17 August 2007
NEWS
University "pleased" to be ranked in top dozen by The Times
The University of Bath is pleased to be rated 11th among UK universities in the latest Times league table, published this week. The University was ranked in the top ten in 15 subject areas, including second place in Mechanical Engineering, and fourth place for Business Studies; Mathematics; and Hospitality, Leisure & Sport.
Glen Mullineux promoted to personal chair
Glen Mullineux, whose work is helping make UK machinery manufacturers more efficient, has been promoted to a personal chair in design technology in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Academic awarded prestigious fellowship
Joanna Bryson (Computer Science) has been awarded the Hans Przibram Fellowship from the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research in Austria. The fellowship specialises in evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), a field that compares the developmental processes of different animals and plants in an attempt to determine how developmental processes evolve.
Bath in Bloom Gold Award
The Landscape Section of the Department of Estates has, once again, scooped an award in the Bath in Bloom competition. The Gold Award is for the re-design, re-planting and other improvements around the ornamental ponds and the lakeside areas.
Launch of regional dementia & neurodegenerative disease network
Researchers are invited to the launch of the South West Dementia & Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network (DeNDRoN) in Bristol on 10 September 2007.
Young people create time travel puppets
Twenty-five young people from Swindon and Wiltshire have been learning the art of puppetry, in a Creative Arts workshop at the University of Bath in Swindon this week.
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VISITORS
TV chef Heston comes to University for help with scientific cooking
The celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal came to campus this week to meet Julian Vincent and develop his scientific approach to cooking.
Baroness to visit BIRD
On Thursday 23 August, the Bath Institute for Rheumatic Diseases will be visited by the Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, a government spokesperson in the House of Lords. She will be given a tour of the building and research facilities by Dr Nick Hall (Chairman) and Mr Michael Gilbert (President). Discussion of BIRD’s research programme will be followed by a light buffet lunch.
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IN THE MEDIA
- Lee Hennessey (Admissions Office) was interviewed on GWR about clearing and A-level results.
INFORMATION
New starters in July 2007
The New Starters update gives the name, job title and department of all new members of staff at the University who started in the previous month.
Run for RICE - Bath Half Marathon 2008
The Research Institute for the Care of the Elderly (RICE) has ten places available for the 2008 Nationwide Bath Half Marathon which will take place on Sunday 16 March. To guarantee a place, please email t.mugridge@bath.ac.uk
Information on switch from Lawson to Agresso
Agresso has replaced Lawson as the University's live Finance System. Useful tips and information for users are available on the Finance website. Users are advised to check the Agresso information page for regular updates.
Jobs
Vacant posts: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs
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CATERING ANNOUNCEMENTS
Book your Christmas lunch early
Wessex Restaurant is now taking Christmas bookings. The Christmas lunch menu is available from 3 December until 21 December. Please book early to avoid disappointment. Call ext: 5345.
Catering arrangements on campus in August
The Catering and Bars Department is pleased to provide a range of food options in different locations during August for staff and postgrads.
Munchies to close for refurbishment
Munchies will close next Friday for refurbishment work. The facility will re-open in late September under its new name, The Terrace.
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NEW WEB SERVICES
Campus instant messaging service on trial
The Web Services Team is currently trialling an instant messaging service to help groups and individuals communicate with each other on campus.
New search engine for Personal Information Portal
A brand new search engine for the University’s Personal Information Portal has been launched. Searching is now much faster and the relevance of results improved.
New service helps manage online groups
Group Manager provides staff and students with a simple way of creating and maintaining groups. Anyone with a Bath account can create a group and add other individuals in the University to the group.
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CONFERENCES
AgentcitiesUK.net Challenge Day | University of Bath, 29-30 August 2007
The EPSRC-funded AgentcitiesUK network's sixth and final Challenge Day
is being held
to
investigate if and how agent technologies can be applied to issues
in pervasive computing. UK researchers and industrial stakeholders
will
be participating
in
the
event, organised by Julian Padget (Computer Science).
Fully-funded places are still available for interested researchers.
Pleasure Gardens, Past, Present & Future |
The Holburne Museum, 10 September 2007
An interdisciplinary symposium exploring the 18th century
pleasure garden and examining its legacy and future is to be held in September. The topics to be covered in the symposium complement the current exhibition at the Holburne Museum,
which explores the phenomenon of the Georgian pleasure gardens.
The symposium will also launch the new MSc/Diploma
in the Conservation of Historic Gardens & Cultural Landscapes,
which will commence at the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering
in October 2007.
Annual BASES Conference | University of Bath, 12-14 September
More than 500 sport and exercise scientists will descend on the University for the annual national BASES conference (British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences) in September. Top international speakers are programmed for the three-day event; they will concentrate on three key themes - Physical Activity for Health, Sport and Performance and Education and Professional Development. The conference is staged at the same time as the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France and precedes the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games so the air will be crackling with health and sport! Limited places are still available; if you are interested in attending see: http://www.bath.ac.uk/health/bases2007
8th
International Conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying
& Disposal | University of Bath, 12-15 September
2007
A major multi-disciplinary conference covering all aspects of death, dying and bereavement,
including a rich range of arts-related contributions, DDD8 will draw together established and new scholars and practitioners from around the globe. DDD8 is a collaboration between the Centre for Death & Society
and the Institute for Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts at the University.
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TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
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EXHIBITIONS
Judith
Tucker - Resort | ICIA Art Space 1, Claverton Rooms foyer, till
12 October
Judith Tucker's haunting drawings of the Baltic seaside resort of
Ahlbeck are inspired by photographs her grandmother brought with her
when she fled Nazi Germany to England in 1938. The charcoal drawings are infused with a sense of loss that shimmer with regret and yearning. Through melancholic coastal settings, the exhibition evokes memories of a vanished past.
Canaletto & the
English Pleasure Garden | Holburne Museum, till
30 September
Two magnificent paintings by Canaletto form the centre-piece of an exhibition which explores the phenomenon of the Georgian pleasure gardens. The Holburne's building was the gateway to Sydney Gardens where Jane Austen once strolled and this exhibition both celebrates its position and offers an enticing glimpse into eighteenth-century leisure.
Margareta Kern - Clothes for Death | ICIA Art Space 2, 12 September-4 January
Interdisciplinary artist presents powerful and intimate photographs as a personal response to a tradition in Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina of women preparing clothes for their own burial.
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ARTS
ICIA runs classes and workshops in music, dance and visual arts for all levels. Classes open to all include:
Music: DJ Skills, Bath University Big Band, University Choral Society
Dance: Contemporary, Street Dance, Jazz Dance, Ballet, Samba
Visual Arts: Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Life Drawing, Stained Glass
Booking opens Monday 10 September and classes start the week of 8 October. See the website for further details http://www.bath.ac.uk/icia
Applied physiologist features on BBC1 prime time TV
Claire Lane, an applied physiologist at the University, appeared on Wednesday's edition of the BBC1 prime time programme The One Show talking about the advantages of walking and running.
Bronze medal for Bath graduate Matt Clay
University of Bath graduate Matt Clay won Britain’s first medal of the World University Games when he took bronze in the 50m backstroke last Saturday.
Mew wins World University Games bronze
Team Bath double Olympian Darren Mew stormed to a bronze medal in the 50m breaststroke final at the World University Games in Thailand.
Bath is a magnet for Olympic rowing hopefuls
Several potential rowing Olympians have emerged from more than 200 people tested last weekend at the University of Bath by the Amateur Rowing Association's (ARA's) World Class Start Scheme. The scheme aims to test tall people aged 16–25 who may have the qualities needed to succeed in the sport.
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