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WMG an academic department at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ was on this day, the 1^st of October, 1980 started by the late Professor Lord Bhattacharyya. To celebrate, we've highlighted 40 achievements made by the department over the last 40 years.

Visuospatial training exercises can train the brain to reduce motion sickness, providing a potential remedy for future passengers riding in autonomous vehicles. Researchers at WMG, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ reduced motion sickness by over 50% using the training tool and it was found to be effective in both a driving simulator and on-road experimentation.

The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ racing team usually spend their summer in the workshop building an electric race car, but lockdown this year due to the covid-19 pandemic didn't stop them from designing and virtually validating a second electric car, WRe2, and racing their original car WRe1 virtually.

The programme delivered by the SME Group at WMG, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ has been a major success in the West Midlands over the last 2 years, helping over 100 companies, develop 71 new products and processes, from automation and productivity plans through to the zero emission technologies of tomorrow. The team have been awarded a further £6m from to take them through to March 2023, meaning the team has gone from a 2 year £5m programme, to an £11m 5 ½ year programme. This extension will enable the team to operate from Wolverhampton and Worcestershire in the West, to Loughborough and Luton in the East Midlands.

In the paper, published today, the 9^th September in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ and the University of Birmingham reveal a new method for analysing hierarchies in complex networks and illustrate it by applications to economics, language and gene expression.

When patients are discharged from Hospital those with diabetes are at an increased risk of readmission and mortality, there are guidelines for discharging patients with diabetes to reduce these risks, however researchers from the Institute of Digital Healthcare at WMG, ¹û¶³´«Ã½ and ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Medical School have identified known risk factors for mortality in adult patients discharged from hospital with diabetes.