SJTU Global Challenge

15 undergraduate students from across a range of subject areas at Warwick

will team up virtually with 15 counterparts from Shanghai Jiao Tong University

over three weeks between 19 June - 12 July 2023

to consider Issues facing port cities between the 19th and 21st Centuries across the world.

Deadline for applications: Monday 27 March 2023 at 12:00 (noon, GMT)

Programme Information:

The programme will consider this year's theme of 'Global Problems in Global Cities'.

In particular how different nations have dealt with different crises and challenges with sessions considering this in the context of Asia, America and Europe in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.

Academic experts from SJTU and Warwick will support student groups who will deliver group presentations at the end of the programme.

The activity aims to build students' skills and experience in intercultural communication, interdisciplinary collaboration, virtual group work, managing projects across multiple time zones and presentation.

Approximately 40 hours of structured teaching time. Additional time will be required to undertake group working during this programme.

More information and how to apply hereLink opens in a new window

The social enterprise is called, ‘The Uniform Project UK’. We have set out a mission to provide primary and secondary students with repurposed uniforms. This is to remove the burden that parents/ carers face when enrolling their children into school, whilst reducing the environmental impacts of wastage. We will be doing this by partnering with local schools and community centres in the Coventry area to support the donation and collection of no-longer-needed-uniforms.

Currently, I am recruiting students, staff members and parents (or anyone else who would like to get involved), to volunteer with us, donate to the cause and follow our social media platforms.  

This initiative will be a great way to tackle environmental and social issues within the education system and I imagine that Warwick students would benefit from contributing to education equity through this opportunity.

Dear Engineering students!

 Please let me wish you all Merry Christmas!

While you take a well-deserved break over the Christmas break, I’d like to invite you to apply for an exciting summer research project! If you want more information, don’t hesitate to get in touch with me at a.darlington.1@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window.

Are you a female looking to change the world through AI? Apply now for a prestigious PhD scholarship here at the University of Warwick.

The Feuer International Scholarships in Artificial Intelligence were established to create a group of extremely talented, academically brilliant, world-leading young researchers who will go on to have careers in the field of trustworthy Artificial Intelligence.

In a male-dominated field, the Feuer Scholarship is specifically looking for female students who can bring their technical skills and innovative approaches to problem-solving to this area.

You can find more about the Feuer Scholarship hereLink opens in a new window. The Feuer International Scholarships in AI offer a generous funding package, including full PhD tuition fees for four years, a maintenance stipend in line with UKRI rates, a Research, Training and Supporting Grant and a research top-up grant.

In order to apply, you should be a female student at Warwick with a first-class undergraduate degree (or about to graduate), a Masters degree with distinction (or on track to achieve that), or international equivalents. You will need to complete the ‘Further Information’ document and provide a CV by 21/11/22 to feuerscholarships@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window

Feuer Scholarship Further InformationLink opens in a new window

WDSS Exec Recruitment:

Interested in becoming part of our growing team? As a member, you will be taking an influential role in building your leadership skills, confidence, and ability to showcase the knowledge fundamental for your future employability

Find out more: https://recruitment.wdss.io/Link opens in a new window
To apply: https://forms.gle/qNdCtEoYbHJ1DGNSALink opens in a new window

WDSS Education:

WDSS is running courses for Python, R and SQL this term and we are starting in week 3!

1. Beginner’s Python is a 7-week course for complete beginners to coding and Python. This will give you the skills necessary to continue to our Python for Data Science course in Term 2.
2. Into the Tidyverse is a 5-week course for students interested in picking up R, one of the leading languages for statistical computing and graphics.
3. Deep Dive into SQL is an intensive and interactive 2-week course that will get you comfortable with SQL. Suitable for both beginner and advanced SQLers!

At the end, you will receive a certificate from us so sign up here: https://forms.gle/wJTCik4VLJRMGNxe9Link opens in a new window

WDSS Term 1 Research Program:

After a long wait, our term 1 research program is finally open! Register if you’re interested in investigating a broad topic in Statistics, Probability or Machine Learning and want hands on experience in data science.

Participants who complete their project will have their research published on the WDSS Research Blog. Check our social media or the google form below for the proposed topics this term!

