Oxford’sFaculty of Classics has seized this year’s opportunity of distance learning to reach out to schools, with professors of ancient subjects going into online classrooms to talk to pupils about everything from who wore togas to the poet Juvenal. Meanwhile, recent research from Oxford and Cambridge shows classical subjects are simply not available in […]
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Leading Ulster academic, Professor Victor Gault, Associate Dean (Research and Impact), Faculty of Life & Health Sciences, has recently been appointed as a member of the REF 2021 sub-panel 3: Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy. Professor Gault was appointed through a nomination process earlier this year. Over 2,000 organisations […]
“I dream of comprehensive cultural change.” The sociologist Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen is switching to Universität Hamburg for a professorship newly created within the context of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments. She will serve as the academic director of the Transfer Agency that is currently being set […]
The Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE, in its Spanish acronym) has awarded its National Statistics Award to Daniel Peña Sánchez de Rivera, emeritus professor of Statistics and former President of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), as recognition for his input, scientific work and eminent contribution to the advancement […]
The Heilbronn Institute is a national centre supporting research in the mathematical sciences across the UK. The University of Bristol has been HIMR’s principal academic partner since it was founded in 2005 as a partnership with Government Communications Headquarters. Professor Grimmett will be responsible for shaping HIMR’s profile as an […]
Professor Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson’s TEDx talk on insects and how important they are to the globe and human life is now on Youtube. Insects are fascinating creatures that live weird and truly astonishing lives right under our noses. Often ignored or even detested, the world’s trillions of insects still work tirelessly […]
At the Biozentrum of the University of Basel two new professors have been appointed: Professor Knut Drescher as Associate Professor of Microbiology and Biophysics, and Professor Anissa Kempf as Assistant Professor of Neurobiology. Furthermore, the University Council has promoted five lecturers and appointed three adjunct professors. Drescher, currently a research […]
