Sussex showcases academic research online Months of work culminated this week with the launch of Sussex Research Online (SRO), which showcases the University's research to the external world and contains a record of all research ‘outputs' by academics at Sussex.

Official Event - 3.12.2010
Slide show: Entering a state of discovery
“Whenever people with great minds get together, there is the opportunity for a spark,” said Tashia Morgridge, at left with fellow UW-Madison alum and husband John Morgridge, addressing hundreds of people during Thursday's grand opening ceremony for the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.

History/Philosophy - Official Event - 17.11.2010
Probing Question: Was Christopher Columbus Jewish?

By Solmaz Barazesh Research/Penn State Five centuries after his death, Christopher Columbus remains a mysterious and controversial figure. Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece all claim the celebrated navigator and explorer as one of their own, yet there are few accurate records pertaining to Columbus' personal life and identity.

Earth Sciences - Official Event - 12.05.2010
Easter Island discovery sends archaeologists back to drawing board

Archaeologists have disproved the fifty-year-old theory underpinning our understanding of how the famous stone statues were moved around Easter Island. Fieldwork led by researchers at University College London and The University of Manchester, has shown the remote Pacific island's ancient road system was primarily ceremonial and not solely built for transportation of the figures.

Physics/Astronomy - Official Event - 20.01.2010
Five Los Alamos researchers receive Early Career Awards
Grants to support innovation in basic science, energy security, climate change LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, January 21, 2010?Five Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have been awarded five-year research grants under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act through the U.S. Department of Energy?s prestigious Office of Science Early Career Research Program, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced recently.

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Business/Economics - Official Event - 19.10.2011
Poll: Americans Believe U.S. Headed in Wrong Direction on Energy
AUSTIN, Texas — A poll released today by The University of Texas at Austin found less than 14 percent of Americans think the country is headed in the right direction on energy. Of more than 3,400 consumers surveyed, 84 percent were worried about U.S. consumption of oil from foreign sources and 76 percent about a lack of progress in developing better ways to use energy efficiently and develop renewable sources.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Official Event - 31.08.2011
Awareness of ethnicity-based stigma found to start as early as second grade
Now, in a new report, researchers from UCLA show that youths from a range of ethnic-minority backgrounds have an added burden to contend with: ethnicity-based stigmatization. Even elementary school–aged children are aware of such stigmatization and, like older youths, they feel more anxious about school as a result.

Official Event - 26.08.2011
Drawing ’integral’ to science learning
More should be done to encourage students to use their drawing skills in science education, researchers at The University of Nottingham say. In a paper being published in Science this week, academics say that although producing visualisations is key to scientific thinking, pupils are often not encouraged to create their own drawings to develop and demonstrate their understanding.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Official Event - 15.08.2011
Scientists’ £3.9m project to develop gene therapy to prevent heart bypass graft failure
A team of scientists, cardiologists and heart surgeons from the University of Glasgow and the Golden Jubilee National Hospital has been awarded £3.9m for a study into how to prevent the failure of heart bypass grafts.

Environmental Sciences - Official Event - 8.11.2010
Pioneering research to reduce coastal flooding
Coastal areas could be saved from the misery of flooding thanks to groundbreaking new research from the University of Plymouth. Academics have made a significant breakthrough in understanding the behaviour of mixed sand and shingle beaches in response to waves.

History/Philosophy - Official Event - 16.04.2010
Major Leverhulme Medieval History grant awarded

The Leverhulme Trust has awarded a large research project grant to King's, to be led by Dr Stephen Baxter, Reader in Medieval History. The grant of over £250,000 will enable King's to employ Dr Chris Lewis, one of the world's leading authorities on eleventh-century England, and to appoint a new post-doctoral research fellow, for the two-year project.

Physics/Astronomy - Official Event - 18.02.2010
Images of extrasolar planets win award for most outstanding papers in Science

Four of the authors awarded the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize for outstanding papers in the journal Science . From left to right, Professors Paul Kalas, Eugene Chiang and James Graham and doctoral candidate Edwin Kite.

Literature/Linguistics - Official Event - 6.01.2010
Dutch Crossing: recognition for a journal examining a global influence

Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies , a journal edited by UCL Dutch, has received an honourable mention at the 2009 International Awards of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ).