Research News |
 A new type of blast-proof curtain that gets thicker, not thinner, when stretched
Professor Philippe Young has been awarded one of this year's prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships.
Click the title for more
 SECaM research has received a US$100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
 Plants absorbed carbon dioxide more efficiently under the polluted skies...
 The University of Exeter’s Met Office Chair in Climate System Dynamics, Professor Peter Cox, has addressed the world’s leading climate researchers in Copenhagen.
 Professor Tony Wragg has been successfully nominated for the Society of Chemical Industry's Castner Medal. The medal will be presented at Electrochem 09 at Manchester in September.
 The University’s annual government grant for research and teaching for 2009/10 is £62.6 million, a rise of nearly 9% (the national average rise is 4%). This is one of the biggest rises in the country.
 SECaM is heavily involved in the University's Science Strategy by investing to enhance our world class research.
 Exeter is one of five leading UK universities to win a total of £5.8 million to fund a new centre to train research engineers for the UK water sector.
 Imagine a video of your whole life from birth to death on something as small as a creditcard. Exeter's engineers and physicists led by Professors David Wright and Rob Hicken are working together to develop new nanoscale materials that could make this a reality.
 Exeter engineers are developing blast curtains made from a ‘smart’ material that could minimize injuries inflicted by a terrorist attack.
 Professor Peter Cox and Dr Tim Jupp have a paper published in the leading scientific journal Nature which highlights the increasing vulnerability of the Amazon rainforest to droughts as a result of global warming and reducing particulate pollution in the northern hemisphere. See press release.
Researchers from the Universities of Exeter and Coventry have developed the first new technique for diagnosing malaria able to challenge the rapid diagnostic tests currently used in the field.
 Professor Peter Cox and Owen Kellie-Smith from Exeter Climate Systems (XCS) have been quoted in an article regarding climate change experts (The Times, 19 March 2008)
 Our Engineering students, sponsored by a major confectionary company, have developed machinery which can produce a 3D object of any shape in chocolate from a computer design (Express and Echo, 19 March 2008)
 The Centre for Water Systems has joined forces with Exeter Environmental Consultancy Services and researchers at The Open University in a project aimed at improving the monitoring of active volcanoes in Central America.
 SECaM Professors and PhD students have been to Cambridge for a summer school on climate modelling.
 SECaM hosted the first joint research workshop to discuss the mathematics and statistics that underpins 21st century weather and climate science.
 Dr Gábor Orosz has helped specialists understand the effects of delay time in traffic jam formation.
 Scientists from the Met Office, the University of Exeter and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology have released new findings that could have major implications for food production and global warming in the 21st century.
 Scientists from the University of Exeter argue in a paper in the journal Science that new prediction tools are required to help us to limit and adapt to climate change.
 School academics have developed computer models of a Gharial crocodile in collaboration with Simpleware. These were used in part of Five's Wildlife documentary series Weird Creatures.
Engineers from the University of Exeter are working on an innovative new project to create curtains made from a ‘smart’ material that could minimize injuries inflicted by a terrorist attack.
 New research suggests that global soil decomposition could cause a dramatic increase in global warming, accelerating the rate of carbon dioxide increase over the next 100 years by up to 50%.
University of Exeter engineers are leading a Europe wide partnership worth almost one million pounds to develop the world's first non-invasive detector for malaria.
 Exeter is set to become a leading player in climate modelling and prediction with the joint appointment of both Prof Peter Cox and Prof David Stephenson and the Met Office.
|
Hip replacement patients in the South West are set to benefit from an innovative training aid developed by engineers at the University of Exeter.
If you would like to comment on this particular web page or on our website in general, we would be pleased to receive your views via the box below: