All entries for June 2009

Patients with ruptured Achilles tendon given chance to try new Warwick study

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/patients_with_ruptured

People who rupture their Achilles tendon are being given the chance to take part in a new University of Warwick study aimed at improving recovery and rehabilitation.

: 29 Jun 2009 13:19 |  Tags: Medicine Press Releases Research |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Competition to mark 25 years of Open Studies at Warwick

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/competition_to_mark/

Open Studies at the University of Warwick is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and students old and new are being asked to design a logo to mark the occasion.

: 23 Jun 2009 14:34 |  Tags: Communities Press Releases Students |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Research says modern work–related stress damages national output more than 1970s strikes

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/research_says_modern/

Research presented by Bernard Casey of the University of Warwick’s Institute for Employment Research shows that work-related stress today damages national output even more than the loss to national output due to strikes at the peak of industrial unrest in the 1970s.

: 23 Jun 2009 14:30 |  Tags: Press Releases Society Sociology |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Police and Fire Service help students prepare for life off campus

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/police_and_fire/

Police and the Fire Service will be visiting the University of Warwick this week to help students prepare for life off campus.

West Midlands Police, Warwickshire Police and Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service have joined forces with the University’s Security Team and Students’ Union to organise a crime prevention day on Thursday 18 June.

: 16 Jun 2009 16:39 |  Tags: Press Releases Warwick |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Punk did not die, it just moved East

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/punk_did_not/

Thirty years after the release of The Clash’s iconic album London Calling, researchers at the University of Warwick have discovered punk did not die, it is still alive and kicking in Eastern Europe

: 15 Jun 2009 12:06 |  Tags: Experts And Topics Podcast Press Releases Research Warwick |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Double award for Warwick in Queen's Birthday Honours List

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/double_award_for/

Dean of Warwick Medical School Professor Yvonne Carter and Associate Clinical Professor Dr Roger Gadsby have both been named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

: 15 Jun 2009 09:58 |  Tags: Medicine Press Releases Warwick |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

UK tops list of 213 countries at extreme risk to the spread of swine flu

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/uk_tops_the/

A Warwick Business School professor and one of the founders of global risks specialist, Maplecroft, has released three new maps and indices revealing the countries most at risk from an influenza pandemic.

: 11 Jun 2009 17:22 |  Tags: Business Disease Press Releases |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Award–winning author to headline student arts festival at Warwick

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/award-winning_author_to/

Award-winning author AL Kennedy will headline later this month at Europe’s largest annual student arts festival, hosted by the University of Warwick.

: 09 Jun 2009 14:29 |  Tags: Press Releases Warwick |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

New antibiotics could come from a DNA binding compound that kills bacteria in 2 minutes

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/new_antibiotics_could/

A synthetic DNA binding compound has proved surprisingly effective at binding to the DNA of bacteria and killing all the bacteria it touched within two minutes.

: 09 Jun 2009 10:39 |  Tags: Biology Press Releases Science |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Warwick student is Engineering Undergraduate of the Year

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/warwick_student_is/

A student from the University of Warwick has been named the National Engineering Undergraduate of the Year 2009.

: 03 Jun 2009 10:43 |  Tags: Press Releases Warwick |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem