A team of 5 University of Warwick student volunteers won this year’s TCS Tech Challenge at the finale on Wednesday 16th December in London. The TCS (Tata Consulting Services) Challenge pitches teams of students from 6 UK universities against each other in an 8 week real life consulting challenge. The teams, with the help of two TCS mentors, work with a charity local to their university to address an IT need identified by the charity. 

On Tuesday 8th December at 6pm, Dr.Jami Rogers provides a tour of the British Black and Asian Shakespeare Performance database. This new digital humanities resource documents nearly 1200 productions of Shakespeare in the UK since 1930. The increasing participation of minority ethnic performers in classical theatre in Britain is celebrated, as are some of the ground-breaking performances uncovered by this research. (Spaces are limited so book in advance)

2015 has been an amazing year here at Warwick. We celebrated our 50th anniversary, unveiled plans to grow our campus across the world and welcomed 8,119 more students to our global community of Warwick Graduates. Explore our calendar and unwrap 24 special stories from our special year.

The Warwick Christmas Lectures are once again back at Warwick Arts Centre with fantastic new ideas, explosions, experiments and answers to questions taxing the University of Warwick’s finest minds. Tickets are still available for these spectacular session and are just £3.50 or free for schools (suitable for ages 8+).

The Women of Warwick WI group started in October 2014 and is one of very few workplace WIs across the country. They meet on the first Wednesday of each month at 5.15pm for a 5.30pm start until about 7pm, using various locations around the University.

The University of Warwick’s Council has announced that it has appointed Professor Christine Ennew as Warwick’s next Provost. She currently serves as Provost and Chief Executive Officer of University of Nottingham’s Malaysia Campus, and also as a Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Marketing at the University of Nottingham.

The Warwick 2016 Graduate Jobs & Work Experience Event will be taking place at the University of Warwick on Tuesday 23 February 2016 between 12.00noon and 4.00pm, offering an opportunity for employers to engage with the talent offered by Warwick students.

Just as building work on a second WMG Academy for Young Engineers in Chelmsley Wood, Solihull enters an exciting new phase; a £1.1m grant has been confirmed from Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) towards state of the art, industry standard engineering and IT equipment. The Academy building work, which began in September this year, is well underway and on schedule for completion in July 2016.

On Wednesday 21^st October the University of Warwick took part in the One Big Thing initiative. It is designed to encourage individuals to participate in 30 minutes of physical activity at some point during the day, to promote the benefits of a healthier and more active lifestyle.

The Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions project, a collaborative project between the University of Warwick and the Ashmolean Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents is organising ‘The Walking Dead’, as part of the Ashmolean’s DEADFriday Event on 30th October 2015. The live event celebrates the installation of a new Roman columbarium (tomb) in the Ashmolean, with a real life Roman funeral procession showing visitors how it was originally used.

Why are teachers leaving the profession in droves, and what can we do about it?

Department for Education figures reveal that in the 12 months to November 2014 almost 50,000 qualified teachers in England left the state sector. As the RSA Academies Teaching School Alliance launches its own initial teacher training scheme, the RSA in conjunction with the University of Warwick are gathering an expert panel to ask how we can ensure that teaching continues to be an attractive career choice that recruits and retains bright, creative and passionate people to the profession.

As part of the Chancellor's Commission, a new survey has been issued providing local residents, staff members and students the opportunity to provide their thoughts and opinions into the role the University of Warwick plays in their community.

Her Royal Highness Princess Anne visited campus on Tuesday 6 October to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the awarding of our Royal Charter of Incorporation.

Princess Anne unveiled the foundation stone for the new Teaching and Learning Building, inscribed with a message celebrating our 50th Anniversary, before joining Vice-Chancellor, Nigel Thrift and key University figures including WMG Chairman, Lord Bhattacharyya and SU President, Isaac Leigh to hear about Warwick's development and current activities.

The University of Warwick has been chosen to receive funding to help the public become more involved and informed in research.

To mark turning 50, the University will be holding the Festival of the Imagination on Friday 16 and Saturday 17 October. Taking place at its central campus the festival will be the centrepiece of its 50th anniversary celebrations. A full programme of events open to the public focusing around the central theme 'Imagining the Future' will be staged to highlight the work conducted at Warwick.

The work of Warwick Volunteers in the Canley neighbourhood has been acknowledged by Coventry City Council and teachers and children of Charter Primary School.

The chance to study a degree at the University of Warwick is now within easier reach for people living in and around Leamington thanks to a new partnership with Warwickshire College Group.

At the end of the summer term 2015 colleagues from Warwick Accommodation and a large group of dedicated student volunteers worked together to collect and donate over 10 tonnes of food to people suffering in poverty in Coventry and Leamington.

Eighteen secondary schools and one special school from across Coventry took part in the annual Rotary Design and Technology Awards event from 23-24 June 2015.

World-class opera and ballet performances will be broadcast live and free of charge for members of the public at the University of Warwick this summer.

There is no evidence that family courts in England and Wales are discriminating against fathers because of gender bias, a new study by the University of Warwick and funded by the Nuffield Foundation has found.

