Prof Meghan Gray
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Student Research: Summer internship at Diamond Light Source
July 24, 2017
A guest post from 3rd-year undergraduate Chloe Gowling, who won a prestigious paid summer internship at the Diamond Light Source at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire. (For a glimpse into the inner workings of this vast facility, see Prof Moriarty’s video tour “Anatomy of a Physics Experiment” on Sixty Symbols.) This …
Can you read my mind? New advances in brain imaging
July 20, 2017
The School of Physics and Astronomy has led the way in medical imaging, thanks to the scientific legacy of the late Sir Peter Mansfield. Sir Peter won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2004 for the development of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Recently, Dr. Matt Brookes and Prof Richard Bowtell from the Sir Peter Mansfield …
New Objectivity video: Ptolemy’s Almagest
July 19, 2017
Our YouTube channel Sixty Symbols is not the only collaboration we have with the prolific Brady Haran. In the latest video from his channel ‘Objectivity‘, check out Prof. Mike Merrifield discussing one of the most influential texts in scientific history: Ptolemy’s Almagest.
Fond Farewells
July 14, 2017
Congratulations to our new BSc and Msci graduates! Only Physics graduates could do this….#UoNgraduation ?? pic.twitter.com/AoYP8YMEUX — Lesley Wood (@LesleyWoodPhoto) July 13, 2017 Graduation is always an important part of the academic calendar. It’s always a little strange to mingle at the reception we hold at the School to celebrate our new graduates: all …
Student Research: Crystal Clear Clusters
July 5, 2017
Straight into the deep end! That’s what happened to undergraduate student Shaun Brown. Just a week after finishing his third year, he’s started a summer project working with Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca and me in the astronomy group. And just days after starting his summer project, he joined a group of Nottingham astronomers at the “Crystal Clear Clusters” …
TEF Gold
June 22, 2017
Guest post by Prof Michael Merrifield, Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy The publication of the first “Teaching Excellence Framework” (TEF) results provides a new source of information both for staff at universities to think about changes they might make to the way they teach, and for prospective students to compare places …
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