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2012年1月16日
KT Champion funding continues to support showcasing, secondments and website development
2012年1月10日
Dr Felia Allum, Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies has been awarded funding to run an event on Italian mafias in the UK for the Association of Chief Police Officers, the Home Office and individual Police Constabularies. ...詳細 »
Volunteers needed for energy project
2011年9月6日
Researchers from the University of Bath are looking for volunteers to participate in a study on the design of energy meter displays as part of a PhD project in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering. The study is a part of research being carried out at the University on ...詳細 »
Britain’s Paralympians prepare their gold rush
2011年8月26日
Those hoping to win Paralympic medals for Great Britain next summer have been spending two weeks at the University of Bath as part of the British Paralympic Association’s (BPA) ‘year to go’ preparation camp. ...詳細 »
Hydrogen Fuel cell cars on show at Electrochem 2011
2011年8月25日
The University of Bath will host visitors from across the world in September when the international Electrochem 2011 conference takes place. ...詳細 »
Launch of new Internal Peer Review College
2011年5月17日
Jane Millar, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research, has hosted a reception to launch our new ...詳細 »
Visitors from India spend a week in Bath
2011年5月16日
A high-level delegation from India visited campus this week. The group were from the Faculty of Scie...詳細 »
Workshop celebrates 100th anniversary of superconductivity
2011年5月12日
An international workshop held in Bath last week celebrated the 100th anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes in Leiden in 1911. ...詳細 »
Barking business plan has big future
2011年5月10日
Two University of Bath students have won a national competition, after founding a company which aims to reduce the cost of keeping track of treasured possessions. ...詳細 »
Bath students win prestigious national awards
2011年5月3日
Two students from the University’s Faculty of Engineering have been awarded ‘Undergraduate of the Year’ awards in a recent National ceremony that took place in Canary Wharf, London. ...詳細 »
Jade Goody and the internet: a new way of looking at death
2011年2月11日
Experts in death from the Universities of Bath and Bath Spa will be looking at changing perceptions of dying at a seminar next month. ...詳細 »
Eating disorders linked with autism in school children
2011年2月10日
Researchers at the University of Bath and Great Ormond Street Hospital have found that school children who show tendencies towards eating disorders also have traits associated with autism. ...詳細 »
New guide helps builders tackle ‘embodied carbon’
2011年2月9日
A new guide by the University of Bath is set to help the construction industry measure and tackle the full carbon footprint of building materials and reduce negative impact on the environment. ...詳細 »
Vice-Chancellor appointed to West of England LEP Board
2011年2月7日
Professor Glynis Breakwell, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath, has been appointed as the Higher Education representative on the Board of the West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). ...詳細 »
Government should study quality of life rather than happiness says expert
2010年12月6日
The Government’s survey into wellbeing should focus on quality of life rather than happiness says a University of Bath academic. From April, the Office for National Statistics will ask people to rate their own well-being with the first official happiness index due in 2012. But Professor Suzanne Skevington from the University of Bath’s Department of Psychology said the Government should instead focus on qual...詳細 »
The dead body and its disposal
2010年11月29日
How do we dispose of our dead? Academics from the University of Bath will be discussing three different points of view at a free seminar next week. It is being organised by the Centre for Death & Society (CDAS) and will be focussed around research presented by its members. Dr Kate Woodthorpe, who is the programme leader on the University’s foundation degree in funeral services, will look at anatomical patholo...詳細 »
Mayor of Bath opens new Advice and Representation Centre
2010年11月6日
On Saturday 6 November the Students’ Union will hold an official opening of its new Advice and Representation Centre in the University of Bath’s new £5.5m Student Centre. The centre will be opened by Councillor Shaun McGall, Learning & Teaching Development Officer at the University. He has a special history with the Students’ Union, having worked in advice and academic representation from 1...詳細 »
New ‘Skills for Study’ Website
2010年11月2日
Posted in News by Stephanie Dennett on the October 28th, 2010 There are fan...詳細 »
Brazilian students get a taste of engineering at Bath
2010年11月2日
A group of engineering students from Brazil visited the Faculty of Engineering for two weeks to get an insight into what it’s like to study and do research at Bath. The visit, sponsored by Santander Universities Global Division, welcomed 12 students and two professors from seven Brazilian universities to a series of talks and hands-on demonstrations in each of the University’s three engineering de...詳細 »
