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Dr Claire Lucas from the School of Engineering at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ is a finalist in the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards 2019.

The resurgence of Malaria in high risk areas calls for new methods to combat the potentially dangerous situation. A collaboration between researchers at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have found adding a barrier above a bednet can significantly improve the bednet’s performance, reduce the quantity of insecticide while expanding the range of insecticides that can be safely delivered via a bednet.

Currently transporting damaged and defective car batteries is an expensive process as they need to be placed in an explosion proof box which costs thousands of pounds, however researchers from WMG at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ in collaboration with Jaguar Land Rover engineers have been able to freeze batteries with Liquid Nitrogen.

Lasers, chemical reactions and the biggest explosion allowed in ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Arts Centre are among the spectacles promised at this year’s Christmas Lectures at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½.

On the 28^th November 2019, Steve Berry OBE, Head of Highways Maintenance, Innovation, Resilience, Light Rail and Cableways at the UK Department of Transport will give the keynote address at the Very Light Rail Conference being held at The Slate on the ¹û¶³´«Ã½â€™s campus. He will speak about the potential for Very Light Rail to transform local public transport.

Used EV batteries could be used to power rickshaws in Bangladesh, as researchers from WMG, ¹û¶³´«Ã½, seeking to find out how they can be repurposed for the rickshaws and lower peoples’ carbon footprint.