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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:

  • The original University Park Campus, located to the west of Nottingham City Centre.
  • The award winning Jubilee Campus, by Sir Michael Hopkins, opened by HM the Queen in 1999, a mile away from University Park.
  • Sutton Bonington, a former agricultural college that has been part of the University for some time, about 12 miles away.
  • UNiM - the University of Nottingham in Malaysia, which is getting its own custom built campus near Kuala Lumpur.

Teaching hospitals

The University also runs courses at a number of teaching hospitals:

  • The Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) is located just across the road from the University Park Campus.
  • In September 2003 the doors opened for the first intake at the University's new medical school in Derby, housing its postgraduate (shorter) medicine course.
  • On top of these, a few years ago the University of Nottingham took on a number of nursing teaching sites, formerly the Mid Trent Nursing College. These are located across the East Midlands and include sites at Grantham, Derby, and Lincoln.

Research

  • Much of the pioneering work on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) was done at Nottingham, work for which Nottingham Professor Sir Peter Mansfield received a Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 2003 (in the same year, Clive Granger, a former student and academic at the university also won a Nobel Prize for Economics).
  • Professor Frank Kipping (1863-49), 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.
  • It had 26 departments rated 5 or 5* (internationally excellent) in the UK Funding Council's 2001 Reseach Assessment Exercise.

Other Facts

  • It frequently has the highest number of applicants per place of any UK university.
  • University of Nottingham campuses are noted for their lakes. The new UNiM campus is having one dug especially.
  • In 1985 students at the university managed to fit 27 people into a Ford Sierra car.

Alumni

Academia

Arts and Media

  • Matthew Banister - radio journalist, former head of BBC Production
  • Judith McHale - President and CEO, Discovery Communications
  • Lord Hollick - former owner of United News
  • Professor Robert Brustein - Harvard English professor, founder of Yale repertory theatre and the American Repertory theatre

Business

  • Tim Martin - Chairman of Wetherspoons

Politics and Royalty

  • Tony Lloyd MP - former Minister of State at the Foreign Office
  • His Majesty Sultan Tuanku Ja'afar - former King of Malaysia
  • His Royal Highness Sultan Raja Azlan Sha - former King of Malysia
  • Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak - Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
  • Rt. Hon Peter Ala Adjetey - Speaker of the Ghanaian Parliament

Sport

  • Deng Yaping - four times Olympic table tennis champion, voted Chinese female athlete of the century
  • Brian Moore - England rugby player

Writers

D. H. Lawrence, novelist

Chancellors

  • 1949-1954 John Campbell Boot, 2nd Baron Trent
  • 1954-1971 His Grace the Duke of Portland
  • 1971-1978 Sir Francis Hill
  • 1978-1993 Sir Gordon Hobday
  • 1993-2000 Lord Dearing
  • 2000- Professor Fujia Yang

Vice-Chancellors

  • 1947-65 Dr Bertrand Hallward
  • 1965-70 Professor Lord Dainton of Hallam Moors FRS
  • 1971-75 Professor Lord Butterfield of Stechford
  • 1976-88 Professor Basil Weedon FRS
  • 1988- Professor Sir Colin Campbell

See also:

Nottingham University Mountaineering Club

External links:

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