22 December 2010
Nick Wray, Curator at the University’s Botanic Garden will talk from a botanical perspective about his travels in Cuba at a talk on Thursday 20 January 2011.
22 December 2010
Researchers at the University of Bristol, State University of New York and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki have devised a ‘scheduling algorithm’ for procrastinators that will help order the jobs they need to do, while making sure that no job is unreasonably late.
22 December 2010
‘Tis the season to eat, drink and be merry. However, keeping healthy at Christmas can be a challenge. University of Bristol expert, Dr Knut Schroeder, author of Diagnosing Your Health Symptoms For Dummies®, offers his tips for staying healthy and happy throughout the festivities.
22 December 2010
A major new fossil site in south-west China has filled in a sizeable gap in our understanding of how life on this planet recovered from the greatest mass extinction of all time, according to a paper co-authored by Professor Mike Benton, in the School of Earth Sciences, and published this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The work is led by scientists from the Chengdu Geological Center in China.
20 December 2010
The ability to find shoes in the bedroom, apples in a supermarket, or a favourite animal at the zoo is impaired among children with autism – skills that are essential for achieving independence in adulthood – according to new research.
20 December 2010
Emeritus Professor Peter Roberts in the School of Physiology and Pharmacology has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the British Pharmacological Society.
20 December 2010
New research, led by Dr Wendel Sebastian in the Department of Civil Engineering, suggests the use of advanced composite decks for traffic bridges could be the answer to building bridges in half the time, thereby dramatically reducing costs and traffic flow disruption.
20 December 2010
A lifetime achievement award was presented to David May FRS FREng, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bristol at the 2010 Elektra Electronics Industry Awards in London on 9 December.
20 December 2010
Tune in to University Challenge on BBC2 tonight [Monday 20 December] at 8pm to see the Bristol team go head to head with Newnham College, Cambridge for a place in the quarter finals.
17 December 2010
Over 800 of the world’s leading archaeologists will be in the city this weekend to attend a research and theoretical archaeology event at the University of Bristol [17 to19 December].
