Grants and awards
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Professor Edwards receives Royal Agricultural Society award
26 September 2011
Professor Keith Edwards has been awarded the 2011 Royal Agricultural Society Research Medal for his leading role in the sequencing of the wheat genome.
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Prize success for Bristol historians
2 December 2011
Three historians from the University of Bristol are celebrating success in the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, awarded by the Wiener Library, London.
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Professor Popescu to receive prestigious quantum mechanics award
1 June 2011
Professor Sandu Popescu in the School of Physics is to receive the University of Toronto’s John Stewart Bell Prize for his enormous contributions to the field of quantum mechanics.
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$1.1 million donation for pioneering stem cell MS trial
1 June 2011
The University of Bristol and North Bristol NHS Trust have been given a $1.1 million grant by The Kenneth and Claudia Silverman Family Foundation to fund a phase II clinical trial of bone marrow cellular therapy in MS patients.
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Professor Perryman awarded Tycho Brahe Prize
1 June 2011
Professor Michael Perryman, Visiting Fellow in the School of Physics, is to receive the European Astronomical Society’s Tycho Brahe Prize.
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International students awarded scholarships
5 May 2011
On 4 May, many of the 21 students who were successful in winning a 2010/11 International Scholarship attended a winners’ awards ceremony, hosted by the International Office. Each winner was congratulated by the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Professor Avril Waterman-Pearson, who awarded the certificates.
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Funding boost for Human Rights Implementation Centre
20 June 2011
The Human Rights Implementation Centre (HRIC) has secured new funding, from the Oak Foundation and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office respectively.
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£4m continuation funding for complexity sciences
8 April 2011
The University has been awarded nearly £4 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to continue funding the highly successful Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences (BCCS).
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Bristol dentists brush up well at craniofacial awards
5 May 2011
At the annual meeting of the Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland, first and second places in the Arnold Huddart Medal went to Specialist Registrars on the Doctoral programme in Orthodontics (DDS) from Bristol Dental Hospital and School.
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PhD student wins award for obesity research
31 May 2011
Laura Wilkinson in the School of Experimental Psychology has won the Association for the Study of Obesity’s Student Researcher 2011 Award.
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