News from departments around the University

Autopsy of an eruption: Linking crystal growth to volcano seismicity A forensic approach that links changes deep below a volcano to signals at the surface is described by scientists from the University of Bristol in a paper published today in Science. The research could ultimately help to predict future volcanic eruptions with greater accuracy. [24/05/2012]

Trench art features in new WW1 exhibition Research by Bristol archaeologist Dr Nicholas Saunders into the trench art made by soldiers in the First World War has helped to inform a major new exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Metz which focuses on one year of that conflict. [23/05/2012]

New book puts Olympics in the picture The first-ever book to offer an in-depth analysis of images and objects relating to the greatest sports show on earth is published this month by an art historian at the University of Bristol. [23/05/2012]

How plants chill out Plants elongate their stems when grown at high temperature to facilitate the cooling of their leaves, according to new research from the University of Bristol published today in Current Biology. Understanding why plants alter their architecture in response to heat is important as increasing global temperatures pose a threat to future food production. [21/05/2012]

East meets West at M-Shed [16/05/2012]

New findings show long-term effects of fathers’ job loss on children’s education [16/05/2012]

Ancient sea reptile with gammy jaw suggests dinosaurs got arthritis too [15/05/2012]

Let’s get moving: Unravelling how locomotion starts [15/05/2012]

New study seeks volunteers to help older people experiencing pain [14/05/2012]

Research reveals link between red hair gene and rare birthmarks [10/05/2012]

£16 million boost for UK robotics [10/05/2012]

Bristol dementia brain bank in appeal to reach anniversary target [10/05/2012]

‘Bristol Cats’ study needs more kittens [09/05/2012]

Tissue engineering expert elected as leader of international scientific society [09/05/2012]

Study shows Avastin has similar effect to Lucentis in treating most common cause of blindness in the developed world [08/05/2012]

Chemistry final year project highlighted in Primary Science publication [16/05/2012]

Let’s get moving: Unravelling how locomotion starts [16/05/2012]

Ancient sea reptile with gammy jaw suggests dinosaurs got arthritis too [16/05/2012]

Simplicity and (quantum) complexity: Dr Karoline Wiesner [03/05/2012]

€3 million to solve the long-distance quantum communication problem [27/04/2012]

New Fellows of The Royal Society [23/04/2012]

Bristol researchers solve 70-year-old mystery [19/04/2012]

Water, water everywhere – but is it essential to life? [16/04/2012]

Quantum article featured in Nature news and views [13/04/2012]

Congratulations to 3rd year undergraduate student from Experimental Psychology [13/04/2012]

Media coverage for research into vomiting caterpillars [13/04/2012]

Geological Society awards for Bristol academics [02/04/2012]

Microscopic, sub-volcanic visions [02/04/2012]

£140,000 for research into peptide nanotubes [29/03/2012]

Prof Jonathan Bamber at Guardian Open Weekend [27/03/2012]

New study seeks volunteers to help older people experiencing pain [14/05/2012]

Bristol researcher recognised for excellence in medical sciences [10/05/2012]

Bristol dementia brain bank in appeal to reach anniversary target [10/05/2012]

Study shows Avastin has similar effect to Lucentis in treating most common cause of blindness in the developed world [08/05/2012]

Scientists discover key contribution to Melanesian blonde hair colour [03/05/2012]

Evidence that BMI has an independent and causal effect on heart disease risk [01/05/2012]

Doubling the information from the Double Helix [27/04/2012]

Children of the 90s celebrates 21 years [18/04/2012]

University to have key role in researching solutions to England’s major public health challenges [17/04/2012]

Pain could be a good thing for heart attack patients [16/04/2012]

Metal-on-metal hip replacement patients at no more risk of developing cancer in seven years following surgery [03/04/2012]

Student Suzi makes sporting history in the new Olympic stadium [03/04/2012]

Academics appointed as UK’s most outstanding leaders of healthcare research [02/04/2012]

World's largest ever cleft research study [27/03/2012]

Dental plaque bacteria may trigger blood clots [27/03/2012]

Dr Michael Naughton discusses miscarriages of justice on the BBC and in The Sun Dr Michael Naughton, Senior Lecturer in the Law School and SPAIS, and a leading expert on miscarriages of justice, has been interviewed on the Today programme and quoted in both The Sun and on the BBC website, in the wake of the quashing by the Court of Appeal of the conviction of Sam Hallam, who spent more than seven years in prison for a murder he always denied committing. [20/05/2012]

‘It’s a dream come true’ as Law student Georgie is selected for the Olympics [18/05/2012]

Law School's latest successful PhD: Ben-Jacob Diewitz [18/05/2012]

Professor Paula Giliker delivers lecture and address in Ljubljana [17/05/2012]

Dr Michael Naughton on BBC's The Big Questions [04/05/2012]

European Research Council Studentship: Deadline 7 May 2012 [04/05/2012]

