On 28 March, many of the 30 students who were successful in winning a 2011-12 International Scholarship attended a winners’ awards ceremony, hosted by the International Office at Royal Fort House. The winners were congratulated by the Director of Communications and Marketing, David Alder, who awarded the certificates.
Three academics in the School of Mathematics have won prestigious prizes from two major learned societies for mathematics.
Researchers within the School of Biological Sciences are set to gain from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s (BBSRC’s) recent announcement that it is to invest £250 million in UK bioscience.
Professor Sarah Street in the Department of Drama: Theatre, Film Television, has secured a three year Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant worth £246,243 for her project ‘Colour in the 1920s: Cinema and its Intermedial Contexts’.
More than a quarter of the national Royal Academy of Engineering Leadership Advanced Awards have been awarded to students at the University of Bristol - putting the University top in the country once again.
Professor Sir Eric Thomas, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol, has been presented with the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education on behalf of the University in a ceremony held at St James’s Palace yesterday [27 Feb].
A University of Bristol student in the School of Chemistry has been awarded first prize in a competition aimed to recognise outstanding student research in the area of low carbon technologies.
A Bristol botanist is to be awarded the prestigious H. H. Bloomer medal by the Linnean Society for her contribution to natural history today [24 May 2012].
The University of Bristol, with partners at University College London, Cambridge MRC Biostatistics Unit, and the University of the West of England, has been awarded government funding of £3,865,761 for health protection research.
Jimena Lobo Guerrero Arenas, a postgraduate student in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, has been awarded a Short Term Research Grant from Harvard University for research into early colonial gold-working in Colombia.
