Female secondary school students will be taking part in an event next week [8-12 July] to break down stereotypes and highlight the opportunities available to young women interested in data science-related careers.
PhD students from across the University are attending Parliament to present their science to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges, as part of SET for Britain on Monday 9 March.
A University of Bristol student has beaten off competition from 87,000 people to reach the final of a worldwide competition to travel into space. Jocelino Rodrigues, 19, is one of four UK finalists who will fly to Florida next month for astronaut training at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre.
Five University of Bristol academics will be taking part in The Times Cheltenham Science Festival this week, debating subjects from how technology could manage our well-being to how well we know our cats and what’s really going on in the mind of a dog.
University of Bristol research assistant Asier Marzo demonstrated the world’s first sonic tractor beam to Hollywood actors Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell on the Spanish TV programme El Hormiguero.
A new generation of digital devices that will protect consumers from cyber-attacks could be a step closer thanks to a grant of over £1 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) awarded to the University of Bristol for a research project to protect consumers’ sensitive data.
Two University of Bristol academics have been named World Technology Award finalists by the World Technology Network (“The WTN”) – a global community comprised of the most innovative people and organisations at the forefront of science and technology and related fields.
Dr Wendel Sebastian, Reader in Structural Engineering, recently presented the keynote lecture at a symposium on civil engineering applications of advanced composite materials.
The University of Bristol is involved in two projects that will put Bristol at the leading edge of the smart city movement.
A group of key water researchers from 13 organisations in eight countries, including the University of Bristol and Cabot Institute, is calling for a revision of how the world should study and tackle drought. The researchers propose broadening the definition of drought to include water shortage caused and made worse – or sometimes improved - by human activity.
