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My Mother's Strawberry Jam
Author Notes: My mother's trick, which I've heard about from others too, is to stir a knob of butter into the cooked jam. Don't ask me about the science behind it; supposedly the butter helps to clarify the jam and to get rid of the foam as it cools. My mother's jam is always crystal clear and foam-free, so I don't mess with the recipe. - Merrill Stubbs
Makes 2 pints
- 4 cups hulled and quartered strawberries
- 2 1/4 cups granulated sugar
- pinches salt
- Juice of 1/2 a lemon
- 1 1/2 teaspoon cold unsalted butter
- Put a small plate in the freezer.
- Combine the strawberries, sugar, salt and lemon juice in a medium, heavy saucepan. Set the pan over low heat and cook, stirring frequently, until the sugar dissolves and the mixture starts to bubble.
- Continue to cook over low heat for about 30 minutes, until a bit of the jam sets on the plate you've been keeping in the freezer (when you tip the plate, the jam should run only very slowly).
- Turn off the heat and stir the butter into the jam -- this will help to clarify the jam and get rid of the foam once it cools.
- Spoon the hot jam carefully into hot sterilized jars and either process the jars or seal and keep refrigerated. If refrigerating, use the jam within a week or two.
- Some sterilizing notes:
- Use glass jars with no chips or cracks and tight-fitting lids.
- To sterilize, wash both the jars and lids thoroughly with hot, soapy water. Bring a large pot of water to a boil and boil the jars and lids (don't boil metal lids or rubber seals) for 15 minutes. Alternately, after you've cleaned the jars and lids, arrange them (lids open sides up), without touching, on a baking sheet and put them in a 175 degree F oven for 30 minutes. To sterilize metal lids and/or rubber seals, put them in a bowl, pour boiling water over them to cover and let them soak for a few minutes.
- Sterilize all of your additional equipment (tongs for handling hot jars, funnels, ladles, etc.) by dipping them in boiling water for a few minutes.
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Comments (19) Questions (1)
5 months ago Wendi Kavanaugh
I'm guessing you process for 15 - 20 minutes, if I do this how long will the jam last?
5 months ago Cheri K Falk
About two weeks in refrig., I make single jars at a time this way.
6 months ago sylvia
Use a candy thermometer..cook to jelling point works for just about all jams.. temperature should be about 218 for jelling point..about 30 minutes slow rolling boil..keep stirring and don't let burn.
6 months ago ChiFoodLover
Thank you very much for this delicious jam recipe! I had 2lbs of overripe strawberries that I needed to use and this was perfect for them. I'll absolutely be making this again & again.
7 months ago Joy Caamano
Thanks so much!
7 months ago Kristy Morrill
Buy the Pectin box for "sugar free" and you will have no problem.
Also, sometimes I use agar agar to make jelly, jam, pudding etc. It is a great natural thickener, and works well with stevia or lo-han(nectresse) as sweetener.
7 months ago Joy Caamano
Is there a way to use any sugar free sweetners for at least part of the sugar?
7 months ago Cheri K Falk
Have been making jam like this for years! Berries have their own pectin, something to do with the seeds I've heard. I make raspberry..takes only about 10-15 min to reduce and thicken, a multi-berry( blueberry,raspberry,blackberry ) and this also thickens faster. The strawberry is thinner than the other berries but still delish!
8 months ago Nyeer
The butter should be added to prevent foaming.
9 months ago Carolyn plourde
thanks for the feedback, i'll give the lemon rind a try!
9 months ago Kristy Morrill
Made this with strawberries, then with blue berries, then with raspberries, too. It will be reay in 2 weeks to check out will let you know!
9 months ago Pascale Beale
Lemon juice acts as the natural pectin. Once I squeeze the lemon juice into the jam I add the whole lemons into the pot as well whilst the jam cooks - I do this for all types of jam - and that helps set the jam. Remove the lemon rinds at the end just before you pot the jam. I press down on the lemons extracting all the jam that has got inside them too. Be careful as you do this as they will be very hot, but I found that the extra lemon juice helps.
9 months ago DebS
This is very close to a recipe I use. The butter really does work; I have no idea how or why either.
9 months ago Carolyn plourde
I cooked this down well over an hour and it never set...this happens every time I fall for a recipe w/out pectin...what am i missing here?
