Passive smoking link to child meningitis

Women who smoke while pregnant can triple the risk of their child succumbing to a cause of meningitis, research has found.

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‘CSI’ trail

A detective-style research team based at the University’s Malaysia Campus is working with partners in the oil and gas sector by forensically examining the nature of corrosion.

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Tags: Director of Studies in the Department of Mechanical, Dr Andrew Spowage, Materials and Manufacturing

Making her life richer, and apes of forest safer

Dr Neil Mennie, from The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC), is studying the eye movements of Tsunami, a seven-year-old orangutan at The National Zoo of Malaysia (Zoo Negara).

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Tags: Cognitive and Sensory Systems Research Group, Dr Neil Mennie, Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), Ministry of Science and Technology and Innovation, School of Psychology

FBI informer at heart of fight for US civil rights

New research by an American historian at The University of Nottingham could rewrite the history books on the US civil rights movement during the 1960s after revealing that a key racial equality official was also an FBI informer.

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Hidden impact of cyber bullying

Cyber bullying — using modern communications such as e-mails, texts or web-postings — is as common in the workplace as ‘conventional’ bullying.

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When it comes to the crunch…

TV chef Heston Blumenthal took part in a taste test at the University.

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Tags: Division of Food Sciences, Flavour labs, Heston Blumenthal, MS-NOSE mass spectrometer, School of Biosciences

Genocide’s inspirational survivors

Women who survived the Rwandan genocide are stronger and are inspiring positive changes in society, according to researchers at the University.

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Tags: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, Department of French and Francophone Studies, genocide, Genocide Archive, Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre, Rwanda, The Aegis Trust

Call to all couch potatoes

Researchers are looking for sedentary volunteers to take part in a study into a time-efficient exercise tool called HIT — High Intensity Training.

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£1.5m boost for vital research

A leading national brain tumour charity is joining forces with experts at the University in a £1.5m million partnership to fight brain tumours in children.

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Tags: Brain Tumour UK, CBTRC, Children’s Brain Tumour Research Centre, Nottingham: The Impact Campaign, Professor Colin Blakemore, Professor David Walker

Potholes? Don’t worry, University researchers are looking into them…

Researchers at the University — among the UK’s leading experts in road engineering — are setting their sights on potholes.

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Tags: Dr Nick Thom, Nottingham Transport Engineering Centre (NTEC)