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Praise for raising the profile of HE's 'unsung heroes'

Praise for raising the profile of HE's 'unsung heroes'

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Award for raising the profile of over 700 technical staff at The University of Nottingham.
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Last Year
Major UK clinical trial for Group B Strep screening in pregnant women announced

Major UK clinical trial for Group B Strep screening in pregnant women announced

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A landmark clinical trial is aiming to improve the prevention of potentially life-threatening infection caused by group B Streptococcus in newborn babies in the UK.
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Last Year
Nottingham's Pint of Science tickets selling fast

Nottingham's Pint of Science tickets selling fast

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Tickets for Nottingham's Pint of Science Festival (#Pint19) snapped up.
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Last Year
Drugs for invasive breast cancer 'could treat earliest stages of the disease'

Drugs for invasive breast cancer 'could treat earliest stages of the disease'

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Drugs used to target HER2-positive invasive breast cancer may also be successful in treating women in the first stages of the disease, researchers at The University of Nottingham have discovered.
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Last Year
Advancing the science of chemistry

Advancing the science of chemistry

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Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Longstaff prize for the advancement of chemistry.
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Last Year
Personal stories of mental illness can help others on the road to recovery

Personal stories of mental illness can help others on the road to recovery

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Inspirational stories of how people have overcome their struggles with mental illness can help others on the road to recovery, a study by researchers at The University of Nottingham has found.
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Last Year
Scientists solve the 800 year old mystery of an ancient bone disease

Scientists solve the 800 year old mystery of an ancient bone disease

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Scientific research at the molecular level on a collection of medieval skeletons from Norton Priory in Cheshire could help rewrite history after revealing they were affected by an unusual ancient form of the bone disorder, Paget's disease.
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Last Year
Made in Nottingham – three major awards for our student nurses

Made in Nottingham – three major awards for our student nurses

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Student nurses from the University of Nottingham's School of Health Sciences have won three major awards at this year's Student Nursing Times Awards.
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Last Year
Could a lack of confidence in design law reduce innovation in the UK?

Could a lack of confidence in design law reduce innovation in the UK?

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UK designers are less likely to seek legal action if someone copies their work compared with the rest of Europe, according to new research.
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Last Year
Nottingham researchers in international drive to develop safer drugs

Nottingham researchers in international drive to develop safer drugs

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Medical researchers at the University of Nottingham and NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre are part of a major new international research project to improve the safety and regulation in the development of drugs.
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Last Year
£1.6m grant to improve building façade technologies for better energy efficiency

£1.6m grant to improve building façade technologies for better energy efficiency

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A project to create new technologies to improve the energy efficiency of buildings is underway after a group of researchers from the University of Nottingham, Loughborough University and University of Exeter was awarded a £1.65 million grant from the EPSRC.
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Last Year
Bovine TB test gets royally rewarded

Bovine TB test gets royally rewarded

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A blood test to detect diseases in dairy cattle receives Royal Dairy Innovation award.
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Last Year
University of Nottingham students crowned Enactus UK champions

University of Nottingham students crowned Enactus UK champions

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A team of student entrepreneurs from the University of Nottingham have won a national competition after developing three inspirational social enterprises.
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Last Year
'Living antibiotic' pioneer elected Fellow of Royal Society

'Living antibiotic' pioneer elected Fellow of Royal Society

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A University of Nottingham microbiologist who has pioneered research into a species of friendly bacteria that can kill pathogenic superbugs has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Last Year
Statins fail to lower cholesterol in over half of all patients, study suggests

Statins fail to lower cholesterol in over half of all patients, study suggests

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Experts have warned a more tailored approach is needed to the prescribing of statins, following a new study suggesting they are ineffective at lowering cholesterol to target levels in more than half of patients.
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Last Year
Nottingham smokers wanted for vital research into lung disease

Nottingham smokers wanted for vital research into lung disease

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Smokers in Nottingham are being given the chance to take part in world-leading research into an incurable lung condition – chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Last Year
Opportunity for 100 women to retrain in technology sector

Opportunity for 100 women to retrain in technology sector

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One hundred women across the north and midlands will have the chance to retrain in the technology sector thanks to a new programme that brings together universities and the tech industry.
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Last Year
Investigating police decision making under stress using EEG in virtual reality

Investigating police decision making under stress using EEG in virtual reality

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Research into how authorised firearms police officers make decisions in high stress situations is being carried out in partnership with Durham Constabulary and Cleveland Police
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Last Year
Should the Periodic Table be upside down? - turning it through 180 degrees for a new perspective

Should the Periodic Table be upside down? - turning it through 180 degrees for a new perspective

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Could turning the periodic table on its head make some important aspects easier to understand and enthuse more people to study chemistry? This question is posed in an article published in Nature Chemistry today by chemists and psychologists at the University of Nottingham and Manchester and Liverpool universities.
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Last Year
More than 900 reports of potential modern slavery in hand car washes recorded through app

More than 900 reports of potential modern slavery in hand car washes recorded through app

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Drivers using a pioneering app to gather information on modern slavery in hand car washes made more than 900 reports of potential cases over a five-month period, according to research published today.
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Last Year
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