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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.
Secure cryptography with real-world devices is now a realistic possibility
Physics Quantum Research
28 July 2022
New research published in Nature explains how an international team of researchers have, for the first time, experimentally implemented a type of quantum cryptography considered to be the ‘ultimate’, ‘bug-proof’ means of communication.
Seeing the light: researchers develop new AI system using light to learn associatively
AI and data science Materials science Research
27 July 2022
New AI uses associative learning techniques rather than AI’s traditional neural networks to challenge the conventional wisdom that artificial neurons and synapses are the sole building blocks of AI.
Engineering student recognised with upReach social mobility award
Award Engineering Equality and Diversity Women in science
26 July 2022
Fourth-year student Anahy Mercado Zambrana has been recognised with an upReach Student Social Mobility Award, awarded annually to ten students from lower socio-economic backgrounds, across the UK, who have excelled in their studies and show great potential for their future careers.
Ageing red deer become less social as they grow older
Biology Research Zoology
21 July 2022
A new social network analysis of female wild red deer on the Isle of Rum in Scotland, carried out by a multidisciplinary team led by researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, reveals that ageing deer tend to adopt a life of solitude in their advancing years.
Studying past climate fluctuations shows how human-generated atmospheric CO2 is impacting natural climate rhythms
Climate Earth sciences
20 July 2022
Professor Rosalind Rickaby, Chair of Geology in the Department of Earth Sciences, takes a look at the way climate has naturally fluctuated over geological time, and compares that with the situation we face today, where climate change is disrupting this natural order and posing significant challenges such as extreme heatwaves.
Oxford Professor, award-winning innovator, cricketer: Byron Byrne gets things done
Engineering
20 July 2022
A profile of Professor Byron Byrne in the Department of Engineering Science. In 2021, Professor Byron Byrne was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of his research contributions to offshore wind.
New scholarships established to help students from developing countries tackle climate change
Climate Funding
19 July 2022
A gift of £110,000 from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is enabling the creation of two new scholarships for students from developing countries accepted onto the University’s Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) in Environmental Research.
Oxford Science Enterprises raises £250 million to support University innovations
Funding Innovation and Enterprise
19 July 2022
New funding will drive the creation and growth of transformational businesses built on ground-breaking Oxford research.