Archive for March 2012
Better@Bath celebrating L&T: Are you being watched?
21 March 2012
Pete Clark, Manager of the Audio-Visual Unit, explains how lecture capture at the Uni came about, and reports that in the first year of use, 1,500 hours of lectures were captured, resulting in a total of around 10,000 hours worth of viewing by students.
CPD course guides freelance interpreters to career success
21 March 2012
The ‘Simultaneous and Consecutive Interpretation’ CPD course used state-of-the-art interpretation laboratories to boost participants’ interpretation skills, preparing them for the competitive United Nations’ freelance interpretation exams.
Student entrepreneurs triumph at Deloitte
21 March 2012
Students from Bath swept the board at a recent student entrepreneur pitching event run with one of the UK’s biggest employers.
Sustainability challenged in West Africa
20 March 2012
Dr Roy Maconachie has made a video examining the affects of the rapidly changing global economy on sustainable resource management practices in Nigeria.
Email down – BUCS working to resolve issue
20 March 2012
The University email system is currently down. The network team are currently working on resolving the issue as a matter of priority.
In the meantime the University’s Webmail is functioning.
Reports from Council and Senate – Feb/Mar 2012
19 March 2012
Reports of items discussed at the recent meetings of University Council and Senate.
VC hosts scholars’ tea party
19 March 2012
On Thursday 8 March all philanthropically funded first year scholarship students and members of University staff were invited to meet over tea and biscuits for the annual Scholars’ Tea, hosted by Vice-Chancellor Professor Dame Glynis Breakwell.
Three academics promoted to Professor
19 March 2012
Three academics at the University have been promoted to personal chairs: Avi Shankar (School of Management), Dmitry Skryabin (Physics) and Stephen Gough (Education).
Comp Sci shows research at international digital entertainment conference
19 March 2012
Three researchers from the Department of Computer Science and the Centre for Digital Entertainment will showcase and demonstrate current work at XML 2012 on Friday 16 March 2012.
Spreading expertise through CPD: Fabrication of photonic crystal fibres
19 March 2012
The Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials (CPPM) at the University, well-known across the scientific community for its expertise in photonic crystal fibres, opened its doors to researchers and engineers from around the world for a CPD course focusing on the fabrication and physics of photonic crystal fibres.
Video: Children with autism participate in design of tutorial tool
16 March 2012
Academics from the University of Bath’s Departments of Psychology and Computer Science are working together with children with Autism to develop a computer-based maths tutorial system.
New Widening Participation Office – increasing access from under-represented groups
16 March 2012
We are making a number of changes to ensure that the University meets new targets for increasing its intake of students from under-represented groups. The changes have built on the excellent work focused on the previous targets that was delivered by the Division for Lifelong Learning and Recruitment & Admissions Office Widening Participation teams.
Varsity comes to Bath
16 March 2012
This year’s varsity between the Universities of Bath and Exeter will be the largest student sporting event in the history of the University of Bath.
University hosts head of Santander UK
16 March 2012
Ana Botin, the head of Santander UK, visited the University yesterday (Wednesday 15 March) to speak to students and members of the local business community about the importance of enterprise for the recovery of the UK economy.
Tom Pellereau gives nail files the ‘S’ factor
16 March 2012
Bath graduate and winner of The Apprentice 2011 Tom Pellereau has launched the must-have beauty accessory for 2012.
Please collect supermarket vouchers for Westwood Nursery!
15 March 2012
Please send any Tesco for Schools & Clubs vouchers or Sainsbury’s Active Kids vouchers to the Nursery through the internal post, or leave them in the box on the Security Desk in the Library. Many thanks.
RCUK publishes Principles for funding multi-institutional collaboration
15 March 2012
This Framework of Principles relates to funding for collaborative, multi-institutional research and related research activities, such as capital investment, doctoral training, innovation, knowledge exchange, and public engagement. Collaborations may include public or private sector research organisations, as well as business and other partner organisations where these bring distinctive contributions to the collaborative research activity.
I might be a robot but I am beautiful inside!
15 March 2012
A robot beauty pageant took place at the University this week, featuring intelligent design by undergraduate students.
Leading energy research from Bath shared with China
15 March 2012
An international delegation from the Shangdong Electric Power Company has recently visited the University to learn from the cutting-edge energy research taking place.