Grants and awards
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Bristol student wins gold in Youth Olympics
19 March 2009
Emily Cousins, an undergraduate neuroscience student at the University of Bristol, has won the Olympic Gold Medal for Equestrian Dressage at the 2009 Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney.
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Wolfson Merit Awards for Bristol professors
6 April 2009
Two Bristol academics have received prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Merit Awards.
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Help for vulnerable workers
3 April 2009
Professor David Gordon of the School for Policy Studies and Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research has been appointed to the Supervisory Board of the Union Modernisation Fund (UMF) by the Ministry of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
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Chemists awarded top prizes
19 February 2009
Two academics in the School of Chemistry have been awarded prestigious prizes from the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists and the Royal Meteorological Society respectively.
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Archaeology student strikes gold
25 April 2012
Jimena Lobo Guerrero Arenas, a postgraduate student in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, has been awarded a Short Term Research Grant from Harvard University for research into early colonial gold-working in Colombia.
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£3.7 million for Britain’s future
18 February 2009
£3.7 million has been awarded to Bristol University to train Britain’s future scientists and engineers. The announcement was made by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) - the UK funding body for science and engineering.
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Professor Kathy Cashman elected to AAAS
25 April 2012
Kathy Cashman, AXA Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Earth Sciences and Philip H. Knight Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Oregon, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
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Bristol academic honoured with Seismological Society of America’s Richter Early Career Award
25 April 2012
Dr Katsu Goda, Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol, is to receive the 2012 Charles F. Richter Early Career Award, given by the Seismological Society of America (SSA).
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Neil Perkins wins 2009 Tenovus Medal
2 April 2009
Neil Perkins, Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, is the 2009 recipient of the Tenovus Medal, awarded to a young investigator with a Scottish link who has made a major impact in the field of gene biology.
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€3 million to solve the long-distance quantum communication problem
24 April 2012
The University of Bristol’s Quantum Photonics group have been awarded grants of over €3 million to solve the problem of sending information in single quantum particles over global distances.
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