Warwick People

It is with great sadness that the University announces the death of Ted Pridgeon, who passed away on March 10, aged 92. Ted, and his wife Dr Myrtle Pridgeon, have had a long association with Warwick, donating over £1.5 million to the University including £1.25 million for the permanent endowment of a Research Chair in Neurosciences.

Bryan Woon, an Industrial Economics final year student at University of Warwick, has won the first place at a national Japanese speech contest. He gave a speech entitled "Is the Japanese salaryman fast becoming a relic of the past?" and answered questions from a panel of judges all in Japanese.

Ed Chappel, a former student on the MA in Creative and Media Enterprises course, recently set up the UK’s first ever Musical Comedy Awards, which will take place on Thursday 11 April, after securing £15,000 venture capital money.

Warwick MORSE student Ben Ellis undertook the Shell Step scheme last summer – a nationwide, project-based work placement programme. Here, he recounts his experience of the scheme:  

The winner of the writing competition posed by Professor David Morley at the Strategy Bites session on the Warwick Prize for Writing is Heather Child. Heather, an English and Creative Writing Master’s student, wins a set of the six shortlisted books for the Warwick Prize for Writing for her haiku, Fly.