Press Releases
AL Kennedy receives prestigious Heine Prize of Dusseldorf
Alison Kennedy, Professor of Creative Writing in the English and Comparative Literature Department at the University of Warwick has been awarded the Heinrich Heine Prize 2016 of the state capital Dusseldorf.
Belgrade Theatre pays tribute to African-American actor Ira Aldridge
The Belgrade Theatre has teamed up with the University of Warwick’s Multicultural Shakespeare Project and The Coventry City of Culture Bid 2021 to present an event honouring the remarkable achievements of the African-American actor Ira Aldridge this November. He became Manager of the Coventry Theatre in 1828, at a time when slavery was still widespread across Britain’s colonies and the USA.
Warwick researcher one of first women to receive Suffrage Science award in maths and computing on Ada Lovelace Day 2016
On Tuesday 11 October 2016 at Bletchley Park, Professor Jane Hutton from the University of Warwick’s Department of Statistics, will become be one of the first women to receive a new Suffrage Science in maths and computing award. The awards, being made on Ada Lovelace Day, launch a new initiative to celebrate women
What can we learn from the global history of food?
The Global History of Food, a new undergraduate module in the History department at the University of Warwick is the first of its kind in the UK. The module explores our long history of growing, eating, cooking and selling food, from ancient times to the present, from vegetarianism to the first battery chicken.
Warwick to conduct breakthrough research on oral cancers in Pakistan
One of the deadliest and most prevalent cancers in the Indo-Pakistan region could be treated more effectively, thanks to a new research project being undertaken at the University of Warwick.
New collaboration between WMG and the Upper Austrian Government
WMG is pleased to announce the conclusion of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between WMG, at the University of Warwick signed by its Chairman Professor Lord Bhattacharyya, and the Upper Austrian Research GmbH (UAR), signed by CEO Wilfried Enzenhofer and its shareholder representative, Deputy State Governor of Upper Austria, Thomas Stelzer.