A University of Nottingham occurs as leading search & teaching university in the city of Nottingham, in the East Midlands of England. These are the member of the Russell Group of leading British universities, and of Universitas 21, an international network of research-led universities.

Around 2004, it had to a higher degree 27,000 registered students, by having further than Tenner applier by the place. This involved on top 4,000 international students from either other than C countries. Its todays Chancellor and President is the distinguished Chinese physicist Professor Fujia Yang, and its Vice-Chancellor Sir Colin Campbell.

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General Information
British newspapers regularly rank Nottingham when one of a top decade higher education institutions in the united states. Admission is extremely competitory, by having 2004 undergrad entrants averaging to The higher degree 3 The grades at A-level.

Research
The Downs, University Park Campus

Good deal of the pioneering functiin on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) was done at Nottingham, work for which Nottingham prof Sir Peter Mansfield received the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology around 2003. the University remains a heavy centre for locate into MRI & its Vii tesla scanner contains the virtually all right magnet in a UK - it required 213 t of cast-iron facing to end the encompassing metropolitan area existence affected by its mighty field.

the University has contributed to a total of more important scientific advances. Prof Frederick Kipping, Professor of Chemistry (1897-1936), made a discovery of silicone polymers at the University (however totally failed to realise the commercial significance of what is currently a multi-billion pound industry). Major developments inside the in vitro culture of plants and micropropogation techniques were mass produced by botanist at Nottingham, along by having a 1st production of transgenic tomatoes by Prof Don Grierson in the Eighties. More innovations at a university include cochlear implants for deaf babies & a brace-for-impact position utilized inside aircraft. More facilities at a university include a UK's seventh virtually all right supercomputer.

A university is as well heavy in the humanities & social sciences, & in the equivalent month that Sir Peter Mansfield won his Nobel Prize, Professor Clive Granger, who was at a university for Xxii years as a student & faculty member, likewise won a Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

A University got Xxvi departments rated Little phoebe or even 5* (internationally first-class) in the UK Funding Council's 2001 Research Assessment Exercise. A University is one of a top quaternary UK universities for getting the food & drug administration funding from either personal industry & commerce, and inside 2003-2004 it received £84m around such awards.

Student Life

A University of Nottingham Students' Union is heavily taking part sustaining a provision of student activities at a university & has other than 150 student societies connected by having it. The farther 72 clubs come affiliated to the Students' Union's Athletic Union. A University systematically pages inside a top decade in the united states in British Universities Sports Association (BUSA) rankings.

A student magazine Impact is published regularly inside term instance. a range of student theatre requires place at the University’s Future Theatre. the Students Union diarrhea a Healthy & Lighting company, Investigator, world health organization provide their services for numerous student cases. A University Radio Station, University Radio Nottingham (URN) has won approximately the third of all the BBC Radio 1 awards for student radio. A radio station likewise held the world record for the yearn continuous radio broadcast at 42 hours. the total of more globe records stand been placed at a university, including the virtually all humans around a Ford Sierra car (27) & a hanker line of dancing drag queens (49).

Campus 14 is a bar crawl of fourteen parallel bars on the University Park campus & occurs as easily-known campus tradition. It was officially banned per university around 2001 after complaints from a local health authority all about a total of stomachs it got to pump.

Campuses

Nottingham Campuses
University Park Campus to a west of the city centre, is the original & primary campus of the University & is widely look on one of the virtually all attractive in the united states. A University currently has many farther campuses, however completely part similar project features to the original, existence 'garden campuses' placed as much as water by owning extensive verdure. Jubilee Campus is an award winning campus designed by Sir Michael Hopkins, opened by HM a Queen in 1999, a mile out of University Park. Sutton Bonington Campus houses the University's School of Biosciences & a forthcoming Veterinary School & is placed astir Xii miles (Twenty klick) in the south of Nottingham. A old Carlton Studios site on Lenton Lane was stock March 2005, to get a King's Meadow Campus.

Student accommodation for the majority of 1st season undergrad & the total of more students is provided on the University's campuses inside halls of residence. For farther details look at: University of Nottingham Halls of Residence.

International Campuses

A Malaysia Campus is situated within Semenyih, a short few feet away from either Kuala Lumpur. A University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China is the most recent campus, & is in the city of Ningbo, in the Zhejiang province of China.

