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Mussels as big as size 9 shoes set to reveal their secrets

A diving expedition off the north coast of Scotland is set to discover the secrets of mussels as big as size 9 shoes.
Heriot-Watt Engage launched

The event showcased the variety of public engagement activities carried out by academics and PhD students across the University.
Making a conservation conundrum add up

Scientists at Heriot-Watt are helping conservationists who are working in rare habitats.
EPS researchers named Emerging Investigators 2013

Three researchers from the Institute of Chemical Sciences have been featured in the Emerging Investigators 2013 special issue published…
Field work in the desert

Professor David Hopkins, Head of School of Life Sciences, joins an international research programme in the Namib Desert in Namibia.
Research team avoids information overload by a hair’s breadth

Researchers from Scotland and India are working together to develop a platform for optical communications to meet the ever-increasing…

Protecting the language rights of young victims of crime

New research aimed at improving language interpretation for children who become the victims of crime is now underway at Heriot-Watt…
Collaborating to reduce uncertainty in petroleum reservoir modelling

Visiting researchers from CERENA at IST Lisbon are working with the Institute of Petroleum Engineering to develop a new history…
Chinese delegation explore Petroleum possibilities

Delegates from the China University of Petroleum - Beijing recently visited Heriot-Watt's Institute of Petroleum Engineering to discuss…
Heriot-Watt's Dr Jenny Roe is the new Beltane Public Engagement Fellow

Dr Jenny Roe, Lecturer in the School of the Built Environment at Heriot-Watt University, has been awarded a Beltane Public Engagement…
IPE secure £1M Petex software donation

Students and researchers continue to benefit from access to class leading software suite.
New figures on the impoverishment of the UK

A study of poverty and social exclusion undertaken by a group of researchers including representatives from Heriot-Watt's School of the…

New camera system creates high-resolution 3-D images

A team of Heriot-Watt physicists has advanced laser technology so that high-resolution, 3-D images precise to the millimetre can be…
PhD student awarded at Young Researchers' Conference

PhD student Muhammad Aslam Bhutto from the School of the Built Environment won the second prize for his poster at the annual Young…
Heriot-Watt researchers at the Edinburgh International Science Festival

Heriot-Watt researchers are taking part in a wide range of events at the annual Edinburgh Science Festival.
New research findings help raise awareness of Scotland's civil…

Research undertaken by Professor Roland Paxton from the School of the Built Environment informed the commemorative plaque that…
Scottish and South Korean researchers to collaborate on climate change…

The UK's largest grouping of carbon capture and storage (CCS) researchers has signed a strategic agreement with South Korea's leading…
£5 million funding for pill that carries ultrasound technology

A project involving researchers from Heriot-Watt, Dundee and Glasgow Universities has been awarded £5M funding. The researchers will…

Heriot-Watt scientists at the Dunbar Science Festival

Researchers from across Heriot-Watt brought some exciting interactive science to the annual Dunbar Science Festival, which took place…
Research award for SBE academic

Dr Alan Forster, Lecturer in Building Conservation and Construction Technology won a research award worth £135,000
Funding for ultrasound imaging system

The EPSRC has awarded a grant to a UK collaborative project that could reduce risks during brain surgery by creating ultrasound devices…
Global team aim for game-changing clean fuel made from CO2

An international team of scientists is to develop a new reactor that can produce fuel using sunlight and carbon dioxide, paving the way…
Flood risk research to be presented at the House of Commons

PhD student Janice Blanc from the School of the Built Environment, has been selected to make a presentation on her research work at the…
Heriot-Watt leads new national centre

Heriot-Watt leads new national centre to 'double the use of lasers in UK manufacturing in next five years'

New Energy Conversion Laboratory Opens

Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) opened a new Energy…
Investigating the molecular causes of disease in living cells

A new research centre which will help Scottish scientists to investigate the causes of disease at molecular level is to be established…
PhD student presents research at the House of Commons

School of Life Sciences PhD student Jen Loxton has been selected to make a presentation on her research work in Antarctica at the…
Biochar for Carbon Capture

A new UK-Canadian network, led by Heriot-Watt, was officially launched at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Heriot-Watt retains HR Excellence in Research Award

The award recognises the positive actions the University has taken to support the career development of researchers which is vital in…
Do teens drive their parents to distraction?

