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39 unusual facts about University of Birmingham


Alice Roberts

In February 2012, Roberts took up a new post as the University of Birmingham's first Professor of Public Engagement in Science.

Anstey College of Physical Education

By the late 1960s the college was awarding degrees accredited by the University of Birmingham, and had successfully resisted a proposed merger with the larger and co-educational Madeley College, based near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, which would have entailed the closure of the Chester Road premises.

Bernard Ostry

From 1951 to 1955, he was a research associate for the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham.

Brivudine

The compound was first synthesized by scientists at the University of Birmingham in the UK in the 1970s.

Carenza Lewis

During part of her time with the RCHME she was seconded to the History Department of the University of Birmingham to research the relationship between settlement and landscape in the East Midlands.

Chandler Brossard

He later held teaching appointments as a visiting professor, writer-in-residence, or lecturer at other universities both in the United States and abroad, including the University of Birmingham in England, The New School for Social Research in New York, Schiller College in Paris, the University of California at Riverside, and the University of San Diego.

Charles Talbut Onions

On completion of the OED, the universities of Oxford, Leeds, and Birmingham conferred honorary degrees upon him.

Charlie Ntamark

After retiring from professional football, Ntamark studied law at the University of Birmingham.

Christian Burgess

Burgess began his career at Arsenal's academy and after he was released he went on to play with the youth and reserves teams at non-league Bishop's Stortford before deciding to study history at the University of Birmingham.

Dance science

With regards to dance science research, another UK institution which has staff and students active in the area is the University of Birmingham.

David Henige

After completing his PhD, Henige taught for a year at the University of Birmingham's Centre of West African Studies, a research department established a decade earlier by the noted Africanist scholar John D. Fage.

E. A. J. Honigmann

Honigmann was one of the three founder Fellows of the Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham) in Stratford-upon-Avon where he worked from 1951-54.

Euchaita

Additional institutions contributing resources and personnel include Trent University, the College of Charleston, the University of Birmingham, Ankara University, and the Middle East Technical University (Ankara).

Fredrik Thoresen

He was born in Bestum, and took his civil engineering education in chemistry at the University of Birmingham, whence he graduated in 1953.

George Ernest Schuster

Following the war he took further training in finance at the University of Birmingham, and became a member of the treasury advisory committee of the League of Nations.

George Isaak

In 1961 Isaak returned to science at the University of Birmingham from whom he received his PhD in 1966, and where he stayed until his retirement in 1996, at this time taking up an Adjunct Faculty position at the University of Minnesota.

Hugh Hale Bellot

From 1930-1955 he was Professor of American History at London University with a spell as Sir George Watson Lecturer at the University of Birmingham in 1938 and also from 1940-1944 he was principal at the Board of Trade.

Humphrey Francis Humphreys

Humphrey Francis Humphreys CBE (1885–1977) was a physicist, academic and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham from 1952 to 1953.

Independent Review of the Fire Service

Professor Sir Michael Lyons, Director, INLOGOV and Professor of Public Policy, University of Birmingham.

Jack Cotton

In 1937, he built King Edward House on the site of his old school, which was rebuilt in Edgbaston close to the University of Birmingham.

John Henry Muirhead

He became the first person named to the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham in 1900.

Kathleen Dayus

She was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree by University of Birmingham in 1992 in recognition of her contribution to the written record of Birmingham's history.

Melville Arnott

He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1931 and was appointed William Withering Chair in Medicine at the University of Birmingham in 1946, after serving in the Far East during the Second World War.

Neil Trevett

electronic engineering and computer science degree from the University of Birmingham, England.

Raymond Priestley

He returned to Britain to be Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor of the University of Birmingham (1938-52).

Renaissance Theatre Company

The archives and online searchable catalogue of the Renaissance Theatre Company are part of the Shakespeare Collections at the University of Birmingham.

Richard Roud

Roud graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1950, and after spending a year in Paris on a Fulbright scholarship, undertook post-graduate study at the University of Birmingham.

Ronald Ebanks

Since his first year at the University, Ronald also plays for The University of Birmingham's 1st cricket team who train at the facilities at the nearby Edgbaston Cricket Ground.

Ronald Ebanks was accepted at The University of Birmingham, UK and as of June 2010 is currently in his third year of a Master in Science in Analytical Science (MSci) degree at the university's School of Chemistry.

Russell L. Ackoff

In 1961 and 1962 he was also visiting professor of operational research at the University of Birmingham.

Selly Oak Colleges

The Federation was for many years associated with the University of Birmingham.

