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23 unusual facts about Lancaster University


Branko Gradišnik

He received a bachelor's degree in art history and sociology from the University of Ljubljana and holds a master's degree in creative writing from Lancaster University.

Dean Sullivan

Dean is BEd (Hons) graduate of Lancaster University and was a primary school teacher for six years before becoming an actor and then continued to work as a supply teacher between roles.

Dorothy Nimmo

In 1989, she gained an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University.

Elliott Ward Cheney, Jr.

During his career, Ward frequently spent his summers and a sabbatical semester in England at Lancaster University and at Leicester University.

G D Goenka Public School

The facility offers programs ranging from Nursery to MBA level and includes GD Goenka World School offering IB/IGCSE curriculum and GD Goenka World Institute offering undergraduate and postgraduate Degree from Lancaster University, UK.

Jason Queally

Born at Great Heywood, Staffordshire, Queally attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where he was part of the swimming squad in the mid-1980s, later representing Lancaster and British Universities in water polo while a student at Lancaster University, where he earned a BSc in Biological Science.

Jim Hiscott

It was while pursuing graduate studies in the sciences at Lancaster University in England in 1970 that he decided to switch his career path to music; although he did earn a Master of Science from the University of Toronto in 1971.

Joan Humble

Born, Jovanka Piplica, Joan Humble was educated at Keighley Girls (now known as Greenhead High School) and Lancaster University where she received a BA degree in History in 1972.

LUSerNet

In one of the final versions, bramp made the program operational on all LAN types, not just Lancaster, so the program has spread beyond the University.

The program has earned cult status at Lancaster University, and is still widely used, despite its now limited effectiveness.

Unfortunately for the network administrators at Lancaster University, working under the name ISS, the thousands of students downloading terabytes of data completely stalled the network.

bramp developed LUSerNet as a solution to the lack of peer-to-peer systems available to students at Lancaster, England.

bramp, who never technically broke any of the University's rules of the time, remains at Lancaster University, and is currently working as a research associate after successfully completing a Ph.D.

The knowledge of LUSerNet spread quickly through the University, and within months vast proportions of the 10,000 strong student population were using it.

LUSerNet (pronounced Loser Net, roughly standing for Lancaster University Student Network) is a free peer-to-peer package for use on local area networks, developed between the end of 2001 and late 2002 by a Lancaster University first year Computer Science student known as 'bramp'.

Michael R. Krätke

Michael R. Krätke (born 1950) is professor for political economy at Lancaster University, and editor of the German scholarly journal SPW – Zeitschrift für sozialistische Politik und Wirtschaft.

Owen Davies

From Cardiff he went on to write a doctorate at Lancaster University, working on a thesis looking at the continuation and decline of popular belief in witchcraft and magic from the Witchcraft Act 1735 to the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951 (1991-1994).

Ralph Henstock

His academic career began as Assistant Lecturer, Bedford College for Women, 1947–48; then Assistant Lecturer at Birkbeck, 1948–51; Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast, 1951–56; Lecturer, Bristol University, 1956–60; Senior Lecturer and Reader, Queen’s University Belfast, 1960–64; Reader, Lancaster University, 1964–70; Chair of Pure Mathematics, New University of Ulster, 1970–88; and Leverhulme Fellow 1988-91.

Roses rivalry

Roses Tournament, an annual sports competition between the students of the University of York and Lancaster University.

Scottish Labour Students

SOLS remained famous for its hostility to Trotskyism and its members were key to recovering control of the National Organisation of Labour Students, NOLS, from the Militant tendency in 1975 and the following year SOLS members took the famous "icepick express" (a bus with an icepick - the weapon used to kill Trotsky - attached to the front) to that year's NOLS conference at Lancaster University.

Timothy W. Potter

Potter taught at the University of Lancaster (1973-1978) where he instituted a new archaeology program.

United Kingdom Chemistry and Aerosols model

It is a collaboration of the Met Office with the University of Cambridge, University of Leeds, University of Oxford, University of Reading, University of East Anglia, and Lancaster University in the UK and the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research of New Zealand.

Witchcraft and Paganism in Australia

Emma Tomalin of Lancaster University reviewed the work for Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions.


Blackpool and The Fylde College

The maritime courses are taught in association with Liverpool John Moores University rather than Lancaster University.

James Masterton

Masterton began posting his weekly comments about the latest singles chart on Usenet in 1992, while a student at Lancaster University, whence he graduated in 1994.

Lancaster Medical School

Lancaster Medical School is a medical school located at Lancaster, United Kingdom and is a part of the Faculty of Health and Medicine at Lancaster University.

Medair

In 2004, Randall Zindler, a graduate of Lancaster University’s MBA program, became CEO.

Sarah Myerscough

She then gained a BTEC Foundation National Diploma in Art and Design at Blackpool and The Fylde College in 1999 and spent the next three years at Lancaster University where, in 2002, she gained a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Fine art: Practice and Theory.