Join Dr Angela Lamb, Isotope Geochemist at the British Geological Society to delve into the remains of Richard III using isotope analysis to assess conflicting descriptions of the life of one of the most controversial characters in British history.

The Warwick Music Festival will be a three-day festival of music and entertainment in and around Warwick Arts Centre from 21 - 23 May 2015. Structured around three ticketed evening concerts in the Butterworth Hall, there will also be free music and events in other venues and outdoor spaces. The festival will include ticketed performances from the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra, Django Django and Joan Armatrading and will conclude with a firework display over the Piazza on Saturday 23 May.

As part of the University's 50th celebrations, The Faculty of Social Sciences will shine the light on social science through The Festival of Social Sciences – a 10 day festival providing a unique opportunity to view social matters through the years running from the 6 - 16 May 2015.

Public Health Warwickshire is holding an Open Afternoon on Monday 1 June, this is for anyone interested in the work of the department and in particular students and people working in related disciplines who are interested in finding out more about Public Health or may be interested in future careers in Public Health.

On Friday 13th March and Saturday 14th March over 60 people attended the planting of the new Jam Grove outside the Centre of Lifelong Learning in Westwood. The Vice Chancellor planted the first tree then staff, students and local residents helped to plant various edible trees and shrubs including quince, plum, gooseberry and rhubarb.

Warwick is delighted to be a principal partner of The Times Cheltenham Science Festival in our 50th anniversary year, to celebrate we have a host of exciting events between 2-7 June. Warwick is the first university to lend its support to all four of the Cheltenham Festivals. Tickets go on sale to Festival members on Weds 15 April, and to the public on Weds 22 April. The full Science programme is available on the Cheltenham webpages:

http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/science

The ESRC Festival of Social Science 2014 was a huge success with over 200 events across the UK. This year the Festival will be taking place from 7-14 November 2015. The call for applications is now open and will close at 16.00 on 8 May for applications for sponsorship and 15 May for applications for participation only. Further details are available at:
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/festival/index.aspx?utm_source=eNews&utm_campaign=8ea778f6b5-eNews_APR_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4a06f0b327-8ea778f6b5-129183521

Chaired by Ken Sloan, Registrar and Chief Operating Officer at the University of Warwick, the Coventry Partnership recently held their annual conference at the Welcome Centre, Coventry.

This year’s theme was ‘Coventry and Growth: Securing maximum benefit for all’.

560 school children from across the country will visit the University of Warwick on 27^th January for a day of lectures, seminars and to watch a performance of Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae. The event is the largest outreach and engagement event the University’s Classics Department has ever hosted and also included a public performance of the play on January 26^th at the Warwick Arts Centre.

A new £22 million scheme involving over 200 higher education institutions and reaching 4,300 secondary schools and colleges aims to encourage more young people into higher education. Warwick is the lead institution for the National networks for collaborative outreach in the Coventry and Warwickshire area.

The Warwick Gateway to PG is a brand new course starting in January 2015 which will prepare you for further taught postgraduate study at The University of Warwick. You will engage with a range of social science and humanities disciplines as you explore issues and concepts related to food. Study skills are embedded within each session and a range of different media are used each week.

To celebrate a new research project on the poetry of the Crusades, the University of Warwick is running a poetry writing competition, particularly aimed at school children. Headed up by Professor Linda Paterson of the University of Warwick, the new Anglo-Italian research project will open up the lyric poetry of the medieval troubadours and trouveres to its widest ever audience.

Dozens of topical issues from the war in Syria and domestic abuse, to breast cancer and cybercrime are set to be covered at an exhibition by students from Warwick and Coventry universities this weekend. The showcase, at the city’s Herbert Art Gallery, is being held to promote the importance of social science research in helping to build a better society.

Monday 10 November, 6.15pm-7.15pm
Room MS.02, Zeeman Building
Winner of the 2010 Fields Medal for Maths, Professor Cedric Villani (University of Lyon), will give a lecture on the theories of John Forbes Nash, the American mathematician whose work on game theory won him the 1994 nobel prize - and whose work was brought to a wider audience by Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind.
See the event poster.

Professor Andrew Oswald Public Lecture
Part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences 2014
Tuesday 4th November 2014
12:45pm- 2:00pm Arts Centre Studio, Warwick Arts Centre

7.30pm, Wed 3 - Wed 10 Dec 2014, Theatre, Warwick Arts Centre
Free (optional £5 donation towards future collaborative science and arts projects)
Six evenings of fantastic new ideas, explosions, experiments and answers to questions taxing the University of Warwick’s finest minds. Lectures are suitable for families. We expect tickets to be in high demand so do book soon!

A new initiative to provide business leadership training for 20 senior managers from fast growing SMEs (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises) has just been launched by WMG, at the University of Warwick, in partnership with Santander.

The winners of the 2014 Research Impact and Public Engagement Awards were announced by the Provost, Stuart Croft, and Pro-Vice-Chancellors Simon Swain and Christina Hughes on Thursday 3 July. Staff and PG students, from across the University gathered in the Physics Concourse at a reception to hear the winners announced .