Cosmologist wins fellowship to explore fate of our Galaxy
Posted by admin in Cosmology, Technology on 24. Aug, 2010 | No Comments
University of Portsmouth cosmologist has won a prestigious fellowship to further her work on spiral galaxies, which could hold the answer to the fate of our own Galaxy.
UK scientists win £3.6m space exploration grant
Posted by admin in Cosmology, Technology on 20. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
The UK Space Agency has awarded £3.65m to help UK scientists, including cosmologists at the University of Portsmouth, prepare to compete for funding for three new space missions.
Cosmologists win £1.4m funding
Posted by admin in Cosmology, Technology on 11. May, 2010 | No Comments
Portsmouth cosmologists have won £1.4m to fund further research into the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang and the emergence of structure in our Universe.
Trafalgar Prize for Learning at Work Student
Posted by admin in Learning at Work, Technology on 22. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
The University of Portsmouth has been running a partnership programme with the Royal Navy since 1991. Under the scheme staff can undertake training while continuing in their full-time employment.
A floating island city fuelled entirely by green energy
Posted by admin in Mechanical & Design Engineering, Technology, Uncategorized on 21. Oct, 2009 | No Comments
A floating island city fuelled entirely by green energy has landed a University of Portsmouth Professor of engineering a place on the shortlist of a national competition.
Student’s bright idea means solar power at night
Posted by admin in Mechanical & Design Engineering, Technology on 15. Jul, 2009 | No Comments
An engineering student may have found the Holy Grail of renewable energy and even help solve global warming as part of his final university project.
Claus Volkening, 23, of the University of Portsmouth, has designed and laboratory tested the first working small-scale model of a ‘solar updraft tower.’ It uses water storage tanks to store the sun’s energy, making clean, cheap electricity available to all, even at night.
