It has just been announced that the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute (JHI) of the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has received grants totalling £1.2M from the Science and Technology Facilities Council. These were awarded in the areas of Astrophysics (£800k) and Solar Physics (£400k). The Director of the JHI, Professor Derek Read More …
Year: 2014
Brad Gibson Named 2015 John Porter Memorial Lecturer
Prof Brad Gibson has been named the 2015 John Porter Memorial Lecturer. To be delivered 26 Feb 2015 at the University of Liverpool (Chadwick Lecture Theatre at 6:30pm), Prof Gibson’s public lecture will explore the ideas and concepts of “Galactic Archaeology” and, specifically, “How to Build a Universe with a Read More …
JHI academic awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Trust research grant.
Dr Cristina Popescu, Reader in Astrophysics at UCLan’s Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, has been given the award for the project ‘Connecting the high and low energies views of the Milky Way’. The £150,000 grant is the first success for UCLan with this funding scheme and will see Dr Popescu collaborate with Read More …
JHI student wins prestigious STEM award
First-year JHI Physics student Jasmin Evans has won a prestigious award from the Stemette organisation, which promotes STEM activities to women and girls. The prize include an all-expenses-paid trip to Phoenix, Arizona to attend an international conference. Jasmin says: ‘As someone passionate about STEM and outreach, I applied to be Read More …
Positive Outreach Feedback For Alston Observatory.
First-year JHI Physics student Jasmin Evans has won a prestigious award from the Stemette organisation, which promotes STEM activities to women and girls. The prize include an all-expenses-paid trip to Phoenix, Arizona to attend an international conference. Jasmin says: ‘As someone passionate about STEM and outreach, I applied to be Read More …
Positive Outreach Feedback For Alston Observatory.
Students and staff from a local primary school were impressed with the outreach activities delivered by members of the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute. On Wednesday the 10th of September, Lecturer Dr Joanne Bibby and PhD student Dominic Bowman entertained staff members and pupils of New Longton All Saints Primary School. The Read More …
Published in Science: New Milky Way Maps May Help Solve Stubborn Interstellar Mystery
An international team of astronomers, including UCLan’s Prof Brad Gibson, has produced new maps of the material between the stars in the Milky Way that should move scientists closer to cracking a stardust puzzle that has vexed them for nearly a century. The maps and an accompanying journal article appear Read More …
Published in Science: JHI Researchers Explore the Prehistory History of the Early System
International researchers are a step closer to understanding the birth of the solar system. Published in Science (August 1st, 2014), a multi-national research team led by Dr Maria Lugaro of Monash University, including Professor Brad Gibson from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), has investigated the solar system’s prehistoric phase Read More …
Promising young scientists shine at UCLan
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has brought together the county’s most promising young scientists to celebrate their abilities and achievements in physics at a special awards evening. It is the fifth time UCLan has hosted the Lancashire Schools’ Physicist of the Year Awards event which is sponsored by the Read More …
JHI Mathematician in Royal Line-Up at IMA@50.
Danielle Bewsher, one of the mathematics staff in the JHI, attended the IMA@50 event at the Royal Society on Wednesday 14th May to help celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA). The event collected together a series of presentations highlighting the work of the Read More …