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Talented women for a successful Wales

Talented women for a successful Wales

Posted on 14 March 2016 by Helen Murphy

Tuesday 8th March marked International Women’s Day, and also the publication of a Welsh Government report on women in STEM, which was co-authored by myself and Professor Hilary Lappin-Scott of […]

Academia Europaea: the new Knowledge Hub takes shape at Cardiff

Academia Europaea: the new Knowledge Hub takes shape at Cardiff

Posted on 11 March 2016 by Nora de Leeuw

Academia Europaea is an international association of scientists and scholars from all disciplines, who are experts and leaders in their subject areas, as recognised by their peers. With hubs already […]

UEB 7 March 2016

UEB 7 March 2016

Posted on 7 March 2016 by Mairwen Harris

It was noted that that the National Software Academy received the ‘Collaborative Partnership prize’ at the recent ESTnet Awards for its partnership with Alacrity and the Welsh Government. It was […]

Half Marathon excitement

Half Marathon excitement

Posted on 3 March 2016 by Claire Sanders

Registration for mass participants in the IAAF/Cardiff University World Half Marathon has re-opened today by popular demand following the announcement of the Great Britain team for the event. The race, […]

Top awards for international researcher mobility

Top awards for international researcher mobility

Posted on 3 March 2016 by Nora de Leeuw

Looking through the list of awards to Cardiff University from the Horizon 2020 programme, I was delighted to see four new European Fellowships awarded from the 2015 call for Marie […]

UEB 29 February 2016

UEB 29 February 2016

Posted on 29 February 2016 by Mairwen Harris

It was noted that SPARK was on the cover of the current UUK Bulletin. It was noted that the Universities Wales bulletin had reported that it had not been possible […]

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – February 2016

Vice-Chancellor’s all-staff email – February 2016

Posted on 25 February 2016 by Colin Riordan

Dear colleague The big news this month has been the announcement that an in-out referendum on European Union membership will be held on 23 June. You may have seen that […]

UEB 22 February 2016

UEB 22 February 2016

Posted on 22 February 2016 by Mairwen Harris

UEB were reminded that the staff poll was currently being conducted with a 50% response rate sought. Members were asked to encourage staff to complete the staff poll. It was […]

Seeding discovery at the European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute

Seeding discovery at the European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute

Posted on 19 February 2016 by

Earlier this week I was delighted to be hosting a visit of Ogmore MP, Huw Irranca-Davies, who is also standing in the Assembly elections in May. It was a great […]

A great day for fundamental science

A great day for fundamental science

Posted on 17 February 2016 by Helen Murphy

The excitement last week when one of the biggest breakthroughs in physics for the last 100 years was announced reinforces how great it is to work as a scientist– and […]