Grants and awards
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Major grants for Bristol’s School of Mathematics
19 March 2013
The University of Bristol’s School of Mathematics has been awarded three major grants from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
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PhD student wins award for uranium research
13 June 2013
Camilla Stitt, a PhD student from the Interface Analysis Centre, has been awarded the 2013 43èmes Journées des Actinides Research medal for her research in the field of actinide physics and chemistry.
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Geography professor receives double honours in a single week
13 June 2013
Professor Kelvyn Jones, from the School of Geographical Sciences, has received two prestigious awards in a single week.
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Boeing awards scholarships to engineering students
13 February 2013
Two undergraduate students at the University of Bristol have been awarded scholarships by the Boeing Company for their outstanding academic performance in the fields of Aerospace Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
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Could a common blood pressure drug slow down the progression of Alzheimer’s?
5 March 2013
A groundbreaking trial that hopes to discover if a drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure could slow down the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) will begin shortly thanks to funding of nearly £2 million by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and managed by the National Institute for Health Research.
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Royal Statistical Society honour for Sir John Kingman
1 March 2013
Sir John Kingman, former Vice-Chancellor of the University and now Emeritus Professor in the School of Mathematics, has been awarded the Guy Medal in Gold from the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) - its top honour.
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Two Bristol academics receive Wolfson Research Merit Awards
26 April 2013
Two Bristol academics are among the 27 new Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders.
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Study to look at nerve cells in patients with Alzheimer’s disease
21 November 2011
Researchers at the University of Bristol have been awarded a grant that by using state-of-the-art stem cell technology will enable them to analyse nerve cells produced from skin biopsies of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
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Theatre Collection awarded National Archives grant
16 January 2013
The University of Bristol Theatre Collection has been awarded £22,371 by the National Archives under the latest round of The National Cataloguing Grants Programme for Archives.
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£281,000 fellowship for dental graduate and oral cancer research
10 August 2011
New research looking at the impact of oral cancer has secured a prestigious fellowship and funding of £281,000.
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