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.

Throughout 2015, the Institute of Advanced Study is co-ordinating the ‘Voices of the University’ oral history project. This ambitious project marks the fiftieth anniversary of the university by interviewing those who have studied, worked or lived near to the university since 1965.

In this ‘Voices of the University’ interview with Dr Andrew Hammond, Councillor Michael Coker describes growing up on the farmland where the University of Warwick was later built. Michael describes the famous Shire horse farm at Tocil Farm and being evacuated into the countryside during the Second World War and the bombing of Coventry in 1940.

Listen to the full interview here.

Drop by the Centre for Lifelong Learning on 13 and 14 March to help change the face of our campus in the first of a series of garden projects; planting a jam grove.

The idea came from within Warwick, after a range of workshops, events and consultations identified a strong desire among our community to make our campus more inviting, engaging, sustainable and productive. From this, the idea of a series of garden projects has developed starting with an accessible garden of fruit trees and berries outside the Centre for Lifelong Learning at Westwood.

Everyone is welcome to join the Vice-Chancellor and Lady Thrift on Friday 13 March, 3.30-5.30pm, to plant the trees, enjoy some tea and cake and share your ideas for future projects. There will be another chance to get involved at the planting session of the shrubs on Saturday 14 March at 10.30-12pm.

The garden will have seating and be accessible to all. The area can be used for informal and formal meetings and teaching as well as being a place to relax, to help out with maintaining the space and, in the years to come, to help yourselves to fruit.

Please RSVP to J.Kilgallon@warwick.ac.uk or call 02476 524529 to help her anticipate numbers.

Graduates from the University of Warwick recently came together for dinner to celebrate the University’s 50th anniversary. The small gathering included alumni who graduated from the University between 2008 and 2014.

Senior Liaison Manager (Southeast Asia) from the International office commented:

"The event was a wonderful platform not only for batch-mates to catch up, but also for our alumni to expand their networks. I could see our alumni making new friends, and I really hope they'll be able to keep the momentum going! It was also touching to see how interested the older alumni were to hear about the latest developments on campus from the younger ones. I guess it goes to show that Warwick still has a special place in their hearts."

The alumni enjoyed a meal and a celebratory cake as they reminisced about their time at Warwick.

'Warwick the Bear’ has been travelling around campus since the start of term; 'Warwick' has spent time with 4 different societies and has visited locations all around campus including the Arts Centre, Avon Drama Studio and Gibbett Hill.

In week 7 'Warwick' will be taking part in the 'Go Green Week Fashion Show' and in the final week of this term 'Warwick' will spend the week with RAG.

The WUSAT team have recently completed the final review process where the team took the WUSAT-2 satellite and all of its associated equipment to DLR (DLR which is the national aeronautics and space research centre of the Federal Republic of Germany).

The satellite completed the remainder of its tests and approvals and was retained by the European Space Agency for transport to Sweden for launch from the Esrange Space Centre by mid-March. You can see a;; the photos from their trip here: WUSAT-2 photos.