Professor Wilfrid Kendall has just been installed as President-Elect of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability.

Dr Kerry Kirwan, WMG, has been awarded the Thornton Medal by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3). This award is given in honour of Dr Kirwan's talk "Lean, Mean and Green: The World's First Environmentally Friendly Racing Car", which focussed on the WorldFirst Formula 3 racing car developed by WMG. The lecture included a discussion of how engineering science and the arts came together in the creation of the vehicle.

Independent business publisher Insider have ranked Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya, founder and Director of WMG as number one in their new 2011 Power 100 list.

The University of Surrey has announced today that Professor Jonathan Seville, Dean of Warwick's School of Engineering, will be joining Surrey as the new Dean of its Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (FEPS).

Professor John Ellis FRS, an Emeritus Professor in the School of Life Sciences, was awarded the Croonian Lecture Prize of the Royal Society for 2011 for his pioneering contributions to biochemistry, molecular biology, and plant sciences.