Grants and awards
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Funding boost for research at GW4 institutions
25 September 2014
Research projects across the South West and Wales, including Bristol, were given a boost this week, with the announcement of the latest round of funding from the GW4 Alliance.
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Honorary Degrees Awarded at the University of Bristol – Wednesday, 16 July
16 July 2014
Bristol University is awarding honorary degrees to Dr Moger Woolley, Professor Steven West and Professor Eric Sheppard at degree ceremonies taking place today in the Wills Memorial Building.
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Bristol Physics student triumphs at the Undergraduate Awards
25 September 2014
Flurin Eisner, a student in the School of Physics, has won in the Mathematics and Physics category of the international Undergraduate Awards.
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Cancer-fighting coach is nominated for coach of the year award
3 May 2018
The University of Bristol’s head hockey coach has been shortlisted for a Coach of the Year Award by England Hockey.
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Vet School academic receives AVMF/Winn Feline Foundation Award
28 July 2014
This week the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) will recognise the University of Bristol feline medicine specialist Professor Timothy Gruffydd-Jones with the 2014 AVMF/Winn Feline Foundation Award at its 2014 meeting.
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Bristol students win prizes at hydrology conference
15 July 2014
Two Bristol students, in the Department of Civil Engineering and the School of Geographical Sciences respectively, have won prizes at the recent Peter Wolf Early Career Hydrologists’ Symposium at Cardiff University.
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Professor Mike Ashfold awarded the Herbert P Broida Prize
24 September 2014
Professor Mike Ashfold FRS in the School of Chemistry has been awarded the American Physical Society’s prestigious Herbert P Broida Prize 2015.
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Pioneering new childhood cancer research projects announced by The Little Princess Trust
27 September 2023
The Little Princess Trust has announced funding of three groundbreaking childhood cancer research projects including a new University of Bristol-led study that will investigate how protein production is changed in childhood cancer cells.
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Researchers hope to identify new drug targets to treat brain tumours
23 July 2014
Around 7,000 people in the UK develop primary brain cancer each year but only ten per cent of patients are still alive five years after diagnosis. A new research project has been awarded a grant of over £200,000 to look at a pathway in brain tumours called peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) and identify any possible new drug targets to treat the disease.
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Bristol academic shortlisted for Wolfson History Prize 2018
16 April 2018
The shortlist for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 is announced today and includes a book by a University of Bristol historian.
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