’s estimated that more than two million people in England are regularly putting on their trainers and pounding the pavement in an effort to stay active. So could running be the cheap, effective way for you to get fit for 2017? In the second of our New Year, New You blog series, Roger Kerry, associate professor in …
The new year’s resolution fitness drive: a road to nowhere?
January 3, 2017
It’s January, when thoughts turn to the year ahead and the inevitable resolutions. In our New Year, New You blog series, guest bloggers from around the university will offer advice on what we should – and shouldn’t – do to be successful in our quest to a happier and healthier 2017 and beyond. In the first …
University celebrated in New Year Honours
December 31, 2016
Two members of The University of Nottingham have been recognised by The Queen in the New Year Honours. Shona Powell, Director of Nottingham Lakeside Arts, has been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her work in the arts- most notably transforming the University of Nottingham’s arts centre and museum …
Nottingham alumni ready for Boxing Day University Challenge
December 21, 2016
University of Nottingham faces are set to come under pressure from Jeremy Paxman in a festive edition of University Challenge. Programme makers announced a festive series of the popular quiz show with well-known alumni representing universities instead of current students. The Nottingham team will take on The University of Bristol on Boxing Day at 6.20pm …
Diffused WW1 bomb given to schools to educate pupils
A diffused wartime bomb will be taken into classrooms in Nottinghamshire as part of a new project to help pupils learn more about World War One. The 4.5 inch Howitzer bomb is being taken – alongside other historic wartime items in a number of specially designed crates to bring wartime stories to classrooms. Distributed by …
An early Christmas, the #tenleonardos way :-)
December 20, 2016
Dr Gaby Neher from the Department of History of Art talks about her experience of working on the Nottingham stint of the ‘Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci exhibition’…. “Earlier this year, between 31 July and 9 October, Nottingham Castle played host to the ‘Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci exhibition, a travelling exhibition drawn from the …
Merry Christmas from The University of Nottingham
December 19, 2016
The University of Nottingham offices and teaching buildings will be closed from Thursday 22 December and will re-open on Tuesday 3 January 2017. Nottingham Lakeside Arts remains open to the public with a host of festive shows and activities including the critically acclaimed Beasty Baby. We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all …
British Embassy in Russia support for the Periodic Table of Videos
December 16, 2016
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) officially adopted the names of the four new chemical elements this year – big news for the award winning Periodic Table of Videos. And this week they decided to release all four new videos at once! Nihonium, Moscovium, Tennessine and Oganesson. The names of two of them are directly …
Consensus is not a dirty word
This blog by Michael Merrifield, Professor of Astronomy in the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Nottingham, has been given extra poignancy by recent comments from the Trump transition team. Science is, by its very nature, a collective activity “If it’s consensus, it isn’t science.” This quote from a speech by Michael Crichton …
Human rights expert is appointed to European Committee of Social Rights
Professor Aoife Nolan, from the School of Law has been elected to the Council of Europe’s European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR) Professor Nolan is Head of the Human Right Law Centre’s Economic and Social Rights Unit (ESR),and Co-Director of the Rights and Justice Research Priority Area at the University. Professor Nolan was nominated by …
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