The UK's largest-ever project exploring how information and communication technology (ICT) can be used effectively to improve teaching and learning in schools, from primary to post-16, will be showcased at Bristol University on March 17.
Bristol generates enough rubbish each year to cover the whole of the Downs knee-deep. Find out where it ends up during Bristol University's Environment Week, which starts on March 15.
The Right Honourable the Baroness Hale of Richmond was officially installed as the University of Bristol's seventh Chancellor at a ceremony in the Great Hall of the Wills Memorial Building today [Friday, March 12].
The Sulis Seedcorn Fund, a £9 million seed fund owned by a consortium of the Universities of Bath, Bristol and Southampton, today announced that it has sold half of its shareholding in Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping plc.
Newly-appointed Professor, Stephen Banfield in the Music Department, believes that a Jerome Kern theatre song and a Bach chorale have much in common...
A four-year project to investigate bladder and bowel control problems among Britain's schoolchildren - and look for links with events during early childhood - has been awarded £250,000 by the National Lottery's Community Fund.
In response to today's report by the National Radiological Protection Board on corona ion emission from high voltage powerlines the Bristol team stands by its existing research.
Professor Sir John Beringer, Pro Vice-Chancellor, and Professor Kathy Sykes, Professor of Public Engagement in Science and Engineering, have been invited by the Prime Minister to become members of the Council for Science and Technology
A new initiative launched by Bristol University to provide free job hunting advice to unemployed graduates is proving a great success.
The University of Bristol has announced this year's finalists for its annual New Enterprise Competition.
The University of Bristol's Vice Chancellor, Professor Eric Thomas, will open the new Clinical Skills Laboratory in the Bristol Dental School and Hospital on 3 March after an extensive three-year refurbishment programme funded by the University.
Bristol University's Fair Trade Society (UBFT) is organising a programme of events during this year's national Fairtrade Fortnight [March 1 to 14].
Doctors at the University of Bristol have reported that the benefits of breastfeeding could pay off many years later by helping to reduce levels of blood pressure, a factor that contributes to heart attacks in later life.
Local entrepreneurs and business people are flocking to the Bristol Enterprise Network, the University of Bristol's online facility to assist information transfer among the high-tech, high-growth business community.
A single gene has been discovered that helps plants cope with stressful situations such as disease or poor environments - according to a report published in Nature, 26 February 2004.
Lord Sainsbury has become the new patron of Bristol Neuroscience, a University of Bristol initiative to promote both research and clinical practice in the field of neuroscience.
An international partnership of top universities has gained extra muscle with the addition of three new members.
Innovative healthcare products and services could be in the pipeline thanks to a new generation of enterprising postgraduates at Bristol University.
Bristol University's annual Half Marathon and 5k challenge takes place at Coombe Dingle Sports Complex on Sunday, February 29.
Issues of homelessness will be highlighted during this year's Student Community Action (SCA) week at Bristol University with a sponsored sleep-out by students on Friday, February 20.
A strange sight will be spontaneously lighting up in a field outside of Bristol until Saturday, March 6.
Bristol University is awarding Honorary degrees to three prominent people at tomorrow's [Wednesday 18 February] degree ceremonies.
An unusual collaboration between Gareth Calway, the 'poet laureate' of Bristol City F. C. and Dr Evan Jones, a Bristol University lecturer, has led to the writing of 'The merchant of Bristol'.
Bristol dental student, Karen Tse, won this year's Steradent Bubbles and Squeaky Clean competition. The prize is a box of champagne (Bubbles) and a flat/house cleaner for a term (Squeaky Clean).
A £250,000 grant for the development of stem cell treatments to repair damage caused by multiple sclerosis (MS) has been awarded to Neil Scolding, Burden Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at Bristol University, by the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Men who work alone may increase their stress levels by taking a coffee break in the belief that it will help them perform faster. On the other hand, men who work in teams could feel less stressed after enjoying a sharp intake of caffeine, but this may make them less effective. Caffeine tended to reduce ratings of stress in women.
This year's Student Community Action (SCA) Week will take place between Saturday 14 and 21 February.
Over 100 Bristol senior citizens will be putting on their dancing shoes for Bristol University's Student Community Action (SCA) Annual Dinner Dance next Wednesday, February 18.
One of the biggest fixtures in Bristol University's and the University of the West of England's sporting calendar, the Rugby Varsity match, takes place at the Memorial Stadium next Wednesday, February 18.
A new way of predicting whether skin cancers will spread to other organs is published in the British Journal of Cancer. By measuring the density of lymph vessels surrounding a melanoma, scientists at Bristol University working with doctors at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol, have been able to predict which tumours will spread.
Two of the prestigious British Association Award Lectures will be given by Bristol University staff this year.
Bristol University will host the city's first-ever Volunteer Recruitment Fair on Thursday, February 26.
The full extent of a hidden condition which goes largely undetected among British children - and unnoticed until adulthood - has been identified by doctors in Bristol.
A Bristol University medical student, Jo Kyte, has organised a dinner dance to promote awareness and raise money for organisations that provide international humanitarian aid.
The Newport Ship, a medieval sailing vessel discovered on the banks of the River Usk in 2002, will be the subject of a public lecture at Bristol University on Monday 9 February.
A computer-based solution to the threat of school bullying has gone on show to an audience of teachers in Bristol.
The Volunteer Recruitment Fair is not taking place today, Wednesday 4 February, as publicised in the Bristol Observer last month.
A new national university admission test for law (LNAT) was announced today.
When Nature Neuroscience decided their front cover would feature eye movement research, they approached Bristol neuroscientist Iain Gilchrist to provide an appropriate image.
Body language and mind reading, causes and prevention of cancer and human evolution are just some of the themes of a series of free public lectures starting this week by Bristol University academics.
