Grants and awards
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Professor Tranter awarded Polar Medal
31 January 2011
Professor Martyn Tranter in the School of Geographical Sciences is to receive the Polar Medal for his numerous field seasons in the Arctic and Antarctic.
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Support of student enterprise ³Ô¹ÏÍø wins accolades
31 January 2011
The University’s support of student enterprise and entrepreneurs was recognised recently via two awards – one to a student society, the other to staff in Research, Enterprise and Development.
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Lottery boost to get more Bristol students playing sport
31 March 2011
Students at the University of Bristol are being urged to give sport another go after a project secured £173,211 in National Lottery funding from Sport England.
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Professor Hancox awarded Heart Research UK grant for pioneering study
24 January 2011
Professor Jules Hancox in the School of Physiology and Pharmacology has received a grant from Heart Research UK to examine how the heart's electrical activity can be adversely affected by certain prescription drugs.
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£120,000 for Cabot Project
2 June 2011
The Cabot Project, run by Dr Evan Jones of the Department of History, has been awarded £90,000 funding from Gretchen Bauta, a private Canadian benefactor with a particular interest in Canada's early history.
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Academic awarded prestigious Fellowship
11 May 2011
Dr Wendel Sebastian, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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Bristol academic receives Wolfson award
11 May 2011
Professor Mark Cannell, Chair in Cardiac Cell Biology at the University of Bristol’s School of Physiology and Pharmacology, has received one of the Royal Society’s most prestigious awards, a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
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Major new research project hopes to find a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease
2 June 2011
A partnership between the University of Bristol, BRACE and North Bristol NHS Trust will fund a world class dementia research team and a new treatment clinic.
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£1 million for computing on encrypted data
11 May 2011
Bristol University’s Cryptography Group has received nearly £1 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council UK (EPSRC) with the aim of transforming security applications in the future.
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BCCS student wins prestigious poster prize
28 July 2011
Adam Sardar, a penultimate-year PhD student at the Bristol Centre for Complexity Science (BCCS), has won the Outstanding Poster Award at the premier international computational biology conference ISMB2011 for his work on horizontal gene transfer and its impact on the tree of life.
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