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Professor Carrillo named Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
How a conversation at Queen’s led to a breakthrough discovery
Growing conversations: Movember at Queen’s
Medical student wins British Pharmacological Society Clinical Undergraduate Prize
Mathematics student wins two University prizes
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The Provost in conversation with…
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What’s for lunch?
- A delicious selection of soup, sandwiches,
pasta with sauce,
jacket potatoes with a variety of fillings,
and locally sourced seasonal vegetables
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Salt and Vinegar Pork Belly, Eggless Fried Rice,
Chilli, Pak Choi
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Blackcurrant Bakewell
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Korean Fried Tofu, Japchae,
Gochujang Mayo, Pak Choi
📚 What can a vanished First Folio tell us about early modern libraries?
Quite a lot, as it turns out.
Queen’s was pleased to be represented at ‘Built with Books: Shaping the Shelves of the Early Modern Library’, part of an AHRC-funded symposium held at UCL this autumn.
✨ In her keynote, Fellow in English Prof Tamara Atkin challenged the long-repeated story that Shakespeare's First Folio was simply “thrown out” when a newer edition arrived.
✨ College Librarian Matt Shaw explored how our own Library’s design and book collections reveal a College eager to project a modern, international identity.
🔗 Full story on the blog: ow.ly/CoVJ50XBiW0
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Hear the Provost Paul Johnson's thoughts on this week’s budget: m.youtube.com/watch?v=NS-xVCmHGN8 (Interview at 9:45 mins).
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At Queen’s, world-changing research sometimes begins in the most everyday places, including over lunch in the Senior Common Room.
A conversation between neuroscientist Dr David Menassa and applied mathematician Prof José Carrillo uncovered an unexpected overlap in their work on microglial development, the brain’s immune cells. That serendipitous moment sparked an international collaboration and has now revealed a fundamental “switch” in early brain development.
The team’s work shows how bringing different disciplines into the same room (literally) accelerates discovery. Mathematical modelling predicted a key developmental transition before it had ever been observed; new experiments confirmed it. Together, the researchers uncovered an early window of vulnerability that could shape our understanding of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disease.
This is Queen’s at its best: a collegiate environment where ideas cross tables, disciplines, and borders and where curiosity leads to real breakthroughs.
🔗 Read the full story and access the paper online: ow.ly/uQVJ50XyAoE
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Beyond the verdict: what justice really means
In our latest blogpost, Clarendon Scholar and Queen’s DPhil student Taqbir Huda reflects on Bangladesh’s July revolution, international human rights law, and the uneasy role that social media and digital evidence now play in shaping public understanding of atrocity.
Drawing on his work documenting state violence, verifying digital evidence, and navigating the challenges posed by AI-generated content, Taqbir argues that justice must be more than symbolic.
Fresh from interviews with Al Jazeera and DW, he speaks candidly about due process, reparations, and how his studies at Queen’s shape his approach to international law.
🔗 ow.ly/5HkR50Xy1Zk
#HumanRightsLaw #DigitalEvidence #InternationalLaw #DueProcess #Reparations #BangladeshHistory #AcademicInsights #AIAndLaw ... See MoreSee Less