Mothers and Midwives: A history of maternity in the East Midlands

Friday 13 January to Sunday 15 April 2012 at Weston Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre, University Park. […]

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Craft Showcase at the Djanogly Art Gallery with Suet Yi Yip

Wednesday 1 February to Monday 30 April at Djanogly Art Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre, University Park. […]

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Small change, big impact

Hundreds of University staff have opted to round their net pay down to the nearest pound each month – and donate the pennies to HeartLight: a unique sensor for newborn resuscitation.

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Tags: Clinical Associate Professor of Neonatal Medicine Dr Don Sharkey, HeartLight, Impact: The Nottingham Campaign, Karni

After Lowry, there’s Burra

Hot on the heels of the record-breaking Lowry exhibition comes the first exhibition in over a quarter of a century of Edward Burra, one of the most individual British artists of the 20th century.

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Tags: Edward Burra, Lefevre Fine Art Ltd, Lowry, Pallant House Gallery Edward Burra Supporters’ Circle

Raleigh call to city youngsters

Youngsters at a Nottingham primary school had a lesson in road safety… 1950s style.

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Memorial fund to help continue Sue’s work

A fund has been set up in memory of a leading scientist who has died of breast cancer.

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Tags: Ex Vivo Pharmacology Centre of Excellence, Head of the School of Clinical Sciences, John Atherton, PRECOS Ltd, Professor of Pre-Clinical Oncology, School of Clinical Sciences, The Sue Watson Cancer Fund

Aiming high…

University of Nottingham student and international high-jumper Isobel Pooley has her sights set on a place at London 2012 after taking gold at the BUCS Indoor Athletics Championships in Sheffield.

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Tags: BUCS Indoor Athletics Championships, Isobel Pooley, Nigel Mayglothling, The Academic University of Choice

‘Café culture’ is to blame

England should look to Scotland to solve its drinking culture, which has seen having a pint of lager become as cheap and freely accessible as downing a pint of milk, says a Nottingham academic.

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Tags: Alcohol Focus Scotland, chool of Nursing, Dr Jane McGregor, Drink and the City, Midwifery and Physiotherapy

Shortcuts costly

Shortcuts in the design of payment schemes to persuade farmers to undertake conservation works could be putting the potential environmental benefits at risk, a study involving researchers at The University of Nottingham has found.

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Tags: Conservation Reserve Program, Director of the University’s Rural Business Research Unit, Dr Paul Wilson, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Joint Research Institute of the European Commission’s Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK Research Councils’ Rural Economy and Land Use Programme

Vital new insight into early days of embryos

Pioneering work by a leading University of Nottingham scientist has helped reveal a vital process in the development of the early mammalian embryo.

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Tags: Cambridge University, European Research Council, Kevin Shakesheff, Prof Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Professor of Tissue Engineering