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The National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ has been awarded £650,000 by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to create a massive focus on less privileged and under-represented groups within the 200,000 gifted young people that make up England’s top 5% by ability and potential.

Researchers in the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s Department of Physics have developed a novel non-contact method of using ultrasound to detect and measure cracks and flaws in rail track – particularly gauge corner cracking - that has the potential to simply be attached to a normal passenger or freight train travelling at high speeds.

Researchers at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ have for the first time been able to detail how and why specific neurons in the brain control the hunger response. They have revealed a set of pacemaker nerve cells in the brain that appear to underlie the drive to feed which itself feeds on a complex web of signals.

A determined mother of 3 and mature student from Coundon in Coventry has been awarded a bursary totalling £3,000 from one of the worlds leading pharmaceutical companies, AstraZeneca.

Territorial Army soldier and Lecturer in Occupational Health at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, Caroline Whittaker, has just received the Royal Red Cross 1st Class for her services in Iraq.

One of the ways the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ will mark its forthcoming 40th Anniversary is the creation of an innovative “Outstanding Young Researchers Fellowships” scheme designed for young US scholars. The scheme echoes the US/UK exchange schemes Warwick created when it first opened as a University in 1965.