News Archive
May 2013
SmackDown 2013
Brunel wins Best Newcomer Award at the 2013 International Simulation Smackdown
April 2013
2013 Master's Scholarships
For 2013/14 we are pleased to be able to offer 5 awards, which will comprise of a £2000 payment or equivalent reduction in tuition fees for a postgraduate taught course in the school.February 2013
Maths student wins Gold for Brunel!
Congratulations to sprinter André Wright, a 21-year-old mathematics student, who won a gold medal at the British Universities Colleges and Sport indoor athletics championships at the EIS Sheffield at the weekend.December 2012
Augustine Nti-Manu nominated for award
Augustine Nti-Manu, studying Mathematics with Computer Science has been shortlisted for Best Placement Student award in the National Placement and Internship Awards 2013.
November 2012
First year students in Computer Science get their own robots to take home
First year Computer Science students get their own robot to take home.
Professor Brody elected to Fellowship of the Institute of Physics
Congratulations to Professor Dorje Brody who has been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP).October 2012
New study warns of the dangers of airline food to allergy sufferers
Professor Julie Barnett, Professor in Health Research at the Department of Information Systems and Computing, has led a study on the dangers of airline food for allergy sufferers.Samsung Student Developer Challenge 2012
Samsung Student Developer Challenge - over £10,000 prize fund!September 2012
A ‘Gold Medal’ for Information Systems researchers
A ‘Gold Medal’ for Information Systems researchers
July 2012
Brunel is one of the top UK Universities for Mathematics
Brunel among top ranked UK Universities in the World for Mathematics.
June 2012
UNI Global Union Communicators Forum
Dr Panos Panagiotopoulos presents global survey findings at the UNI Global Union Communicators Forum in Nyon, Switzerland
Great performance in Guardian university league table
Great performance for the School in 2013 Guardian university league table
Dr Laurence Brooks wins STAR award
Dr Laurence Brooks receives STAR award.March 2012
New Scholarships available for Master’s students
The School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics is pleased to announce 10 new Scholarships for MSc students.MADE IN BRUNEL Software Innovation 2012
Market leading companies including Cisco, GlaxoSmithKline, Microsoft, Sky, Steria and Xerox will be judging students’ submissions for MADE IN BRUNEL Software Innovation 2012.December 2011
Dr Pamela Abbot obtains research grant valuing €70,000
Dr. Pamela Abbott has been successful in obtaining a research grant valued at €70,000 under the sponsorship of two French institutions: CIGREF Foundation and the Sophia-Antipolis Foundation.November 2011
Brunel students made it ’appen
You’ve all seen eight-hour codeathons. Perhaps even 12-hour codeathons. But 24-hour codeathons?Brunel is one of 10 universities hosting the Samsung bada Student Developer Challenge.
August 2011
National Student Survey 2011
Mathematics and Statistics at Brunel did extremely well in the recent National Student Survey.July 2011
Higher salaries for Placement Graduates
A recent report written by Brunel’s Placement and Careers Centre has found that graduates who have undertaken a professional placement will on average find employment more rapidly and earn more as their starting salary than their peers from three-year courses.
May 2011
Computing student wins Google Scholarship
Bahareh Heravi, one of our PhD students, has been awarded a €7000 Anita Borg Memorial
Scholarship, an award given annually by Google to recognise outstanding young women scholars in computer science and related fields.
April 2011
TEL-Map project
The TEL-Map project, which was launched in October 2010, successfully hosted its 2nd General Assembly meeting 20-23rd March.
