The Last Leg: Clinton’s Probable Victory and the Ruptured Soul of America
October 31, 2016
Professor Todd Landman, Pro Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Christopher Phelps, Associate Professor of American Studies, review the final week ahead of the US Election. A week away from the U.S. presidential election, America limps to the finish line, exhausted and divided. Intense outsider passion propelled by voters’ desires for new …
VC leads first Russell Group delegation to China
Strengthened relationships and shared approaches to global challenges between UK and China’s leading universities are the focus of a Russell Group Vice-Chancellor delegation to Shanghai today (October 31). In the first delegation of its kind eight Vice-Chancellors from the Russell Group – the UK’s 24 leading research-intensive universities – will travel to China for a …
Nottingham health-tech innovations shown at Parliament
October 25, 2016
The City’s finest health and life science innovations were on display at Westminster for Nottingham in Parliament Day, organised by The University of Nottingham. The day-long event (on 25 October) was designed to demonstrate and celebrate the institutions, businesses and people that make Nottingham great. Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) led a Health and …
Women less likely to negotiate salary on first job than men
Following a recent survey by the Complete University Guide which showed male graduates earned a higher starting salary than their female counterparts in many fields, Professor Susan Marlow, from the Haydn Green Institute, University of Nottingham discusses why this disparity occurs and why women are bucking the trend in STEM subjects. The Complete University Guide …
Brain tumour patient Jessica Simpkin tells her story to BBC Inside Out
October 21, 2016
On the eve of International Brain Tumour Awareness Week, BBC Inside Out East Midlands tonight tells the story of Jessica Simpkin who is helping our Children’s Brain Tumour Research Centre ‘Halve the Harm’ of brain tumour treatment. When Jessica was diagnosed with a malignant and aggressive brain tumour aged 4, the odds of her survival …
End Game: Trump’s House of Cards
October 20, 2016
Professor Todd Landman reviews the last presidential debate ahead of the US election. With only 20 days until polling day, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are on the last leg of the campaign to become the next President of the United States. It has been a long and tumultuous 18 months as the two most …
Unlocking the chemical memory of ancient bones
October 17, 2016
As Halloween approaches and the shops begin to fill with stereotypical collections of plastic skeletons, researchers at the University of Nottingham are turning their attention to a collection of real bones dating back to medieval times. In recent years at the largest monastic excavation in Europe, Norton Priory in Runcorn, more than 130 skeletons from the …
Market jitters and Brexit uncertainty magnifies the chance of a flash crash
October 11, 2016
Dr Nafis Alam is Associate Professor of Finance and Director, Centre for Islamic Business and Finance Research, at The University of Nottingham. In this blog he reflects on the high level of volatility in the financial markets. The British pound suffered a shuddering flash crash on October 7, plummeting more than 6% against the dollar to …
Pick of the crop in national apprentice challenge
October 10, 2016
Episode two of Farmers Apprentice 2016 saw the 10 finalists, including three agriculture students in the School of Biosciences at the University of Nottingham, undertake their first farming task. Split into two teams, Team Tom and Team Camilla, the contestants were set the challenge to put together a cropping plan to grow wheat against the …
Nottingham civil engineering student wins finalist place in Ford Women in STEM competition
A University of Nottingham civil engineering undergraduate was one of just three finalists in the UK-wide Ford Prize for Women in STEM Study Competition, which recognises the achievements of women working in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, which are traditionally male-dominated fields. Serena Gough, 19, a second-year student at Nottingham, who was announced one of only …
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