Winter rye cereal challenge
March 9, 2015
For the sixth year running, students from six UK colleges and universities are rising to the challenge of growing the best plot of winter rye in the 2015 Cereals Challenge. Located at Patrick Dean Farms, Boothby Graffoe in Lincolnshire, the site of the 2015 Cereals event, six plots of rye have been official ly handed …
Harry Potter and the Rosetta Stone
March 6, 2015
Never underestimate the Potterheads at The University of Nottingham. It started with a simple idea to celebrate the different languages our staff and students speak: let’s film people reading from different translations of Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone. When I posted a call for volunteers on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr I expected a handful of …
Marking the spot of an old Viking ‘parliament’
The site of one of the earliest known Assemblies or ‘parliaments’ in the UK has been officially put on the map after years of work by a scientist from The University of Nottingham. Professor Steve Harding has unveiled a new historical information board to mark the Viking ‘Thing’ or open air ‘assembly-place’ in the village …
Ningbo students meet Prince William during his China visit
March 5, 2015
Two computer science students from The University of Nottingham Ningbo shared a stage with HRH The Duke of Cambridge, and the inventor of the World Wide Web in Shanghai this week. Yue Li, 20, and Tianyi Chen, 18, were part of a five-minute presentation on what Shanghai and London might look like as tech-leading ‘smart …
Blue plaque for birthplace of Nottingham’s famous explosives lecturer
A blue plaque has been unveiled today at the birthplace of a Nottingham chemistry professor whose hair-raising explosives lectures have achieved legendary status. Colonel BD Shaw was a Nottingham alumnus, decorated First World War hero, prize marksman and an academic member of staff for more than 40 years. He also went on to become one of …
Nottingham Alumnus is honoured by the Minister for Sport
March 4, 2015
A new elite training centre for Canoe Sprint has been named after Nottingham alumnus Tim Brabant, Britain’s most successful Canoe Sprint athlete of all time. The new facility will be named the Tim Brabants Elite Training Centre, in recognition of his outstanding achievement in Canoe Sprint and for being the sport’s first ever Olympic gold …
Professor Robert Winston gives lecture – ‘Manipulating Human Life’
March 3, 2015
On Wednesday 25 February, Professor Robert Winston visited The University of Nottingham to discuss ‘Manipulating Human Life’, as part of an INSPIRE: Academic Medicine Society lecture. Robert Winston, Professor of Science and Society, Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College and member of the House of Lords, discussed a range of topics touching on the ethics …
THAT dress!
February 27, 2015
White and gold, blue and black? Who is seeing the actual colours of that dress? It’s been a huge talking point on social media since its release and now we’re taking up the colour conundrums in person. “It’s blue, how can you think it’s white?” a colleague asked whilst holding up various coloured items to …
National tour of Inside Out Of Mind gets rave reviews
The national tour of the groundbreaking play ‘Inside Out of Mind’ has received rave reviews from The Stage magazine. The Meeting Ground Theatre Company and Nottingham Lakeside Arts are currently touring Inside Out of Mind, an insightful and darkly comic play that powerfully captures the multiple realities of life on a dementia ward, to six …
Exploring British values – a religious perspective
February 26, 2015
Revd Canon John Bentham, Coordinating Chaplain at the University, looks forward to the upcoming public lecture lecture ‘Is there such a thing as British values? A religious perspective’. Taking place on Tuesday 3 March, the University will play host to prestigious speakers from various religious backgrounds to address values in multi-cultural Britain. Tickets still available. Is …
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