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unusual facts about Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth



Buses in Portsmouth

An inter-site bus service is operated by the University of Portsmouth to transport staff and students between different parts of the university.

Daiwa Adrian Prize

University of Portsmouth: David Wands, Marco Bruni, Robert Crittenden, Kazuya Koyama, Roy Maartens, Cyril Pitrou

Dear Esther

The original rendition of Dear Esther was one of several mods developed by The Chinese Room while the studio was still a research project at the University of Portsmouth.

Douglas Darby

He trained at Portsmouth Teachers College before taking a job as steward and galley hand on a P&O liner bound for Australia.

Ehsan Masood

He went to schools in York, Karachi and London; studied applied physics at Portsmouth Polytechnic and science communication at Birkbeck, University of London.

Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth

Since October 2010 the directors of the ICG are Bob Nichol and David Wands.

Martin Whitmarsh

Whitmarsh graduated from Portsmouth Polytechnic (now University of Portsmouth) with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1980, and started work at British Aerospace (now BAE Systems) as a structural analysis engineer at its Hamble-le-Rice facility.

Robert Istepanian

His other academic tenures included senior lectureships in the University of Portsmouth and Brunel University in UK and was also an associate Professor in the Ryerson University, Toronto and adjunct Professor in the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Tim Godwin

He also received a BA (Hons) degree in Public Sector Police Studies from the University of Portsmouth and a Diploma in Applied Criminology from the University of Cambridge, where he studied at Fitzwilliam College.


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