Chinese delegation visits Bristol’s Vet School
A delegation from the China Animal Disease Control Centre (CADC) visited the University of Bristol’s School of Veterinary Sciences yesterday [Tuesday 6 December].
A delegation from the China Animal Disease Control Centre (CADC) visited the University of Bristol’s School of Veterinary Sciences yesterday [Tuesday 6 December].
Universities from across the country descended on Bristol to put their lifesaving skills to the test in a national competition.
New advice and guidance on making and using clinical healthcare recordings for learning and teaching will be launched today [Monday 5 December]. The materials have been created by a collaboration of cross-sector organisations and individuals, including the University of Bristol, the General Medical Council (GMC), Wellcome Trust, Institute for Medical Illustrators and Newcastle University.
Over 65 local children got into the festive spirit on Saturday [3 December] at an annual Christmas party organised by student volunteers from the University of Bristol Students’ Union.
Fluorescent tissue cells, zebrafish and neuronal cells in the brain are just some of a selection of winning images inspired by complex scientific procedures that help bring the medical sciences to life for this year’s Art of Science Competition.
School students who take their GCSEs during a major international football tournament – such as the FIFA World Cup or the UEFA European Championship – get worse exam results than they would in a football-free summer. That is the central finding of new research published by the University of Bristol.
Dr Simon O’Doherty of the University of Bristol’s School of Chemistry has been awarded €500,000 as part of InGOS, a European project to monitor emissions of methane, nitrous oxide and other non-CO2 greenhouse gases and improve the observational infrastructure.
Support services teams on the second floor of Senate House have been competing for the best-decorated office in the run-up to Christmas, and raising money for the NSPCC in the process.
Three historians from the University of Bristol are celebrating success in the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, awarded by the Wiener Library, London.
A safe, low-cost system that would allow women of all ages to be screened for breast cancer in GP surgeries, or alternative high street locations, has come a step closer following a third clinical trial.
Professor Ron Johnston in the School of Geographical Sciences has received the Political Studies Association’s Politics/Political Studies Communicator of the Year Award.
China’s growing economy and its presence in Africa will be the focus of a public lecture taking place at Bristol University on Monday [5 December].
Research by Dr James Buckley in the School of Biological Sciences which found that the Brown Argus butterfly is successfully expanding its distribution northwards in the UK was covered by the Times, Telegraph and other media around the world.
Two University of Bristol archaeologists are part of EUROTAST, a new European-funded network which will bring together an unprecedented range of young researchers to examine one of the most traumatic chapters in world history: the transatlantic slave trade.
Central nervous system tumours are the second most common childhood cancer in the UK, with cerebellar tumours the most common. Thanks to a grant from Action Medical Research, scientists at the University of Bristol will tackle the high-risk surgery involved in treating these brain tumours in children.
A Bristol-led consortium of universities and industry has been awarded more than £2million to reconstruct Atlantic-Mediterranean flow patterns, 5-6 million years ago, before the Straits of Gibraltar formed.
Academics from the Bristol Heart Institute will discuss the emergence of regenerative medicine in modern medical care at a public lecture this Friday [December 2].
The iconic image of Bristol’s Suspension Bridge has been transformed into an interactive advertising campaign. Bristol University’s new awareness initiative is winning plaudits for its innovative design – thought to be the first in the country to incorporate QR codes in this way.
The University of Bristol's Children of the 90s will be hosting a free art exhibition at M Shed on Saturday 3 December to launch ‘Children of the 90s art online’.
The University’s Human Rights Implementation Centre is holding a high-profile event this weekend in Cairo, Egypt, on the role of national human rights institutions in times of conflict.
As global temperatures rise and climatic zones move polewards, species will need to find different environments to prevent extinction. New research, published today in the journal Molecular Ecology, has revealed that climate change is causing certain species to move and adapt to a range of new habitats.
Three postgraduate chemistry students from Bristol University took the popular ChemLabS project abroad to Amiens in France to educate 150 local school children about the subject.
Fifteen students from Bristol University have been accepted onto the Lloyds Scholars Programme, which is a new initiative designed to support and encourage students from below average income families to study at leading universities.
The molecular mechanism which makes some plants grow more rapidly when the temperature rises has been identified by researchers at the University of Bristol in a paper published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Two industrious Bristol University students ‘escaped’ from Bristol and made it all the way to Italy in 36 hours, helping to raise £5,000 as part of the Students’ Union Jailbreak challenge.
An update for staff from the Vice-Chancellor with regard to the ‘discover more’ campaign.
A new, feature-length documentary film directed by Bristol graduate Ian Thomas Ash is to be given a preview screening at the University on Thursday 1 December.
A team of neuroscientists and anaesthetists, who have been using pioneering techniques to study how the brain regulates the heart, has identified a crucial part of the nervous system whose malfunction may account for an increased risk of death from heart failure. The findings, published online (ahead of print) in the Journal of Physiology, could lead to more targeted therapies to help reduce serious illness and death in cardiovascular disease.
Over 7,000 donors gave money to Bristol University as part of its Centenary Campaign to help raise £11million for a variety of initiatives, from providing bursaries to establishing life-saving clinical trials.
Mr David Rennie, Political Editor at The Economist, will give a free public lecture at the University of Bristol this week [Friday 2 December].
An academic from the University of Bristol has been rewarded for his achievements in helping to promote the rights of others at the annual 2011 Liberty Human Rights Awards.
A new scheme launched by the University of Bristol is encouraging students to reuse and recycle in a bid to tackle the amount of waste that students throw away at the end of term.
Antibiotic resistance has become an escalating health issue that threatens our ability to control bacterial infections. To help tackle this global health problem an international collaboration, comprising researchers from the UK and Canada, has been awarded around £4.5 million to develop new strategies for treating ‘superbugs’.
An innovative car, flight refuelling kit and turbine blades showcased the latest in composite technology to the Business Secretary Vince Cable, who formally opened the National Composites Centre in Bristol today [Thursday 24 November].
By placing real and virtual objects in the flight paths of bats, scientists at the Universities of Bristol and Munich have shed new light on how echolocation works. Their research is published today in Behavioural Processes.
It is widely recognised that parent and toddler groups provide support while also improving life-chances for children from low-income families. However, new research from the University of Bristol has found that nearly a quarter of mothers’ first-time visits to a group were so off-putting that they did not return to that group. One in five mothers then became afraid of attending any group.
Professor Mario di Bernardo in the Department of Engineering Mathematics and a member of the Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Professor Tom Troscianko from the School of Experimental Psychology died on 16 November. Professor Iain Gilchrist pays tribute to an 'interdisciplinary vision researcher, inspiring teacher and colleague'.
Researchers at the University of Bristol have been awarded a grant that by using state-of-the-art stem cell technology will enable them to analyse nerve cells produced from skin biopsies of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
Immigration, one of the most hotly contested issues in British politics and public debate in recent years, will be the focus of a free public lecture hosted by the University of Bristol this week [24 Nov].