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As part of Ada Lovelace day today (15 October 2013), Female scientists, engineers and mathematicians at the University of Sheffield are being celebrated. The aim is to raise the profile of women working in STEM subjects across the globe, says the University. “Women are currently underrepresented in engineering – a fact that leads to a loss of talent and innovation,” ...

Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) has raised an initial £50m from long term institutional and strategic investors to support the growth of innovative businesses based in the Cambridge Cluster. It was helped with funding from the University of Cambridge Endowment Fund and ARM, with the main investors being Invesco Perpetual and Lansdowne Partners. The university will also support CIC through its ...

We wrote only recently about Emeritus Professor Peter Higgs, and mention must be made of his winning of the Nobel Prize in Physics The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ award to Professor Higgs recognises his outstanding contribution to the theoretical work that led to the prediction of the Higgs boson particle. The Nobel Prize in Physics was in fact awarded ...

Edinburgh University scientists have helped to develop a technique that overcomes the problem of how to test a computer that is faster and more powerful than any other that might be used to test it. “To harness properly the potential of quantum computing, we need to know for sure that it works,” said Elham Kashefi of the univesrity’s School of ...

Room has to be found on our Universities blog to flag the official UK launch yesterday of FutureLearn and its MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). The Open Universitty is behind FutureLearn, and it has announced the details of 20 pilot courses, which are set to begin in October this year. Edinburgh and Southampton are just two examples of universities providing ...

Bristol University is highlighting that a live demonstration of a hybrid packet-optical circuit switched software-defined network (SDN) will take place at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) event in London next week. The technology has been developed jointly by the High Performance Networks Group at the University of Bristol and Polatis, specialists in “all-optical” switches. The aim of the ...

Become an aeronautical engineer for the day. That was the concept of this year’s aviation-themed Future Engineers event, jointly organised by the University of Exeter, Exeter College, Flybe and the Fleet Air Arm Museum. It ran on Friday 13th September, bringing together 200 teenagers from 20 schools across the region. The locations for the students taking part in the event ...

Michael Queen, former CEO of private equity firm 3i, has been appointed as President of business angel group The Surrey 100 Club, which has close links with Surrey University. With its close ties to the Surrey Research Park and Surrey Space Incubation Centre (SSI), the not-for-profit organisation provides mentoring, business support and training as well as raising finance. According to Surrey ...

Newcastle University is taking the lead in a £16 million programme – funded by the Technology Strategy Board – to investigate the benefits of high-speed motors for hybrid and electric vehicles. Newcastle has already researched novel, sustainable and efficient motors, but the new project will see such motors being fitted into the Jaguar Land Rover Evoque within the next two ...

Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Exeter set off a development in photonics? Scientists at the University of Exeter have been studying the iridescent wings of the tropical blue Morpho butterfly. Apparently, it holds promise for a variety of applications, such as photonic security tags and industrial sensors Exeter says it has been collaborating with General Electric (GE) ...