Dr Kafienah wins Garrod Prize
Dr Wael Kafienah in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine has been awarded the prestigious Garrod Prize 2008 for his research on stem cells and cartilage repair.
Grants and awards
Dr Maurizio Marinelli and colleagues awarded £662,487 grant for China research
Dr Maurizio Marinelli, Senior Lecturer in the Centre for East Asian Studies, and colleagues have been awarded a grant of £662,487 from the Economic and Social Research Council for a three-year research project entitled ‘Colonialism in comparative perspective: Tianjin under nine flags, 1860-1949’.
Medic wins Peter Dunn Bursary
Fourth-year medical student Richard Lee-Kelland has won the 2008 Peter Dunn Perinatal Bursary for best perinatal project.
Celebrating aerospace talent
The top prize for outstanding MSc dissertation goes to Etienne Coetzee at the University of Bristol. Etienne works at the Landing Gear Systems group of Airbus UK.
Professor Leitgeb wins Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
Professor Hannes Leitgeb of the Department of Philosophy has been awarded a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Major award for Pharmacology student
A Bristol Pharmacology student has won a prestigious Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Award, beating candidates from universities across the UK.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio wins Nobel Prize
The French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, who studied English at the University of Bristol in 1958-59, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2008.
Royal Society honours Bristol researchers
Three academics from the University of Bristol have been awarded Royal Society Wolfson Merit Awards.
'Quantum Explorer' awarded top neutron prize
Dr Radu Coldea in the Department of Physics has been awarded the BTM Willis Prize for neutron scattering.
New BHF grants for Bristol heart research
Five heart research projects at the University of Bristol have been awarded prestigious grants by the British Heart Foundation