A lecturer from Heriot-Watt University is seeking teenagers and their guardians to take part in a research project investigating what…

‘Wooden’ denim could cut carbon emissions of global jeans industry

Jeans developed by a Heriot-Watt School of Textiles and Design student, using a fibre made from sustainable wood instead of cotton,…
Printed human organs for testing and transplantation

A specialised 3D printing process, using human stem cells, could pave the way to purpose-built replacement organs for patients,…
Major rail track test rig at Heriot-Watt

The UK's biggest purpose-built laboratory test track bed, which can predict the effects of high speed trains and simulate the effects…
Heriot-Watt Crucible IV champions interdisciplinary collaboration

The fourth Heriot-Watt Crucible programme to run in the past two years ended last month with the promise of a wealth of new…
Coal exploration and exploitation of coal bed methane in China

Visiting academics Dr Shuning Dong and Dr Zhijun Shi of the Xi’an Research Institute of China Coal Technology & Engineering Group…
Heriot-Watt researchers in flame shell reef discovery

A huge colony of an elusive and brightly coloured shellfish species, possibly the largest of its kind in the world, has been mapped by…

Carbon capture and storage win for Heriot-Watt

A Heriot-Watt Partnership, Project COMET, is among the winners of a £20m competition for innovative projects to reduce the cost of…
73k to aid produced water reinjection new tool will tackle…

LUX Innovate Ltd and Heriot-Watt University have secured £73,000 from the government-backed Technology Strategy Board to test the…
New research network for porous media flow

A new UK wide research network that will enable sharing of models, techniques and scientific insights between engineering and mathematics.
Scottish-based research to help tackle e-crime

Physicists at Heriot-Watt University and University of Strathclyde have worked with tiny particles of light to create a new way of…
FAST research makes front page

An image derived from FAST Group research into penta-phosphonate scale inhibitors has been used on the front cover of a prestigous…
Heriot-Watt research features at showcase oil industry event

Researchers from the Institute of Petroleum Engineering present papers at World Heavy Oil Congress

Centre of excellence for actuarial science

The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, in partnership with the Scottish Financial Risk Academy, has launched the Actuarial Research…
Are Scotland's poorest people hard to reach?

A report by Heriot-Watt University for the Equality and Human Rights Commission has revealed how policies which aim to tackle poverty…
CERN Director and Professor Peter Higgs speak at Heriot-Watt

Professor Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, presented a lecture to a packed lecture…
NiTech Solutions crystallises a new license with Heriot-Watt

Innovative technology which could vastly increase manufacturing processes and production in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries…
European Crucible launches at ESOF 2012

20 Scottish Crucible Alumni attended the Euroscience Open Forum 2012 conference in Dublin to launch a new academic leadership…
Funding for flood management research

Around £4M has been awarded for collaborative research projects into flooding and flood management.

Heriot-Watt to collaborate in digital economy research

Heriot-Watt University will be part of a consortium of researchers, headed by the University of Exeter Business School to undertake…
EPSRC awards £1.3 million to international maths centre

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded a grant of £1.3 million to the International Centre for…
Heriot-Watt students' Environmental Accounting projects add up to…

Students from the Social and Environmental Accounting undergraduate course were awarded a series of cash prizes for their innovative…
UK's biggest rail track bed testing facility at Heriot-Watt University

The biggest purpose-built rail laboratory track bed testing rig in the UK is under construction at Heriot-Watt University, as part of…
Research projects demonstrate interdisciplinary innovation

The first six collaborative research projects to be funded from the new Heriot-Watt Crucible Interdisciplinary Project Fund were…
Carbon capture and storage project launched

The Hydrates, Flow Assurance & Phase Equilibria group of the Institute of Petroleum Engineering in collaboration with the Laboratory of…

Research collaborations at Heriot-Watt–Moredun Exchange Symposium

Nearly 40 research leaders from a wide range of sciences attended a special Research Futures symposium at Heriot-Watt University last…
Researcher wins award for innovative use of MRI