Technophobia starts in the womb, scientists believe
2010年10月13日
Having a good grasp of, or an aversion towards, using technology can be predicted by the hormones we are exposed to in the womb, researchers at the University of Bath have discovered. Pre-natal testosterone exposure has been argued to have an effect on the way the brain develops that makes it either easier or more difficult to understand technology. Researchers in the Departme...詳細 »
Student saves chemical giant thousands of pounds on industrial placement
2010年10月8日
A Chemical Engineering student at the University of Bath has saved a Northwest chemicals firm £325,000 on its annual utility bills whilst on placement. Cigdem Kemal, 22, developed a number of cost saving projects while on placement at the plant of Basell Polyolefins UK Ltd in Carrington, Manchester, a company belonging to the multi-national chemicals manufacturer LyondellBasell. Her efforts w...詳細 »
Former Bath researcher wins Nobel Prize
2010年10月5日
A former University of Bath researcher is sharing this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics, for groundbreaking research on graphene carried out at Manchester University. Professor Andre Geim spent a year at Bath in his early career, working as a Research Officer in the Department of Physics from 1992 to 1993 with Professor Simon Bending. Their work focused on semiconductor electronic devices and S...詳細 »
Bath ranked 9th in the UK and best in the South West in new Sunday Times guide
2010年9月13日
The University of Bath has been ranked 9th out of 121 universities and colleges in the latest UK league table published by The Sunday Times. The Sunday Times University Guide 2011 ranked the University number one in a list of South West universities, and seventh in the UK for the percentage of students in graduate level jobs. Bath also featured in the newspaper’s top 20 lists for high student...詳細 »
バース大学通訳・翻訳科ディレクター 清水美子先生のインタビュー
2010年7月27日
バース大学通訳・翻訳科（MAIT)コース・ディレクターの清水美子（しみず・よしこ）先生が、イギリスの日本人向けの新聞でインタビューを受けました。その記事をPDFファイルでダウンロードできますので、ぜひお読みください。 Yoshiko Shimizu, course director of the Pre-MA in Interpreting and Translating (MAIT) program, was r...詳細 »
Bath entrepreneur holds key to internet security
2010年7月26日
Paul Kane, CEO of CommunityDNS, based at the University of Bath’s SETsquared Innovation Centre, has been selected to safeguard one of seven keys to restart the World Wide Web in the event of a catastrophic event, such as a terrorist attack. From this month, the internet will become more secure through a new international agreement and process which verifies web sites and helps protect email accounts...詳細 »
Bath academic awarded prestigious fellowship to study how order arises from chaos
2010年7月21日
A physics lecturer at the University of Bath has been awarded a prestigious fellowship as part of new investment in the next generation of scientists and engineers announced today (Wednesday 21 July) by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Dr Robert Jack, from the University’s Department of Physics, is one of 30 outstanding UK researchers to be awarded EPSRC Career Acce...詳細 »
Students to teach Indian pupils life-changing skills
2010年7月20日
Eleven students from the University of Bath have travelled to rural India to teach basic engineering skills to young people, to help them find technical solutions to practical problems in their communities. The Bath students will spend three months in voluntary teaching posts at six education centres across the Maharashtra region. They will teach Indian pupils who have dropped out of school skil...詳細 »
Student racing team in pole position for Silverstone
2010年7月13日
A team of mechanical engineering students from the University of Bath is heading for Silverstone this week for the annual international Formula Student competition (Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 July). The team is in pole position among the 30 other UK teams, after ranking as the best British team in the past three years. They will be up agains...詳細 »
Research to protect historic architecture from floods
2010年7月8日
A new interdisciplinary research project, led by the University of Bath, will monitor and predict the impact of floods and driving rain on historic buildings to try and protect them for future generations. The risk of flooding is likely to increase due to climate change and the effects of increased urban development. The 2007 flooding in the South West and the 2009 flood in Cumbria have shown that sub...詳細 »
Soldier who served in Afghanistan to receive degree in military dress
2010年7月5日
A British Army soldier who has served in Afghanistan is among the graduates who are collecting their degrees from the University of Bath this week (Wednesday 7 July). Captain Nick Nicholls from the Royal Engineers Corps has received a Masters Degree with distinction in Electrical Power Systems through the University’s Electronic & Engineering distance learning course. Cap...詳細 »
Sir James Dyson to open innovative new University building
2010年6月30日
