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The Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine at the University of Warwick is pleased to announce this year's winners of the faculty prizes for the best theses and post-doctoral research projects and papers in 2025.

Four of the leading Doctoral Training Centres (Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, HetSys) are hosting an event to answer questions, shatter myths and break stereotypes about PhD programmes.

On Saturday 5^th July, the department celebrated it’s 60^th birthday celebration with a vibrant day of reflection as one of the University’s founding departments, and looked towards a bright future for Physics at Warwick as we continue to work to make a better world together.

The Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (DHF) programmeLink opens in a new window aims to support outstanding early career scientists who require a flexible working pattern due to personal circumstances, such as caring responsibilities and/or health-related conditions.

Dr. Charlotte Allender, Head of the UK Vegetable Genebank at the School of Life Sciences, The University of Warwick has been awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) for her work conserving vegetable crop genetic diversity.

On her nomination, Charlotte said: "I am very grateful to the RHS for this award; to have such a prestigious organisation recognise the value of your work is wonderful.”

This award recognises Dr. Allender’s research into conserving genetic variation of crop species and for her almost two decades-long service to the UK Vegetable Genebank. This work has been vital for food security by preserving these sources of genetic variation that are needed to develop new and robust crop varieties.

Charlotte added: “The conservation of plant genetic resources is vital and underpins the research and breeding activity necessary to develop the new crop varieties needed for a food secure future. I would like to acknowledge that the work of the UK Vegetable Genebank is only possible with a team of skilled and dedicated staff and the support of the University of Warwick and Defra.”

The UK Vegetable Genebank celebrates its 45th anniversary later this year. It currently stores around 14,000 vegetable seed samples, sourced from 128 different countries, making it a globally significant resource.

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WMG, University of Warwick is part of a unique £2m academic-industry partnership to develop novel methods to understand, measure, and ultimately insure against risk associated with the commercial application of artificial intelligence.

The UKRI Prosperity Partnership ‘AI2: Assurance and Insurance for Artificial Intelligence’Link opens in a new window, led by the University of Edinburgh, alongside insurance group AXA, WMG and the University of Oxford, will build an implementable AI assurance framework that enables auditing of algorithmic systems across metrics such as model accuracy, bias and privacy.

The partnership will seek to tackle key industry challenges in areas from drug manufacturing and artificial intelligence (AI) to cybersecurity.

Researchers at WMG will be developing techniques to assure the AI underpinning national transport, manufacturing and energy infrastructure, and exploring how such assurances can impact AI insurance premiums.

Huge congratulations to Dr Richard Montgomery and Professor Ewelina Zatorska, who were both among the winners of this year's London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prizes. Dr Montgomery won for his outstanding work on the absorption method, and on sublinear expanders, in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics, while Professor Zatorska for her deep and lasting contributions to the mathematical theory of the compressible Navier–Stokes equations and other nonlinear partial differential equations. A full list of winners can be found on the LMS websiteLink opens in a new window.

Warwick Medical School's MSc Advanced Critical Care Practice has been awarded full accreditation by the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM), one of only three courses in the UK to achieve this.