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12 unusual facts about University of Warwick


Aberdeen University Football Men's Club

After finishing third in the Scottish Uni's Championship, the University side went on a momentous BUSA Shield run which culminated in the defeat of De Montfort University 2-1 in Warwick in the Final of the British Uni's Shield Competition.

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.

Canley railway station

It is situated on the edge of Coventry Business Park, to the south of the Coventry suburb of Earlsdon and close to the University of Warwick.

Dumbshow Theatre Company

Dumbshow began life at the University of Warwick in 2006 where their shows were performed in the Warwick Arts Centre Studio Theatre; they have since grown to become an established and respected company of professional performers and writers.

ENTPD2

It has been shown, by scientists from the University of Warwick, that E-NTPDase2 stimulates the growth of the eye: by testing the enzyme on tadpoles, the tadpoles were found to develop extra eyes on their body.

Jack D. Forbes

He has been a visiting Fulbright Professor at the University of Warwick in England, where he also spent time at Oxford and the University of Essex.

John Dykes

He began his media career as a college radio DJ whilst studying English Literature at Warwick University.

Peter Shivute

After working in now independent Namibia for four years he returned to the UK to complete the LL.M from University of Warwick in 1996.

Richard Burden

He attended the Wallasey Technical Grammar School; Bramhall Comprehensive School; St John's College of Further Education, Manchester; the University of York, where he obtained a degree in Politics and was the president of the Students' Union in 1976; and then to the University of Warwick where he received a Master's Degree in Industrial Relations.

Roberto Weiss

His personal library now forms an important part of the History of Art collection at the University of Warwick library.

Susan Hurley

Susan Lynn Hurley (September 16, 1954 – August 16, 2007) was appointed professor in the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick in 1994, professor of philosophy at Bristol University from 2006 and the first woman fellow of All Souls, Oxford.

Trevor Cooper

Cooper studied law at Kingston Polytechnic and graduated with a masters degree in law from the University of Warwick.


Albert J.R. Heck

After a Postdoctoral research at Stanford University in the lab of Richard Zare and Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore) he became a postdoctoral fellow and later lecturer at University of Warwick.

Andrea Malchiodi

Malchiodi received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the International School for Advanced Studies in 2000 having Antonio Ambrosetti as advisor; he is professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick.

Braeburn Schools

This same year, Braeburn entered into an agreement with the University of Warwick to provide training for local teachers in the form of a Bachelor of Philosophy (Education) through a Continuing Professional Development programme.

Corrado de Concini

University of Rome and in 1975 a Ph.D. from the University of Warwick under the supervision of George Lusztig (The mod-2 Cohomology of the orthogonal groups over a finite field).

David George Kendall

They had two sons and four daughters, including Wilfrid Kendall, professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick and reporter Bridget Kendall MBE.

David Preiss

David Preiss is a professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick and the winner of the 2008 LMS Pólya Prize for his 1987 result on Geometry of Measures, where he solved the remaining problem in the geometric theoretic structure of sets and measures in Euclidean space.

Horticulture Research International

Warwick HRI was formed on 1 April 2004 following the integration of Horticulture Research International’s (HRI) sites at Wellesbourne and Kirton with the University of Warwick.

Issa G. Shivji

While mostly based in Tanzania, he has been visiting professor in various locations: El Colegio De Mexico, the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Warwick, the National Law School of India University, the University of Hong Kong, the Centre of African Studies of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal.

Jeremy Weate

Jeremy Weate (born in 1969 in Wheaton Aston) studied philosophy at the University of Hull, the University of Liège and the University of Warwick, graduating with a PhD in philosophy from Warwick in 1998.

Joaquim Clotet

After his doctorate, he completed studies and research at the Gregorian University of Rome (Italy), the University of London (United Kingdom), Georgetown University (Washington D.C., USA), the University of Ottawa (Canada), Oxford University (United Kingdom) and the University of Warwick (Coventry, United Kingdom).

Joseph Pivato

Over the years Pivato has been an invited speaker at the University of Calgary, the University of Toronto, The University of Montreal, Laurentian University, the California State University, Long Beach, the University of Warwick, U.K. the University of Venice, the University of Melbourne and other institutions.

Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman

After entering the House of Lords the more liberal aspects of his character dominated – he was chancellor of the University of Warwick, president of the British Institute of Human Rights, and worked on behalf of the Prince's Trust, the Birmingham Six, and Charter 88 amongst many other projects.

Michael McKimm

He attended Dunseverick Primary School and Coleraine Academical Institution, in Coleraine, County Londonderry, before moving to England to study English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Warwick.

Mike Cowlishaw

Mike Cowlishaw is a retired IBM Fellow, a Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick, and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (roughly the equivalent of the NAE in the USA), the Institute of Engineering and Technology (formerly IEE), and the British Computer Society.

Ruth Milkman

In 1986, she was a visiting lecturer in American labor history at the University of Warwick in Coventry, United Kingdom, a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil in 1990, a visiting research scholar at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia in 1991, and a visiting research associate at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris in 1993.

Solihull College

A number of the higher education qualifications accredited by the University of Warwick and Oxford Brookes University.

Universities medical assessment partnership

The project has since grown to 14 partners including University of Birmingham, University College Cork, University of East Anglia, Hull York Medical School, University of Keele, University of Leicester, Peninsula Medical School, University of Southampton and University of Warwick.

Uwe Timm

Three times Timm has been called as a writer-in-residence to several universities in English-speaking countries: in 1981 to the University of Warwick, in 1994 to Swansea and in 1997 to the Washington University in St. Louis.