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Nottingham BBSRC Wheat Research Centre opens

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The new Nottingham/BBSRC Wheat Research Centre has been officially opened by 'super woman of wheat' and influential advocate for wheat research and science Jeanie Borlaug Laube. Jeanie is the daughter of Norman E Borlaug who received a Nobel Prize for his lifetime of work to feed a hungry world. She toured the glasshouses at The University of Nottingham's Sutton Bonington Campus where the search is on for new varieties of high yeilding wheat that can cope with climate change and feed a growing global population.

League table success

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We have been ranked as 6th in the QS World Rankings for Pharmacy and Pharmacology

Tomorrow's Mathematicians Today - Undergraduate Conference

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Second year undergraduate maths student wins prize nomination after presenting at prestigious conference for undergraduate students.

Bergmann-Wheeler Thesis Prize winner announced

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Congratulations to Research Fellow, Lisa Glaser, for winning the 2016 Bergmann-Wheeler Thesis Prize

A simpler way of measuring entanglement

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An academic at the school has managed to simplify the problem of measuring quantum entanglement. The full details have been published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
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Upcoming events

Seeing the invisible: Capturing Electrical "Conversations" Between Living Cells

Date
19/03/2026 (18:00-19:00)
Location:
B1 Physics Building, University Park Campus
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Join us for our March Science Public Lecture with Dr Sidahmed Abayzeed from the University of Nottingham Faculty of Engineering. Sidahmed is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Optics and Photonics at the Faculty of Engineering. His talk will explore how cutting-edge light microscopes can now visualise the faintest whispers of electricity as they pass between living cells.

Open Day 4 July 2026

Date
04/07/2026 (09:00-14:00)
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