News in March
- Professor Peter Haggett, 1933-2025 13 March 2025 Peter Haggett, Professor of Urban and Regional Geography, passed away on 9 February at the age of 92. His colleagues and former students in the School of Geographical Sciences pay tribute to one of the discipline’s most distinguished scholars and a former Acting Vice-Chancellor of this University.
- Bristol researchers receive funding to help make quantum internet a reality 12 March 2025 The University of Bristol will be involved in two projects announced as part of a £12m funding boost from Innovate UK to pioneer the quantum internet of the future.
- Pioneering research ranks world’s most populated cities for flood and drought risk 12 March 2025 A new report has revealed how the 100 most populated cities globally are becoming increasingly exposed to flooding and drought.
- ‘Extraordinary’ academics win £40,000 to turn groundbreaking research into ventures 11 March 2025 An invention improving microscopes to battle diseases like cancer and a tool ensuring financial AI models are unbiased are ideas that have won £20,000 for their female founders.
- Children who lack fish in their diets are less sociable and kind, study finds 11 March 2025 Children who consumed the least amounts of seafood at 7-years-old were likely to be less ‘prosocial’ at ages 7 and 9 years than those who regularly consumed seafood, according to a new study. ‘Prosocial’ behaviour includes friendly interactions, altruism, and sharing.
- Bristol study awarded £5.2 million to continue groundbreaking health research across three generations 7 March 2025 The Children of the 90s health study at the University of Bristol, which researches the lives of thousands of families in the south west, has been awarded £5.2 million to continue its pioneering work to improve people’s health.
- Jim Foulds, 1936-2025 6 March 2025 James Foulds, former Chair of University Council, passed away in February at the age of 88. We offer this tribute to a devoted and stalwart supporter, advisor and friend of the University.
- Amphibians bounce-back from Earth’s greatest mass extinction 5 March 2025 Ancient frog relatives survived the aftermath of the largest mass extinction of species by feeding on freshwater prey that evaded terrestrial predators, University of Bristol academics have found.
- Brilliant Bristol students win “ludicrously tight” University Challenge quarterfinal 4 March 2025 Bristol students came from behind to win the first of their University Challenge quarterfinals.
- Largest ever DNA resource for over 37,000 UK children and parents to unlock insights into child health and development 4 March 2025 For the first time, a new resource containing DNA sequencing data for over 37,000 children and parents collected over multiple decades from across the UK is now available to researchers worldwide. The resource, which includes data from three UK long-term birth cohorts including the University of Bristol’s Children of the 90s study, will allow scientists to explore the relationship between genetic and environmental factors in child health.
- Immersive 3D experience brings the history of wildlife filmmaking to life 3 March 2025 Visitors to the University of Bristol’s virtual museum The Uncertain Space can now explore how the BBC has created some of TV’s greatest wildlife and natural history documentaries.
- Come and get to the heart of the matter at the Bristol Heart Festival 3 March 2025 Did you know a human heart will beat around 100,000 times and continuously pumps about 8 pints of blood around the body each day, but how can you keep a heart healthy. Members of the public will have the opportunity to find out at the Bristol Heart Festival. The free, hands-on event, will take place on Thursday 13 March at the Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol.
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