However in 2001 the largest college (Westhill College) passed into the hands of the University of Birmingham, and in the following years most of the remaining colleges closed, leaving two colleges which continue today, Woodbrooke, a study and conference centre for the Society of Friends, and Fircroft, a small adult education college with residential provision.

Sir George Trevelyan, 4th Baronet

The college was jointly sponsored by the local authority and the University of Birmingham, both of whom looked askance at Trevelyan's attraction towards the mystical; and so it took immense moral courage, for instance, for him to present a course on 'Death and Becoming', a subject that was in those days virtually taboo.

Surbiton Hockey Club

In addition, Surbiton Ladies have played in two successive Investec Women's Cup finals whilst in the Conference East, losing 4-1  to Premier Division opposition on both occasions (Bowdon Hightown in 2010-11; and the University of Birmingham in 2011-12).

Two Figures

Another cast of this work could also be found at the University of Birmingham Vale site, but is no longer present as of January 2, 2012.

West Midlands CARE Team

Undergraduate Trauma Course: fourth year medical students at the University of Birmingham medical school undertake a two day course introducing them to the fundamentals of pre-hospital trauma care.

William P. McGivern

After serving in the Army in World War II and studying at the University of Birmingham, McGivern returned to the US and worked for two years as a police reporter for the Philadelphia Bulletin and later as a writer for the Evening Bulletin in Philadelphia.

William Selim Hanna

He then traveled to England and joined the University of Birmingham, where he earned a bachelor's degree with first place honors in Civil Engineering in 1923.

William Valentine Mayneord

He was educated at Prince Henry's School, Evesham and gained a Bachelor of Science at the University of Birmingham


Alltech

Lyons was born in Dundalk, Ireland and was educated in University College Dublin and the University of Birmingham, England, where he received a PhD in the biochemistry of yeast.

Brian Barry

During his early career, Barry held teaching posts at the University of Birmingham, Keele University and the University of Southampton.

Cavity magnetron

The modern 'resonant' cavity magnetron tube was invented by John Randall and Harry Boot in 1940 at the University of Birmingham, England.

In 1940, at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, John Randall and Harry Boot produced a working prototype similar to Hollman's cavity magnetron, but added liquid cooling and a stronger cavity.

Common Professional Examination

The CPE is also offered by some more established British universities, such as the University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, Cardiff University, the University of East Anglia, Keele University, the University of Sussex and Swansea University.

Geoffrey Beattie

After leaving Belfast Royal Academy, he studied psychology at the University of Birmingham graduating with a First Class Honours degree and then did his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Jonathan Tyler

Tyler was an early arliamentary candidate for the Ecology Party, in the Walsall North by-election, 1976, at a time when he was a transport lecturer at the University of Birmingham.

Kenneth Dover

Dover received honorary degrees from the Universities of Oxford, St Andrews, Birmingham, Bristol, London, Durham, Liverpool, and Oglethorpe.

M. G. Sheftall

He holds Master's degrees from California State University and the University of Birmingham, and received his Ph.D in International Relations Studies from Waseda University in Tokyo.

Michael Acton Smith

Smith studied Geography at the University of Birmingham, England where he met Tom Boardman at the chess club, who went on to be one of his best friends and co-founder of Firebox.com, Smith's first business.

Nicholas J. Wheeler

Nicholas J. Wheeler (born 7 April 1962) is professor of international politics at the University of Birmingham and co-editor (with Christian Reus-Smit) of the Cambridge Studies in International Relations book series, published by Cambridge University Press and the British International Studies Association.

Red brick university

While the University of Liverpool is generally considered to be the original "red brick" university, the University of Birmingham was the first of the civic universities to gain independent university status in 1900 and the University has stated that the popularity of the term "red brick" owes to its own Chancellor's Court, constructed from Accrington red brick.

Singapore Institute of Management

SIM is also the only institute offering the degree programmes of the University at Buffalo SUNY, University of Birmingham and the University of Manchester in Asia.

South Africa and weapons of mass destruction

In 1969, a pair of senior South African scientists met with Sültan Mahmoud, a nuclear engineer from Pakistan based at the University of Birmingham, to conduct studies, research and independent experiments on uranium enrichment.

Stephen Molyneux

The magazine was set up to report live from the Annual Festival of Science held at University of Birmingham and reporters included Vivienne Parry, Philippa Forrester and Craig Doyle.

UnLtd

UnLtd has partnerships with academic institutions UCL, Open University, Middlesex University, University of Birmingham.

ZOOMQ3D

ZOOMQ3D and ZOOPT have been developed through a tri-partite collaboration between the School of Civil Engineering of the University of Birmingham, UK, the British Geological Survey and the Environment Agency of England and Wales.