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Next generation of innovators recognised at inaugural Jamie Ferguson Chemistry Innovation Awards
Award Chemistry Innovation and Enterprise
30 June 2022
Oxford Chemistry students with innovative, game-changing ideas have been highlighted at the inaugural Jamie Ferguson Chemistry Innovation Awards ('The Jamies'), a new annual awards scheme co-developed by the Department of Chemistry and Oxford University Innovation (OUI) in honour of the late Dr Jamie Ferguson.
Physicists shed light on how Tonga eruption triggered atmospheric gravity waves that reached the edge of space
Physics Research
30 June 2022
Oxford Flight Group reveals how hawks control flight and landing to prioritise safety
Biology Engineering Research Zoology
30 June 2022
Oxford biomechanics researchers have been using computer simulations and Hollywood-style motion capture to reveal how Harris hawks optimise their landing manoeuvres for an accurate descent.
Professor Samuel Sheppard to join Ineos Oxford Institute to further interdisciplinary research on antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance Biology Research Zoology
29 June 2022
Professor Sheppard will join the Department of Biology and the IOI in September 2022, with the aim of using fundamental evolutionary and ecological theory to address consequential questions in pathogen emergence and spread.
Nathalie Seddon: Expose ‘greenwashing’ but do not ignore nature-based solutions to climate change
Biology Climate Food security & biodiversity
24 June 2022
Nature-based solutions must not be forgotten in the drive to stabilise the climate. But care must be taken to ensure they are not hijacked or misused to ‘greenwash’ emissions, insists Oxford biodiversity expert Professor Nathalie Seddon in a landmark article for the journal Science.
MPLS Teaching Award 2022 Winners announced
Award MPLS Teaching
23 June 2022
Congratulations to the eight staff in MPLS departments who have recently been given divisional awards for teaching excellence. The MPLS Divisional Teaching Award Scheme celebrates success, and recognises and rewards excellence in innovative teaching.
Nadja Yang recognised by Women's Engineering Society with 'Top 50 Women in Engineering - Inventors and Innovators' award
Award Engineering Sustainability & the environment Women in science
23 June 2022
DPhil Systems Engineering student, Nadja Yang has been recognised as one of the UK's top 50 women engineers who are creating or significantly improving products or processes to make a difference in the world, on International Women in Engineering Day.
Engineering researcher awarded funding to lead international collaboration on machine-learning for cardiac monitoring
AI and data science Biomedical engineering COVID-19 Engineering Women in science
22 June 2022
Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, Dr Tingting Zhu, has been awarded Royal Society funding to lead an international collaboration that aims to develop an open-source platform for cardiac monitoring, using machine-learning.
Researchers develop world's first ultra-fast photonic computing processor, using polarisation
Computer science Functional materials Innovation and Enterprise Materials science Research
16 June 2022
The innovative technique, developed in the Department of Materials, uses multiple polarisation channels to carry out parallel processing – enhancing computing density by several orders over conventional electronic chips.
MPLS Professor Laurence Brassart and physicist Dr Archie Bott among 84 scientists awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships
Award Engineering Funding Physics
15 June 2022
The Fellowships were announced by Science Minister George Freeman this morning, to help the UK’s most promising science and research leaders to tackle major global issues and commercialise their innovations within the UK.
MPLS research teams to benefit from share of £7m UKRI award
Funding Innovation and Enterprise MPLS
15 June 2022
The University has been awarded more than £7 million from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s Impact Acceleration Account (IAA), which supports the ‘best, brightest and most disruptive ideas’ from UK research institutions, including funding for engineering and physical science innovation.
Jurassic World Dominion: a palaeontologist on what the film gets wrong about dinosaurs
Earth sciences The Conversation
14 June 2022
Ben Igielman, DPhil student in palaeontology in the Department of Earth Sciences, writes about the new Jurassic World film in an article first published on the Conversation.
Wytham Woods badgers studied to complete first complete genome of the European badger
Biology Climate Research Zoology
14 June 2022
The study carried out by researchers from Oxford's Department of Zoology and the Wellcome Sanger Institute, as part of the Darwin Tree of Life project, will shed new light on badger biology, disease and responses to climate change.
MPLS student Hannah Rana, who recently completed a DPhil in Engineering, selected for Schmidt Science Fellowship
Award Biomedical engineering Engineering Innovation and Enterprise Women in science
10 June 2022
Hannah is one of 29 Schmidt Science Fellows selected this year to receive support for up to two years from Schmidt Futures, working in partnership with the Rhodes Trust, to help advance interdisciplinary research and innovation around major challenges facing humanity.
Nobel prize-winning Oxford biologist Niko Tinbergen honoured with Blue Plaque
Biology Zoology
9 June 2022
The late Professor of Animal Behaviour, Niko Tinbergen, has been honoured with the plaque for his founding contributions to the field of ethology - the study of animal behaviour - which is now a recognised area of biological study.
Gravity-defying spike waves rewrite the rule book
Engineering Research
8 June 2022
Researchers studying wave breaking have found that axisymmetric ‘spike waves’ can far exceed limits that were previously thought to dictate the maximum height of ocean waves.
Common drug-resistant superbug develops fast resistance to 'last resort' antibiotic
Antimicrobial resistance Biology Research
8 June 2022
A study published today in Cell Reports reveals how populations of a bacterium called Pseudomonas respond to being treated with Colistin, a 'last resort' antibiotic for patients who have developed multi-drug resistant infections.
Oxford scientists win seven new prizes from the Royal Society of Chemistry
Award Chemistry Physics
7 June 2022
Five individuals and two teams from the University of Oxford have won prestigious prizes at this year’s Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Awards.
Researchers show dynamic soaring isn’t just for albatrosses
Biology Research Zoology
1 June 2022
A new study shows how small seabirds have mastered the art of working smarter not harder when soaring at sea.