Dr Helen Simpson awarded Philip Leverhulme Prize
Dr Helen Simpson in the School of Economics, Finance and Management has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.
Grants and awards
BCCS student wins prestigious poster prize
Adam Sardar, a penultimate-year PhD student at the Bristol Centre for Complexity Science (BCCS), has won the Outstanding Poster Award at the premier international computational biology conference ISMB2011 for his work on horizontal gene transfer and its impact on the tree of life.
Bristol scientists to solve the “mystery” of Antarctic mass loss
An international team of scientists at the University of Bristol and Newcastle has been awarded £760,000 by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to investigate the changing mass of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Bristol Robotics Laboratory receives Grand Challenges Explorations funding
The Bristol Robotics Laboratory, a research partnership between the University of Bristol and UWE Bristol, will receive funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ideas that address persistent health and development challenges.
Young researcher wins Women in Science award
Dr Heather Whitney, European Research Council Research Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences, is one of four winners in this year’s L’Oréal-UNESCO UK and Ireland Fellowships For Women in Science.
2011 Big Tick reaccreditation for Bristol ChemLabS
Bristol ChemLabS’ schools outreach programme has retained its Big Tick status for the second year in a row in the Business in the Community (BITC) 2011 Awards for Excellence.
Dementia researchers awarded grant for vital equipment
University of Bristol researchers will benefit from new high-tech equipment thanks to a £48,000 grant from Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity.
Bristol academic honoured by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Professor Martin Lowson in the Department of Aerospace Engineering has been presented with the prestigious American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Aeroacoustics Award.
Professors elected to prestigious Medical Sciences Fellowship
Two leading medical researchers at the University of Bristol have been recognised for excellence in medical science with their election to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Inspirational students honoured
Some of Bristol’s most inspirational students have been honoured for their efforts in helping to make a difference to the lives of people in the local community and across the world. Winners of the 2011 University of Bristol Union Awards, set-up to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievement in fundraising, volunteering, innovation and the environment, include an array of talented students who have dedicated their time to run community and school engagement projects while also raising money for charity to help others in need.