9 months ago DebS
Depending on the fruit you use jam without added pectin will be runnier than that made with added pectin. I find strawberry jam is always quite runny not matter how long you cook it.
9 months ago
Merrill Stubbs
Merrill is a co-founder of Food52.
It is not a very firm jam -- but I like it that way!
9 months ago Erin Molnar
Do you have to make any adjustments if you are using turbinado sugar?
9 months ago
Merrill Stubbs
Merrill is a co-founder of Food52.
I haven't made it with turbinado, so I'm not sure. Let me know what happens if you try it!


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This is a montage of all the tricks us bristol filmers have from thebig 3 in Bristol. It was played for the first time during a night that I put on at the cube cinema in Bristol. I'm putting it online because I think the world should see it. No doubt there's plenty of other and newer tricks out there since. Filmed by numerous people, but predominently by the editors, George Nevin and Louis Gane.
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Rick E. Graf
Gerald Norman Smith
August 1, 1934 - April 17, 2011
Gerry was born to Loretta G. Smith and Donald G. Smith in Rocky Ford Colorado. He was later placed in Sacred Heart Orphanage in Pueblo, CO. After graduation from Mullen High in Denver, he spent four years in the US Air Force. He was superintendent of schools in Kettle Falls, Coeur D'Alene and McCleary.
He moved to Port Townsend in 1984 and to Sequim in 2002. He enjoyed fishing, growing fuchsias, trips in his motor home with his pets, and watching the pair of eagles that nested in back of his home.
Gerry was first married to Jo Ann Sheers and had a son, Gregory and daughters Sara and Karla.
While on vacation he suddenly became ill and passed away at the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake. His wife, Margaret Preston and daughter, Tracey, were with him.
He was preceded in death by his mother, Loretta Gregory of
Port Townsend, and infant daughter Sara.
He is survived by his wife Margaret, son Gregory of Boise, ID,
daughter Karla Smith-Jones of Seattle, and stepdaughters Sarah
Franklin of Denver, Tracey Heller of Fence Lake, NM, and Lisa Preston of Sequim.
Memorial Mass will be at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Sequim at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, June 24. There will also be a reception Friday,
June 24 at 12:30 p.m. at Gerry's home, 698 Oak View Place, Sequim.
Marinette B. Chymiy
April 7, 1923-June 6, 2011
Marinette Besnault Chymiy was born into a family of 11 children in a town southeast of Tours, France, in the Loire River countryside. She lived through the occupation of France by Germany in World War II and met her first husband in Nice, France, who was a captain in the US military. They arrived in the United States in 1945, living in Louisville, KY where her only child, son Patrick, was born in 1946. She married her second husband, Andrew Chymiy in 1978 after being previously divorced for some ten years. In 1979 she and her husband retired and moved from New Jersey to Fresno, CA to be with her new step-daughter, Patricia and her husband, James Zettas. Marinette stayed in Fresno for 6 more years after the death of her husband Andrew in 1985. She gave Florida a trial living experience but soon after chose a permanent move to Sequim following her acquired family (Zettas) who had moved there in 1991. She was very happy living here. For years she was an avid walker throughout her Sequim neighborhood. She loved to do light yard and home maintenance work about the home.
It is a coincidence that she died on the 67th anniversary of the day that American forces stormed the French coast in 1944. She was 21 years old living in Paris when that event took place. After arriving in the United States learning English and becoming a citizen were important to her. She also worked as a manicurist for 20 plus years, making many friends and loyal customers.
Marinette will always be remembered for her interest in conversation, a vibrant personality in gatherings and her representation as a 'French Coquette', never completely losing her French accent.
Helen Simon Gamroth
July 17, 1905 • May 28, 2011
Helen Marie passed peacefully of age-
related causes six weeks short of her 106th birthday. She was a remarkable woman with a strong spirit and quiet determination as she experienced and witnessed more than a century of personal, community, national and world events.
She came of age in a time when personal social interaction and hand written letters were two skills necessary and valued. To her end days, she was writing to friends and family and inquiring after the health and well being of everyone with whom she interacted. Her gift was the ability to make each person feel appreciated and cared about.These skills were the foundation of many life-long friendships.