Medical School

the University as well has one of a big school of medicine in the United Kingdom, & diarrhea courses at a total of teaching hospitals. A independent teaching hospital, a Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) is located just across the road from the University Park Campus. Around September 2003 the doors opened for the first intake at the new medical school in the nearby city of Derby, offering a Little joe season convenient-track grad student medicine course. In top one, a couple of years ago a University of Nottingham took in a total of nursing teaching web sites (formerly a Mid Trent Nursing College), which are actually placed through the East Midlands and include sites at Boston, Derby, Lincoln, Mansfield as well as Nottingham.

Controversies

From either September 20 to December 7 2004, the University was subject to an international academic boycott - 'greylisting' - fallowing a breakdown inside negotiations using the Association of University Teachers (AUT) on earnings & conditions for academic staff. the AUT claimed that Nottingham failed to honour the commitment to watch a national agreement reached inside March 2004. A University, yet, claimed that its actions were withinside line using its undertakings in respect of a national agreement & that a University experienced sought to negotiate using a AUT from either the begin. the boycott has led to disruption at Nottingham, using lectures scheduled to exist as from either either lecturers from more universities existence cancelled, participants withdrawing from conferences &, in the out break of a Royal Geographical Society conference, the whole conference existence affected to London. A boycott was suspended fallowing agreement was reached in re-opening talks.

A University as well attracted tilt inside 2001 when it accepted £3.8m from British Western Tobacco for the creation of the centre of corporate responsibility. a donation stimulated Prof Richard Smith, Editor of a British Medical Journal to resign from either his post when prof at the university, a Xx hard Cancer Locate Team to move to London, & the Cancer The food and drug administration Campaign to prevent its £1.5m fundraising campaign for the renovation of the University's cancer research center.

History

A University could trace its origins back to the instauration of an adult education school inside 1798. A foundation stone of the original University College inside Shakesepeare Street was hive away 1877, accompanied by the speech by William Ewart Gladstone. A building was formally opened within 1881 by Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. Outgrowing its central city places, inside 1928 the University moved to the fresh campus south west of the city, a move processed conceivable per generosity of Jesse Boot, later Lord Trent. His gift of land has been added to step by step to produce a todays University Park Campus. Around 1948 the University received its Royal Charter, which gave it the power to confer degrees. Antecedently, its students received their degrees from either a University of London.

Across period a University has seen steadily expansion. Inside 1947 the Midlands Agricultural & Dairy College at Sutton Bonington merged using a university, in a Seventies the university established a school of medicine. Inside 1999 a new Jubilee Campus was opened on the previous places of the Raleigh factory, one mile out of a University Park campus. Extra recently, a university has expanded overseas, opening campuses within Malaysia and China. Within September 2005 a King's Hayfield campus opened. Built on a places of a previous television studio the campus hosts the university's administrative departments & the Information Services department.

Organisation of the University
Trent Building, University Park Campus

A Primary Officer of the University is the Chancellor, elected per University Court on the recommendation of the University Council. A principal academician & administrative officer of the University is the Vice-Chancellor, who is assisted by 5 Pro-Vice Chancellors. A university is divided into 5 faculties, each headed by the Dean, and 32 schools of survey.

A University's brass is the University Council, which has 33 members, mostly non-academic. Its academic authority is the Senate, consisting of senior academician of the University & elective staff & student representatives. A University's big forum is the University Court, presided all over per Chancellor.

Chancellors

1949-1954 The Lord Trent 1954-1971 The Duke of Portland 1971-1978 Sir Francis Hill 1978-1993 Sir Gordon Hobday 1993-2000 The Lord Dearing 2000- Professor Fujia Yang

Vice-Chancellors

1948-1965 Bertrand Hallward 1965-1970 The Lord Dainton 1971-1975 The Lord Butterfield 1976-1988 Professor Basil Weedon 1988- Sir Colin Campbell

Notable Alumni

A virtually all celebrated alum of a University of Nottingham is probably the novelist D. H. Lawrence (although his opinion of his alma mater was ambivalent at best). A university has particularly heavy links by owning Malaysia, & ii Malaysian Kings as well as many Malaysian minister come graduates. More large alumni include 2003 Nobel Laureate Sir Clive Granger and 11 todays members of the UK parliament.

For the additional elaborated listing view: List of University of Nottingham people