Eminent health economist comes home to head up Wessex Institute
Eminent health economist, Professor James Raftery, has been appointed as the new Director of the Wessex Institute for Health Research and Development (WIHRD) at the University of Southampton's School of Medicine. Professor Raftery, who is currently Director of the Health Economics Facility at the University of Birmingham, takes up his new post on... view more... (2005-03-08)
Invitation to the Press - Science Minister to launch Star Tiger Project
Science Minister Lord Sainsbury will be officially inaugurating the European Star Tiger project on Monday 24 June at 2pm, and you are invited to attend the ceremony and talk to team members and guests. The ceremony will take place at the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, where the project is taking place. The small team of... view more... (2002-06-13)
IT and The Law - What`S The Score?
A pioneering centre dedicated to tackling the new legal challenges associated with the fast-moving world of information technology will open at the University of Bristol this summer [June 1, 2002]. This is a cross-disciplinary venture building on existing strengths in the Faculties of Law and Engineering and Computer Sciences. The new Centre will... view more... (2002-03-07)
“Oscars” come to European Science and Technology
The Commission of the EU has signed a contract with the EuroPAWS consortium to bring an awards ceremony like “The Oscars” to the worlds of TV drama and European Science and Technology. Events in Paris, London and Brussels, with links to the celebrated Paris Science TV Festival and the London PAWS Awards, will be the focus for... view more... (2001-05-21)
"Oscars" Awards Ceremony comes to the European Week of Science and Technology
This evening (5th November) the Institution of Electrical Engineers in London will be the venue for presentation of the EuroPAWS prizes at an Awards Evening. Press are invited to attend. The winners of the two "MIDAS" Prizes (sponsored by the European Science Foundation) for television drama bearing on science and technology broadcast in... view more... (2001-10-31)
Cleaner diesels thanks to laser light
Measuring soot formation in a diesel engine is far from easy. Due to the turbulent environment in the combustion cylinder, no two combustion cycles are the same. view more (2007-12-10)
National Showcase of Science Engineering and Technology
Researchers from University, Government and Industrial laboratories will be taking science to the heart of government in the first national showcase of science, engineering and technology, to be held at the House of Commons. On Monday 15 March, over 300 younger researchers from institutions throughout Britain, will present posters at two House of... view more... (1999-03-05)
JCB back new hi-tech learning centre
Schoolchildren are now so sophisticated in the field of design and technology that Staffordshire University, in partnership with engineering giants JCB, is to open a pioneering new centre which will give youngsters access to state-of-the-art learning technology. The Staffordshire University and JCB Schools Design and Technology Centre is a... view more... (2000-03-28)
An Evening of Images of Science for Tomorrow's Europe
Press invitation This evening (7th November) the Musées royaux d'Arts et d'Histoires in Brussels will be the venue for a presentation of the results of the EuroPAWS competition. Guests will be able to see excerpts of the winning TV dramas from the EuroPAWS Awards and see live renditions of new script ideas for future TV dramas bearing on... view more... (2001-10-31)
IFST Honorary Fellowship conferred on Professor Arnold Bender
At the IFST Council Meeting on 6 October, Council unanimously elected Professor Arnold Bender an Honorary Fellow of the Institute. Professor Bender, a Fellow of the Institute since 1963, has for many years been recognised worldwide as a leading authority in food and nutrition, and has received many awards and honours, including being recently... view more... (1998-10-07)
From wireless to wearable technology
Technology has moved beyond wireless and pocketable to wearable. Clothes and accessories can serve a wider range of purposes than we're currently accustomed to. Wearable technology produced by a Finnish smart clothing R&D center and its partners is selling well. The smart clothing and wearable technology concepts are based on a permanent... view more... (2003-04-23)
Sir Peter Williams to be First Engineering and Technology Board Chairman
The first chairman of the UK's new Engineering and Technology Board is to be Sir Peter Williams, currently Master of St Catherine's College Oxford, Chairman of The National Museum of Science and Industry, and director of GKN plc, President of the Institute of Physics, and former Chairman of Oxford Instruments plc. The ETB, which starts work... view more... (2001-11-01)
Junior award for bronze structures
The German Society of Electroplating and Surface Technology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Galvano- und Oberfl'¤chentechnik e.V., DGO,) has honoured Dipl.-Ing. Gabriele Goet with the DGO-Award 2002. The prize is awarded once a year for valuable scientific contributions in the fields of electroplating and surface technology. Gabriele Goet is... view more... (2002-11-28)
Sir Hans Krebs Prize 2002 awarded to IBA Collaborator
This year's Sir Hans Krebs Prize is going to be awarded to PD Dr. med. Dirk H. Busch, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technical University Munich. The prize of Euro 10,000 is awarded by the Hannoversche Lebensversicherung a. G. for the advancement of medical basic research. Dirk Busch developed a method to functionally... view more... (2002-12-08)
metaGen and RNAx Announce Target Validation Agreement
metaGen Pharmaceuticals and RNAx announced today the signing of a target validation agreement. Under the terms of the agreement RNAx provides metaGen with access to RNA interference validation technology (RNAi). metaGen will employ this technology to validate proprietary gene targets relevant for cancer and will own the derived results. Financial... view more... (2003-03-25)
Taking Marconi`s Atlantic leap into the virtual zone
December 12th 2001 marks the centenary of Guglielmo Marconi's transmission of the first wireless signal across the Atlantic. Today, a hundred years later, the world of communications technology has advanced way beyond anything Marconi himself could have imagined. There are examples of communications companies all over the world but one in... view more... (2001-12-11)
Imperial College London and Singapore's Exploit Technologies strikes technology transfer business deal
Imperial College London and Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd of Singapore have signed the first international collaboration agreement on technology transfer. The agreement allows for both organisations to access information on potential licensees, strategic partners for spin-out companies, investor networks and to share best practice in technology... view more... (2002-06-12)
Familiarity Breeds Content
New technology and constant organisational changes may seem a headache but new research suggests that, given time and appropriate conditions, employees may accept change and even be happier after it than they were before. Research by Carolyn Axtell and colleagues from the ESRC Centre for Organization and Innovation at The University of Sheffield,... view more... (2002-06-10)
Acaris announces development and licensing agreement with City Technology Limited
Cambridge, UK, 14 October 2002: Acaris Healthcare Solutions plc ("Acaris" or "the Company") today announced that it has entered into a product development and technology licensing agreement with City Technology Limited (Portsmouth, UK: "City") to develop a new range of products to detect and monitor hazardous... view more... (2002-10-14)
Big differences in technological maturity in Sweden
Sweden has a large proportion of explorers, people who are eager adopt new technology. At the same time there also many who lag behind, people who are slow and unwilling to try new technology. This is shown in a national study carried out by the Service Research Center at Karlstad University. The national study was headed by researcher Anders... view more... (2003-01-20)
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