Helen lived the first 90 years of her life in Wisconsin, nine in Illinois with a daughter,
the last 7 here in Sequim in the home of her son and lastly at Sequim Health and Rehabilitation.
From early childhood she was a voracious reader. She developed an exceptional command of the English language, including composition, spelling, grammar and dictionary-perfect meanings of even the most obscure words. Due to her love and knowledge of the English language and the fact that there were very few career opportunities for women coming of age during the early 1900s, it was only natural that she should enter the teaching profession.
During the mid-1920s to mid-1930s she taught school in Cudahy where a large percentage of the students were first generation children of German, Polish and Eastern European parents. English was rarely spoken at home and American cultural and social norms unfamiliar. With patience, determination and kindness, she helped these young people acclimate and thrive during their most formative years.
The love of her life was A.J. Gamroth and together they raised three children in Watertown, Wisconsin. They made their home in a traditional two-story brick home on a tree-shaded street. She and her family could walk to church, schools, the homes of friends, shopping, the library, the hospital, the Rock River, several parks, and A.J.'s accounting office. This probably explains the reason why her driving skills could have been improved.
Helen's almost photographic mind and memory were inordinately clear and sharp to the end. She could recount events in detail from early childhood onward including the specific outfits she was wearing, what food was served, which trolley line they might have ridden, etc.
She and A.J. raised their family in the Catholic faith and were faithful and giving members of St. Bernard's in Watertown for 60 years. Once they won a new car in a raffle and donated it to St. Bernard's. Her community service included serving on the Board of the Watertown Library, volunteering at the Watertown Hospital for many years, and participating in the Lady Elks Auxiliary, among others.
After their children had left the nest, she and A.J. hosted students and visiting professionals from abroad and typically, kept up correspondence for many years after.
Her guilty pleasure was 'henning around' in thrift stores, having a 'girl's night out' each week with a special friend who also enjoyed
the hunt. She was a fashion plate, always paying special attention to her appearance from head to toe.
She was a swell artist, leaving many drawings and watercolors for others to enjoy and employed that talent as a makeup artist for a small theater group in Watertown. Helen was a fine piano player and in concert with A.J., who played the musical saw, would appear at local Watertown functions, playing and bantering jokes together a la George Burns and Gracie Allen. She was an avid word gamer up to the last week of her life. She enjoyed Scrabble, Upwords, working the
New York Times and other crossword puzzles.
Helen leaves three children, six grandchildren and their spouses, and seven great-grandchildren. While she outlived countless of her friends and family, she was continually making new friends, as personal interaction was her primary source of joy and interest in life. To those remaining, she left these final words whispered to her granddaughter the day before she passed, "Remember me as I was."
The family wishes to thank especially her dedicated, patient, loving and emotionally involved friends & caregivers at Sequim Health & Rehab who helped Helen up to and through her transition to the House of
Her Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen.


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Localized Dimerization and Nucleoid Binding Drive Gradient Formation by the Bacterial Cell Division Inhibitor MipZ
Localized Dimerization and Nucleoid Binding Drive Gradient Formation by the Bacterial Cell Division Inhibitor MipZMipZ: One for the Pole, Two for the DNA
Molecular Cell, Volume 46, Issue 3,
Pages 245-259,
Publication Date 05 April 2012
Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2012.03.004
Daniela Kiekebusch
Katharine A. Michie
Lars-Oliver Essen
Jan Löwe
Martin Thanbichler
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, 35043 Marburg, Germany
Laboratory for Microbiology, Department of Biology, Philipps University, 35043 Marburg, Germany
LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, 35043 Marburg, Germany
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 OQH, UK
Structural Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Philipps University, 35032 Marburg, Germany
Corresponding author
These authors contributed equally to this work
► ParB mediates ATP-dependent dimerization of MipZ at the cell poles ► MipZ dimers bind the polar regions of the nucleoid, thus directing FtsZ to midcell ► Dimers disassemble upon spontaneous ATP hydrolysis, releasing ADP-bound monomers ► Monomers undergo spontaneous nucleotide exchange and reassociate with ParB
Protein gradients play a central role in the spatial organization of cells, but the mechanisms of their formation are incompletely understood. This study analyzes the determinants responsible for establishing bipolar gradients of the ATPase MipZ, a key regulator of division site placement in Caulobacter crescentus. We have solved the crystal structure of MipZ in different nucleotide states, dissected its ATPase cycle, and investigated its interaction with FtsZ, ParB, and the nucleoid. Our results suggest that the polar ParB complexes locally stimulate the formation of ATP-bound MipZ dimers, which are then retained near the cell poles through association with chromosomal DNA. Due to their intrinsic ATPase activity, dimers eventually dissociate into freely diffusible monomers that undergo spontaneous nucleotide exchange and are recaptured by ParB. These findings clarify the molecular function of a conserved gradient-forming system and reveal mechanistic principles that might be commonly used to sustain protein gradients within cells.


