News - University of Birmingham

Wednesday 21st November 2012

BP establishes initial four year £4.5million UK undergraduate scholarship fund

Description: The University of Birmingham is one of nine universities across the UK that has been selected by BP, one of the UK's leading graduate recruiters, to be part of its new scholarship programme for talented science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) undergraduates.
Date:: Wednesday 21st November 2012
Categories:: Engineering and Physical Sciences, Students

Wednesday 14th November 2012

Description: The safe exploitation of deep water oil heads the agenda at an international research workshop hosted by the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande de Norte (UFRN) in Natal, Brazil this week.
Date:: Wednesday 14th November 2012
Categories:: Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Life and Environmental Sciences, Research

Tuesday 13th November 2012

Description: Scientists at the University of Birmingham have designed a lens using metamaterials that can function as a convex or a concave lens, according to research published today (13 November 2012) in the journal Nature Communications. By fabricating gold nano-rods on the glass, this new lens can magnify or demagnify objects, just by switching the polarisation of the light source.
Date:: Tuesday 13th November 2012
Categories:: Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research

Thursday 11th October 2012

Description: New privacy threats have been discovered by University of Birmingham researchers which allow the physical presence of mobile phones operating on 3G networks to be tracked by third parties. This research will be presented at the ACM conference on Computer and Communications Security in Raleigh, North Carolina on Tuesday 16th October 2012.
Date:: Thursday 11th October 2012
Categories:: Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research

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