Science and Engineering news
We hope you enjoy reading the recent news stories from the College of Science and Engineering below. Major news items are published on the University's news pages and some will also be carried on our School websites.
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Professor Muffy Calder appointed as Cheif Scientific Adviser for Scotland
The new Cheif Scientific Adviser for Scotland will be Professor Muffy Calder, First Minister Alex Salmond has announced
Glasgow Solar Study "We could put oil back in ground"
Researchers in Glasgow are working on a way to remove greenhouse gas from the atmosphere and put oil back under the North Sea
Launch Day of the EPSRC National Facility for Aberration Corrected STEM
Glasgow are one of the five University partners in this £4.5 M facility which aims to provide a national user facility for scanning transmission electron microscopy for all RCUK eligible researchers.
2012 Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal
Professor John Brown, 10th Astronomer for Scotland and former Regius Chair of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow is award the 2012 Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal
Installation of the First Fused Silica Monolithic Suspension at LIGO Hanform
The search for gravitational waves relies on measuring the minute motion of massive mirrors. This requires the mirrors to be isolated from everyday vibrations and hence they are hung by systems of controlled wires - a bit like a puppet!
Glasgow Particle Physicists Star on Newsnight
Newsnight Scotland recently covered the work of the Glasgow experimental particle physicists at CERN, hunting for the Higgs boson.
EPSRC National Facility for Aberration-Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
EPSRC has chosen the SuperSTEM consortium, consisting of the Universities of Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Oxford and led by the University of Leeds, as successful bidder for the £4.5M EPSRC National Facility for Scanning Transmission Electron-Microscopy...
Professor Miles Padgett elected to fellowship of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
Professor Miles Padgett of Glasgow's School of Physics & Astronomy has been elected to fellowship of the Optical Society of America (OSA) in recognition of his "experimental and theoretical advances in the interplay of orbital and spin angular momentum of light and its interaction with matter".
IEEE Sensors Council 2011 Early Career GOLD Award
Congratulations to Dr Bhaskar Choubey in the Division of Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering on winning the 2011 IEEE Sensors Council Early Career GOLD Award.
University of Glasgow blazes a trail for women in physics
The University of Glasgow has been officially recognised by the Institute of Physics (IOP) for efforts made to reduce gender inequality among staff and students in the School of Physics and Astronomy.
Graduate student wins conference prize
Jacqui Romero of the Physics & Astronomy Optics Group was invited to speak at the prestigious meeting of the Rank Prize Fund on "Optical Implementation of Quantum Information", where she was awarded the prize for the best student talk.
New study set to combat spread of diseases from animals to humans
Researchers at the University of Glasgow's Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine and the School of Geographical & Earth Sciences have received substantial funding for a groundbreaking new study ...
Wolfson Research Merit Awards for two leading College academics
Two leading College academics, Professor Muffy Calder (Computing Science) and Professor David Cumming (Electronic and Nanoscale Engineering), have been awarded prestigous Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Awards.
Scientists take first step towards creating ‘inorganic life’
Scientists at the University of Glasgow say they have taken their first tentative steps towards creating ‘life’ from inorganic chemicals potentially defining the new area of ‘inorganic biology’.
Entanglement's next dimension
As part of the Scottish Collaboration in Physics, researchers at Glasgow and Heriot-Watt have pushed the boundaries of entanglement. Their results are reported as the cover story in the September 2011 issue of Nature Physics.
Four College academics amongst first members of the new RSE Young Academy of Scotland
Four academics within the College of Science & Engineering are amongst the first members of the new RSE Young Academy of Scotland established in 2011.