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As successful, award-winning film stars, Forest Whitaker and Spike Lee both credit African-American entertainers who have come before them for their accomplishments. Dr. Angelou talks with Forest and Spike about their movie careers and recent film projects.
Forest calls himself a storyteller and says he tries to connect with other people through this medium. "In respect to all of the different art forms, whether it's directing, producing or acting or music, it's all just an expression of my spirit," he says. Forest won in Oscar® for for his role as former Ugandan president and dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. He diligently prepared and researched for the role, studying the Swahili language, his character's voice and what it means to be African. "I'm African-American, but I had not been to Africa—I didn't know enough about the soul of it," Forest says. "I needed to get in touch with that place inside of myself that was the same, that was truly connected to my ancestors." Filming in Uganda, Forest immersed himself in the nation's culture—ate the food, listened to the stories, walked in the villages and slept in the huts. He calls the experience a spiritual journey and says he tries to share his touching experiences with his children so that they, too, can experience them. For more than 20 years, Spike has revolutionized filmmaking and the way that African-Americans are portrayed. Born in Atlanta and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Spike discovered the summer before his junior year at Atlanta's Morehouse College that he wanted to be a director. "My first two years I was drifting, really had no direction," he says. "I chose mass communications, and I had more direction. In a lot of ways, I say filmmaking chose me, not the other way around." Spike's latest film, Miracle at St. Anna, tells the story of black soldiers who fought in World War II against the Nazis and fascists in Tuscany, Italy. "It's a great blend of a war film with a heavy dose of spirituality, love and the common bond that unites us all," Spike says. "It was one of the highlights of my cinematic life so far." |


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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Vintage books) (Paperback)
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- Published: 29 March 2011
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There were several themes running through this book, none of which fully achieved its purpose. As a result the book was somewhat disjointed and confusing, darting from one theme to another without fully exploring the previous theme. Commentary on the races was flimsy, as was explanation on minimalist running. A few explanatory pictures or drawings would have made a big difference. A mud map of the location would have provided some background as the the course. There were many claims made and quotes given with minimal source references or bibliography. Some photographs would have put a face to the characters.
The author obviously has a lot of good things to say, but in his endeavour to include everything, the book lacks focus and clarity.
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University of Manchester
The University of Manchester | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motto | Latin: Cognitio, sapientia, humanitas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motto in English | "Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Established | 2004, by the merger of the Victoria University of Manchester (established 1851 as Owens College) and UMIST (established 1824) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Endowment | £158.7 million (as of 31 July 2011)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chancellor | Tom Bloxham MBE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
President | Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell DBE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Academic staff | 3849[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Students | 39,165[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Undergraduates | 28,514[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Postgraduates | 11,218[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Manchester, England, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Campus | Urban and Suburban | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nobel Laureates | 25[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Colours |
Blue, Gold, Purple |
Affiliations | Universities Research Association, Russell Group, EUA, N8 Group, NWUA, ACU | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | manchester.ac.uk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The University of Manchester is the largest public research university in Manchester, England. It was formed in 2004 by the amalgamation of the Victoria University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. It is a member of the worldwide Universities Research Association group, the Russell Group of British research universities and the N8 Group. The University of Manchester has been a "red brick university" since 1880 when Victoria University gained its royal charter.