Law School team in 2012 South West Legal Support 8k Walk [22/04/2012]

Paula Giliker speaks at the IV Conference on Law Studies in Europe and Legal Terminology Workshops [22/04/2012]

Law Alumni Forum on Human Rights Implementation [12/04/2012]

Professor Dave Cowan made Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences [05/04/2012]

Professor Celia Wells invited to join IBA Task Force on tax havens and human rights [05/04/2012]

CITL part of Academic Centre for Excellence in Cyber Security Research [03/04/2012]

Law School's latest successful PhD: Tehseen Noorani [03/04/2012]

Bristol Law student selected as an Olympic Torchbearer [28/03/2012]

Professor Bronwen Morgan gains research grants from Australia and Canada [28/03/2012]

Bristol Chemists cause a stir [15/05/2012]

Undergraduate Ambassador Scheme (UAS) final year project highlighted in Primary Science publication [14/05/2012]

Professor Anthony (Tony) Legon honoured with Royal Society of Chemistry 2012 Liversidge Award [11/05/2012]

Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts visits EPSRC Chemical Synthesis Centre for Doctoral Training [10/05/2012]

Bristol Chemistry student wins the South West Low Carbon Research Project competition [04/05/2012]

Sven Fritz is runner-up in SCI Regional Postgrad Symposium on Novel Organic Chemistry [01/05/2012]

Professor Ian Manners wins RSC Peter Day Award [01/05/2012]

University of Bristol PhD student wins Pfizer Organic and Biological Chemistry Poster Prize [23/04/2012]

Professor Varinder Aggarwal honoured with FRS [20/04/2012]

National Science and Engineering Week boosts Outreach activities [18/04/2012]

New School of Chemistry web site [30/03/2012]

Bristol Researchers to gain from BBSRC’s £250 million investment in UK Biosciences. Researchers within the School of Biological Sciences are set to gain from the BBSRC’s recent announcement that it is to invest £250 million in UK Bioscience. [25/05/2012]

How plants chill out Plants elongate their stems when grown at high temperature to facilitate the cooling of their leaves, according to new research from the University of Bristol published today in Current Biology. Understanding why plants alter their architecture in response to heat is important as increasing global temperatures pose a threat to future food production. [23/05/2012]

Global Change Biology highlights bat research The leading journal in biodiversity conservation – Global Change Biology –currently highlights two papers on bats led by researchers in the School. [21/05/2012]

Research on avian conflicts showcased in special Science issue A special issue of Science has been published considering the deep evolutionary roots of violent confrontation, exploring the importance of war in our history and examining how such conflicts are mediated and thus enable peaceful coexistence. The issue focuses on human behaviour but contains an article showcasing the parallels established in non-human animals by the extensive research of Andy Radford on intergroup conflicts and intragroup affiliation in cooperatively breeding green woodhoopoes. [21/05/2012]

Fascination of Plants Day [17/05/2012]

Let’s get moving: Unravelling how locomotion starts [16/05/2012]

The importance of collaboration to future wheat yield increase: [04/05/2012]

Courtship in the cricket world [01/05/2012]

Houston and McNamara become FRSs [20/04/2012]

Bristol researchers solve 70 year old mystery [17/04/2012]

Scientists turn the spotlight on Bristol’s insect life this spring [11/04/2012]

Professor hands over the reins of leading international journal [11/04/2012]

Vomiting caterpillars weigh up costs and benefits of group living [09/04/2012]

Article by Dr Martin Gainsborough featured on BBC World Service Dr Martin Gainsborough's new article 'The Future of Autocracies in South East Asia: Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos' is featured on the BBC World Service Vietnamese Section website as the focus of a discussion by four international scholars. [25/05/2012]

PhD Success Congratulations to Dan Whillis who had his PhD viva on 21 May.  His thesis 'Postsecular Awakening: Vision and Commitment in a Western Buddhist Community' was passed and praised by his examiners with no substantive corrections required. [23/05/2012]

Dr Michael Naughton talks on BBC R4 about malpractice in criminal justice system Following the news that Sam Hallam, after seven years in prison for murder, had his conviction formally quashed, Dr Michael Naughton is featured in a discussion on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme. [21/05/2012]

How David Cameron's cuts strategy is losing him the support of Tory women [18/05/2012]

Prof Ruth Levitas interviewed on BBC R4 about the '120,000 troubled families' [17/05/2012]

Professor Yongjin Zhang featured on BBC2 Newsnight [16/05/2012]

Postgraduate Open Day - 27 June [15/05/2012]

Lessons for Labour after the Local Elections [15/05/2012]

The Representation of Women in UK Parliament [04/05/2012]

Professor successful in Leverhulme research competition [04/05/2012]

Dr Michael Naughton to appear on The Big Questions, BBC1, 29 April [27/04/2012]

International success for Bristol undergraduates! [26/04/2012]