Sign up for our research program here: https://forms.gle/FLAy1E6JYkNGAWqCALink opens in a new window

Warwick’s latest iGEM team are due to present their project in Paris after working on novel synthetic biology research over the summer.

For the 8th year in a row, the University of Warwick has supported an interdisciplinary team of undergraduates to take part in the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition; a synthetic biology competition aiming to engineer microbes to do useful things. The School of Engineering’s UG Research Internship scheme supported Zak Fulk, now a third-year biomedical engineering student, to take part.

The team committed early to the environmental track offered by iGEM, given the problems they felt could be tackled both locally and further afield using known synthetic biology approaches. Working with life scientists, chemists, a computer scientist and an economist, Zak and the team designed and engineered a novel microbe to degrade an insecticide frequently used across the UK. The team developed an aptamer-based biosensor and cell surface expression system to offer new routes to sensing and destroying the pesticide.

Zak lead the team’s engineering design approach, developing mathematical models of microbial growth and using multi-objective optimisation techniques to identify designs which rapidly degrade the pesticide whilst maintaining colony growth.

Zak said, “The opportunity to provide Engineering insights within an interdisciplinary team, allowed me to feel like my work was truly contributive”

The team was supervised by Dr Fabrizio Alberti (UKRI FLF, Life Science) and Dr Alexander Darlington (RAEng Research Fellow, Engineering).

Dr Darlington said, “Not only have this year’s team carried out some truly amazing science in the 8 weeks over the summer, with everything from mastering new chemical analysis techniques to developing novel mathematical design methods, but they have actively engaged with farmers, pesticide manufactures, environmental NGOs and water treatment companies to ensure that their new technologies are developed with users and society in mind”.

The eight undergraduate students and Dr Fabrizio Alberti will attend the Grand Jamboree in Paris between the 26th and 28th of October, alongside 350 other university teams from around the world.

Zak ended by saying: “I am grateful to the School of Engineering and would recommend future students to look to iGEM for an engaging and exciting summer research experience.”

A link to the iGEM page can be found here: https://igem.org

Follow our progress here: @warwickigem

Warwick Hyperloop is a student-run team supported by the SoE, WMG, Comsol and MagnetStore. We aim to innovate and test new ideas regarding Hyperloop technology. We have previously competed in the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition hosted by Elon Musk, European Hyperloop Week 2022 and we are looking to compete again in 2023. 

We are looking for a variety of students to join our technical and non-technical teams. In particular, we are looking for engineering students for these roles: Mechanical Executive, Electronics & Software Executive, Propulsion & Levitation Executive. 

Business Team Roles - Sponsorship, Marketing and Operations Executives

- Helping with legal matters and developing business strategies

Please fill in the form to apply: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCFdM3HWPyezQcL-IVZntuGtybOVflDSbj1Ko7eMqV1CsGFw/viewformLink opens in a new window 

Check out our social media pages here: https://linktr.ee/warwickhyperloopLink opens in a new window 

If you have any questions, please email team@warwickhyperloop.com

Photovoltaic installations have recently reached the terawatt level and this is almost entirely due to the success of silicon-based solar cell technologies. Silicon PV is low-cost and stable for 25+ years, and cell efficiencies are unrivalled by other mass-market single-junction technologies. Improvements in silicon cells will have a real-world impact on climate change mitigation and improving energy supply security.

An exciting opportunity exists to join the Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Systems Medicine (ICSM) Research Group as a doctoral candidate. Working with an international team of clinicians and engineers, you will develop mathematical models of high-flow nasal oxygen therapy (HFNOT), an advanced form of non-invasive respiratory support that is increasingly widely used in the treatment of acute hypoxic respiratory failure (AHRF). Models will be coded in Matlab and incorporated into the ICSM Cardiopulmonary simulator, a world-leading simulation platform that has been in continuous development by our group for over 25 years [1-5].

To develop a modelling framework to predict and translate the pharmacodynamic interaction in oncology for both tumour growth and safety (e.g. thrombocytopenia). The modelling will provide a better understanding and translation of the nature of the interaction of drug combinations in preclinical experiments. The proposed model-based approach will also inform more informative experimental protocols for the ranking of drug combinations based on the underlying pharmacodynamic interactions.