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Motto: "Sapientia Urbs Conditur" (A City is Built on Wisdom)

The University of Nottingham is a leading research-intensive University in the city of Nottingham, in the East Midlands of England. It gained its Royal Charter in 1948, with origins as an adult school from 1798. It is a member of the Russell Group of leading British universities, and of Universitas 21, an international network of research-led universities.

In 2004, it had more than 27,000 registered students, with more than 10 applicants per place. This included over 4,000 international students from more than 100 countries. Its current Chancellor and President is the distinguished Chinese physicist Professor Fujia Yang, and its Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Colin Campbell. The University's Visitor is HM the Queen.

Campuses

The University of Nottingham is famed for its campus, widely regarded as one of the most beautiful in the country. In fact, the University now has several campuses:

University of Nottingham Halls of Residence.

Research

  • Much of the pioneering work on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) was done at Nottingham, work for which Nottingham Professor Sir Peter Mansfield FRS received a Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 2003.
  • Also in 2003, Professor Clive Granger, a former Nottingham student and academic, who was at the university for 22 years, won the Nobel Prize for Economics.
  • Professor Frederick Kipping (1863-1949), Professor of Chemistry (1897-1936), made the discovery of silicone polymers at Nottingham, but completely failed to realise the commercial significance of what is now a multi-billion pound industry.
  • Other innovations at the university include cochlear implants for deaf children and the brace for impact position used in aircraft.
  • Professor Don Grierson OBE FRS led the team that produced the world's first genetically modified tomato at Nottingham, the first GM food approved for sale on both sides of the Atlantic.
  • Nottingham had 26 departments rated 5 or 5* (internationally excellent) in the UK Funding Council's 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.

Other Facts

  • Nottingham frequently has the highest number of applicants of any UK university.
  • The University attracted controversy in 2001 when it accepted £3.8m from British American Tobacco for the creation of a centre of corporate responsibility. The donation caused Professor Richard Smith, Editor of the British Medical Journal to resign from his post as professor at the university, a 20 strong Cancer Research Team to move to London, and the Cancer Research Campaign to stop its £1.5m fundraising campaign for the renovation of the University's cancer research facilities.
  • Nottingham campuses are noted for their greenery, their lakes, and their gardens. The new Malaysian campus is also being built as a 'garden campus', and is having a lake dug especially.
  • In 1985 students at the university managed to fit 27 people into a Ford Sierra car.
  • The University Radio Station, University Radio Nottingham (or URN) has won approximately a third of all the BBC Radio 1 awards for student radio. The radio station holds the world record for the longest continuous radio broadcast at 42 hours.
  • Campus 14 is a bar crawl of fourteen bars on the University Park campus and is a well-known campus tradition. It was officially banned by the university in 2001 after complaints from the local health authority about the number of stomachs they were having to pump.

Medical School

The University has one of the largest medical schools in the United Kingdom, and runs courses at a number of teaching hospitals:

Notable Alumni

Academia

Arts and Media

  • Matthew Bannister - radio journalist, former head of BBC Production
  • Professor Robert Brustein - Harvard English professor, founder of Yale repertory theatre and the American Repertory theatre
  • Judith McHale - President and CEO, Discovery Communications
  • Lord Clive Hollick - former owner of United News
  • Bob Phillis - Chief Executive, Guardian Media Group
  • Peter Rice, President Fox Searchlight Pictures
  • Jim Moir - Controller of BBC Radio 2 (UK)

Business

  • Michael Carpenter - Chairman & CEO, Citigroup Global Investments
  • John Coomber - CEO, Swiss Re
  • Sir Michael Hodgkinson - Chairman, Post Office Ltd; former CEO, BAA Plc
  • Tim Martin - Chairman of Wetherspoons
  • John Timpson - Chairman, Timpson

International Politics and Royalty

Members of UK Parliament

Other

  • The Most Revd and Rt Hon. Dr David Hope - Lord Archbishop of York
  • Dame Helen Reeves - Chief Executive of Victim Support
  • Sir Richard Tilt - Social Fund Commissioner, former Director General HM Prison Service

Sport

Writers

Organisation of the University

The Chief Officer of the University is the Chancellor, elected by the University Court on the recommendation of the University Council. The chief academic and administrative officer of the University is the Vice-Chancellor, who is assisted by five Pro-Vice Chancellors. The university is divided into five faculties, each headed by a Dean, and 32 schools of study.

The University's governing body is the University Council, which has 33 members, mostly non-academic. Its academic authority is the Senate, consisting of senior academics of the University and elected staff and student representatives. The University's largest forum is the University Court, presided over by the Chancellor.

Chancellors

Vice-Chancellors

See also:

External links:

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