Bristol funding promotes PhD research [24/04/2012]

Dr Parveen Akhtar featured in The Guardian's Comment is Free [15/04/2012]

Dr Michael Naughton cited extensively in The Times on the INUK campaign for the reform of the CCRC [13/04/2012]

One-day conference 'Romanticism and Secrets' on 2 May 2012 [17/04/2012]

Call for papers: Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance [13/04/2012]

Medical Humanities Seminar Friday 16 March 2012 [02/03/2012]

Daniel Karlin contributes to Longman’s Poems of Robert Browning [02/03/2012]

Record deal for Bristol student. [11/05/2012]

Proms performance for Bristol composer [06/05/2012]

Bristol's Crypto Group Hosts the World Cryptographers [14/04/2012]

Bristol University to play pivotal role in protecting the country from cyber attack [02/04/2012]

Cryptographic attack highlights the importance of bug-free software [29/02/2012]

New EPSRC grant on Robust Integrated Verification of Autonomous Systems [27/02/2012]

Silicon Valley beckons for aspiring entrepreneur Shaun [09/05/2012]

Upcoming Financial Reporting Conference [08/05/2012]

Internships Available for students within CMPO [20/04/2012]

Bristol Festival of Ideas Events [20/04/2012]

New e-recruitment system [07/03/2012]

HR SPR Update July 2011 [18/07/2011]

HR SPR process update June 2011 [13/07/2011]

SPR HR restructure project : update no.4 [18/05/2011]

Sneak peek at production exercises and portfolio on Signstation Plus [02/05/2012]

Online sign language relay-interpreter training [02/05/2012]

Senior lecturer Clive Mason wins British Deaf Association BSL Public Image award [04/04/2012]

Announcing Signstation Plus - Signstation Plus is a new development from University of Bristol Centre for Deaf Studies to provide fee-paying online sign language e-learning courses [01/03/2012]

Launch of book edited by Professor Roger Middleton [16/04/2012]

Dr Josie McLellan awarded University Teaching and Learning Award [20/03/2012]

Medical Humanities Seminar Friday 16 March 2012 [02/03/2012]

Professor Daniel Karlin contributes to Longman’s Poems of Robert Browning [02/03/2012]

PhD student wins BSRD Postgraduate Prize [15/05/2012]

2nd Edition of the BDS Programme Newsletter [03/05/2012]

Graduate Student Awards [15/04/2012]

World's largest ever cleft research study [04/04/2012]

Oral Microbiology research highlighted by BDJ [01/04/2012]

New book puts Olympics in the picture [14/05/2012]

Two Postgraduate Research Bursaries available [18/04/2012]

MA students curate exhibition with the Bristol Theatre Collection [20/03/2012]

Postgraduate presentations on 22 February and 7 March 2012 [06/02/2012]

Bank Holiday opening times [30/04/2012]

Online booking system [27/03/2012]

Weight management [27/03/2012]

Patient survey results [22/03/2012]

New Course - Find Innovative Solutions [16/02/2012]

New data security training module [17/01/2012]

Support for staff through strategic themes [26/10/2011]

New Staff Development Annual Report 2010/11 [26/08/2011]

CRICBristol MR Spring School, 26th-28th March [24/01/2012]

CRICBristol to be co-hosting Callosum Colloquium with Bristol Neuroscience [23/11/2011]

CRICBristol officially opened by Professor Lord Winston [20/09/2011]

Video footage of Bristol WUN Showcase 2012 now available [24/04/2012]

University of Campinas joins WUN [19/03/2012]

University of Rochester joins WUN [19/03/2012]

The global research agenda comes under the spotlight in Bristol [26/01/2012]

Turnitin service update The CEO of Turnitin recently made a public announcement apologising for the unexpected Turnitin outages experienced in the UK. You can read the full announcement here: <http://pages.turnitin.com/remarks_0512uk.html> In summary, these outages were caused by database issues and unusual submission patterns by large users of the service. Turnitin have since increased their database capacity by over [...] [25/05/2012]

e-Reserves service update. The e-Reserves service is up and running again. Apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you have any questions please email bb-help@bristol.ac.uk       [22/05/2012]

e-Reserves Service unavailable. At the current time the e-Reserves service is unavailable for new and re-requests. Our colleagues in IS are looking in to the problem. All existing scans are still available through the menu links in the relevant Blackboard courses. If you have any questions please email bb-help@bristol.ac.uk.   [22/05/2012]

Blackboard service announcement – Service Disruption 17th May [18/05/2012]

Turnitin Service [15/05/2012]

Blackboard service announcement – Service Disruption 17th May 5.15pm – 7.15pm [14/05/2012]

Turnitin – Intermittent problems [08/05/2012]

Java plug in certificate pop up box. [16/04/2012]

Checking for late assignment submissions [04/04/2012]

Late assignment submissions [04/04/2012]