Welcome to the School of Chemistry news page, featuring the latest awards, achievements and acknowledgements attributed to academics, postgraduates and undergraduates.
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- Writing for the University of Birmingham's Perspective, Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry Richard P Tuckett recently made the case for controlling climate change to avoid a global migration challenge.
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- 21/01/2019
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- The University of Birmingham has signed an agreement with Germany's Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing that will see them working together across a number of key research fields.
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- 15/01/2019
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- Two Professors from the University of Birmingham's College of Engineering and Physical Sciences have received prizes in the Second Annual Blavatnik Awards, which recognises young scientists in the United Kingdom.
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- 09/01/2019
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- The University honours the memory of chemistry alumnus Dr Ron Carrington, a Second World War veteran who served in Palestine went on to distinguish himself as a biochemist dedicated to making penicillin more accessible.
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- 07/01/2019
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- The University honours the memory of alumnus and former lecturer in Chemistry, Professor Emeritus Sidney Alan Barker
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- 29/10/2018
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- Dr Paul Anderson, Co-Director of the Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials, was recently interviewed by BBC News about a new research project to improve the recycling of lithium-ion batteries, which are critical to the transition to low emission electric vehicles.
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- 26/10/2018
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- The Royal Society of Chemistry has awarded Professor Andrew Dove and Dr Andrew Weems for their pioneering research into 3D printing of shape-changing resorbable medical devices to help the recovery of cancer patients.
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- 25/10/2018
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- University of Birmingham chemist, Dr Louise Male contributes to a documentary about the dangers of a nasty street drug on BBC's Inside Out West Midlands
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- 16/10/2018
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- Dr Mark Read, a researcher in nuclear materials and energy production at the University of Birmingham, has been appointed as international expert to two universities in China as part of a government-funded programme to support innovation in Chinese higher education.
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- 10/10/2018
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- In the School of Chemistry, we have been working with partners and using the latest in new polymer nanotechnology to preserve a national icon, the Mary Rose.
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- 13/09/2018
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