News - University of Birmingham

Tuesday 7th May 2013

Manufacturing areas are lighting up the City

Description: Manufacturing areas in the city of Birmingham, which represent only a small percentage of the city's land area, are contributing significantly to urban lighting, according to research carried out by University of Birmingham environmental scientists published in the journal PLOS ONE today (Monday 6th May 2013).
Date:: Tuesday 7th May 2013
Categories:: Life and Environmental Sciences, Research

Friday 3rd May 2013

Description: Researchers from Birmingham will have access to the most impressive and advanced nuclear physics research facility in the world as the UK has today officially become part of a €1.6 billion* international project that will become to nuclear physics what CERN is to particle physics.
Date:: Friday 3rd May 2013
Categories:: Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Research

Thursday 2nd May 2013

Description: Roshan Doug, a former University of Birmingham Poet Laureate, is set to call for religion to be struck from the school curriculum. Doug, whose research at the University questions the ownership, purpose and value of education, will use a public lecture on Tuesday 7 May to put forward his re-evaluation of the state education system.
Date:: Thursday 2nd May 2013
Categories:: Research, Social Sciences

Description: BOSTON - Computer scientists at the University of Birmingham have devised a new set of models, using mobile phone data, for studying the geographic evolution of country-wide epidemics and for understanding and planning the diffusion of information among the population to advise on strategies to avoid spreading the infection further.
Date:: Thursday 2nd May 2013
Categories:: Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Research

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