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Future Vision: Stem cells and tissue engineering
October 21, 2014
Today’s blog is a copy of a blog which Kevin Shakesheff wrote for the National Centre for the Replacement Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs). They have kindly allowed us to reproduce it here: We caught up with one of the speakers at our Ten Year Vision launch event, Professor Kevin Shakesheff, Director of the …
To cure all ills
October 16, 2014
This week’s blog is the fourth one from our Emeritus Professor, Malcolm Stevens FRS: I returned to Nottingham to embark on my PhD research on 1st October, 1960, on one of those magical still days which show the autumnal glories of the University campus at its best, a scene which has attracted and bewitched generations …
A busy summer and start to the new academic year
October 6, 2014
This week’s blog is from our Head of School, Professor Clive Roberts: A busy summer and start to the new academic year After the summer examination period many outside University believe this to be a quiet time for academics. The reality is very different (honestly). This is a time when we try and squeeze in …
Blog 3: Cometh the 60s
August 18, 2014
The latest blog created by Professor Malcolm Stevens FRS can be seen below: The first two years of my B Pharm degree (1957-1959) were a hard slog with an intensive syllabus leaving little time for other activities. Consistent with the painfully slow upward trajectory of my academic career to that point I managed to pass …
Pharmacy School Research Blog – August 2014
August 4, 2014
This week’s blog has been provided by Dr Jonas Emsley, our Research Director in the School of Pharmacy: Dear All This is the first Pharmacy School Research Blog which will contain updates from our research activity including all the developments on big papers published, big grants awarded and exciting new international links developed between Nottingham and other …
Pharmacy – A cyborg era of stimulating research
July 29, 2014
This week’s blog is from Dr Frankie Rawson, who is the Leverhulme Research Fellow at the Pharmacy School in Nottingham. Here is his Blog: For those of you that are “Trekkie” fans you will be aware of a collection of alien races known as the “Borg”. My embarrassing confession is that I am a little …
Landladies and Laboratory Classes
June 23, 2014
Blog 2: Landladies and Laboratory Classes In 1957 it was frowned upon by the University for students to rent and share houses and flats in the private sector: Nottingham’s finest, and there were fewer than 1000 at that time, had to be cosseted in halls of residence aping the Oxbridge tradition, or looked after by …
Olivia’s OSCE
June 10, 2014
Olivia Gunapalan, one of our second year Pharmacy undergraduates, has written a blog about the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) which she carried out in January, 2014. See Olivia’s blog below: Some of us have written examinations, some of us have online examinations and then some of us have OSCEs.. OSCEs are the objective structured …
The road to Nottingham Pier
April 28, 2014
I am very pleased to announce that we have a new blogger in town! This eminent person is our very own Emeritus Professor, Malcolm Stevens. He has agreed to share with us ‘His Story’ and the first instalment can be seen below! The 1950’s was not the ideal decade to be in one’s teenage prime. …
What is ISAC?
January 13, 2014
This week’s blog is provided by Dr Matthew Piggott, the Business Manager from ISAC: What is ISAC? ISAC is the Interface and Surface Analysis Centre. Its role is to market and coordinate access to the combined surface analytical facilities and expertise across the University of Nottingham (UoN) and at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). …
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