Funding for gel that mimics human breast tissue
October 19, 2015
The University has been awarded grant funding of more than £400,000 to develop a gel that will match many of the biological structures of human breast tissue. The development, being led by new Nottingham academic Dr Cathy Merry in the School of Medicine, aims to advance cancer research while reducing the need for animal testing. …
The Economist full-time MBA ranking 2015 – Nottingham University Business School is ranked among the top 100 in the world
October 16, 2015
Global top 100 In the latest international league table of full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) programmes, Nottingham University Business School is ranked among the world’s top 100. UK top ten In The Economist’s 2015 full-time MBA ranking, the School is placed 74 globally and in the UK’s top ten against tough competition from North …
Vet School teacher is ‘Top social media influencer’
October 15, 2015
Associate Professor Liz Mossop from the Vet School has been named as a ‘top social media influencer’ by the social technology body JISC. Liz has already won two Dearing Awards for her outstanding teaching here and has been pioneering the use of social media in her role leading undergraduate teaching and assessment, to great effect. …
Calling all EPSRC science photographers
October 13, 2015
Do you have an eye for imagery that captures the scientific weird and wonderful or those Eureka moments? Would you like to share your photos to support excellence and promote outstanding UK engineering and physical sciences research? If so you might want to take part in the EPSRC 2015 Science Photo Competition. Launched today it runs …
NIM – Nottingham’s first microfilm festival is almost upon us – don’t miss out!
Don’t miss your tickets for the first Nottingham International Microfilm Festival (NIM) which intends to introduce a Chinese film industry phenomenon – microfilm – to new audiences . You can still get your tickets now by visiting – www.nimfestival.com Running in venues across Nottingham from 15 – 20 October 2015, the Festival has attracted award-winning …
Celebrating the life of Ada Lovelace – the world’s first computer programmer
Sixty Symbols celebrates Ada Lovelace Day. Michael Merrifield, Professor and Astronomy and Dr Meghan Gray an observational extragalactic astronomer in the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Nottingham discuss the genius of Ada Lovelace – the world’s first computer programmer. This video by Brady Haran’s Sixty Symbols (‘cool videos about Physics and Astronomy’ …
Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners
October 9, 2015
Katie Donington is currently a Research Associate on the Antislavery Usable Past project in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at The University of Nottingham, and is Co-director of the Centre for Research in Race and Rights. In this blog, she looks forward to an upcoming event with David Olusoga on Monday 12 October. …
Home is not always the best or preferred place to die, argues expert
October 8, 2015
The widely held belief that home is the best and preferred place of death is questioned by one of our academics writing in The BMJ this week. The UK government has marked ‘place of death’ as a key indicator for the quality of end of life care. This is based on the idea that most …
Have your cake and rate it!
As 13 million of us sat down to watch the final of the Great British Bake Off 2015 last night two academics at The University of Nottingham were putting the final touches to a cake survey – all in the name of research of course! Khaled Bachour and Nils Jaeger in the School of Computer Science …
Research in the School of Geography makes ‘Top 20 in the UK’
October 1, 2015
Research by the School of Geography has been included in a list of Top 20 Impact Stories from REF2014. The UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (UKCDS) has included the School’s research on global climate change as one of the strongest in the UK in terms of impact on international development because it shows ‘how UK …
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