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Postgraduate researcher Henrietta Baker has been awarded a John Moyes Lessells Travel Scholarship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Dr Encarni Medina-Lopez, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Energy Systems’ Policy & Innovation Group, is a finalist in the Young Professionals Green Energy Awards.

Dr Harry van der Weijde has been awarded a prestigious Fellowship at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

2018 marks 150 years since Queen Victoria bestowed the first Regius Chair of Engineering in the UK to the University of Edinburgh. On Wednesday 24 January the School celebrated this milestone by launching its Engineering150 celebrations.

A project to improve the lives of young disabled people has been awarded £1 million from the People’s Postcode Lottery.

The leader of the world’s second-largest economy has been given a presentation of LiFi – the high-speed wireless data transmission technology created by the School of Engineering’s Professor Harald Haas.

Krisna Pawitan, a PhD student in the Institute for Energy Systems, has received the Best Student Presentation Award at the 4th Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference in Taiwan in September.

Hancong Wu, a PhD student in the Institue for Digital Communiations, has won the prize for Best Student Poster Award in the 4th Conference on Impedance-Based Cellular Assays (IBCA2018). The conference covered all the aspects of impedance based-cellular assays from applications to technology development with a dedicated session on regenerative medicine.

On Monday 3rd September 2018, the School’s first commemorative plaques were unveiled to celebrate the achievements of three outstanding alumni, and the School’s first ever Regius Professor.

The extraordinary flying ability of dandelion seeds is possible thanks to a form of flight that has not been seen before in nature, research has revealed.

The discovery confirms the common plant among the natural world’s best fliers.

Our Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Wind and Marine Energy Systems, which is co-led by the University of Strathclyde and Edinburgh, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Scottish Green Energy Awards 2018 (SGEA18).

Five new centres exploiting Artificial Intelligence (AI) for healthcare have been announced by the UK Government as part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.