Following on from previous years’ successes, six engineering students from the University of Bristol have been selected as ‘inspirational role models to the next generation of engineers’ by the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Global emissions of carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels will reach 36 billion tonnes for the year 2013 – a level unprecedented in human history – according to the annual Global Carbon Budget, produced by an international team of researchers including Dr Jo House of the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol.
Research into how robotic tools could help humans perform everyday tasks more efficiently is being carried out by a Bristol University student thanks to a bursary from the James Dyson Foundation worth £75,000.
Why are flowers the shapes they are? How do they make seeds? What role will they play in feeding a growing global population? These and other questions come under the spotlight at an event at the Victoria Rooms on Thursday 4 August at 5.30pm when members of the public are invited to join world-leading scientists to explore the science of flowers.
The strongest evidence yet that the rise in atmospheric CO2 emissions continues to outstrip the ability of the world’s natural ‘sinks’ to absorb carbon is published this week in Nature Geoscience.
Paul Williams talks about his latest book – a translation from Tibetan of the erotic poetry of the Sixth Dalai Lama.
Professor Simon Hiscock, Director of the Botanic Garden, explains how over the past 20 years there has been a revolution in the plant world.
Bristol University is awarding honorary degrees to two prominent people at today's degree ceremonies in the Wills Memorial Building [Wednesday, February 15].
Bristol University is awarding honorary degrees to two prominent people at today’s degree ceremonies in the Wills Memorial Building [Wednesday, July 19].
The man behind the discovery of the Epstein-Barr virus will be awarded an honorary fellowship, by Bristol University at today’s degree ceremony in the Wills Memorial Building [Tuesday, July 18].
