Campus News
Access to UoN Print Service
May 23rd, 2017
UoN Print Service printers are currently displaying the message ‘No access’ and then prompt for a password, which is not recognised and returns the user to the ‘No access message’.
The workaround is to login manually using university IT username and password via the ‘Alternate login’ button as follows:
- If prompted by the message ‘No access’, click on OK
- When the password field is displayed, click on Exit and then Confirm
- Click on Alternate login
- When prompted, login via your university username (referred to as a ‘PIN’) and then your password
This is under investigation by Xerox and Information Services. Please regularly check the IT Service Status webpage for updates on the UoN Print Service.
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Tri-Campus Postgraduate Prize Awards
May 23rd, 2017
The Tri-Campus Postgraduate Prize Awards 2017 took place on Wednesday 17 May. The awards celebrate the work and achievements of postgraduate students across our three international campuses who are excelling in their respective fields.
The event was hosted by the Graduate School at each campus and coordinated via video link. The UK awards were presented by Professor Ed Wilding, Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Graduate School and Research Career Development Below is some detail about each of the awards that were presented along with a list of the winners for each award.
Heymann Research Award
Founded in 1892 by Henry Haymann, preference is given to students in the Faculty of Arts but may be awarded to a student in another faculty if they demonstrate sufficient merit in Arts.
The winner:
King-Ho Leung, Theology & Religious Studies
Andrew Hendry Postgraduate-Award
Founded in 1968 in memory of Andrew Hendry, Bursar of the University 1948-66, this award is open to all students in all Faculties.
The winners:
Anirban Banerjee, Medicine
Wei Gong, Architecture & Built Environment
Ewa Kruszewski, Law
Jong Bong Lee, Pharmacy
Hannah-Rose Murray, American & Canadian Studies
Harriet Parnell, Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering
Christopher Sampson, Medicine – Rehabilitation & Ageing
Theocharis Tsoleridis, Life Sciences
Dean Moore Award
Founded in 1949 under the will of Florence Moore, this award is open to students who are resident in the East Midlands, preferably the City of Nottingham.
The winners:
Sarah Brand, Nottingham University Business School
Chris Bridge, Engineering – Energy & Sustainability
Ziwei Chen, Fluids & Thermal Engineering
Leah Jayes, Epidemiology & Public Health
Emma Nielsen, Psychology
Robert Workman, Veterinary Medicine & Sciences
Tomlin Award
Founded in 1951 under the will of John Hewitt Tomlin, this award is open to students resident in the East Midlands, especially Lincoln.
The winner:
Katie Pepper, Chemistry
Postgraduate Teaching Assistant Award
This award recognises and celebrates examples of innovative teaching and support learning.
The winners:
Dan Fallows, Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Rosanna Kirkwood, Veterinary Medicine & Science
Highly commended:
Margareta Clarke, Psychology
Genovefa Kefalidou, Human Factors Research Group
Christina Ralph-Nearman, Psychology
Congratulations to all of the above winners who have demonstrated themselves an asset to the University and to their respective fields.
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Appointment of President and Vice-Chancellor
May 22nd, 2017
The University of Nottingham is pleased to announce that Professor Shearer West has been appointed as its next President and Vice-Chancellor.
Professor West will take up office in October 2017 following the retirement of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir David Greenaway.
She will be the seventh Vice-Chancellor in the University’s history and the first woman in the role.
Professor West is Professor of Art History and currently Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sheffield.
She has held a number of significant leadership roles in higher education. Prior to her post at Sheffield, she was Head of the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford. She has also worked as Director of Research at the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), as Head of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham and undertook a number of leadership roles at Leicester University.
While at the AHRC, she was appointed the first ever non-scientist chair of the Research Group of RCUK — which comprised science and research directors of all seven constituent research councils.
She has authored and edited nine books and many articles and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Historical Society. She has held two visiting Fellowships at Yale University.
She also has a number of international roles of responsibility, most recently acting as main panel chair for the national research assessment exercise for Humanities in Norway and serving on the steering group to introduce impact into the Excellence in Research (ERA) exercise in Australia. She also represented the UK on the Science Europe Humanities Scientific Committee, and has been a jurist for the Spinoza Prize in the Netherlands and the Odysseus and Solvay prizes in Belgium, as well as an Advisory Board member for the Social Sciences Faculty of the University of Vienna.
In her role Professor West will work closely with the University of Nottingham’s leadership teams in the UK as well as at its overseas campuses in China and Malaysia.
