The University of Bristol Innocence Project [UoBIP] has received the 2012 Pro Bono Award at the Bristol Law Society’s Annual Awards in recognition of its work in obtaining an appeal for the 30-year old case of William (‘Wullie’) Beck.
A book by Professor Tariq Modood in the Department of Sociology has been shortlisted for the Muslim Writers Awards.
Most of us are aware of the potential health benefits of omega-3 found in fish oil and flax seed. Now researchers are looking at how omega-3 may help laying hens avoid bone damage.
Yun Yin, a research collaborator at the Systems Centre (a collaboration between the Universities of Bristol and Bath), has been awarded a prize of £250 for producing the most outstanding published paper over the past two years of the Systems Centre’s EngD programme.
Emily Cousins, an undergraduate neuroscience student at the University of Bristol, has won the Olympic Gold Medal for Equestrian Dressage at the 2009 Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney.
The effects of Government 11-19 education reforms upon educational organisations, teachers, learners, parents, governors and the local community will be investigated thanks to a £1 million Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) project.
An extensive genetic analysis of the wheat genome will be carried out by researchers at Bristol University thanks to a £1.7million grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
Dr Nicholas Roberts in the School of Biological Sciences has been awarded a David Phillips Fellowship by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the UK funding agency for research in the life sciences.
Dr Jason Mansell, Lecturer in Bone Biology in the Department of Oral and Dental Science, has been awarded £57,000 from the International Team for Implantology (Switzerland) for work on titanium bone implants.
Professor Katharine Cashman, AXA Research Chair, Volcanology Research Group in the School of Earth Sciences has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
