Kathy Cashman, AXA Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Earth Sciences and Philip H. Knight Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Oregon, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
Chemists at Bristol and Oxford have been awarded a £4.66 million EPSRC Programme Grant to continue research into particle imaging technology.
Dr Katsu Goda, Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol, is to receive the 2012 Charles F. Richter Early Career Award, given by the Seismological Society of America (SSA).
The University of Bristol’s Quantum Photonics group have been awarded grants of over €3 million to solve the problem of sending information in single quantum particles over global distances.
The University of Bristol Theatre Collection has been awarded £22,371 by the National Archives under the latest round of The National Cataloguing Grants Programme for Archives.
Emeritus Professor Mick Aston has been given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2012 British Archaeological Awards.
PhD student Rosa Vasilaki has won the Millennium journal’s Northedge Essay Competition 2012 for students of International Relations.
The University of Bristol has been awarded a First Class Award for its environmental and ethical efforts – an honour placing it among the greenest universities in the country. It was placed 36 out of 145 in the People & Planet Green League 2012 – the UK's only comprehensive and independent green ranking of universities, which was unveiled today [29 May] in The Guardian.
Dr Martin Cryan, Senior Lecturer in the University's Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, has been awarded a grant by the EPSRC to develop a new type of nanoscale lens technology.
The Children of the 90s project at Bristol University has won the first Bristol Genius Award for its substantial work over the last 21 years exploring the health of a generation.
