Dr Ian Bond from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Bristol and colleagues from Imperial College London have been awarded a four-year research grant of £1.2 million from the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) and DSTL (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory).
Florence Clarke, Foreign Language Assistant Tutor in the Department of French and a student on the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology’s Garden History MA course, is the winner of the 2008 Garden History Society (GHS) Annual Essay prize.
Four students from Bristol University have been selected as ‘inspirational role models to the next generation of engineers’ by the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Three leading international researchers have been awarded Newton International Fellowships to carry out world-class research at the University of Bristol.
Bristol University student, Niall Oswald, has won the e2v Award for the Best Electronic Engineering Student at the 2008 Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Awards for his final-year research project, ‘A “More-Electric” Formula 1 Gearbox.’
Researchers in the Department of Pharmacology have been awarded a major grant to investigate the intracellular mechanisms underlying tolerance to opiates such as morphine and heroin.
A round-up of major grants in the School of Chemistry.
Professor Julian Paton and Dr Sergey Kasparov in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology have been awarded a five-year renewal of their British Heart Foundation Programme Grant.
Two staff members in the School of Chemistry have won RSC industrially sponsored awards.
If you once spoke a second language but no longer do, researchers at Bristol University would like to hear from you. Former speakers of Hindi, Zulu, Cantonese and Mandarin are invited to take part in a new £180,000 language study.
