Championing collaboration; The Jerantinine story … so far …
March 7, 2016
In recognition of International Women`s Day, this blog has been written by Dr. Tracey D Bradshaw, assistant professor in The School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham. I have been affiliated with The School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham for 25 years, arriving in 1991 as a post doc working briefly for Dr. Martin Garnett and …
An awful shame
January 5, 2015
Here is the sixth blog from our Emeritus Professor, Malcolm Stevens, FRS: Nitrogen fixers In 1967 the work of my small team at the Pharmacy Department, Heriot-Watt University, focussed on three related structures: triazines, which are six-membered rings containing three nitrogen and three carbon atoms; triazenes, which contain an array of three contiguous nitrogen atoms …
The Engleesh’ll Getya
December 8, 2014
Here is the fifth blog from our Emeritus Professor, Malcolm Stevens (FRS) Black-brick Universities 1965 was a great time to be looking for academic jobs in pharmacy. The Robbins Report of 1963 had recommended that 10 Colleges of Advanced Technology (CATs) should be upgraded to universities; five of these institutions had pharmacy schools and were …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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