All entries for June 2009
June 29, 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.
June 23, 2009
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.
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.
June 16, 2009
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.
June 15, 2009
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
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.
June 11, 2009
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.
June 09, 2009
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.
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.
June 03, 2009
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.