Departmental news
Congratulations to WATE Winners and all nominees
Many congratulations to all who have been recognised for their teaching via the recent WATE Awards.
Nancy Haijing Jiang and Michael Meeuwis were both short-listed and in the postgraduate group, Owain Burrell and Andy Irwin received a Commendation, and Elizabeth Sharrock was declared a winner.
Professor Peter Mack FBA (1955-2023)
We are shocked and deeply saddened to learn that Peter Mack died as the result of a car accident on Thursday 5th October.
Peter Mack was a rigorous scholar and an excellent administrator. He directed the Warburg Institute from 2010 to 2014 and was both Head of the Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies and Chair of the Faculty of Arts, besides being actively involved in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. A Fellow of the British Academy and a leading authority on the English and European Renaissance, combining Shakespeare and Montaigne, his work and kindness touched everyone who met him, from students to colleagues, across various disciplines. His many books included Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice (2002); Reading and Rhetoric in Montaigne and Shakespeare (2010); A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620 (2011); and Rhetoric's Questions, Reading and Interpretation (2017)
Further details about the funeral and memorial event will be announced as soon as we have them. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.
'the woods, the woods' - an installation on Shakespeare's Relationship with Britain's Forests by Molly Dunne - Tuesday 23rd May 2023 - 11am - 5pm
11am to 5pm - Queen's Beacon on the Hill by Cryfield Village.
'The woods, the woods' explores what the forest stands for in Shakespeare’s works: how has our presentation of them evolved and what do they represent,liberate and constrict. It looks at social breakdown and symbolism, as well as directorial approaches towards the tricky and increasingly avoided task of creative the greenwood on stage.
Location: The Glade by Cryfield Cottages. The installation will be visible from the Queen's Jubilee Beacon on Windmill Hill.
McMaster Honours Prof Stefan Bon with Les Shemilt Lectureship
Professor Stefan Bon has been honoured by McMaster University with the prestigious Les Shemilt Lectureship for his achievements in chemical engineering.
Magnets propel scientists towards more efficient oxygen production in space.
University of Warwick, ZARM and Georgia Tech have hit upon a breakthrough in space life support systems thanks to the magnetic properties of water.
UK’s most powerful NMR Facilities to open in the West Midlands
The Universities of Warwick and Birmingham opened the first of their respective 1.2 GHz NMR facilities at Warwick, the result of a £23M investment from UKRI that solidifies the West Midlands as a powerhouse for NMR spectroscopy.
The prestigious Advance HE Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) has been awarded to We are Chemistry
We are Chemistry (WaC) is a student-staff partnership in Warwick Chemistry that empowers students as genuine partners in educational transformation, creating lasting change that extends far beyond the department. Read about their
Mechanical bonds make lanthanides shine
In a new study, Fredrik Schaufelberger and his team from the University of Warwick and KTH Royal Institute of Technology have shown that mechanically interlocked molecules can be used to induce this lanthanide luminescence.