Security award for Jerry Woods
Jerry Woods, the University’s Security Services Manager, has been named In-House Security Manager of the Year at the Security Excellence Awards.

Jerry Woods, the University’s Security Services Manager, has been named In-House Security Manager of the Year at the Security Excellence Awards.

The University has won three prestigious fellowships from the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science.

Medical student Tehmina Bharucha has won the 2009 Peter Dunn Perinatal Bursary for best perinatal project.

Professor Joe Quarini of the Department of Mechanical Engineering has won a Dragons’ Den-style competition for his invention of ice pigging, a simple but effective technique for cleaning pipes and ducts by pumping through a thick ice slurry or ‘ice pig’.

Two students in the School of Chemistry have recently received accolades, from the Salters’ Institute and NESTA FameLab respectively.

A Bristol University project that is bringing chemistry to life for thousands of schoolchildren has won a prestigious Big Tick in Business in the Community’s Awards for Excellence 2009.

A book by Professor Tariq Modood in the Department of Sociology has been shortlisted for the Muslim Writers Awards.

Bristol students have taken top honours in the 2009 Garden History Society (GHS) Essay Prize.

Dr Nicholas Roberts in the School of Biological Sciences has been awarded a David Phillips Fellowship by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the UK funding agency for research in the life sciences.

The Universities of Bristol and Bath have both won a prestigious national security award.