Engineering students awarded prestigious scholarships
The Faculty of Engineering recently held an event to celebrate student success and present scholarships and awards to nearly 130 students.
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Bristol appoints leader for East Asian initiative
Bristol University's new Centre for East Asian Studies (CEAS) is to be led by Dr Joshua Ka-ho Mok, currently of the City University of Hong Kong.
Bristol looks East for new venture
The vital importance to UK and European interests of understanding and engaging with an emerging super power is the inspiration behind an ambitious plan by the University of Bristol to establish a new Centre for East Asian Studies (CEAS) by 2005.
Celebrate Chinese New Year this Sunday
Monday 26 January marks the start of the Chinese Year of the Ox. To kick-start celebrations, the University and Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery are hosting a day of free, fun events for all the family from 11.00 to 16.00 on Sunday 25 January in the Wills Memorial Building and Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery on Queen’s Road. All welcome.
Garden of thinking
Traditional Chinese academies, comparable to Greek philosophic schools, were neo-Confucian institutes, often located in reclusive mountains.
Shrimps and worms among first animals to recover after largest mass extinction
Researchers studying ancient sea bed burrows and trails have discovered that bottom burrowing animals were among the first to bounce back after the end-Permian mass extinction.
Emissions of potent greenhouse gas have grown, contradicting reports of huge reductions
Despite reports that global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas, HFC-23, were almost eliminated in 2017, an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has found atmospheric levels growing at record values.
Plesiosaurs doubled their neck-length by gaining new vertebrae
Their lengthy necks, used for chasing fast-moving fishes, developed quickly over a five million period around 250 million years ago.
Research shows emissions of banned ozone-depleting substance are back on the decline
Global emissions of a potent substance notorious for depleting the Earth’s ozone layer – the protective barrier which absorbs the Sun’s harmful UV rays – have fallen rapidly and are now back on the decline, according to new research.
New study investigates how life on land recovered after “The Great Dying”
Over the course of Earth’s history, several mass extinction events have destroyed ecosystems, including one that famously wiped out the dinosaurs. But none were as devastating as “The Great Dying,” which took place 252 million years ago during the end of the Permian period.