20 October 2006

NEWS

Childcare tug-of-war influences shorebird breeding systems
The battle over who cares for the kids has played a key evolutionary role in deciding whether different species of shorebird are monogamous or polygamous, according to new research in the journal BioScience.

Innovation Centre puts companies into high stakes 'Dragon's Den'
Six new technology companies from the Claverton and Oakfield business acceleration centres and spin-out community will showcase to 150 venture capitalists at a prestigious investors' event in London (Monday 16 October). Swindon story

Review sheds light on way forward for respiratory disease treatments
A prestigious review of new research that could lead to cures for a range of respiratory diseases, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, has been published by scientists in the Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology.

Local timber expert branches out into teaching at University
Structural engineer Richard Harris, from the local firm Buro Happold, has been appointed as a part-time Professor of Timber Engineering in the BRE Centre in Innovative Construction Materials, part of the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering.

Conference at Oakfield focuses on domestic violence
Child abuse and killings in the home were the focus of a domestic violence conference in Swindon.

Student selected for national South Asian orchestra
Fourth year physics student, Avtar Singh, has been selected to join the UK’s leading South Asian orchestra, Tarang.

Swindon Film Festival 2006
Oakfield to host a film dramatising the rise of the Cuban revolution

INFORMATION

International students needed to volunteer with young people
Student volunteers of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds from the University of Bath and Bath Spa University are needed to visit primary schools to run sessions which include games, stories, art and craft, sport, cooking, music and dance from their respective cultures.

Bath voted best city in England
Bath has been voted the best city in England by readers of a national newspaper. The accolade in the annual Guardian and Observer Travel Awards is the most prestigious in a string of recent tourism poll boosts for the city.

New Starters in September 2006
The New Starters update gives the name, job title and department of all new permanent members of staff at the University who started in September.

Jobs
Vacant posts: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs

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TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

• Lecturing for Learning - Tuesday 17 October
  
• Risk Assessment Tools - 26 October
  
• School Curriculum - 27 October

IN THE MEDIA www.bath.ac.uk/news/bathinpapers/

• Nick Waterfield (Biology & Biochemistry) spoke to five local BBC radio channels about his research into using caterpillars as a cheap, easy and safe way to identify the genes which help bacteria cause infections in humans
• Joseph Diaz (Fayetteville State University, North Carolina ) spoke to GWR and Bath FM in advance of his talk at the University on understanding serial murderers.
  

WHAT'S ON NEXT WEEK

Monday 16
19:00 PM The Lib Dems' Vision for Bath
19:20 PM Access control & reader technologies
19:30 PM Palliative care in provincial Russia
20:00 PM Cliffe Badminton Club on campus

Tuesday 17
12:30 PM Academic Assembly
13:15 PM CNM Seminar - step-sizes and impact oscillators
15:15 PM Ethics Committee
18:00 PM The External Edge - doing business in local and international markets
19:30 PM Coming home - New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

Wednesday 18
14:00 PM HSS Fair for research students
17:00 PM Iyengar Yoga taster class
17:15 PM Astronomy and poetry
17:30 PM GULP: The Minoans
19:30 PM Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

Thursday 19
10:15 AM Equalities & Diversity Network
11:00 AM Careers Fair
12:30 PM UBSA's quiz of all quizzes
14:15 PM Magnetic micro- & nanoparticles in biology & medicine
16:15 PM HSS research seminar

Friday 20
11:15 AM The myths we live by
12:15 PM Another Ten Tons for Tempelhof: The Berlin Airlift 1948/9

Saturday 21
19:45 PM Latin Dance party

Sunday 22
19:30 PM Abram Wilson Sextet & the Delta Blues Project - Ride!

PUBLIC LECTURES http://www.bath.ac.uk/event/public-lectures/

Expert on serial killers to give public lecture in Bath
An American academic who has interviewed many of the world’s most notorious killers will talk about his research into serial murder at a free public lecture. (Today, 4.15-6.00 pm).

Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell - how poetry portrays astronomy
World-renowned physicist, Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell will be focussing on poetry from the last 50 years. She will consider whether poets engage with the science and if poetry has followed the major developments in astronomy. The talk, Astronomy and Poetry on Wednesday 18 October, will include poetry readings and slides.

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ARTS www.bath.ac.uk/icia

Last few places still available on ICIA Ceramics and Digital Darkroom courses, enrol now to secure your place - check website for details of times, locations or call ext 6777.

ARTS

Walker Dance Park Music 5 2 10
Sat 14 Oct, 7.30pm | ICIA Arts Theatre
Virtuoso dance and live music performed on stage featuring sax, bassoon, conga and marimba in a piece that is inspired by the body's emotions. See a review in The Times

Abram Wilson & the Delta Blues Project
Sun 22 Oct, 7.30pm I ICIA Arts Theatre
Award-winning New Orleans jazz trumpeter heads explosive 10 piece line-up of three bands in one, fusing hip hop, gospel blues and straight-ahead jazz.

Ceramics: Making large scale work
Sat 28, Sun 29 Oct & Sat 11 Nov, 10am-4pm Studio 2, ICIA Arts Complex
Explore ceramic hand building techniques to produce pieces for the garden and interiors. All abilities welcome.

Vivaldi Gloria - weekend workshop & concert
Sat 11 & Sun 12 Nov, 10am-4pm, Concert Sun 12 Nov, 7.30pm Kingswood Theatre
The University's new Choral Society launches itself with this community-wide weekend singing extravaganza. More than 60 singers required - all welcome. Application form and more details: http://www.bath.ac.uk/icia/student/music
The Choral Society is open to all and welcomes new members, meetings are Weds, 7.30-9.30pm, ICIA Studio 1.

Student & staff photography exhibition: submissions by Fri 10 Nov 2006
Open to students and staff. Three categories: landscape, documentary and portraiture. Four winners to be selected for £50 prizes • one overall staff prize – any category • a student from each category. Winners will be exhibited in ICIA Art Space 1, Fri 8 Dec to Sat 17 Dec, 10am-5pm Supported by Print Services
Full details and entry form at www.bath.ac.uk/icia/photocomp

Full details of events: www.bath.ac.uk/icia

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SPORT www.teambath.com/news

Rugby: Bath students put up brave battle against Roff’s Oxford
Aussie rugby star Joe Roff was among players gracing the Sports Training Village pitch as the University of Bath went down to their Oxford counterparts on Saturday.

Football: TeamBath stretch unbeaten run to four league games
TeamBath FC stretched their unbeaten run to four league games with an away draw at high-flying Mangotsfield United last Tuesday.

TeamBath players at Junior World Championships
Two young TeamBath judo players are preparing to go into action at the Junior World Championships in the Dominican Republic.

Badminton: Young players are second in Slovakia
TeamBath badminton players Heather Olver and Mariana Agathangelou each secured impressive runners-up spots at the Yonex Slovak International.

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