Pages tagged with: connect
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Rollercoaster ride to world record success
The Guinness Book of Records has inspired countless people to strive for some of the most iconic feats of achievement and endurance. To that exalted roll call of record breakers, a team of academics and students from the University can add their names.
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Plastics research under the microscope
It has been quite a year for Professor Richard Thompson, marine biologist, and the man whose research over the last decade has put microplastics pollution on the global map.
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Connect: Summer 2016
A round-up of news, views and success from across the Plymouth University community. Including features on research, alumni, staff and community.
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History tales of the unexpected
What links zebras to the Second World War? What connects partying to mental illness in Victorian Britain? Well, they are all topics that have been explored by Professor James Daybell and Dr Sam Willis in their Histories of the Unexpected podcast series.
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The launch of iSPER
Having the institute and bringing academics all together under one umbrella gives us a means to do that, and creates a more enabling and facilitating research environment
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Robot home brings together family of research
From ITALK to ALIZ-E, the advancement of robotics at Plymouth has been anything but science fiction.
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The sky's the limit for Planet Earth II doctor Lucy
"Sir David’s popularity spans generations and he was an absolute joy to work with."
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A vision of optometry
"It’s amazing what has been achieved in such a short time, and the same can be said of our academic and teaching endeavour over the last five years."
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Associate Professor Haya Al-Dajani
“I’m interested in looking at how entrepreneurship can be a vehicle and catalyst for social development.”
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Professor Tom Hutchinson: health and the environment
"People cannot be healthy if the world they live in is not healthy.”
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Sian Davey: picture perfect
"From that moment, my immediate world opened up and I realised I had everything I needed right in front of me."
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Clare Nasir: from mathematics to meteorology
“You are as good as your teachers, especially in those early years, and so when I came to Plymouth to study maths I pretty much ‘struck gold’.”