Have you received an award or honorary doctorate? Have you won a prize or been commended for your work? Or know a colleague who has?
Buzz magazine will now be linking to this web page to highlight your or your colleagues achievements.
Please get in touch by emailing the editor, Kate Pritchard university-buzz@bham.ac.uk
December 2011
Prestigious award for up and coming researcher
The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, has appointed Zania Stamataki as a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, for 2011. Zania was one of only six appointments made this year by the Royal Society.
The Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship scheme supports excellent scientists and engineers at an early stage of their career and is designed to help successful candidates progress to permanent academic positions across the UK. Speaking of her award, Zania said, “I feel delighted to be associated by such a prestigious organisation. I am very excited about this award”.
November 2011
Dr Anna Phillips, Senior Research Fellow, School of Sport and Exercise Sciences
Dr Anna Phillips is to be the inaugural winner of the Outstanding Contribution to Research Award given by the Division of Health Psychology of the British Psychological Society. Anna adds this to the two international early career awards she received in 2010: the Herbert Weiner Early Career Award from the American Psychosomatic Society and the Neil Miller New Investigator Award from the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. Anna is also one of the Birmingham Heroes.
January 2011
Awards for Excellence in Teaching or Supporting Students’ Learning
Awards designed to recognise and publicly thank those individuals or teams who, in the view of their Schools and Colleges, have contributed the most to the positive learning experience of students in the last academic year. View the article published in the January/February issue of Buzz.
December 2010
Professor Daniela Kuhn, School of Mathematics, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
The School of Mathematics has appointed Daniela as the first female Professor to the prestigious Mason Chair position. The Mason Chair in Mathematics is one of the four foundation chairs of the university. It was first established in 1880 and the Watson building is named after GN Watson who was the Mason Chair from 1918-1951. Learn more about Professor Daniela Kuhn here.
November 2010
Jennifer Norton, School of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Winner of The Food and Drink Processing Award at the IChemE awards for her work on the development of cocoa butter emulsions for fat and calorie reduction in chocolate. Jennifer is the first person from the University to win an IChemE award.
The food and drink award recognises the best project or process that demonstrates innovation to optimise manufacturing operations and contribute to safe, nutritious and affordable food to an international market.
Jennifer commented on her work 'Increasing global obesity has fuelled the development of products that are reduced in fat and calories. Chocolate typically contains 30 to 40% fat, from both milk fat and cocoa butter, and is an indulgent food, not eaten at meal times to satisfy hunger, but as a snack or a treat. Thus, the approach taken was to use microstructure engineering to redesign the structure to allow water to be added, in the form of a water-in-oil cocoa butter emulsion. Small water droplets are stabilised within the cocoa butter by fat crystals. This emulsion was then added to cocoa powder, sugar and milk to produce a chocolate that contains 16% water.'
IChemE CEO David Brown said 'The IChemE Awards are globally recognised and attract entries from all over the world. Winning an award really does demonstrate work of the highest standard and there are plenty of winners from previous years that have used their success at the IChemE Awards as a springboard to greater things.'
Jennifer receiving her award
