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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.
Date:
14/04/2016

League table success

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We have been ranked as 6th in the QS World Rankings for Pharmacy and Pharmacology
Date:
23/03/2016

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.
Date:
14/03/2016

Bergmann-Wheeler Thesis Prize winner announced

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Congratulations to Research Fellow, Lisa Glaser, for winning the 2016 Bergmann-Wheeler Thesis Prize
Date:
07/03/2016

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.
Date:
22/02/2016

Gravitational Waves: A new window into the universe

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On Monday 22 February, Dr Thomas Sotiriou and Dr Helvi Witek hosted a successful outreach event about the first direct detection of gravitational waves from the LIGO.
Date:
17/02/2016

Maths PhD students SET for parliamentary visit

Maths PhD students SET for parliamentary visit
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Áine Byrne and Alban Levy, both PhD students in the School, have been selected to represent mathematical sciences in the UK at the forthcoming 'SET for Britain' exhibition on 7 March.
Date:
03/02/2016

SABRE Postgraduate Internship Programme 2016

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The SABRE Postgraduate Internship programme 2016 is now open for application for postgraduates (or final year students) of a STEM subject and companies in the space and satellite applications sector
Date:
29/01/2016

How does a plant root know when to branch?

How does a plant root know when to branch?
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A researcher at The University of Nottingham is part of an international team who have shown how dying cells at the tip of the root tell a plant where to form root branches.
Date:
27/01/2016

Returning Undergraduate School Prize Winners

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Congratulations to our returning undergraduate school prizewinners.
Date:
19/01/2016
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