Professor Nello Cristianini, holder of the Chair in Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Engineering Mathematics and the Department of Computer Science, has received a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award.
The University made a strong showing in The Engineer Technology and Innovation Awards, with teams from Bristol involved in two of the eight award-winning projects.
GW4 researchers will benefit from the region’s first cryo-focused ion beam-scanning electron microscope. The equipment, which uses Nobel prize-winning technology capable of producing high-resolution imaging of a single protein — around 50 billion times smaller than a human cell, will allow researchers to conduct in situ structural biology with more detailed analyses of cell structures than previously been possible.
Two researchers from Bristol’s Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Law have been awarded a share of a £104 million UKRI’s flagship fellowships grant to help lead research into global issues including deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
Professor Ron Johnston in the School of Geographical Sciences has been given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association of American Geographers.
Carsten Reinhard, a first-year undergraduate in the School of Biological Sciences, has been awarded First Prize in the Federal German Environmental Competition.
Two pioneering Bristol projects are amongst 100 new initiatives which will share £80 million investment from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Intute, an online information service co-developed by the University’s Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT), is the winner of the Jason Farradane Award 2007.
A new research initiative on the economic impact of the 'third sector' (non-governmental voluntary and community groups, social enterprises, charities, cooperatives and mutuals), based in the Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO) at the University, will be launched today.
A Bristol researcher has been recognised for her efforts in raising awareness and public understanding of research involving animals.
