News

Select Category
Friday 17th May 2013

Salt consumption in India: the need for data to initiate population-based prevention efforts

Description
International researchers are studying the salt intake of Indian adults to provide vital new data to aid the development of a national salt reduction strategy.
Date:
Friday 17th May 2013
Categories:
International, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research
Thursday 16th May 2013

Birmingham joins 'The Conversation' as founding partner

Description
The University of Birmingham has committed support to a new independent news and commentary website produced by academics and journalists, which launches in the UK today.
Date:
Thursday 16th May 2013
Categories:
Arts and Law, Corporate Services, Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences
Friday 3rd May 2013

Birmingham joins the world's largest nuclear physics research facility

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

Big Data for Development: Mobile phone data could be used to prevent the spread of epidemics in developing countries

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
Displaying 1 to 4 of 120
Previous 1 2 3 4 5 Next