Jeremy O鈥橞rien wins quantum information award
Professor Jeremy O鈥橞rien of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering has been awarded the 2009 European Quantum Information Young Investigator Award by QUROPE.
Grants and awards
Professor of Geography awarded OBE in Queen's honours list
Professor Ron Johnston, FBA from the University of Bristol's School of Geographical Sciences has been awarded an OBE in the Queen鈥檚 Birthday Honours for his services to scholarship.
AHRC grant gives voice to medieval chant
Dr Emma Hornby in the Department of Music has been awarded a Religion and Society Small Research Grant worth 拢95,000 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a one-year project on 鈥楥ompositional planning, musical grammar and theology in Old Hispanic chant鈥�.
Professor awarded French accolade
Professor Susan Harrow of the University鈥檚 Department of French has been awarded a prestigious accolade for her services to French culture. Professor Harrow has been awarded the grade of 鈥極fficier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Acad茅miques', an Order, founded by Napoleon in 1808, to reward those who have made a major contribution to French education and culture.
Department of Russian awarded 拢800,000 for major new study
Professor Derek Offord from the Department of Russian has been awarded 拢800,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to conduct the first large-scale history of the French language in Russia.
Bristol student wins gold in Youth Olympics
Emily Cousins, an undergraduate neuroscience student at the University of Bristol, has won the Olympic Gold Medal for Equestrian Dressage at the 2009 Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney.
Computer Science awarded 拢1.2 million for biological research
Bioinformatics and biological research in the University of Bristol's department of Computer Science has been strengthened thanks to awards totalling 拢1.2million from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
Chemists awarded top prizes
Two academics in the School of Chemistry have been awarded prestigious prizes from the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists and the Royal Meteorological Society respectively.
拢3.7 million for Britain鈥檚 future
拢3.7 million has been awarded to Bristol University to train Britain鈥檚 future scientists and engineers. The announcement was made by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) - the UK funding body for science and engineering.
Chemistry project receives further accolade
A Bristol University project that is bringing chemistry to life for thousands of schoolchildren has been 鈥楬ighly Commended鈥� in Business in the Community's Bank of America Merrill Lynch Education Award. The accolade was given at a reception at St James鈥檚 Palace last night [6 July].