Entrepreneurship professor to help shape business ideas at Nottingham
March 26, 2014
The Haydn Green Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is further expanding its expertise thanks to the appointment of entrepreneurship expert Professor Dawn DeTienne. Professor DeTienne is based at the University of Colorado and will be contributing to the Institute – which is part of Nottingham University Business School – through her role as visiting professor. …
Best of the blogs 17-23 March
March 25, 2014
Ukraine’s future depends on a delicate power game in the East Adam Swain, Associate Professor of Economic Geography, continues to offer further insight on the developments in Ukraine on our Press Office blog. Dr Swain has been out in the country over the past week, sharing pictures and expert commentary on the events unfolding there. You …
The next big deal: detecting gravitational waves at your desk
March 24, 2014
Researchers at The University of Nottingham are developing desktop technology to detect the ripples in space-time that would have been created when the universe was in its infancy. Einstein’s theory of General Relativity predicts that gravitational waves would have been formed in the short time after the Big Bang, when the universe grew from the …
Three peaks challenge to help the charity that funds his cardiac research
A Nottingham academic, who is studying new ways of treating sudden death syndrome, is to take part in the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge and help raise money for the charity that funds his research. Professor Chris Denning, is carrying out a two-year project into the treatment of abnormal heart rhythms. He is to tackle a …
Charnwood University of the Third Age – photography visit
March 19, 2014
Malcolm Coulton, Photography Group Leader from Charnwood U3A, got in touch earlier this year to ask if they could spend a morning taking pictures on Jubilee Campus. He said: “We are Charnwood University of the Third Age , a national organisation for retired people to continue learning. Charnwood has nearly 1000 members and operates some 80 different …
University Council member Asha Khemka awarded Damehood
The principal and chief executive of West Nottinghamshire College and member of Council at The University of Nottingham has spoken of her pride at receiving her Damehood from HRH The Prince of Wales. Asha Khemka, who was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the New Year Honours List, …
Ukraine’s future depends on a delicate power game in the East
Crimea is lost Ukraine’s future depends on a delicate power game in the East. Adam Swain, Associate Professor of Economic Geography, says now that Ukraine has lost Crimea, which seems certain to be reunited with the Russian Federation, the future of the remainder of the country depends on what happens in the urban, industrial and …
‘Is Ukraine governable? Redux’
March 14, 2014
Adam Swain, an expert in post-soviet Europe in the School of Geography has just returned from Ukraine. With just two days to go before the Crimean referendum he revisits the question he posed in his previous blog. Just over three weeks ago I posed the question as to whether Ukraine was governable. At the time …
Two Mikados, one university
March 13, 2014
Of all the things you could list to justify the assessment of The University of Nottingham as ‘the nearest Britain has to a truly global university’*, you might expect a comic musical written almost 130 years ago to be somewhere near the bottom. However, two independent productions of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado have provided …
Geography students to help in search for missing Malaysia Airlines jet
March 12, 2014
Using Earth observation satellite platforms students at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus are being asked to help in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. The Malaysian authorities have now extended their search for the missing plane – the area has now covers both sides of the Malaysian peninsular – a total of 27,000 …
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