Teacher of the Year award goes to Centre for Deaf Studies Teaching Fellow
Clive Mason, a Teaching Fellow in the Centre for Deaf Studies, has won Teacher of the Year for the South West region in the 2012 Signature Annual Award.
Grants and awards
How does our brain “learn” from stressful events?
A study by academics in the University of Bristol's School of Clinical Sciences that aims to investigate how the brain processes stress and creates memories of psychologically stressful events will begin shortly thanks to funding of £758,000 from the BBSRC.
An environmentally friendly robot
Dr Jonathan Rossiter, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Engineering Mathematic and a member of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), has secured a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant for his project ‘A robot that decomposes: towards biodegradable robotic organisms’.
Honour for human rights expert
Malcolm Evans, OBE, Professor of International Law at the University of Bristol and one of the UK’s leading human rights experts has today [16 July] been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Bangor University, Wales for his services to law.
Students’ award-winning appetite to help beat food poverty
A social enterprise run by students at the University of Bristol has won a top award for its efforts to provide free meals for the community from food which would otherwise be thrown away. FoodCycle Bristol, an initiative which helps to alleviate food poverty in the city, was named Best Social Enterprise at the SETsquared Partnership’s second annual student enterprise awards.
2011/12 Engagement Award winners announced
The winners of the University’s 2011/12 Engagement Awards have been announced.
Bristol academic receives Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
Katharine Cashman, Professor of Volcanology in the School of Earth Sciences, is one of 21 new Wolfson Research Merit Award holders. The prestigious awards are conferred by the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science.
NUS success as the Students’ Union vies for top awards
The University of Bristol Students Union [UBU] is celebrating after being shortlisted for five national awards.
Engineering student wins AIAA Harry Hilton Structures Award
Broderick Coburn, a final-year PhD student in the Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science (ACCIS CDT), has been awarded the prestigious Harry Hilton Student Paper Award in Structures at the 55th American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials (SDM) Conference.
Dr Andrews awarded Diabetes UK lecture
Dr Rob Andrews, Consultant Senior Lecturer in the School of Clinical Sciences, was selected by Diabetes UK to give the Rank Nutrition Lecture 2012 at its Professional Conference last week.