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16 unusual facts about University of Nottingham


Bertrand Hallward

Bertrand Hallward (24 May 1901 – 17 November 2003) was the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham.

Bestwood Welfare Black Diamonds Brass Band

By the early 2000s, however, interest in the band was rebuilt, and - partly due to the students from the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University - more players began to come in.

Bible Presbyterian Church

Thus, many aspiring ministers prefer an evangelical seminary (such as Fuller Theological Seminary, Singapore Bible College, Trinity Theological College, Singapore or University of Nottingham) over the B-P's own seminary, Far Eastern Bible College, which is fundamentalist.

Carlton Studios, Nottingham

The studios closed in 2005 and were bought by the University of Nottingham who renamed the site King's Meadow Campus and converted it into university space.

Celia Wade-Brown

After school, she took a gap year in Cape Coast, Ghana, then earned an honours degree in philosophy from the University of Nottingham.

Dua's layer

Dua's layer, according to a 2013 paper by Harminder Singh Dua's group at the University of Nottingham, is a layer of the cornea that had not been detected previously.

Francis Willughby's Book of Games

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Geospatial Research Centre

It was set up in 2006 by the University of Canterbury, the University of Nottingham, and the Canterbury Development Corporation.

Katrina Honeyman

She graduated in Economic History and Sociology at the University of York and then gained a Ph.D. at the University of Nottingham: her thesis work on the social background of early entrepreneurs was later published as Origins of Enterprise.

Leonard Woodward

After teaching at the University of Nottingham and the University of Manchester, he worked for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in the Fuel Research Station.

Semenyih

The town is rapidly becoming more accessible, thanks to new highways (such as the Kajang-Seremban Highway and the Kajang SILK Highway), and more attractive due to new development (including, for example, the Malaysian campus of the University of Nottingham).

Sound amplification by stimulated emission of radiation

For instance, in order to build the device the group from the University of Nottingham used 50 alternating layers (each just a few atoms thick) of two chemical compounds known as Aluminium arsenide and Gallium Arsenide.

Sound amplification according to the experiment taken in the University of Nottingham could be based on an induced cascade of electrons in semiconductor superlattices.

Stat-Ease

Researchers at the University of Nottingham demonstrated that the DNA extracted from both green and roasted beans could be used in a restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) based analysis to differentiate between Arabica and Robusta types of coffee.

Thomas Ansell Marshall

There are, in addition some British Diptera in the University of Nottingham.

University of Health Sciences, Lahore

Prominent among them are Duke University, University of Texas Houston, University of Pittsburgh, Center of Disease Control (CDC) Atlanta, University of Liverpool, University of Glasgow, University of Nottingham, University of Reim France and University of Muenster Germany.


Anthony Armstrong Emery

Armstrong Emery graduated in Law from the University of Nottingham and obtained a master's degree in Fiscal Law from the University of Salamanca, but claims never to have had any interest in entering the legal profession.

Bicester Community College

There have been successful Oxbridge applications from the school in the last ten years, and the school has sent students to other top UK universities, including King's College London, the London School of Economics and Political Science, University College London, the University of Warwick, the University of Bristol and the University of Nottingham.

Chevening Scholarship

The most popular destinations for study in 2011 were the London School of Economics & Political Science, University College London, and the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, University of Nottingham and King's College London.

Eduard Bomhoff

Bomhoff returned to academia after leaving the government, accepting positions as professor first at the University of Bahrain and later at the University of Nottingham.

Ian Shearer

He received his education from Whakatane Primary, Whakatane High School, Massey University, and the University of Nottingham.

Jaafar of Negeri Sembilan

He was awarded Honorary Doctorate of Law by several universities namely the University of the Philippines (27 July 1990), University of Nottingham (21 July 1995), University of Santiago, Chile (28 September 1995) and University of Brunei Darussalam (11 September 1996).

Leslie Fox

Fox played a signifficant part in the early days of the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), which set out as a collaborative venture between Oxford, Nottingham and Manchester to provide a reliable and well-tested mathematical subroutine library.

Matt Bielby

Developing an interest in journalism, and magazines in particular, he was film editor of the University of Nottingham student newspaper, Impact, before getting a job at Emap in London in February 1988, as staff writer on Computer and Video Games magazine.

Michael Devitt

In addition to his tenured or tenure-track positions, Michael Devitt has held numerous non-tenured positions at the University of Nottingham, Macquarie University, Australian National University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Michigan, University of Southern California, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Harvard University, and Sydney University’s Women’s College.

Michael Paraskos

He went on to attend the University of Leeds and University of Nottingham, studying at Nottingham with Fintan Cullen to gain his doctorate on the aesthetic theories of Herbert Read in 2005.

National College for School Leadership

Established in 2000 as the National College for School Leadership, its physical centre – a learning and conference centre (LCC) situated in a striking building designed by Sir Michael Hopkins on the Jubilee Campus of the University of Nottingham – was opened on 24 October 2002 by Tony Blair.

Nottingham Marathon

From 1982 onwards the race has started and finished from the Victoria Embankment (Nottingham) taking in some of Nottingham's most historical and scenic sights, including the City Centre and Nottingham Castle, Wollaton Park, the University of Nottingham and the National Watersports Centre at Holme Pierrepont.

Nottingham Two

The Nottingham Two were a student (Rizwaan Sabir) and a staff member (Hicham Yezza) of the University of Nottingham arrested in May 2008 for suspected involvement with Islamic terrorism.

Philip Edward Archer

Philip Edward Archer was educated at St Peter’s School in Sekondi, Adisadel College, Cape Coast and the University of Nottingham in England.

University college

Examples include the University of Nottingham (which was University College Nottingham when D. H. Lawrence attended), the University of Southampton which was a part of the University of London until 1952, and the University of Exeter, which until 1955 was the University College of the South West of England; Keele University was founded in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire until it was granted its royal charter in 1962 and transformed into a University.