Press Releases
Warwick academic in final six for young woman engineer of the year award
Dr Claire Lucas from the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick is a finalist in the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards 2019.
Malaria deaths could be reduced thanks to Warwick engineers
The resurgence of Malaria in high risk areas calls for new methods to combat the potentially dangerous situation. A collaboration between researchers at the University of Warwick and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have found adding a barrier above a bednet can significantly improve the bednet’s performance, reduce the quantity of insecticide while expanding the range of insecticides that can be safely delivered via a bednet.
Car batteries can be frozen for safer transportation
Currently transporting damaged and defective car batteries is an expensive process as they need to be placed in an explosion proof box which costs thousands of pounds, however researchers from WMG at the University of Warwick in collaboration with Jaguar Land Rover engineers have been able to freeze batteries with Liquid Nitrogen.
EUTOPIA already co-teaching European PhDs as Erasmus+ project commences
EUTOPIA, a next-generation teaching and research community of six European universities, which was successful in its selection to be part of the Erasmus+ ‘European Universities’ Programme this year, officially begins its project today, 1st December 2019.
Uncertainty and the financial markets explored by Warwick faculty at Bank of England conference supported by Rebuilding Macroeconomics
Researchers from Warwick Economics and Warwick Business School are among the speakers taking part in a major policy conference organized in partnership with the Bank of England and Rebuilding Macroeconomics. The conference will bring together international researchers from around the globe to discuss whether, and how, economists and policymakers can replace the notion of ‘rational economic man’ with theoretical and empirical models that recognize its limitations.
Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist named Apollo's Book of the Year
Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist by Dr Elizabeth Golding has been named the winner of Apollo magazine’s Book of the Year.
A study of the life and work of one of the most renowned artists of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, who had strong links to Warwickshire, Dr Goldring’s work was declared by Apollo, one of the world’s leading arts journals, as ‘not just the definitive biography of Hilliard but essential reading for anyone interested in late 16th- and early 17th-century England’ and ‘both timely and exemplary’.