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Charles Higham (Otago) – The impact of climate change on the rise and fall of early Southeast Asian states
Dr Sarah Lindsay and Dr Krishnaa Mahubani from The Department of Surgery have been awarded the NUS silver Green Impact and Labs-gold awards in their first year of entering. Their work included starting up initiatives such as a pen recycling collection point, removing plastic cups and Meatless Mondays. The post Green Impact Awards appeared first…
Whether you want to predict the Earth’s climate or forecast its daily weather, you need to understand the behaviour of the fluids that make up atmosphere and oceans. Professor Peter Haynes of the Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics Group at DAMTP is one of the mathematicians who provide this crucial understanding. His work in the field has recently…
We’re delighted to welcome Dr Emily Shuckburgh OBE to the Department as Reader in Environmental Data Science, from 1st May 2019. Emily has worked as a climate scientist for the British Antarctic Survey for more than a decade, where she led on polar oceanography research and conducted research expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic. She…
Oxford University Press has published Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law edited by Dr Emma Lees and Professor Jorge E. Viñuales . The volume brings together over 50 authors from around the world, including some of the most prominent authorities on different countries and topics, to analyse environmental law as a key technology to tackle…
Every year the Cambridge Ring celebrates the successes of companies founded by graduates of the Department of Computer Science and Technology. The winners of the 2019 Hall of Fame Awards are: Company of the Year: PolyAI PolyAI aims to revolutionise call centres with its state-of-the-art conversational AI. The founders of this London start-up met at…
The near-Earth space environment is host to an increasing amount of advanced, satellite-based technology, used for both commercial and scientific purposes. To safeguard this technology and ensure that we can …
Battery Recycling: Dr Kumar, and his research team have developed in the laboratory a new environmentally clean-process for recovering electro-active paste material from automotive- and off-grid renewables storage batteries for making new batteries (paste-to-paste recovery). Several other research centres and universities…
The Department of Politics and International Studies is hiring an: Assistant Professor in Development Studies Postgraduate Course Administrator (MPP) Isaac Newton Trust Academic Career Development Fellowship in British and European Politics (fixed-term, 3 years) Assistant Professor in Development Studies The Centre of Development Studies engages in the research and teaching of social, political, economic, and cultural changes…