Bristol scholarship students head to New Zealand
Eight Bristol students are about to begin summer research scholarships awarded by the University of Auckland (UoA) in New Zealand, a fellow member of the Worldwide Universities Network.
Grants and awards
Two new start-up plans win BrisSynBio’s first synthetic biology entrepreneurship competition
Two start-up proposals have been chosen as the winners of the first competition to discover and accelerate new synthetic biology companies at the University of Bristol
Major funding boost for internationally-recognised healthcare research centres
Three interdisciplinary research consortia, including the University of Bristol's SPHERE project, have been allocated more than £11 million to continue healthcare sensing systems research that is revolutionising how we identify and respond to outbreaks of infectious diseases, diagnose and manage lung diseases, and recognise and solve emerging health and wellbeing issues in the home environment.
New trial to assess whether rapid tests reduce antibiotic prescribing for respiratory infections in primary care
A new randomised controlled clinical trial, led by the University of Bristol, will investigate whether rapid microbiological 'point-of-care' tests for respiratory infections could reduce antibiotic prescribing in primary care, thanks to funding of £1.6 million by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The tests, which are carried out in GP surgeries rather than sent to a laboratory, detect the presence of viruses and some bacteria, with results available on the same day.
Nice touch: Bristol academic bags award for ground-breaking 3D printed fingerprint
Professor Nathan Lepora and his team were celebrating last night after their landmark robotic finger-tip which makes human-like ‘nerve’ signals was recognised at the Elektra Awards 2002.
Student Awards 2017 celebrate ‘exceptional’ achievements
Having left school at 13 with no qualifications and a reading age of seven, Joshua Greenidge thought a university education was beyond his reach – until he saw a YouTube video about an access course at the University of Bristol.
Around nine million Euros in ERC grants awarded to Bristol academics for pioneering research
A total of six researchers from the University of Bristol have been awarded European Research Council (ERC) Grants totalling around 1.5 million Euros each. This places the University joint second in the UK in terms of the number of Grants awarded from the 2022 call.
Artificial fingertip that ‘feels’ wins Harvard's robotics competition
An open-source 3D-printed fingertip that can ‘feel’ in a similar way to the human sense of touch has won Harvard University's international Soft Robotics competition for its contribution to soft robotics research.
Researchers to create biomimetic forebrain for 3D-printed robot hands
A team of researchers is to develop a biomimetic forebrain for controlling 3D-printed robot hands with a sense of touch. They aim to create a biomimetic forebrain based on computer modelling of a mammal’s neural system that communicates touch in humans and animals, and use this to perform general manipulation tasks in robots.
From pigeonholes to the arrow of time: quantum physicist wins prestigious prize
A professor of physics from the University of Bristol's new Quantum Information Institute has been awarded the prestigious 2016 Cozzarelli Prize for a paper published in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.