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Birmingham academics and Channel 4's Time Team reveal the secrets of the playwright's house

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Channel 4's Time Team joined a group of archaeologists as they excavated the site of William Shakespeare's house, New Place, in Stratford on Avon.
Date:
Thursday 8th March 2012
Categories:
Arts and Law, Research

University of Birmingham joins the Easy Access IP initiative

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The University of Birmingham is pleased to announce today that it has recently become the first Midlands University to be part of the Easy Access Innovation Partnership, which promotes new ways of transferring intellectual property (IP) to industry.
Date:
Wednesday 7th March 2012
Categories:
Arts and Law, Engineering and Physical Sciences, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences

Archbishop of Canterbury to deliver annual Cadbury Lecture as university building becomes artist's canvas

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The role of images in contemporary society is set to be explored during the University of Birmingham's annual Cadbury Lecture series, 'Seeing and believing in modern Christianity', from 6-16 March, which will begin with an art installation on one of the University's buildings and will conclude with a final lecture delivered by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams.
Date:
Tuesday 6th March 2012
Categories:
Arts and Law, Research

Life of Italian mafia to be revealed in city performance

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The confessions of a Sicilian mobster are to be exposed in a one-off performance of Dacia Maraini's My Name is Antonino Calderone at the mac next week as part of a three-day 'Italy and the Mafia' spectacle coming to the city of Birmingham.
Date:
Wednesday 22nd February 2012
Categories:
Arts and Law, Research, Students

Scholarship students question University Chancellor

Scholarship students question University Chancellor
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Eight of the University of Birmingham's scholarship recipients met the University's Chancellor, Sir Dominic Cadbury, in a reception designed to introduce him to scholarship students funded by his generous support of the University's Access to Birmingham Scholarship Scheme.
Date:
Monday 20th February 2012
Categories:
Alumni, Arts and Law, Corporate Services, Engineering and Physical Sciences, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Social Sciences, Students, Vice Chancellor

University of Birmingham unveils new Foundation Academy

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The University of Birmingham has today launched its new Birmingham Foundation Academy for high performing international students to enter the British university environment one year before the start of their undergraduate degree programme.
Date:
Wednesday 15th February 2012
Categories:
Arts and Law, Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Social Sciences, Students, Teaching, Vice Chancellor

University community art project to help young adults express their dreams

University community art project to help young adults express their dreams
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Internationally renowned artist, Mohammed Ali will be working in partnership with the University of Birmingham's department of Theology and Religion and unemployed young men in Bromford, east Birmingham, to paint their dreams for their community during a week-long 'Bromford Dreams' mural project beginning on Monday 13 February.
Date:
Thursday 9th February 2012
Categories:
Arts and Law, Research

Archaeologist reveals evidence of mass graves at Nazi death camp

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Almost 70 years after the end of the Second World War a groundbreaking forensic archaeological study by the University of Birmingham has unearthed evidence of hidden burial sites at a former death camp where more than 800,000 Jews perished during the Holocaust.
Date:
Wednesday 18th January 2012
Categories:
Arts and Law, Research
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