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Honour for Oxford Martin academics
10 May 2012

Professors Gero Miesenböck and Stephen MacMahon are among the 46 new Fellows who have been elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences. The ...

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Meet PEGGIE (the car, not the driver)
09 May 2012

PEGGIE is a sleek and shapely prototype battery electric vehicle which will, for the first time, be competing in the 2012 Shell Eco-Marathon, an...

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A feast for Oxford’s food research?
08 May 2012

The Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food is getting underway with a call for research proposals, issued this week. The Programme a...

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Geoengineering governance benefits from £1.3m research grant
03 May 2012

Oxford is to lead a £1.3m research project on Climate Geoengineering Governance funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) ...

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Gero Miesenböck wins top Belgian science prize
30 Apr 2012

Professor Gero Miesenböck has been awarded the prestigious InBev-Baillet Latour 2012 Health Prize for his pioneering research in the field ...

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Summer school on climate engineering - applications invited
28 Apr 2012

The Oxford Geoengineering Programme has issued a call for applications to its Oxford Summer School on Geoengineering research, which has been or...

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How to prevent mass atrocities?
23 Apr 2012

New research has highlighted techniques that can work successfully in the prevention of mass atrocity crimes.  Recent conflicts in Syri...

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New Centre to study how intelligence arises from brain’s circuits
23 Apr 2012

A new research centre opens today at Oxford University to investigate how intelligence arises in the brain from the physical interaction of nerv...

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Tony Atkinson awarded Neyman Medal
20 Apr 2012

The prestigious Neyman Medal has been awarded to Professor Sir Tony Atkinson for his contribution to statistics. Under the Patronage of the ...

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Searching for the ingredients of resilience
19 Apr 2012

The Oxford Martin School today announced its receipt of a prestigious funding award to bring new understandings of strength and vulnerability in...

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Energy efficient software
18 Apr 2012

Oxford computer scientists are perfecting a system to profile the energy consumption of your computer software, allowing you to use less en...

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Report highlights population challenges
17 Apr 2012

Expert findings from Professor Sarah Harper have contributed to a new Royal Society Report highlighting population challenges. Challenges to...