President of Council John Mills said: “Professor West becomes our Vice-Chancellor at the start of a period of investment in both our research and academic community to build on the strong foundations in our campus infrastructure and international development which sets us apart from other UK Universities.
“Nottingham has the ability to transform lives through its world-class teaching and research and with increasing collaboration with other leading institutions. David has been a remarkable Vice-Chancellor and Shearer’s energy, drive and commitment to a collaborative spirit reflects the culture of our University and will build on his legacy.”
Professor West added: “I am honoured to be appointed to the role of Vice-Chancellor at The University of Nottingham and looking forward to leading this great University. I am a sincere admirer of the wonderful work which Nottingham has undertaken across its faculties in the UK and overseas. It will be a privilege to work with a highly-regarded international community of scholars and students, and I look forward to taking up this role at a time of both challenge and opportunity for universities.”
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Participants needed for travel insurance study
May 19th, 2017
Have you purchased travel insurance before? If so, you’re invited to take part in this reading experiment focusing on travel insurance comprehension.
We are looking for anyone who:
- has normal or corrected-to-normal vision
- has purchased travel insurance at least once
You will be asked to read travel insurance policies and answer questions about what is covered and what is not.
The experiment will take place in the School of English (Trent building) and will last approximately 45 minutes. An inconvenience allowance of £10 will be provided.
To sign up for the study or to receive further information, please contact Fabio Parente.
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Participants needed for study
May 19th, 2017
Have you recently bought home and/or contents insurance? If you have, then you are invited to take part in an ongoing study in the School of English.
The experiment will take place in our state-of-the-art eye-tracking lab and will last around 30 minutes.
Participants will be asked to read a series of texts and answer questions guided by our highly experience eye-tracking team and will a receive a £15 Amazon voucher for taking part.
To register to take part or to receive further information, please contact Fabio Parente.
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Olympic greats inducted into new Nottingham Hall of Fame
May 19th, 2017
Two of Nottingham’s most famous sporting alumni have been inducted into the University’s brand new sporting Hall of Fame.
The two alumni are:
Dr Deng Yaping
Widely regarded as the world’s greatest ever table tennis player and voted Chinese athlete of the 20th century, Deng Yaping’s achievements include winning four Olympic golds and numerous World titles during an eight period of domination in international women’s table tennis from 1991.
She said: “I’m very honoured and happy to be part of the Hall of Fame – this University has given me so much and I love this campus and the people here. I’d like to thank Sir David for the opportunities the University gave me and to be able to come back this time. ”
Dr Tim Brabants
Double Olympic medallist Tim Brabants made history by winning Team GB’s first ever canoeing medal when he achieved gold during the K1 1000m at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. He graduated the University of Nottingham with a degree in Medicine in 2002 and even won his first medal whilst still studying at the University.
He commented: “It’s a massive honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame alongside Deng Yaping, she’s quite something – an Olympic legend. The University were a great support to me during my time at Nottingham; they encouraged me to excel in my sport and to complete my degree by allowing me the time I needed to train and study.”
The two inductions to the Hall of Fame took place during this week’s Sporting Excellence Awards ceremony, which was hosted by University of Nottingham Sport following the official opening of the new £40 million David Ross Sports Village.
The ceremony saw guests, alumni and the current cohort of elite student athletes join together to celebrate the University’s past and present sporting achievements.
Alongside the two alumni presentations, the ceremony also celebrated achievements of current student athletes and recognised individuals and teams who had excelled during the 2016/17 season: awardees included triple British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) table tennis champion Haoyu Liu, who is currently studying at Nottingham as the first Deng Yaping sports scholar.
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The slither of tiny feet – rare ‘lefty’ snails produce offspring
May 18th, 2017
Two rare ‘lefty’ snails brought together following a public appeal by a scientist at the University of Nottingham have produced their first offspring.
More than 170 baby snails have hatched, just six months after the story of Jeremy the garden snail and his search for a similarly left-coiling, or sinistral, companion hit international headlines.
Two potential mates were found for Jeremy following an appeal on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme by Dr Angus Davison from the University’s School of Life Sciences. Dr Davison wanted to breed from Jeremy to find out whether the genetics of these rare snails could offer insight into the body asymmetry in other animals, including humans.
But in a tragic twist, the original snail was left shell-shocked after being given the cold shoulder by both of his suitors — dubbed Lefty and Tomeu — who instead mated with each other.
