10 March 2006
NEWS
Scientists make an important discovery into causes of Motor Neurone Disease
Scientists (including
Professor Ravi Acharya
from Biology & Biochemistry) are offering new hope for a cure for Motor Neurone Disease (MND) by identifying a gene that plays a key role in its development, according to research published in Nature Genetics.
New head of Pharmacy and Pharmacology
Professor Richard Guy has taken over as the head of the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology.
Bath academic appointed AIM Scholar
The Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) have appointed Dr Mickey Howard, lecturer in Operations for the Operations & Supply Group at the School of Management, to their prestigious Scholars' Scheme. Mickey is Co-Investigator for the European 5DayCar project 'ILIPT' (Intelligent Logistics for Innovative Product Technologies).
Writer in Residence
The German Section of the Department of European Studies and Modern Languages is delighted that they have been given funding by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to host a Writer-in-Residence-Programme. The author coming to Bath from 1-15 March 2006 is Michael Augustin, poet and radio journalist, who will be giving lectures, seminars and readings.
New course: studying death in its social context
The UK's only research centre based at the University and devoted to the study of death and society has launched a new postgraduate course that will help students develop a greater understanding of death in its social and cultural context.
New partnership with Shandong University, China
The University is pleased to announce the establishment of an EU-funded partnership between Bath's European Research Institute (ERI) and the Center for European Studies of Shandong University (CESSDU), China.
Bath student in last four of national competition
Student Adam Mallion (Electronics with space science & technology) was only one of four people in the UK nominated for Motorola's MOTOFWRD competition in which students across the country were asked consider new ways that technology could be used in everyday life. Although he didn't win,
Adam's short film A Seamless Future gained him a spot in the top four. Judges were impressed at how the film considered the application of new technologies.
Enterprising careers
A group of BSc in Business Administration (BBA) and BSc in Sociology with Human Resource Management students recently visited The Hub to hear from Jonathan Robinson, activist and founder of The Hub, and Sofia Bustamante who shared her experience of changing from a corporate career at BT to a self-employed consultant in the social enterprise field. The trip was organised by Dr Svenja Tams as part of the students' elective ‘Enterprising Careers'.
e-Transportation Challenge Day
UK researchers, industrial stakeholders and local government officials will be at the University of Bath on 4 & 5 April for the third agentcitiesUK.net Challenge Day. The goal of the event is to investigate the appropriateness for and application of agent technologies to e-transportation and intelligent transport issues in the UK. If you would like to participate, please contact Julian Padget.
Free public lectures:
- Crossing Greenland's ice cap Wednesday 15 March
Local people will get the opportunity to hear adventurer Sue Stockdale speak about her experiences while crossing Greenland's ice cap at a free public lecture at the University of Bath in Swindon.
- Don Foster MP on the future of higher education Friday 10 March
Local people can hear Don Foster MP speak about his predictions for the future of higher education at a free talk at the University of Bath.
- How the present is coloured by the past Tuesday 14 March
The Holburne Museum of Art will be hosting a lecture by Professor Richard Gregory as part of National Science Week.
- Solar variability & climate change Wednesday 15 March
Professor Joanna Haigh, Imperial College will give a talk as part of
the Centre for Space, Atmospheric & Oceanic Science seminar series
Photo galleries:
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Easter Playscheme at St Martins cancelled
Due to staffing problems at St Martins Garden Primary School it is regretted that the Westwood Nursery will not be able to run the Easter Playscheme this year.
Sainsbury & Tesco vouchers
The nursery are currently collecting the Sainsbury & Tesco vouchers - they would be most grateful for any vouchers. Please send through internal post.
Campus road closure for Road Race
The next TeamBath Road Race will take place on campus this Sunday 13 March 2006 at 10am. This means that the entry road past the STV, the service road and the northern road past Westwood residences will be subject to closure from 10am till 11am. All visitors should use Car park A until 11am.
Renovation of ponds outside LeVel 1 Café
The Landscape Section will clean out/dredge the three ponds near LeVel 1 Cafe, commencing Saturday 11 March; all the fish will be removed and held safely off campus until the pond work has been completed.
Nominations:
- Mary Tasker Award recognises excellence in teaching in the University
- John Willis Award recognises accomplishment in research combined with a significant contribution to teaching, including pastoral support for students.
- Innovation in Learning & Teaching Award is intended for a member of staff who makes a significant contribution to innovation in curriculum design, content or delivery.
- Mentor of the Year Award for
someone who provides a combination of support and challenge to an individual (or small group) to help her/him in making a contribution to teaching and/or learning support associated with a University of Bath programme.
