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11/01/2013

Description: The hormone-releasing Mirena coil intrauterine device (IUD) is a better treatment for heavy menstrual periods than other conventional medical approaches, according to results of a major clinical trial led by scientists from the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham.
Date:: 11/01/2013
Categories:: Medical and Dental Sciences, Research

14/12/2012

Description: Students from the UK and around the world will have free access to some of the country's top universities thanks to FutureLearn Ltd, an entirely new company being launched by The Open University (OU). The universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Anglia, Exeter, King's College London, Lancaster, Leeds, Southampton, St Andrews and Warwick have all signed up to join FutureLearn.
Date:: 14/12/2012
Categories:: Alumni, Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences, Students, Teaching, Vice Chancellor

Description: Students from the UK and around the world will have free access to some of the country's top universities thanks to FutureLearn Ltd, an entirely new company being launched by The Open University (OU). The universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, East Anglia, Exeter, King's College London, Lancaster, Leeds, Southampton, St Andrews and Warwick have all signed up to join FutureLearn.
Date:: 14/12/2012
Categories:: Alumni, Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences, Students, Teaching, Vice Chancellor

Date:: 14/12/2012
Categories:: Alumni, Arts and Law, Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences, Students, Teaching, Vice Chancellor

13/12/2012

Description: Recent Nobel Prize Winner, Professor Al Roth provides an open, guest lecture for the University of Birmingham's College of Social Sciences on Monday 4th February 2013.
Date:: 13/12/2012
Categories:: Alumni, Arts and Law, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences, Students, Teaching

Description: The University of Birmingham's China Institute celebrates its official opening today in the presence of His Excellency Mr Liu Xiaoming, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the UK.
Date:: 13/12/2012
Categories:: Arts and Law, Corporate Services, Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences, Students, Vice Chancellor

07/11/2012

Description: Professor Richard Dawkins will officially launch a new £3 million Midlands centre today (7th November) to establish what goes wrong with our bones, joints, ligaments and muscles as we age, the neural and psychological changes that occur and how diet, exercise and other interventions could help prevent this age-related decline. The MRC-Arthritis Research UK Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research is a partnership between the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham, one of only two new national centres funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Arthritis Research UK.
Date:: 07/11/2012
Categories:: Medical and Dental Sciences, Research

02/11/2012

Description: The University of Birmingham is delighted to announce its new Innovation Voucher competition to help businesses develop and grow.
Date:: 02/11/2012
Categories:: Engineering and Physical Sciences, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research

30/10/2012

Description: University of Birmingham cancer scientist Dr Joanna Parish will be swapping her lab coat for legislation, when she visits MP Gisela Stuart at the House of Commons for a "Week in Westminster". Starting on Monday 29 October, it as part of a unique 'pairing' scheme run by the Royal Society – the UK's national academy of science.
Date:: 30/10/2012
Categories:: Medical and Dental Sciences, Research

Description: As British military casualties continue to return from the war in Afghanistan, Wounded - an emotional new play by Jenny Stephens - tells the stories of two soldiers, fighting a century apart, but both coping with the aftermath of war. Informed by University research into Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, as well as military medical practice in modern conflicts and the First World War, this timely and heart-warming site-specific play takes place at the Territorial Army Field Hospital in Kings Heath, Birmingham from October 30 to November 10.
Date:: 30/10/2012
Categories:: Arts and Law, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research

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