Elisa Vignaga, a Research Assistant from the School of the Built Environment, has won the highly prestigious Dick Chorley Award 2011…
Heriot-Watt scientist leads research adventure into six million years…

In an underwater river of sand and mud off the Iberian Coast, a scientist from Heriot-Watt University has discovered new evidence…
Researchers reach final of business plan competition

A group of entrepreneurial PhD students brought together through the Research Futures 'Enterprising Researcher Summer School' have…
Heriot-Watt Crucible scores another success

The second Heriot-Watt Crucible programme for 'research leaders of the future' concluded with a research collaboration event at the…
Under the Antarctic Southern Sea

Jen Loxton, a Marine Biology PhD student at Heriot-Watt, is off on a two month expedition in the Antarctic, diving to gather samples…

Funding for new device to detect prostate cancer

A mechanical device that could have a major impact on the diagnosis, assessment and surveillance of prostate cancer is being developed…
School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences project wins €3 million…

A project led by Helen Hastie in the School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences has received an EC FP7 research award worth over €3…
'Baking with sound' research receives government funding

Heriot-Watt University is part of a group which has secured £500,000 funding to investigate the use of sound waves in the food industry.
Graduate wins prize for PhD thesis

Heriot-Watt graduate, Dr Maja Piecyk, has won the James Cooper Memorial Cup for the best PhD on a logistics topic in the UK.
Research Futures shortlisted for Leadership Foundation award

Heriot-Watt Crucible, the new research leadership programme, has been selected as a finalist for a Good Practice Impact Award 2011.
Nature plays dice with at least 11 faces

Researchers have shown that nature plays dice with at least 11 faces, using light that looks like pasta spirals!

A 'time machine' to study the future of our oceans

A new laboratory that will simulate the changing conditions of the seas around Scotland over the next 100 years has opened at Heriot-Watt.
Heriot-Watt partnership wins prize for smart label

Pete Higgins – founder of UWI Technology, a collaboration with Heriot-Watt – has won the Barclays ‘Take One Small Step’ business…
Scotland’s research entrepreneurs move closer to £25,000 cash prize

26 budding entrepreneurs have survived a ‘Dragon’s Den-style’ elevator pitch and moved one step closer to winning a cash prize of £25,000.
Stanford University Fellowships for Heriot-Watt researchers

Two Heriot-Watt researchers have been awarded entrepreneurial fellowships to spend one year at Stanford University in California, USA.
City of Glasgow welcomes Scottish Crucible 2011

Scottish Crucible, the research development programme for Scotland’s research leaders of the future, was honoured by the City of Glasgow.
Academics go back to school to get serious about gaming

Heriot-Watt University hosts first pan-European Serious Gaming Week

Grant award for the School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences

Professor Andrew Ireland from the School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences has been awarded an EPSRC platform grant of over £1.1m.
Cruise to investigate impacts of ocean acidification

Three Heriot-Watt researchers are onboard an RSS Discovery research cruise to study ocean acidification in European waters.
Centre for Finance and Investment launches with debate on inflation

The newly-formed Centre for Finance & Investment marked its official launch with an inaugural annual debate on inflation.
Heriot-Watt recognised for excellence in research

Heriot-Watt has been been recognised by the European Commission for its commitment to supporting the career management of its researchers.
Heriot-Watt researcher awarded £1.1m grant

Dr Martin Paterson, Lecturer in Theoretical & Computational Chemistry, has been awarded a £1.1m grant from the European Research Council.
Could urine be a source of renewable energy?

A research team at Heriot-Watt University is investigating whether urine could be used to create energy via new, low-cost fuel cells.

New research on stalking may be able to identify 'at risk' celebrities

New research carried by the School of Life Sciences could help identify which celebrities may be most at risk of attracting stalkers.
Knowledge Transfer Scotland: Policy & Practice Conference 2010

The third annual Knowledge Transfer Policy and Practice Conference was attended by over 300 delegates from Scotland’s research community.
Project sets out to find life on stars

A professor at Heriot-Watt University is to head up a major cross-European project having successfully secured £5.5million of funding.

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