Dementia patients need the ‘real deal’
December 9, 2013
We need to use every means at our disposal to improve the lives of people with dementia and their carers, says Tom Dening, Professor of Dementia Research at The University of Nottingham. Professor Dening heads a research group at the University dedicated to high quality, useful research looking at how people with dementia spend their …
Vice-Chancellor pays tribute to Nelson Mandela
December 6, 2013
The Vice-Chancellor of The University of Nottingham, Professor David Greenaway, has added his tribute to the global accolades for the extraordinary life and work of Nelson Mandela. Mr Mandela was awarded an honorary degree by The University of Nottingham in 1996 in recognition of his leadership in fighting apartheid. Nottingham joined seven other universities – Oxford, Cambridge, London, …
News from our scientists at Westminster
December 5, 2013
Professor Philip Moriarty and Dr Clare Burrage from Physics and Astronomy have been spending the week at Westminster. Check out the latest on Philip’s blog on physicsfocus.
Scientists go behind the scenes at Westminster
December 3, 2013
A physicist who studies the building blocks of matter and a cosmologist who delves into the evolution of the universe are spending a week at Westminster to find out how government works. They are leaving their lab and equations behind to discover how science policy is formed and to gain an understanding of the working …
Pop Art to Britart – the unveiling
November 22, 2013
Pop Art to Britart – Modern Masters from the David Ross Collection opens at Lakeside Arts Centre on Saturday 23 November. This is the first public exhibition of one of the most important collections of modern art in private hands in this country. There will be 60 works in the exhibition, including works by David …
BBC’s Matthew Bannister launches New Theatre appeal
November 14, 2013
This weekend, the award winning Nottingham New Theatre (NNT) welcomes BBC broadcaster and Nottingham alumnus Matthew Bannister to an event to launch a new ‘seat naming’ appeal. Remarkably for a university with no dedicated drama or theatre related course the NNT is the only entirely student run theatre in the country. Since 1969 the theatre …
Who shot JFK? Marking 50 years since history’s most famous assassination
November 13, 2013
November 22 1963. For decades afterwards, most Americans, and many people around the world, could respond instantly to the question: “Where were you when you heard the news about the Kennedy assassination?” The shooting was regarded as a ‘flashbulb moment’ indelibly fixed in personal and national memory. Half a century later, most Americans, and most …
Lancet debate on benefits of ‘brown fat’
November 12, 2013
Professor Michael E Symonds from The University of Nottingham’s School of Medicine, comments in the Lancet today on new research, published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, which suggests ethnicity might affect the function of brown fat – the body’s good fat. Professor Symonds and his team are studying the benefits of brown fat – …
Elephant research on BBC Radio 4
November 8, 2013
Elephants don’t forget! The BBC Radio 4 programme ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ presented by Kate Adie reports from Malaysia on The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus research into the management and ecology of Malaysian elephants – MEME. Journalist Bob Walker took a field trip with MEME earlier this year. Listen to the story he filed …
Malaysian elephant research on BBC Radio 4
October 23, 2013
The work of MEME – the Management and Ecology of Malaysian Elephants – featured on BBC Radio 4’s environment programme Costing the Earth yesterday. Freelance reporter Bob Walker spent a few days trekking in the Malaysian tropical rainforest with the team in May. His report featured on “Our Neighbours Are Elephants” – a programme looking …
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