News - University of Birmingham

Monday 4th February 2013

Birmingham and Nottingham projects to strengthen UK-Brazil research links

Description: The Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham have strengthened their collaborations with Brazilian institutions after securing funding for a number of country-specific research projects. Academics from both universities have won funding from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) to undertake research into priority areas spanning the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Date:: Monday 4th February 2013
Categories:: Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Life and Environmental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences

Thursday 31st January 2013

Description: University of Birmingham alumnus UR Ananthamurthy has been shortlisted for the fifth Man Booker International Prize, which recognises one writer for his or her achievement in fiction.
Date:: Thursday 31st January 2013
Categories:: Alumni, Arts and Law, International

Friday 25th January 2013

Description: Birmingham scientists are taking part in the first scientific collaboration of its kind, where British and American scientists are trading skills and expertise and are using an unmanned robotic aircraft to gather high altitude atmospheric data.
Date:: Friday 25th January 2013
Categories:: International, Life and Environmental Sciences, Research

Friday 18th January 2013

Description: The hostage crisis on a BP oil base at Tiguentourine in Southern Algeria brings the issue of Islamist groups back to Algeria, where they developed in the early 1990s before the Algerian army routed them, forcing their relocation in Mali where ex-President Toumani Toure had the weakness to tolerate them.
Date:: Friday 18th January 2013
Categories:: Arts and Law, International

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