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Ciaran McGeady wins Universitas 21 global 3MT® competition

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 12:00:00 BST

College of Science & Engineering student Ciaran McGeady has won the Universitas 21 global 3MT® competition for his presentation 'Listening to Butterflies with Brainwaves'

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£5.5M FUNDING BOOST FOR HOME HEALTHCARE MONITORING TECHNOLOGY

Tue, 07 Jul 2020 12:00:00 BST

A project which aims to develop quantum-powered health sensors for home use to spot the earliest signs of disease is being backed by £5.5M in new funding

NEBU~FLOW WINS PRESTIGIOUS NEW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AWARD

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 12:00:00 BST

Nebu~Flow, a spin-out from the University of Glasgow, has been awarded one of the first ever Institute of Physics Lee Lucas Business Awards for their exceptional efforts in developing a new generation of nebuliser.

Ciaran McGeady wins the finals of The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition.

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 12:00:00 BST

Ciaran McGeady wins the finals of the 3 min thesis competition with the project - Listening to Butterflies with Brainwaves

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Healikick - New EU grant for the Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 12:00:00 BST

Biomedical engineers from the James Watt School of Engineering partner with companies and researchers across Europe to develop new bone graft materials to enable bone reconstruction.

graphic showing oil industry features and a cross section of the sea and sub-sea soil
graphic showing oil industry features and a cross section of the sea and sub-sea soil

Software donation from Petroleum Experts Limited provides energy students with state-of-the-art modelling tools

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 05:10:00 GMT

Petroleum Experts Limited has donated 10 educational licences of the IPM suite (10 x PROSPER, GAP, PVTP, MBAL, REVEAL, RESOLVE licences), the equivalent of £1,483,741.60, to the University of Glasgow.

University of Glasgow Spin-out, Nebu-Flow, won the Higgs EDGE award.

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 22:00:00 GMT

Scottish Edge, the UK’s largest funding competition for small businesses, awarded Nebu-Flow, a University of Glasgow spin-out, the £125,000 Higgs EDGE Award for science, technology and engineering, for its novel technology of aerosol pulmonary drug delivery.

Dr. Vihar Georgiev awarded European Industrial Doctorate Program 'Defect Simulation and Material Growth of III-V Nanostructures (DESIGN)'

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:00:00 GMT

Dr Vihar Georgiev is the project coordinator and principal investigator of the MSCA-ITN-EID project “Defect Simulation and Material Growth of III-V Nanostructures European Industrial Doctorate Program (DESIGN - EID)”. The project provides funding to employ three Early Stage Researchers (ESR) to work in collaboration with IBM Research Zurich (Switzerland) and Synopsys QunatumATK (Denmark).

New Investigator Award from the EPSRC to Dr. Cristina Gonzalez-Garcia to enhance living tissue repair.

Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:00:00 BST

Dr. Cristina Gonzalez-Garcia has been recently awarded the New Investigator Award from the EPSRC, as her first grant. This three-year research project, in the area of healthcare technologies, will aim to develop “New bioactive polysaccharide-based hydrogels for growth factors delivery during tissue repair”.

Interview with Alasdair Clark

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:31:00 GMT

Alasdair is a Senior Lecturer in the Biomedical Engineering Research Division. His paper on an artificial whisky-tasting tongue was a world-wide news story this summer. In September Alasdair was part of a cross-disciplinary team of academics from 3 Universities that were awarded a £5.1M grant from the BBSRC to study RNA-splicing.

University of Glasgow and the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute held membrane workshop in China.

Tue, 11 Jun 2019 10:00:00 BST

Professor Huabing Yin (University of Glasgow) worked together with Newton Advanced Fellow Professor Tao He (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute) to organise and deliver the international symposium “Membranes for Waste2Resources-2019 (W2R2019)” on June 1-2 2019 in Shanghai.

patients in Africa
patients in Africa

University of Glasgow projects win funding to bring origami diagnostics to low income countries.

Sat, 10 Mar 2018 10:00:00 GMT

University of Glasgow engineers have secured funding to develop new medical diagnostic technologies to help treat infectious diseases in Africa and Vietnam.

University of Glasgow student team commended by Scottish Minister for Trade, Investment and Innovation

Mon, 10 Sep 2018 10:00:00 BST

The Vangow team, who participated in the SensUs competition 2018, met with the Minister of Trade, Investment and Innovation Mr. Ivan Mckee and David Cline Head of Innovation Policy (Health) of the Scottish Government.

Dr Matteo Ceriotti and Royal Academy of Engineering logo
Dr Matteo Ceriotti and Royal Academy of Engineering logo

The School of Engineering strengthens collaboration with space industry with Industrial Fellowship

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:02:00 BST

12 October 2018 - Matteo Ceriotti was awarded a RAEng Industrial Fellowship with Alba Orbital for a research project on satellite attitude control

Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 09:43:00 BST

1st August 2018 - Professor Robert Hadfield wins Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship

UKRI Innovation Fellowship Success
UKRI Innovation Fellowship Success

UKRI Innovation Fellowship Success for the Electronic and Nanoscale Engineering Researchers

Wed, 27 Jun 2018 11:47:00 BST

27th June 2018 - Dr Clerici and Dr Georgiev secure funding from EPSRC

Alessandro Peloni
Alessandro Peloni

Dr Alan Stirling Brown Prize won by aerospace engineering PhD graduate

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:02:00 BST

25 June 2018 - Dr Alessandro Peloni was awarded the prestigious prize in recognition of outstanding PhD research.

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RAEng

A University of Glasgow engineer sets sights on the stars with £1.3M Research Chair

Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:35:00 BST

10 April 2018 - Prof Colin McInnes is named as a new Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies.

‘ORIGAMI’ DIAGNOSTICS BREAKTHROUGH SET TO BENEFIT DEVELOPING-WORLD FARMERS

Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:00:00 GMT

20th Feb 2018 - An international collaboration develops a new paper-based test to detect infectious disease in cattle in Low and Middle Income Countries

£1.5M FUNDING BOOST FOR UOFG DIAGNOSTIC PROJECT

Sun, 17 Sep 2017 10:00:00 BST

31st Jan 2018 - A multidisciplinary team led by Professor Jon Cooper receives funding to develop point-of-care diagnostic devices for low resource settings

PhD student wins Elsevier Ultrasonics RWB Stephens Prize

Wed, 24 Jan 2018 16:03:00 GMT

24 January 2018 - Rebecca Cleary wins the Elsevier Ultrasonics RWB Stephens Prize at the International Congress on Ultrasonics in Honolulu

PhD student wins "Italy Made Me" award

Mon, 22 Jan 2018 10:40:00 GMT

22 January 2018 - Alessandro Peloni has been granted the 2017 “Italy Made Me” award by the Italian Embassy in London for his PhD research “Solar-Sail Mission Design for Multiple Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous”.

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