Professor Christopher Page, a celebrated musician and musicologist, will be coming to the University of Bristol on Thursday [24 November] to give this year’s Tucker-Cruse Lecture in the Department of English.
A reconstruction of plants’ productivity and the amount of carbon stored in the ocean and terrestrial biosphere at the last ice age is published today in Nature Geoscience. The research by an international team of scientists greatly increases our understanding of natural carbon cycle dynamics.
A virus that attacks the cassava plant – the world’s third most important staple crop – is reaching epidemic proportions in parts of Africa, UN scientists warned today. Cassava brown streak virus (CBSV) was first identified by Professor Gary Foster and colleagues in the Molecular Plant Pathology and Fungal Biology Group in the School of Biological Sciences.
Singer-songwriter Emily Rose is hoping her vocal talents will secure her a place in the final of a prestigious singing contest at the O2.
Sex, gender and political representation in the Conservative Party is the focus of a new book published today [18 November] exploring the modernisation of the Party under David Cameron's leadership.
Dr Matt Watson was interviewed about the SPICE (Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering) project and Dr Jo Gottsmann about a new island forming in the Atlantic.
Pairs of rabbits are now in need of a new home after being part of a study looking at how best to care for our furry friends.
How can you make the world a better place through business? This is just one of the questions being addressed at Bristol’s first Social Enterprise Conference, which will feature the founder of The People’s Supermarket and other inspirational speakers.
Five engineering students from the University of Bristol have won the national Royal Academy of Engineering Leadership Advanced Awards.
Stefano Longo, who completed his PhD in the Dynamics and Control Research Group at Bristol University’s Queens School of Engineering, has won the 2011 Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Control and Automation Doctoral Dissertation prize .
The Children of the 90s study features in episode 5 of the Channel 4 science series 'Brave New World with Stephen Hawking' on Monday 21 November
Dr Josie McLellan's groundbreaking history of East Germany’s forgotten sexual revolution was described as "intriguing and well-written" in a review in the Times Higher
Nobel prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse, widely regarded as the most powerful scientist in Britain, will be giving an annual lecture at Bristol University on Monday [21 November], revealing his thoughts on the question ‘What is life?’.
With the global population hitting seven billion people, the hot topic of how the natural world can meet the needs of a burgeoning population will be debated at Bristol University for a popular BBC programme.
A massive expansion of the city’s free Wi-Fi hotspots has been announced thanks to a collaboration between the University of Bristol and the City Council.
Crispian Scully CBE, Professor in Oral Medicine, has been elected President of the International Academy of Oral Oncology.
The company behind a pioneering stem cell bandage, believed to be the world’s first adult and autologous (patient’s own) stem cell treatment designed to heal torn meniscal cartilage, can now take the technology to human clinical trials thanks to an investment from one of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs.
Andrew Charlesworth, an IT and law expert at the University of Bristol Law School, was interviewed by the BBC regarding the social networking site, Facebook, which has announced it will ask users to opt into any changes in the way it uses their personal information.
An agreement with Santander worth £300,000 over three years looks set to benefit students and researchers at the University of Bristol.
The history of Brunel’s ss Great Britain as both a working ship and a visitor attraction is being investigated by two doctoral students in a new joint initiative between the ss Great Britain Trust and the University of Bristol.
Adventure-seeking Bristol University student Marcus Scaramanga is bidding for a place in a unique expedition to cross the vast wilderness of the Arctic.
The future of drug design lies in developing therapies that can target specific cellular processes without causing adverse reactions in other areas of the nervous system. Scientists at the Universities of Bristol and Liège in Belgium have discovered how to design drugs to target specific areas of the brain.
The Bangladeshi population is one of the fastest growing ethnic groups within the UK, and are amongst the most socially disadvantaged suffering from high rates of ill health and social exclusion, which fall most heavily on older women – who often bear the responsibility for taking care of large families.
The sight of rickshaws delivering people and packages across the city of Bristol looks set to become more common thanks to Bristol University student Sam Harris.
A new Nuclear Research Centre, a joint venture between the University of Bristol and the University of Oxford, was officially opened yesterday [Tuesday 8 November].
George ‘Johnny’ Johnson, the last surviving British veteran of the ‘Dambuster’ raids, is to deliver a talk about his wartime experiences to MA students in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology tomorrow (10 November).
Clinical Training Fellowships are being offered by University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (UH Bristol) in partnership with the University of Bristol and UWE Bristol.
What do you think a dinosaur that roamed this region 210 million years ago looked like? The first Thecodontosaurus Illustration Competition invites you to put your ideas on paper for the chance to win a visit to the brand new Bristol Dinosaur Project Palaeo Lab and a handcrafted replica of one of the dinosaur’s bone.
Professor Jonathan Bamber, Director of the Bristol Glaciology Centre in the University’s School of Geographical Sciences, was one of five leading UK scientists invited to brief journalists on the state of the world’s polar ice at the Science Media Centre this week.
Dr Helen Simpson in the School of Economics, Finance and Management has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.
A key issue facing the UK is how to inspire the next generation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians on which our future well-being and economy depends. A new report, published today [8 Nov], examines how smart phones and other portable digital technologies could be used in the classroom to make learning more stimulating and engaging.
The Bristol Robotics Laboratory, a research partnership between the University of Bristol and UWE Bristol, will receive funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ideas that address persistent health and development challenges.
Dr Patricia Sanchez-Baracaldo, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Bristol, has been awarded a prestigious Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship by the Royal Society.
A lavishly-illustrated book on the pre-Columbian goldwork of Panama has been published by Dr Nicholas Saunders, lecturer in the University of Bristol’s Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.
The best research dissertations produced by postgraduate students in each of Bristol University’s six faculties have been announced.
Three leading research teams at the University of Bristol have been given more than £400,000 in grants to carry out studies which aim to help reduce the suffering of sick babies and children.
Dr Katsuichiro Goda, a Lecturer in Civil Engineering, has been awarded a 2011 Philip Leverhulme Prize.
Was it humans or climate change that caused the extinctions of the iconic Ice Age mammals (megafauna) such as the woolly rhinoceros and woolly mammoth? An inter-disciplinary research team, involving over 40 academic institutions around the world has tackled this contentious question in the biggest study of its kind.
Highly-regarded Bristol architect George Ferguson is to return to the University where he learnt his trade, this time in an advisory role to the Students’ Union.
New research by academics in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory has looked at whether social media could be used to track an event or phenomenon, such as flu outbreaks and rainfall rates.