The first batch of eggs to hatch were ‘fathered’ by Lefty and laid by Tomeu in April – snails are hermaphrodites so can fulfil the role of either mother or father.
The hatching was eagerly anticipated by Dr Davison, who was keen to find out whether the tiny gastropods would follow in the left-coiling footsteps of their parents. However as the new-borns developed it became apparent that every single one has the less rare form of right-coiling, or dextral, shells.
Dr Davison said: “Despite not yet being able to mate Jeremy, we have been able to answer the question of which direction the shells would coil in offspring from two of these rare left-coiling variants. Was it a chance event that made these snails develop as mirror images, or is it inherited?
“The fact that the babies developed right-coiling shells may be because the mother carries both the dominant and recessive versions of the genes that determine shell-coiling direction. Body asymmetry in snails is inherited in a similar way to bird shell colour – only the mother’s genes determine the direction of the twist of the shell, or the colour of a bird egg. It is far more likely that we will get to see left-coiling babies produced in the next generation or even the generation after that.”
Last year, Dr Davison and colleagues at universities in Edinburgh, Germany and the US, revealed they had discovered a gene that determines the direction in which a snail’s shell twists. The same gene also affects body asymmetry in other animals — including humans — and research using these snails could offer the chance to develop our understanding of how organs are placed in the body and why this process can sometimes go wrong when some or all of the major internal organs are reversed from their normal placement.
Two more batches of eggs — another laid by Tomeu and one laid by Lefty and fathered by Tomeu — will soon be hatching. Lefty has recently returned home but Dr Davison remains hopeful that Jeremy may still be encouraged to mate with Tomeu and that the resulting offspring from the combination of pairings may be mated. In the long term, these crosses may then be used to map and find the genes that determine variation in left-right asymmetry.
Click here for a video of a lefty snail and baby.
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Leadership & Management Academy Team announces latest updates
May 18th, 2017
A number of updates have been announced to help staff get the most out of their experience working at the University.
First up is the launch of the new ‘Induction for Leaders and Managers’, which has been developed to support newly-appointed leaders and managers during their first few days, weeks, months, and beyond. The induction is accessible now via Moodle.
Colleagues can also now gain a clearer visibility of the career opportunities available across the University — and gain access to a range of online learning resources designed to support career development — by accessing the online Staff Career Development Hub. We are also looking for volunteers to feature in a series of short staff career profile videos to be presented in the Hub during 2017. You can express an interest and find out more here.
Meanwhile, May 2017 also saw the launch of the new Leadership & Management Academy (LMA) prospectus, which provides an overview of the programmes and development support available via the LMA.
If you’re a University of Nottingham employee at Level 5 or above, you can also attend a one-day conference, ‘Making Change Happen Through Collaborative Working’, which will be presented in partnership with the University of Birmingham at the Jubilee Conference Centre on Friday 19 June. Find out more and book your place here.
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Olympic seal of approval for new David Ross Sports Village
May 18th, 2017
Alumni sports stars of the University of Nottingham have celebrated the official opening of the David Ross Sports Village.
The £40 million sports village is a state-of-the-art facility on University Park campus. It includes an indoor fencing salle, dance and spin studios, an all-glass squash court, an outdoor full-sized 3G rubber crumb pitch, tennis courts and gym.
It also boasts a brand new Sports Injury Clinic that can provide treatments such as hydrotherapy, acupuncture, specialist physiotherapy and sports massages, to staff, students, and the local community.
Olympic table tennis champion Dr Deng Yaping and gold medal-winning canoeists, Dr Tim Brabants MBE and Etienne Stott MBE, were among the line-up of sporting legends who joined fellow alumni David Ross and UK Sport CEO Liz Nicholl for the centre’s opening celebrations.
The Sports Village was made possible by a significant commitment from Nottingham alumnus and Carphone Warehouse founder David Ross, who studied law at the University.
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham Professor Sir David Greenaway said the centre was the fitting environment to engage students and staff, whatever their interests, and inspire the sports stars of the future:
“From David Ross’ generous donation, to the support of our Olympians, the scope and scale of alumni talent is clear. To be successful at anything takes drive, grit, determination and practice,” he commented.
“Our alumni have been showcasing these attributes for many years and I have followed their achievements with pride, knowing Nottingham may have laid the foundations for some of their successes. Today we celebrate a physical foundation, a complex of sporting facilities to be proud of and one which will inspire the next generation of athletes.”
You can see all the highlights of the opening ceremony on our latest YouTube video.
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