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Description: The School is delighted to announce that Dr Ioan Notingher has received the prestigious William F. meggers award for 2024 given by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy and the journal Applied Spectroscopy. The award is made to the author of the most outstanding paper appearing in the journal.
Date:: 25/09/2024

Description: It fills us with immense pride to announce that our university is the first in the nation to receive the prestigious Athena Swan Gold Award, recognising our unwavering dedication to promoting gender equality in higher education and research. This commitment is a core value deeply ingrained in our School's ethos too, as well as in the wider institution. We take great pride in collaborating closely with our students to create the most supportive and enriching environment possible. Your insights and perspectives are invaluable to us, and we thoroughly enjoy learning from you as well!
Date:: 02/02/2024

Description: A physicist who has spent 20 years working on the development and application of multi-modal brain imaging, Professor Brookes helped pioneer a new kind of wearable brain scanner that has potential to transform the diagnosis and understanding of a number of neurological and psychiatric disorders, including autism, epilepsy and dementia.
Date:: 02/02/2024

Description: University of Nottingham, School of Physics and Astronomy spin-out company Cerca Magnetics has been named as one of Bloomberg UK's 'start-ups to watch'.
Date:: 27/10/2023

Description: Dr Ulrike Kuchner, astrophysicist, artist, and curator from the School is part of the international art and science collective SEADS (Space Ecologies Art and Design) who are collaborating with Zurich's Theater Neumarkt for their new production, Mimikry: Exomoon, An immersive Space Experience.
Date:: 19/09/2023

Description: A multi-disciplinary team, including School Physicists, have discovered a new way to target and kill cancer cells in hard-to-treat brain tumours using electrically charged molecules to trigger self-destruction, that could be developed into a spray treatment used during surgery.
Date:: 15/09/2023

Description: In a collaboration led by School astrophysicist, artist, and curator Dr Ulrike Kuchner, and artist and curator Nicola Rae, seven teams of artists and scientists have been brought together to create an exhibition and school workshops in Lewisham. Black holes, space travel and life on other planets are among the themes for exciting artistic exhibits being featured as part of a unique project to bring the science of space to life.
Date:: 09/02/2023

Description: The School is delighted to announce that Prof Clare Burrage has been awarded a prestigious Physical Sciences & Engineering Laureate award from the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences. The award recognizes Clare's work on dark energy in the Universe, one of the biggest challenges in contemporary science.
Date:: 18/01/2023

Description: The Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, led by physicist Prof. Richard Bowtell, has been awarded £29.1 million to establish the UK's most powerful Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner as a national facility, subject to business case approval.
Date:: 20/06/2022

Description: Many congratulations to the members of our School, Nick Botterill, Wendy Brennan, Lizzie Elmer, Niall Holmes, Peter Milligan, who today received their for exceptional achievement by staff or students.
Date:: 31/03/2022

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