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Oxford partners with the Optiver Foundation to launch new international postgraduate scholarship programme for women in STEM
Chemistry Computer science Engineering Funding Maths Physics Statistics Teaching Women in science
26 August 2022
The partnership aims to increase the number of women from low- and middle-income countries who take up offers to study Master's programmes in MPLS departments, with the first Optiver Foundation Scholars joining in October 2023.
First definitive detection of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere
Physics Research Space
26 August 2022
Oxford Physics is part of the international team analysing data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which has captured the first definitive detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system.
Twelve new UK sites created or restored for globally endangered Large blue butterfly
Biology Food security & biodiversity
25 August 2022
The sites are being restored to flower-rich meadows suitable for Large blue butterflies. Professor Jeremy Thomas of the Department of Biology, and Chair of the Joint Committee for the Re-establishment of the Large Blue Butterfly, spearheaded the successful reintroduction in the UK.
Oxford University to support deep-sea expedition to the Maldives
Biology Food security & biodiversity Research
25 August 2022
Oxford University researchers are playing a key role in the first systematic survey of ocean life in the Maldives, from the surface to 1000 metres deep. This will enable the Maldivian Government to develop conservation and sustainable development policies, so that the oceans continue to protect and provide for the Maldivian people.
Professor Matt Jarvis awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant
Funding Physics
25 August 2022
Following the award of three European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants to MPLS academics in April 2022, a fourth award has subsequently been made to Professor Jarvis in the Department of Physics.
Six MPLS researchers honoured with Royal Society medals
Award Chemistry Engineering MPLS Materials science Maths Physics
24 August 2022
Each year, the Royal Society recognises exceptional research achievements through a series of prestigious medals and prizes named after great scientists of the past. This year eight Oxford University researchers, six of them from MPLS Division, have been honoured for their outstanding contributions to science and medicine.
Study reveals how hunting hawks home in on prey inside a chaotic swarm
Biology Research
23 August 2022
A new study led by Oxford University researchers has demonstrated how hunting hawks solve the problem of intercepting a single bat within a dense swarm. The findings increase our understanding of how predators select and track a single target among thousands of potential prey.
Overcoming drug-resistant cancer mutations with novel inhibitors
Chemistry Medical science Physical sciences underpinning health Research
18 August 2022
A team led by researchers from Oxford Chemistry have recently published a study in Nature Communications investigating the mechanism behind a resistance to the drug ivosidenib that has developed in some types of cancer.
Team from Chemistry named winners of the Oxford University Student Entrepreneurship Programme
Award Chemistry Innovation and Enterprise
17 August 2022
The StEP programme gives students the opportunity to have a go at becoming an entrepreneurs, challenging students to identify an idea for a new business based on a University research project, develop a business plan, and prepare a pitch to real investors - all in just four weeks.
New study reveals the earliest evidence of fruit-eating by birds
Earth sciences Research
16 August 2022
The earliest-known fruit-eating bird was an early bird called Jeholornis that lived 120 million years ago, and it may have helped contribute to the spread of the plants that dominate the world today.
How to finance marine conservation without harming local communities
Biology Food security & biodiversity The Conversation
15 August 2022
Hollie Booth from the Department of Biology discusses whether international marine tourists might be prepared to pay towards community-based shark conservation, in an article first published on the Conversation.
Biologists use genome tracing to reveal how COVID-19 Delta variant spread
Biology COVID-19 Research
12 August 2022
An international team, co-led by Professor Oliver Pybus and Associate Professor Moritz Kraemer from Oxford's Department of Biology, has used genome tracing to show how the Delta variant of COVID-19 expanded out of India and became the dominant variant in the UK in 2021
Physics professor wins Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy
Award Energy Physics Sustainability & the environment
11 August 2022
Professor Henry Snaith has been awarded the University of Louisville’s 2021 Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy. Awarded biennially, this award recognises outstanding ideas and achievements in research around the science, engineering, technology, and commercialisation of renewable energy.
Trophy hunting: why a UK import ban threatens wildlife conservation
Biology The Conversation
11 August 2022
Amy Dickman, Professor of Wildlife Conservation in the Department of Biology, puts the case that trophy hunting import bans risk increasing threats to wildlife and undermining local rights and livelihoods, in an article first published on the Conversation.
Creating statistical models for infectious diseases is challenging: COVID modeller Professor Christl Donnelly on making a difference
COVID-19 Statistics
9 August 2022
Christl Donnelly from the Department of Statistics discusses how she came to work in epidemiological modelling for infectious diseases ranging from Ebola to bovine TB, and most recently COVID-19.
Antimicrobial resistant bacteria found in newborn children from low- and middle-income countries
Antimicrobial resistance Biology Medical science Research
8 August 2022
Researchers at the Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Resistance (IOI) and the Department of Biology have revealed links between the presence of bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics in mothers and their newborn babies, drawing on data from seven low- and middle-income countries in Africa and South Asia.
Oxford physicists to benefit from £6m UKRI programme to spur the UK’s quantum leap
Funding Physics Quantum Research
4 August 2022
A multi-institutional project involving a team from Oxford’s Department of Physics is one of 17 new projects to share in £6 million of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) quantum technology funding, announced this week.
Department of Biology launches at the University of Oxford
Biology MPLS
1 August 2022
Today the Department of Zoology and Department of Plant Sciences officially merge to become the new Department of Biology. This is a significant moment for the University, as two departments with histories of landmark academic breakthroughs and forward-thinking teaching combine to create a new department with interdisciplinary, collaborative opportunities.
Solar is the cheapest power, and a literal light-bulb moment showed us we can cut costs and emissions even further
Energy Functional materials Materials science Research The Conversation
1 August 2022
In an article first published on the Conversation, Matthew Wright (Department of Materials), together with colleagues Bruno Vicari Stefani from CSIRO and Brett Hallam from UNSW Sydney, explain how rethinking the type of silicon used in solar cells could make them much more efficient.
Researchers develop new breath-driven concept set to transform access to hand prosthetics
Engineering Physical sciences underpinning health Research
29 July 2022
The new air-powered hand provides a lightweight, low-maintenance and easy-to-use body-powered prosthetic option particularly well suited for children and those in low and middle-income countries.