Press Releases
Birmingham Science City Launches £10+ Million Energy Efficiency Programme
Birmingham Science City will give a clear demonstration of the Midlands region’s leading role in UK energy efficiency research with the launch today of a £10.5 million research programme in energy efficiency.
Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya backs Commonwealth’s “healing touch” and support for business
Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya, Professor of Manufacturing and Director of WMG University of Warwick, has spoken today in the UK’s House of Lords in support of the Commonwealth’s “healing touch” and its support for small businesses.
Warwick Commission on International Financial Reform calls for Unlevel Playing Fields
The Warwick Commission's pathbreaking report on reforming the international financial system in the wake of the global crisis, an international commission makes five key recommendations that they believe will enhance financial stability.
Green heating and cooling technology turns carbon from eco-villain to hero
Carbon is usually typecast as a villain in terms of the environment but researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a novel way to miniaturise a technology that will make carbon a key material in some extremely green heating products for our homes and in air conditioning equipment for our cars.
Fingerprint Technology Beats World’s Toughest Tests…Including 100s of Builders’ Thumbs
Technology developed by the University of Warwick that can identify partial, distorted, scratched, smudged, or otherwise warped fingerprints in just a few seconds has just scored top marks in the world’s two toughest technical fingerprint tests. The technology is also being rapidly taken up by the UK building trade who are delighted to have fingerprint technology which can cope with the often worn and ravaged builders’ thumbprints.
Study says West Midlands bearing brunt of recession and will take longest to recover
New research by the University of Warwick Institute for Employment Research shows that says West Midlands is bearing brunt of recession in the UK and is the region that will take longest to recover