Grants and awards
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Ringing praise for Shapiro prize winner
1 October 2011
Dr Lindsay St Claire, Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Hearing and Balance Studies, has been awarded the Marie & Jack Shapiro prize 2011 for her research into the potential link between caffeine and tinnitus.
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Bloomin’ marvellous – Botanic Garden wins award
30 September 2011
The University of Bristol’s Botanic Garden has been awarded the West Country TV Cup for best ‘Outstanding Specific Project’ in this year’s South West Regional Final of the Britain in Bloom Competition 2011, organised by the Royal Horticultural Society.
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Bristol academic honoured by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
2 August 2011
Professor Martin Lowson in the Department of Aerospace Engineering has been presented with the prestigious American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Aeroacoustics Award.
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2011 Big Tick reaccreditation for Bristol ChemLabS
8 June 2011
Bristol ChemLabS’ schools outreach programme has retained its Big Tick status for the second year in a row in the Business in the Community (BITC) 2011 Awards for Excellence.
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Professor Mann wins prestigious French-British prize
20 July 2011
Professor Stephen Mann FRS in the School of Chemistry is one of the 2011 winners of the Société Chimique de France’s French-British Prize.
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Dementia researchers awarded grant for vital equipment
16 May 2011
University of Bristol researchers will benefit from new high-tech equipment thanks to a £48,000 grant from Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity.
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Major funding boost for eye research
28 September 2011
A University of Bristol Immunology and Ophthalmology research group have become a partner in a specialist National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre with Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.
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Bristol engineer receives international ‘Student of the Year’ award
28 September 2011
A University of Bristol student from the Faculty of Engineering has been named as one of the winners of the 2011 Science, Engineering & Technology [SET] Student of the Year awards.
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Professors elected to prestigious Medical Sciences Fellowship
16 May 2011
Two leading medical researchers at the University of Bristol have been recognised for excellence in medical science with their election to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
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Leverhulme Fellowship in Chemistry
29 July 2011
Professor Mike Ashfold of the School of Chemistry has been awarded a one-year Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship that will enable him to re-immerse himself more fully in three areas of laser-based chemistry.
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