19 January 2007
NEWS
Sara Morrison is awarded Chancellor's Medal
The Honorable Sara Morrison, former Pro-Chancellor and Chair of Council, was awarded the Chancellor's medal at Court last week. The medal is awarded in public recognition of outstanding service to the University over an extended period of time.
ESML graduate Holly Jones wins Times Lloyds TSB Graduate of the Year 2006
Holly Jones, who graduated from the Department of European Studies & Modern Languages last year, has been named as Times Lloyds TSB Graduate of the Year 2006, after she wrote
an article on the financial problems faced by students.
Memorial service for student
A remembrance service will be held on Wednesday 31 January 2007 for Hilary Ogilve, a MPharm1 student (02/03 and 03/04) who sadly passed away in August 2004. The informal service will start at around 2.15 pm and it will be held in the 5W quad around the tree planted in her memory. Anyone who wishes to share memories of Hilary may do so.
Death of Professor Raymond Thomas, 1923-2007
Professor Raymond Thomas, one of the founder members of the University's School of Management and its first Head of School, died on 12 January 2007 at the General Hospital in Weston-Super-Mare.
Security officer to run charity marathon wearing 10kg vest
University of Bath security officer Tim Leach will run the Bath Half Marathon wearing a 10kg weighted vest to help raise funds for Bath Cats & Dogs Home. International students to receive £240,000 in scholarship funding
High-flying international students who begin courses at the University in 2007 will benefit from a 17 per cent increase in funding for the University's scholarship scheme.
Bursaries for UK undergraduates, Foundation Degree students & PGCE students
First-year undergraduates & Foundation Degree students plus PGCE students are eligible for a Bath Bursary of up to £1500 if they are liable for £3000 fees and receive any Maintenance Grant as part of their Student Support.
EVENTS AT THE OAKFIELD CAMPUS
University gives school pupils an insight into science
Bubbles and breakfast will help to give school students from Swindon an introduction to the subject of nanotechnology, in a science lecture
by Steve Roser
(Chemistry) at Oakfield next Monday (22 January).
Story of Aston Martin racing car to be revealed at public lecture
Local people have the opportunity to hear Aston Martin chart the story of the DBR9 racing car and its track record in a free lecture at the University of Bath in Swindon next Thursday (25 January). New seminar series in coaching and mentoring
Coaches and mentors working in business, education or sport in the south west have the opportunity to explore the place of goals in their work, in the first of a new series of free seminar events at the University of Bath in Swindon on Tuesday 30 January. Local business people invited to free motivation event
Local business people are invited to kick start their motivation to succeed, in a free seminar, workshop and networking event at the University of Bath in Swindon on Tuesday 30 January.
Swindon Innovation Centre hosts incubation conference
Local councils will get the chance to hear how they can help businesses to start up and flourish, so encouraging regeneration and economic development, at a conference on
Tuesday 30 January, run by UK Business Incubation and hosted by the Swindon Innovation Centre. topˆ INFORMATION
Latest news - A new framework for assessment
Two papers have been prepared for the meeting of the Quality Assurance Committee on 29 January 2007 and are available online.
Introduction to the new FP7 framework
UK Research Office's European Adviser will be visiting the University of Bath on 25 January to introduce the new FP7. For programme information and details of how to register. UKRO will be holding a series of one-day proposal writing courses across the UK for researchers and research administrators involved in preparing FP7 proposals. For the south west region, a course will be held on 2 February at Bristol University.
New guidelines on web design are issued
A guide to corporate design for departmental webpages has been published.
Open house event at Bath School of Management
Preview The Bath MBA: Friday 16 February 2007
AgentcitiesUK.net Challenge Days
Julian Padget (Computer Science) is organising two EPSRC-funded AgentcitiesUK Challenge Days in February to investigate the appropriateness for and application of agent technologies to "Disaster Response and Management" (5-6 February, University of Southampton) and also "Agents and Grids - towards the intelligent grid" (19-20 February, National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh). UK/EU researchers, industrial stakeholders and local government officials will be participating in the events. Places are still available for interested researchers.
