Sir John Cockcroft: Nobel Prize winner… and averter of nuclear disaster?
Sir John Cockcroft helped to prevent an even bigger disaster when fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear facility in 1957. Find out how.
Sustainability
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Student support – Peer Assisted Study Sessions
In this post Faris talks about peer support and his experience being a PASS Leader and Coordinator during his time studying BEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
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The Buzz S1, E4: COVID-19: FSE report
In this episode of The Buzz, we round up all the COVID-19 news from across the Faculty of Science and Engineering and take a closer look at how our very own scientists and engineers are helping.
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Running a Hackathon in lockdown – with Carmen Faura Praxedes
Hackathons can form an important part of a computer science student’s life at The University of Manchester. They are large scale social events which allow students to flex their coding muscles. Lockdown may have cancelled many such events, but our students weren’t about to let that get in the way. We spoke to Carmen Faura…
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PASS-ing with flying colours: Rachel Cox
Discover how Fashion Buying and Merchandising graduate Rachel Cox benefitted from the Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) initiative.
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Maurice Priestley
In this historical feature we explore Maurice Priestley (1933-2013) and his influential work. Professor Maurice Priestley, was a highly regarded figure in the field of time series analysis. He made outstanding contributions to the spectral analysis of non-stationary time series and density estimation. His book “Spectral Analysis and Time Series” (1982) has become a standard…
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Phyllis Nicolson
In this historical feature we explore Phyllis Nicolson (1917-1968) and her influential work. Phyllis Nicolson (née Lockett), most well-known for her work on the Crank-Nicolson method, received her BSc (1938), MSc (1939) and PhD (1946) in Physics from the University of Manchester before taking up a research fellowship at Cambridge University for three years. After…
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Project Management in action: rapid PPE testing during the Covid-19 crisis
Obuks Ejohwomu is a lecturer in Project Management here in MACE, and is also the Director of our MSc in Commercial Project Management. He was recently called upon to help Manchester City Council to coordinate and test thousands of pieces Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for key workers in the city.
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The day Einstein came to The University of Manchester
When Albert Einstein came to the UK to speak about his Theory of Relativity, he chose The University of Manchester. Discover the story behind the lecture.