The main site is south of Manchester city centre on Oxford Road. In 2012, the university had around 39,000 students and 10,400 staff, making it the largest single-site university in the United Kingdom.[5] The University of Manchester had an income of £827 million in 2012–13, of which £200 million was from research grants and contracts.[6]
In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise,[7] Manchester came third in terms of research power and eighth for grade point average quality when including specialist institutions.[8] More students try to gain entry to the University of Manchester than to any other university in the country, with more than 60,000 applications for undergraduate courses.[9] According to the 2012 Highfliers Report, Manchester is the most targeted university by the Top 100 Graduate Employers.[10][11] In the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Manchester is ranked 40th in the world and 5th in the UK.[12] It is ranked 49th in the world and 12th in Europe in the 2014 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.[13]
The university owns and operates major cultural assets such as the Manchester Museum, Whitworth Art Gallery, John Rylands Library and Jodrell Bank Observatory. The University of Manchester has 25 Nobel Laureates among its past and present students and staff, the third-highest number of any single university in the United Kingdom after Cambridge and Oxford. Four Nobel laureates are currently among its staff – more than any other British university.[14]
The University of Manchester can trace its roots to the formation of the Mechanics' Institute (later to become UMIST) in 1824, and its history is linked to Manchester's emergence as the world's first industrial city.[15] The English chemist John Dalton, together with Manchester businessmen and industrialists, established the Mechanics' Institute to ensure that workers could learn the basic principles of science.
Similarly, John Owens, a textile merchant, left a bequest of £96,942 in 1846 (around £5.6 million in 2005 prices)[16] to found a college to educate men on non-sectarian lines. His trustees established Owens College in 1851 in a house on the corner of Quay Street and Byrom Street which had been the home of the philanthropist Richard Cobden, and subsequently housed Manchester County Court. In 1873 the college moved to new premises on Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock and from 1880 it was a constituent college of the federal Victoria University. The university was established and granted a Royal Charter in 1880 becoming England's first civic university; it was renamed the Victoria University of Manchester in 1903 and absorbed Owens College the following year.[17]
By 1905, the institutions were large and active forces. The Municipal College of Technology, forerunner of UMIST, was the Victoria University of Manchester's Faculty of Technology while continuing in parallel as a technical college offering advanced courses of study. Although UMIST achieved independent university status in 1955, the universities continued to work together.[15] The Victoria University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology agreed to merge into a single institution in March 2003.[18][19]
Before the merger, Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST counted 23 Nobel Prize winners amongst their former staff and students. Manchester has traditionally been strong in the sciences, it is where the nuclear nature of the atom was discovered by Rutherford, and the world's first stored-program computer was built at the university. Famous scientists associated with the university include physicists Osborne Reynolds, Niels Bohr, Ernest Rutherford, James Chadwick, Arthur Schuster, Hans Geiger, Ernest Marsden and Balfour Stewart. The university has contributed in other fields, such as by the work of mathematicians Paul Erdős, Horace Lamb and Alan Turing; author Anthony Burgess; philosophers Samuel Alexander, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alasdair MacIntyre; the Pritzker Prize and RIBA Stirling Prize winning architect Norman Foster and composer Peter Maxwell Davies all attended, or worked in, Manchester.
2004 to present[edit]
The University of Manchester was officially launched on 1 October 2004 when the Queen handed over its Royal Charter.[20] The university was named Sunday Times University of the Year in 2006 after winning the inaugural Times Higher Education Supplement University of the Year prize in 2005.[21]
The founding President and Vice-Chancellor of the new university was Alan Gilbert, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, who retired at the end of the 2009–2010 academic year.[22] His successor was Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, who had held a chair in physiology at the university since 1994. One of the university's aims stated in the Manchester 2015 Agenda is to be one of the top 25 universities in the world, following on from Alan Gilbert's aim to "establish it by 2015 among the 25 strongest research universities in the world on commonly accepted criteria of research excellence and performance".[23] In 2011, four Nobel laureates were on its staff: Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov, Sir John Sulston and Joseph E. Stiglitz.
