News in 2014
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Awards 4 December 2014 Two members of the Faculty have been successful in the most recent round of Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Awards.
- Vice-Chancellor's Impact Award 2014 4 December 2014 Academics from the Faculty of Science won the Vice-Chancellor's Impact Award 2014 for their work on reducing risks to aviation following the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in 2010.
- The Faculty of Science picked up 3 awards at the Enterprise Dinner 17 November 2014
- Congratulations to our Bristol Teaching Award Winners 5 June 2014 This scheme recognises and rewards members of staff who have made an outstanding contribution to teaching, the provision of support for students and education more generally.
- The Big Give is back 7 May 2014 The annual ‘Bristol Big Give’ returns next month after a record breaking year in 2013. Big Give is a city-wide collection and recycling scheme which encourages everyone to donate their unwanted items to charity.
- Prof Steve Sparks' colloquium now available on YouTube 7 May 2014 You can now watch Prof Steve Sparks' recent Faculty of Science colloquium on Understanding Volcanic Processes
- Call for Abstracts: High-dimensional Stochastic Simulation and Optimisation in Image Processing workshop 2014 6 May 2014 Call for abstracts: submit your talks, abstracts and posters
- Call for Abstracts: High-dimensional and Multivariate Extremes Workshop 2014 6 May 2014 Call for abstracts: submit your talks, abstracts and posters
- Telegraph Stem Awards 17 April 2014 Telegraph Stem Awards
- Call for abstracts: Young Researchers Colloquium 2014 3 April 2014 Deadline for submissions is Friday 9th May 2014
- Michaela Musilova returns from successful Mars Desert Research Station trip 20 March 2014 Michaela Musilova, a PhD student in the School of Geographical Sciences, has returned from a successful astronauts-on-Mars simulation. The mission was conducted at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in the high-altitude Utah desert - one of the most Mars-like environments on Earth. Michaela was the crew astrobiologist and geologist in this team of six UK analogue astronauts and one filmmaker. The aims of the expedition were to conduct research that would help prepare for future missions to Mars and to do outreach with schools around the world.
- Faculty staff work together to raise money for charity 12 March 2014 Faculty office, HR, and Finance teams hold bake sale
- Get your grey matter going in Brilliant Brain Week 11 March 2014 A team of 50 volunteer neuroscientists are helping to celebrate international Brain Awareness Week with a series of hands-on cranial capers.
- Open House for CDT Quantum Engineering 27 February 2014 Quantum Engineering Centre for Doctoral Training - Open House Event
- Bristol PhD student to lead team to experience 'life on Mars' 21 January 2014 Ashley Dale, a PhD student at the University of Bristol, will lead a team of seven experts to the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in Utah’s high-altitude terrain this Saturday [18 January].
- Astronauts on Mars 16 January 2014 Michaela on Mars