Bristol University News

HIV-infected patients in high income countries are living some 13 years longer thanks to improvements in combination antiretroval therapy, according to new research by the University of Bristol published in a HIV Special Issue of The Lancet.

Dr Tanniemola Liverpool of the Department of Mathematics has been awarded a grant worth US $810,000 as part of an international, collaborative project of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Materials World Network entitled ‘Microscopic models of cross-linked active gels’.

Professor Michael Basker from the Department of Russian will be taking part in a new two-part BBC Radio 4 series entitled ‘Poetry and the Russian Soul’. The programme will be aired at 16.30 on Sunday 27 July and Sunday 3 August.

A team of 17 staff and students from across the University, with friends and family members, came second in the Bath Dragon Boat Race earlier this month. Two University teams – Bristol Allsorts and The Motley Crew – took part in the charity event, between them raising more than £1,000 for the British Heart Foundation.

Andrew Lang, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Bristol, died in June. He joined the University in 1960 and was promoted to Professor of Physics in 1979.

The BBSRC has awarded a grant of over £0.5 million to an interdisciplinary team, formed via Bristol Neuroscience, researching into the behaviour of brain cells during periods of acute stress.

Professor Simon Burgess from the University’s Centre for Market and Public Organisation was interviewed about public-sector bonuses on BBC Radio 4's 'Today' programme yesterday [Tuesday 22 July].

An international study, led by the University of Bristol, shows that during their last 50 million years of existence, dinosaurs were not expanding as actively as had been previously thought and that the apparent explosion of dinosaur diversity may be largely explained by sampling bias.

From the first autonomous robots to stem cells for treating multiple sclerosis.

A new week-long intensive swimming course for children (aged five and over) wanting either to learn how to swim or improve their stroke begins next month [11-15 August] at the University of Bristol swimming pool in Clifton.

Three academics from the University of Bristol have been awarded Royal Society Wolfson Merit Awards.

Five heart research projects at the University of Bristol have been awarded prestigious grants by the British Heart Foundation

Eleven pioneering students are the first to complete Bristol University's four-year BSc degree in Audiology.

Ken Fox, Professor of Exercise and Health Sciences, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Coimbra, Portugal

Charles Martindale, Professor of Latin and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Bristol, has been selected to succeed Professor Robert Fowler as Dean of Arts from August 2009.

Bristol University is awarding honorary degrees to two prominent people at today’s degree ceremonies in the Wills Memorial Building [Friday 18 July].

Breast cancer is the most common female cancer in the UK, affecting one in nine women at some point in their life. The first patient-led DVD for women with breast cancer who are considering breast reconstruction will be launched today.

The Centre for East Asian Studies has been hosting the ‘China in the World’ Postgraduate Research Summer School, a week-long, EU-funded event.

Materials that can stop a crack and then self-heal have been brought a step closer to reality thanks to a new project launched by the University of Bristol and Imperial College London.

Dr Kirsty Reid of the Department of Historical Studies has been awarded the Australian Historical Association’s 2008 Kay Daniels Award for her book, 'Gender, crime and empire: convicts, settlers and the state in early colonial Australia'.