Scientists hope European grant can improve healthy ageing
Why does wound-healing deteriorate with advanced age? This issue will be addressed thanks to a research grant of nearly €11 million from the European Commission (EC).
Why does wound-healing deteriorate with advanced age? This issue will be addressed thanks to a research grant of nearly €11 million from the European Commission (EC).
Left-handed children do less well in national tests than their right-handed peers – and the gap does not diminish as they get older.
Sethina Adjarewa, a fourth-year student in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, is one of the winners of the 2008 decibel Penguin Prize.
A film by Esther May Campbell, a graduate of the Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television, has been awarded the prize for Best British Film at this year’s Encounters International Festival.
In recent years, the notion of a world-class university has become a concept much invoked by governments and by universities themselves.
Around 20 students from Bristol University will be swapping their warm beds for sleeping bags, cardboard boxes and minus temperatures tonight, all in aid of charity. The students will be spending the night in the Students’ Union car park to raise money for the Bristol homeless charity, The Julian Trust.
One of the UK’s most acclaimed contemporary poets, James Fenton, will come to Bristol this Tuesday to publicly inaugurate Bristol University’s £650,000 Penguin Archive Project.
The Bristol SETsquared Business Acceleration Centre, part of the University of Bristol, was named ‘Established Business Incubator of the Year 2008’ by the UKBI (UK Business Incubation) in an award ceremony held this week.
The Women’s Institute (WI) has commissioned research from the University of Bristol to look at the views of women in rural and urban areas on the issue of ‘Violence Against Women’ (VAW).
The UK has a worldwide reputation for innovation and design excellence with communications and signal processing continuing to be one of the fastest growing and most dynamic of all industries. The University of Bristol's Centre for Communications Research (CCR) has played a key role in contributing to this growth through innovation.
Stonehenge and the music it has inspired – from Neolithic times to the age of modern rock – will be explored at the University of Bristol this week.
The University of Teesside has awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science to Professor Eric Thomas, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol.
Paul Winchester, a member of portering staff, passed away on 18 November after a short illness, writes Liz Lynch.
Bristol MP Stephen Williams is to visit the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bristol on Friday November 28, as part of an MP-Scientist pairing scheme organised by the Royal Society.
The use of torture, often a function of legal systems in some countries that have no mechanisms in place to prevent it, is the focus of a major international conference. The conference, co-organised by the University of Bristol, is being held in Prague this week [25 to 26 November].
Cats are one of the UK's favourite pet with a population of 7.2 million, almost twice the number it was 30 years ago.
This October marked 100 years since the birth of Hans Heilbronn (1908-75), after whom the University’s Heilbronn Institute is named.
Non-fatal self-harm may occur in over ten per cent of adults discharged from psychiatric inpatient care in England and Wales, according to new research from the University of Bristol published in the BMJ. The risk was found to be greatest in the first month, Professor David Gunnell and colleagues found.
A new book by Dr Nick Rees-Roberts in the School of Modern Languages looks at queer representation in mainstream film and experimental video in France.
Sue Ogborne, Senior Finance Assistant, remembers a friendly and popular former Chief Cashier.
The first tissue-engineered trachea (windpipe), utilising the patient’s own stem cells, has been successfully transplanted into a young woman with a failing airway. The bioengineered trachea immediately provided the patient with a normally functioning airway, thereby saving her life.
An academic in educational assessment has been appointed an independent advisor by the Government's Department for Children, Schools and Families to an Expert Group who are looking at assessment between key stages 1 to 3, school accountability and the introduction of a new School Report Card.
It is extremely unusual for a student to have their work accepted for publication in a prestigious scientific journal. However, Felix Marx, a fourth year student in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol has just published his first paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, a journal of international significance.
Two academics in the Department of Mathematics have been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.
Over £23 million of investment funding has been raised this year for 12 companies based in Bristol University’s SETsquared Business Incubator Centre. Together, the Centre’s 37 early-stage, high-tech businesses have increased turnover by 20 per cent to over £6 million, increasing head count by 66 per cent to 175 people.
The earliest evidence of a nuclear family, dating back to the Stone Age, has been uncovered by an international team of researchers, including experts from the University of Bristol.
Soft-tissue sarcoma, one of the more common forms of childhood cancer, will be the focus of a major international conference taking place in Bristol this week [17 to 18 November].
A team of students from the University of Bristol has beaten 84 other teams, including some from the best universities in the world, in a prestigious competition to genetically engineer a machine.
Students from the University of Bristol’s Innocence Project (UoBIP) will be taking to the streets tomorrow to let the public know about a new pro bono initiative, Innocence Projects’ Day, which aims to educate the public about the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of the innocent.
On Saturday 15 November, the University, in association with the Bristol-Tbilisi Association, supported by Bristol City Council and the National Lottery Awards for All, will host Georgian Studies Day, an annual conference about the Republic of Georgia.
The Penguin Recognition Project, a collaborative venture between the departments of Computer Science, Physics and Biological Sciences.
The development of silicon chips for optical quantum technologies has won a global award for innovation in the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) annual Innovation Engineering Awards.
A new portrait, unveiled on Monday 10 November, will be hung in the University’s Department of Physics.
A new website for the Equality Challenge Unit, designed by the Internet Development team in the University’s Institute for Learning and Research Technology, went live recently.
The world's first radar breast imaging system developed at Bristol University that could revolutionise the way women are scanned for breast cancer, is being trialled at North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT).
The Council of Europe has launched two manuals on hate speech and wearing religious symbols in public areas in order to promote a better understanding of these two issues, which have serious implications for the protection of human rights.
Two Bristol athletes will be given the opportunity of a lifetime following the launch of a new athletic development initiative that will fund them to attend a world-famous training centre developed by one of the Olympic greats.
The Coimbra Group, of which the University is a member, is again offering its annual Arenberg-Coimbra Group Prize.
Past and present members of one of Bristol University’s student halls of residence, Wills Hall, celebrated the arrival of a new pipe organ. The organ was given to the hall by members of the Wills Hall Association as a birthday present to mark its 75th anniversary.
Dan Bailey and Guy Nason, statisticians from the Department of Mathematics, have looked at just how cohesive political parties really are.