World famous British entrepreneur Sir James Dyson will officially open the University of Bath’s newest building this week. Sir James will perform the official opening ceremony for the new multi-million pound 4 West building this Friday, 2 July. 4 West opened in April and has provided much needed additional research and teaching space on the University campus, as well as being home to a new Post...詳細 »
Bath professor made management “Champion of the Year”
2010年6月28日
Professor Richard Mawditt from the University of Bath’s School of Management has been awarded the City of London Institute of Management Champion of the Year 2010. Professor Mawditt is recognised for his contribution to higher education management over many years. He has held the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education Management for the past ten years with special interests and activity ...詳細 »
The serious mathematics of cereal, socialising and starlings
2010年6月25日
What have muesli, social networking sites and flocks of birds got to do with mathematics? Scientists and students from the University of Bath will be explaining all at the Royal Society’s prestigious Summer Science Exhibition which opens today (25 June 2010). Their exhibit, called ‘Living in a complex world’ will show how complex and une...詳細 »
Research to help bring honeybees back from the brink
2010年6月24日
Researchers from the University of Bath are collaborating on a £1 million project to reduce the impact of disease on honeybees. The work, led by the Food & Environment Research Agency (Fera), will look at 20 years worth of data collected by Fera’s National Bee Unit (NBU) on the damaging disease European Foulbrood (EFB) to build a model of how this and o...詳細 »
Public lecture: Jumping about in applied probability
2010年6月23日
Professor Andreas Kyprianou will give a gentle introduction to probability theory and its pivotal role in current mathematics research in his inaugural lecture at the University on Wednesday 30 June. Professor Kyprianou, from the Department of Mathematical Sciences, said: “Chance is a mathematical concept which all of us understand. It is therefore surprising that, as an axiomatic theory, the forma...詳細 »
Battle of the sexes exists in the plant world too
2010年6月22日
Research led by the University of Bath has discovered that plants, like animals, also have a battle of the sexes when it comes to raising their offspring. Their findings could open new avenues to increase crop yields and improve food security for an ever-growing global human population. Since mothers give birth to young, they must invest more of their resources into producing offspring than fath...詳細 »
University to inspire Formula One stars of the future
2010年6月21日
A group of primary pupils from Bath who are gearing up to build their own racing cars will be hoping to get some tips for success when they come face to face with the University of Bath’s Formula Student team and their racing car on Tuesday 22 June. The Year 4 and 5 pupils will be taking part in an Extended Services project called Inspiring Engineers, organised by the South Bath Primary Cluster Exte...詳細 »
BRE CICM Research Wins International Awards
2010年6月18日
Researchers in the BRE Centre for Innovative Construction Materials in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering have been awarded two seperate prizes for best papers published in the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Journals during 2009. The paper 'Deep embedment of FRP for concrete shear strengthening', author...詳細 »
Interdisciplinary prize and medal for Bath scientist
2010年6月17日
Professor Barry Potter from the Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology has been awarded a 2010 Interdisciplinary Prize & Medal for outstanding biological and medicinal chemistry accomplishments. This prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) award recognises work done at the interface of chemist...詳細 »
Research will help submariners breathe more easily
2010年6月17日
Professor Stan Kolaczkowski and his team from Chemical Engineering at the University of Bath are collaborating with mechanical engineers from Duke University in the US to develop a chemical-free way of removing carbon dioxide from the air inside deep sea human habitats. They are developing a system that uses sea water and Dixon rings in deep sea submersible vehicles and other submersible human habitat...詳細 »
Researchers investigate fishy sense of smell
2010年5月4日
As every Jaws fan knows, sharks can smell a drop of blood from up to a kilometre away, but how are their noses so sensitive? Research led by the University of Bath is using the latest technology to find out how these fish are able to sniff out their prey. Dr Jonathan Cox from the University’s Department of Chemistry has been working with researchers...詳細 »
Every picture tells a story…of research at Bath!
2010年5月4日
Pictures, it is said, can tell a thousand words. Well, academics and researchers from the University of Bath hope to do just that in a new photography exhibition taking place in the city this month. Researchers have the challenge of explaining their research to the public just by the use of a single striking image and a short piece of text. The Images of Research exhibition will be held...詳細 »