Royal Society grant funds gene behaviour research

Dominique Chu, an Academic Fellow in the School of Computing, has received an award from the Royal Society to help fund research into fim switch in E Coli. The grant, worth £12,613, lasts for one year.

Welcome to our new computing students

The School of Computing hosted an undergraduate reception for new computing students on the first afternoon of welcome week. Here, students were able to meet fellow students on their course and chat to computing staff. The reception is one of many events in a packed timetable designed to help students feel at home, to become familiar with their subject School and to settle in to university life in general.

Smart move launches FIRST LEGO^® League 2009

The theme for this year's FIRST LEGO^® League (FLL) 2009 competition, smart move, was announced at the launch event held at the University of Kent. Seventeen schools from across Kent are already taking part in the competition and teachers attended the launch to find out about the challenges ahead. The FLL is an annual event which engages school children in science through themed activities including a robot challenge and practical project work.

School of Computing academic publishes Greenfoot programming book

A programming textbook teaching object-oriented programming in Java with Greenfoot has been published by Pearson Education this week. The book, titled "Introduction to Programming with Greenfoot : Object- Oriented Programming in Java with Games and Simulations" and written by Michael Kölling, is the next piece in the puzzle of the Greenfoot programming system.

Peter Rodgers awarded Royal Society Industrial Fellowship

Dr. Peter Rodgers has been awarded a Royal Society Industrial Fellowship to work on real-time schematics with Trafficlink and ITIS Holdings. The award provides £117,272 to fund Peter for three years and will begin on 1 November 2009.

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