Sussex showcases academic research online Months of work culminated this week with the launch of Sussex Research Online (SRO), which showcases the University's research to the external world and contains a record of all research ‘outputs' by academics at Sussex.

Earth Sciences - Official Event - 12.05.2010
Easter Island discovery sends archaeologists back to drawing board

Archaeologists have disproved the fifty-year-old theory underpinning our understanding of how the famous stone statues were moved around Easter Island. Fieldwork led by researchers at University College London and The University of Manchester, has shown the remote Pacific island's ancient road system was primarily ceremonial and not solely built for transportation of the figures.

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Official Event - 26.08.2011
Drawing ’integral’ to science learning
More should be done to encourage students to use their drawing skills in science education, researchers at The University of Nottingham say. In a paper being published in Science this week, academics say that although producing visualisations is key to scientific thinking, pupils are often not encouraged to create their own drawings to develop and demonstrate their understanding.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Official Event - 15.08.2011
Scientists’ £3.9m project to develop gene therapy to prevent heart bypass graft failure
A team of scientists, cardiologists and heart surgeons from the University of Glasgow and the Golden Jubilee National Hospital has been awarded £3.9m for a study into how to prevent the failure of heart bypass grafts.

Environmental Sciences - Official Event - 8.11.2010
Pioneering research to reduce coastal flooding
Coastal areas could be saved from the misery of flooding thanks to groundbreaking new research from the University of Plymouth. Academics have made a significant breakthrough in understanding the behaviour of mixed sand and shingle beaches in response to waves.

History/Philosophy - Official Event - 16.04.2010
Major Leverhulme Medieval History grant awarded

The Leverhulme Trust has awarded a large research project grant to King's, to be led by Dr Stephen Baxter, Reader in Medieval History. The grant of over £250,000 will enable King's to employ Dr Chris Lewis, one of the world's leading authorities on eleventh-century England, and to appoint a new post-doctoral research fellow, for the two-year project.

Literature/Linguistics - Official Event - 6.01.2010
Dutch Crossing: recognition for a journal examining a global influence

Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies , a journal edited by UCL Dutch, has received an honourable mention at the 2009 International Awards of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ).

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