A new £7 million supercomputer facility known as ‘BlueCrystal’ that will revolutionise research in areas such as climate change, drug design and aerospace engineering has been opened at the University of Bristol by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Eric Thomas.
Pupils from 14 local schools will put their engineering skills to the test in an exciting challenge run by the University of Bristol's Earthquake Engineering Research Centre (EERC) and At-Bristol on April 30 and May 1.
SPark, the new £300 million science park for Bristol and Bath, was launched on April 29 with Lord Sainsbury, the UK's leading expert on Science and Innovation, unveiling a model and images of how the first building, SPark One, will look.
In humans, the eyes are said to be the ‘window to the soul’, conveying much about a person’s emotions and intentions. New research demonstrates for the first time that starlings also respond to a human’s gaze.
Paul Williams talks about his latest book – a translation from Tibetan of the erotic poetry of the Sixth Dalai Lama.
University Pro-Chancellor Sir Derek Higgs (BA 1966, Hon LLD 2005) has died suddenly at the age of 64.
Students researching for a new display of Tudor portraits in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery have uncovered a ghost figure which may be Shakespeare’s only known patron Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, which had been subsequently painted over with a portrait of Elizabeth Vernon, Southampton’s wife.
The crews of Bristol University and the University of the West of England (UWE) rowing clubs will be competing on Bristol’s floating docks tomorrow [Saturday 26 April], when they take part in the Bristol Universities Varsity Boat Race.
England Rugby player and Bristol graduate, Josh Lewsey (BSc 1998) will be joined by over a 100 sporting alumni at a special sporting event, taking place at Bristol University this weekend [Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 April].
Manor Hall, the student home of many leading University of Bristol alumni such as Jemima Goldsmith (BA 2002) and David Walliams (BA 1992), celebrates its 75th anniversary tomorrow [Saturday 26 April].
The University’s Big Band, the Hornstars, has won a gold award in the National Concert Band Festival (NCBF) Finals in Warwick – its third gold win in a row.
Seven in ten patients who have suspected angina are not given appropriate testing and are more likely to suffer from serious heart problems as a result.
Dr Radu Coldea in the Department of Physics has been awarded the BTM Willis Prize for neutron scattering.
By blocking certain mechanisms that control the way that nerve cells in the brain communicate, scientists from the University of Bristol have been able to prevent visual recognition memory in rats.
Bristol Dental Hospital and School celebrated a £15m expansion on 23 April. The state-of-the-art facility – the most advanced of its kind in the country – will accommodate 29 new dental students who, when qualified, will provide much-needed NHS dental treatment to an estimated 63,000 patients a year.
Micrima, the Bristol University spin-out company behind a new breast screening technology that uses an innovative radar system to improve the early detection of breast cancer, has secured £2 million of investment.
Since 2000, Adam Crewe and Wendy Daniell from the Earthquake Engineering Research Centre have been running an international competition for students to design models of earthquake-resistant buildings.
Mike Benton, Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Bristol, has been elected to a Fellowship of The Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Senior citizens from day centres all over the city will be putting on their dancing shoes this week [Thursday 24 April] for an oriental-themed dinner dance hosted by Bristol University’s Student Community Action (SCA) group.
Two Bristol academics are among the 43 UK researchers to have been successful in getting funding as part of the latest round of awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Grants (Standard) Scheme.
Natural selection suggests that individuals should act selfishly, but new research published in Current Biology today (17 April) reveals a rare example of co-operative behaviour in the animal world.
The striking decline in prostate cancer mortality in the USA, compared with the UK in 1994-2004, coincided with a much higher uptake of screening in the USA. But what are the causes of this?
Professor David Gordon of the School for Policy Studies has been appointed to the Child Poverty Expert Group.
A Bristol University genome-wide association study of extreme obesity in young adults has been awarded more than £1 million by the Wellcome Trust.
Professor Nick Norman of the School of Chemistry has successfully completed the 2008 Marathon des Sables, billed as the toughest foot race on Earth
How far have we come and what is the future for farm animal welfare? This will be the focus of a public lecture and international conference at Bristol University this week.
Professor Simon Hiscock, Director of the Botanic Garden, explains how over the past 20 years there has been a revolution in the plant world.
The new Staff Development website has now been launched.
Members of the public are being invited to comment on revised proposals for new research and teaching accommodation for the University of Bristol’s departments of Biological Sciences and Mathematics. The proposed development is to be built on part of the old Children’s Hospital site on the corner of St Michael’s Hill and Tyndall Avenue.
People searching the internet for information about suicide methods are most likely to come across sites that encourage suicide rather than sites offering help and support, finds a study in this week's issue of the BMJ.
The top prize for outstanding MSc dissertation goes to Etienne Coetzee at the University of Bristol. Etienne works at the Landing Gear Systems group of Airbus UK.
The University of Bristol is planning to develop two state-of-the-art energy centres that will cut its carbon emissions by nearly a quarter and dramatically increase its energy efficiency.
Michael Benton’s book about the Permian Extinction – When Life Nearly Died: the greatest mass extinction of all time – has been published in paperback this week.
A review of research examining the effectiveness of different obesity treatments has concluded that no matter what other forms of therapy are offered, changes in lifestyle are imperative if patients want to maximise and maintain their weight loss.
Intute, an internet service co-run by the University’s Institute of Learning and Research Technology, has published eight new subject booklets this month, each providing a taster of the scholarly internet resources that can be found by using Intute services.
Dr Cressida Beeching of the Bristol Heart Institute has won first prize in the Young Investigators competition at the British Atherosclerosis Society Spring Meeting.
People with type 2 diabetes living in the south west have already been participating in the largest diet and exercise trial in the UK for people with type 2 diabetes, but more people are needed to help.
United Bristol Healthcare Trust has been awarded £3.8 million for ground-breaking research into treatments for cardiovascular disease to will create the Bristol Biomedical Research Unit in Cardiovascular Disease.
One of Bristol’s best-known 18th-century formal gardens, set in ten acres of formal and wooded grounds in Clifton, will be open to the public on Sunday 27 April. Built in 1714 and designed by Thomas Goldney III, Goldney gardens are English Heritage-listed.
A team of scientists from Bristol took Jersey schools by storm in a week of hands-on science events on the island at the beginning of April.
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