Playscheme
Half-term playscheme running at St Martin's Garden Primary School from Monday 19 to Friday 23 February 2007. Bookings are now being taken online; alternatively please contact the nursery on ext 6518.
Sophos Anti-Virus Upgrade
On 28 February Sophos will end support of Sophos Anti-Virus 4.xx and the Remote Update software.
All users (particularly those who have Sophos Anti-Virus installed at home) will therefore need to upgrade to the latest version of Sophos Anti-Virus before this time.
Full installation and upgrade instructions can be found at http://www.bath.ac.uk/bucs/antivirus/setup Jobs
Vacant posts: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs
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TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
IN THE MEDIA
- Julian Vincent will present a history of the banjo, a much-maligned instrument which enjoyed enormous popularity in bygone days. Tuesday 23 January 2007 13:30-14:00 (Radio 4 FM).
- Robert Heath's (Management) research into advertising which appeals to the emotions was featured in The Economic Times, India, this week.
WHAT'S ON Full details: http://www.bath.ac.uk/whats-on/
Monday 22
09:00 AM Uni of Texas visit to Carpenter House Innovation Centre & RIS UoB
10:15 AM HERA & pensions - Members only
12:15 PM Smart bubbles and nuts in muesli
13:15 PM BICS seminar
19:30 PM Pageantry & power: the early modern Lord Mayor's Show
Tuesday 23
19:30 PM Windsmith: A bardic odyssey
Thursday 25
10:00 AM UKRO introduction to FP7
14:15 PM Managing your supervisor (Student perspective)
19:00 PM The Aston Martin DBR9 Story
19:30 PM A sense of place: Dan Pearson
Friday 26
07:30 AM Sources of funding for small businesses
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Contact ICIA on extension 6777 for all tickets and class bookings.
PERFORMANCES
- Bobby Baker kicks off the season with a rare visit to the south west for two nights (Sat 27-Sun 28 Jan) with her sell-out London show How to Live, following its success at the Barbican. With a career spanning more than three decades, Bobby is considered to be one of Britain's leading performers; her award-winning work captures the absurdities of daily life in a uniquely surreal and eccentric fashion.
- Ian Shaw, one of the UK's leading male jazz singers, makes Bath his only south west gig (Sat 3 Feb). He features songs from his latest critically-acclaimed album Drawn to all things: the songs of Joni Mitchell. With one foot in jazz territory, and another somewhere rather soulful, Ian's repertoire also includes jazz standards and original compositions.
- The world premiere of Niki McCretton's SPACE 50 takes place at ICIA's Arts Theatre (Sat 10 Feb), before its national UK tour this spring and autumn. This brand-new theatrical piece unpicks man's astonishing journey to the heavens, with text written by Andrew Smith, author of the bestselling book Moondust. SPACE 50 is an ICIA commission.
CLASSES
ICIA runs classes in Dance, Music, Visual Arts and Theatre. Booking is now open for spring and summer classes. Weekly music based classes and groups include Big Band Jazz, Song-writing and DJ skills. Dance includes Street, Contemporary, Ballet, Tap and Jazz. Visual Arts offer Ceramics, Painting, Digital Art and Drawing with specialist weekend workshops.
Superleague seven on Europe shortlist
TeamBath netball players make up half of the 13-strong England squad to defend the Europe Open Championships title next month. Four of those selected are studying at the University of Bath.
Pickering to face Gardener
In-form TeamBath sprinter Craig Pickering is due to go head to head with his training partner, Olympic gold medallist Jason Gardener, in Glasgow later this month.
Ladies earn a point against high-flying Taunton
TeamBath Buccaneers Ladies 1s made a promising start to the West Premier Division in 2007 drawing 2-2 with top of the table Taunton Vale.
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