The EPSRC announced in Feb 2012 the formation of the National Graphene Institute. The University of Manchester is the "single supplier invited to submit a proposal for funding the new £45m institute, £38m of which will be provided by the government" - (EPSRC & Technology Strategy Board).[24] In 2013, an additional £23 million of funding from European Regional Development Fund was awarded to the institute taking investment to £61 million.[25]
In August 2012, it was announced that the university's Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences had been chosen to be the "hub" location for a new BP International Centre for Advanced Materials, as part of a $100 million initiative to create industry-changing materials.[26][27] The centre will be aimed at advancing fundamental understanding and use of materials across a variety of oil and gas industrial applications and will be modelled on a hub and spoke structure, with the hub located at Manchester, and the spokes based at the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[28]
The university's main site contains most of its facilities and is often referred to as campus, however Manchester is not a campus university as the concept is commonly understood. It is centrally located in the city and its buildings are integrated into the fabric of Manchester, with non-university buildings and major roads between.
The campus occupies an area shaped roughly like a boot: the foot of which is aligned roughly south-west to north-east and is joined to the broader southern part of the boot by an area of overlap between former UMIST and former VUM buildings;[29] it comprises two parts:
- North campus or Sackville Street Campus, centred on Sackville Street
- South campus or Oxford Road Campus, centred on Oxford Road.
The names are not officially recognised by the university, but are commonly used, including in parts of its website and roughly correspond to the campuses of the old UMIST and Victoria University respectively.
Fallowfield Campus is the main residential campus in Fallowfield, approximately 2 miles (3 km) south of the main site.
There are other university buildings across the city and the wider region, such as Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire and One Central Park in Moston, a collaboration between the university and other partners which offers office space for start-up firms and venues for conferences and workshops,[30]
Major projects[edit]
Following the merger, the university embarked on a £600 million programme of capital investment, to deliver eight new buildings and 15 major refurbishment projects by 2010, partly financed by a sale of unused assets.[31] These include:
- £60 m Flagship University Place building (new)
- £56 m Alan Turing Building houses Mathematics, replaced Mathematics Tower. Home to the Photon Sciences Institute and the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (new)
- £50 m Life Sciences Research Building (A. V. Hill Building) (new)
- £38 m Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) (new)
- £33 m Life Sciences and Medical and Human Sciences Building (Michael Smith Building) (new)
- £31 m Humanities Building - now officially called the "Arthur Lewis Building" (new)
- £20 m Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre (WMIC) (new)
- £18 m Re-location of School of Pharmacy
- £17 m John Rylands Library, Deansgate (extension & refurbishment of existing building)
- £13 m Chemistry Building
- £10 m Functional Biology Building
The Old Quadrangle[edit]
The buildings around the Old Quadrangle date from the time of Owens College, and were designed in a Gothic style by Alfred Waterhouse and his son Paul Waterhouse. The first to be built was the John Owens Building (1873), formerly the Main Building. The others were added over the next thirty years. The Rear Quadrangle is older than the Old Quadrangle. Today, the museum continues to occupy part of one side, including the tower, and the grand setting of the Whitworth Hall is used for the conferment of degrees. Part of the old Christie Library (1898) now houses Christie's Bistro, and the remainder of the buildings house administrative departments.
Contact stages modern live performance for all ages, and participatory workshops primarily for young people aged 13 to 30. The building on Devas Street was completed in 1999 incorporating parts of its 1960s predecessor.[32] It has a unique energy-efficient ventilation system, using its high towers to naturally ventilate the building without the use of air conditioning. The colourful and curvaceous interior houses three performance spaces, a lounge bar and Hot Air, a reactive public artwork in the foyer.
Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre[edit]
The Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre was built around The Firs, a house built in 1850 for Sir Joseph Whitworth by Edward Walters, who also designed Manchester's Free Trade Hall. Whitworth used the house as a social, political and business base, entertaining radicals such as John Bright, Richard Cobden, William Forster and T.H. Huxley at the time of the Reform Bill of 1867. Whitworth, credited with raising the art of machine-tool building to a previously unknown level, supported the Mechanics Institute – the birthplace of UMIST - and was a founder the Manchester School of Design. Whilst living there, Whitworth used land at the rear (now the site of the University's botanical glasshouses) for testing his "Whitworth rifle". In 1882, The Firs was leased to C.P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian and after Scott's death became the property of Owens College. It was the Vice-Chancellor's residence until 1991.
The house now forms the western wing of the Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre. The eastern wing houses the circular Flowers Theatre, six conference rooms and most of the hotel's bedrooms.