- Ede and Ravenscroft Prize to the best postgraduate research student
- Chancellor's Prize for a student who has demonstrated academic excellence together with a contribution to the life, academic reputation and general work of the University.
Opportunity to volunteer at Romanian orphanage
Every summer a group of volunteers from the University travels out to North-eastern Romania to work with children in a local state orphanage. If members of staff are interested in taking part, please contact
A.Boneham@bath.ac.uk
Sign up for HIKE FOR HUMANITY™ & raise funds for children worldwide
The Bath One World Staff Society at the University of Bath is organising a ‘Hike for Humanity™' in aid of UNICEF - on Sunday 19 March 2006 at 2pm - and is looking for other people to take part. Jobs
Vacant posts: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs
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IN THE MEDIA
TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
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Saturday 11
11:30 AM Salsa Society guest workshops
8:00 PM EuroSoc Opening Social
Sunday 12
12:00 Noon RC International Mass
7:30 PM Film - Sideways
Monday 13
10:00 AM The future of the country house in context
1:15 PM BICS lunchtime seminar
2:15 PM Equalities and Diversity Network
7:30 PM CPD lecture by Thortex on resin flooring
8:00 PM Film - Goodfellas
Tuesday 14
9:30 AM Designing a sales campaign on a budget
12:30 PM UBSA lunchtime bingo session
12:45 PM Oxfam Lunch
1:00 PM How the present is coloured by the past
1:15 PM Atomic-scale studies of new clean energy materials
2:15 PM Surviving the viva
4:30 PM Practical sustainable development: Challenge of long term strategy in Government
Wednesday 15
2:15 PM Solar variability & climate change
5:15 PM GULP lecture: Hungary 1956: tanks & the end of an illusion
5:30 PM GULP Lecture: Crossing Greenland's ice cap
6:15 PM Inaugural Lecture - Chris Eccleston
Thursday 16
12:15 PM Bath One World Staff Society
6:15 PM Public Lecture in association with the Royal Society of Arts
7:00 PM Are excellence & elitism dirty words in museums?
7:00 PM IMech showcase PhD lectures
7:30 PM Film - Machuca
7:30 PM Die Prinzhornsammlung in Heidelerg
Friday 17
11:00 AM ESRC Social Science week - Indicators and Education for Sustainable Development
Saturday 18
9:00 AM BUSA Team Tennis Championships
Sunday 19
9:00 AM BUSA Team Tennis Championships
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1 East 2.1, phone ext 6777 or check out the website for further details.
Gilad Atzmon Quartet
Saturday 11 March | ICIA Arts Theatre | £9, £7 concs & Uni
staff
Legendary reeds player shifts seamlessly between intensely beautiful melodies to vibrant searing riffs, drawing on their Middle Eastern roots.
In
discussion: Stephen Gill & Jon Ronson
Saturday 11 March | 5 .30 pm | Guildhall, Bath
| Tickets £7, £5 concs
Festivals Box Office 01225 463362
Jon Ronson, Guardian Journalist, Radio 4 presenter, author and documentary film-maker is in lively discussion with Stephen Gill about his work.
Stephen
Gill Photographs
Till 31 March | ICIA Art Space 1 | Free
A major force in contemporary British photography, Stephen Gill captures the
often overlooked details of everyday life. Includes the series Billboards and Invisible.
The
world rushed in
Friday 17 March | 7.30 pm | ICIA Arts Theatre
| £9, £7 concs & Uni staff
Somewhere between a piece of contemporary theatre, a magic show and an anarchic
school assembly performance. A quirky look at life in a world that is slowly
disappearing.
We
are the rivers we swim through
Saturday 18 March | ICIA Arts Theatre | £9, £7
concs & Uni staff
Half theatre-performance, half-lecture this event combines performance, video,
writing and research to question our attitude of ‘separateness’.
Fundraising gala
Friday 24 March | ICIA Arts Theatre| £10
University
Arts Societies showcase their talents in a fab evening in support of ICIA's Fundraising Campaign to improve arts facilities on campus.
Pamela prepares for biggest tournament of her life
TeamBath netball player Pamela Cookey (Business Administration student) competes in the biggest tournament of her life shortly when she represents Team England at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Sport science: Melbourne athletes to use Shelley's 'secret weapon'
Many of TeamBath's Commonwealth–Games bound athletes will travel to Melbourne having used the same “secret weapon” that helped Shelley Rudman on the road to Olympic silver in Turin.
Hockey
Team Bath Buccaneers Men played out a disappointing 0-0 draw with EHL Division 1 bottom side St Albans last Sunday. However Team Bath Buccaneers Ladies were in great form on Saturday with a 5-1 trouncing on Taunton Vale.
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