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Virtual Green Week aims to collaborate with local community
Communities across Coventry and Warwickshire are being urged to make the fourth annual Green Week a launch-pad for sustainability. , which this year will take place between Monday 8th and Sunday 14th March 2021, originated from talks between the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, Coventry City Council and Coventry University, and has since encompassed Warwick District Council and Action 21.
UK students and French senior citizens beat loneliness in lockdown together
Students at the UK’s ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ are spending their lockdown chatting online with elderly people in France, bridging intergenerational and international divides in a time marked by isolation.
Identified: A mechanism that protects plant fertility from stress
As Temperatures rise due to global warming the need to protect plants from stressful conditions has increased, as stress can cause a loss in yield and cause further impact economically. A consortium led by the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ have successfully identified two proteins that protect crops from stress, which is key in safeguarding food production.
Royal Academy of Engineering announces new Lord Bhattacharyya bursary winners for students in the West Midlands
Students across the West Midlands have been awarded a series of bursaries as part of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Lord Bhattacharyya Engineering Education Programme. The Winners have been announced on the second anniversary of death Lord Bhattacharyya and the programme is named in is honour
Heavy rain affects object detection by autonomous vehicle LiDAR sensors
All high-level AVs rely heavily on sensors, and in the paper, ‘, published in the IEEE Sensors Journal, researchers from the Intelligent Vehicles Group at WMG, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ have specifically simulated and evaluated the performance of LiDAR sensors in rain.
Human rights law can provide a transparent and fair framework for vaccine allocations, researchers suggest.
As Governments around the world wrestle with the question of designing a fair system to allocate their COVID-19 vaccine supplies for maximum protection against the pandemic, a team of researchers led by Dr Sharifah Sekalala of Warwick Law School propose that existing human rights legal principles should guide their thinking and outline a model of an ethical intersectional distribution scheme based on human rights legal principles.