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Eminent woman mathematician awarded Honorary Doctorate
Eminent mathematician, Professor Dusa McDuff, comments on the role of mathematics in society, visible women role models and making maths accessible – as well as revealing she was a hippy.
Honorary degrees awarded this week at the University of Warwick
The University of Warwick will award five honorary degrees this week at its winter degree ceremonies.
IFAD President and Minister of State for DfID to discuss importance of rural investments in the fight against global poverty at Warwick in London
Lord Bates, the newly appointed Minister of State for the Department for International Development (DfID) and Dr Kanayo F. Nwanze, the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), will give keynote speeches this month, at an event hosted by the University of Warwick in its new London office.
Wonder Woman., MI5, Teletubbies, Mathematics and battling poverty – just parts of the CVs of five people to be awarded honorary degrees by the University of Warwick
The University of Warwick has announced that it will award honorary degrees to six people at its winter degree ceremonies which will run from Wednesday 18th to Friday 20th January 2017 (inclusive), in the Butterworth Hall in Warwick Arts Centre.
The arts are fantastic for opening doors, says leading voice for arts in the Midlands
The founder of the BBC Asian Network in the West Midlands, Anita Bhalla OBE, one of the region’s leading voices for the arts believes the arts are a huge asset in terms of learning, community cohesion, and education. Anita made the comment after being conferred with an honorary doctorate during one of the University’s 2016 graduation ceremonies.
Maths students at Warwick “something to celebrate”, says creator of the JPEG
One of the foremost applied mathematicians of our time, Professor Ingrid Daubechies, says that the number of mathematics students graduating from the University of Warwick is “wonderful, amazing, something to celebrate”.