Other Notable Buildings[edit]
Other notable buildings in the Oxford Road Campus include the Stephen Joseph Studio, a former German Protestant Church, and the Samuel Alexander Building, a grade II listed building erected in 1919 and home of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures.
Organisation and administration[edit]
Faculties and schools[edit]
The University of Manchester is divided into four faculties, each sub-divided into schools.
Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences[edit]
The Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences comprises the Schools of Medicine; Dentistry; Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work; Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; and Psychological Sciences.
The college was established in 1874 and is one of the largest in the country,[33] with more than 400 medical students trained in each clinical year and more than 350 students in the pre-clinical/phase 1 years. Approximately 100 students who have completed pre-clinical training at the Bute Medical School (University of St Andrews) join the third year of the undergraduate medical programme each year.
The university's Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences has links with a number of NHS hospitals in the North West of England and maintains a presences in four base hospitals: Manchester Royal Infirmary (at the southern end of the university campus on Oxford Road), Wythenshawe Hospital, Hope Hospital and the Royal Preston Hospital for clinical medical training for doctors and nurses.
The university is a founding partner of the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, established to focus high-end healthcare research in Greater Manchester.[34] Future plans include collaboration with Manchester City Football Club and the National Health Service (NHS) to establish a world-leading research facility for sports science and treatment in Sportcity.[35]
In 1883, a department of pharmacy was established at the university and, in 1904, Manchester became the first British university to offer an honours degree in the subject. The School of Pharmacy[36] benefits from links with Manchester Royal Infirmary and Wythenshawe and Hope hospitals providing its undergraduate students with hospital experience. The school's pharmacy students are the only such students in the UK to have access to an extensive course in secondary care.[37]
Manchester Dental School was rated the country's best dental school by Times Higher Education in 2010 and 2011[38] and it is one of the best funded because of its emphasis on research and enquiry-based learning approach. The university has obtained multi-million pound backing to maintain its high standard of dental education.[39] The number of applicants far exceeds the number of places available; in 2011 there were 1000 applicants for 75places.[40] Graduates have some of the best employment prospects of UK dental school graduates.[41] Other dental schools are adopting the school's teaching style.[42] The University Dental Hospital of Manchester is part of Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It was established in 1884 in association with the School of Medicine at Owens College at Grosvenor Street in Chorlton on Medlock and in 1892 moved to Devonshire Street. In 1908 the hospital moved to a new building on Oxford Road designed in the Edwardian Baroque style by Charles Heathcote & Sons. In 1905 the university established a degree and a diploma in dental surgery (first awarded in 1909 and 1908 respectively). A contribution from Godfrey Ermen towards the cost of building the hospital is recorded on a stone tablet near the entrance.[43]
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences[edit]
The Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences comprises the schools of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science; Chemistry; Computer Science; Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Science; Physics and Astronomy; Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Materials; Mathematics; and Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering.
The Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics comprises the university's astronomical academic staff in Manchester and Jodrell Bank Observatory on rural land near Goostrey, about ten miles (16 km) west of Macclesfield away from the lights of Greater Manchester. The observatory's Lovell Telescope, named after Sir Bernard Lovell, a professor at the Victoria University of Manchester who first proposed the telescope. Constructed in the 1950s, it is the third largest fully movable radio telescope in the world. It has played an important role in the research of quasars, pulsars and gravitational lenses, and in confirming Einstein's theory of General Relativity. A £1.2 billion Square Kilometre Array with 50 times more sensitivity and the ability to search space 10,000 times faster than any other telescope in existence will become operational in 2020.[44]
Faculty of Humanities[edit]
The Faculty of Humanities includes the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures (incorporating Archaeology; Art History & Visual Studies; Classics and Ancient History; Drama; English and American Studies; History; Museology; Music; and Religions and Theology) and the Schools of Combined Studies; Education; Environment and Development; Architecture; Languages, Linguistics and Cultures; Law; Social Sciences and the Manchester Business School.
Faculty of Life Sciences[edit]
The Faculty of Life Sciences consists of a single school. Biological Sciences have been taught at Manchester as far back as the foundation of Owens College in 1851. At UMIST, biological teaching and research began in 1959, with the creation of a Biochemistry department.[45] The present school, though unitary for teaching, is divided into a number of sections for research purposes, these sections comprise: Cellular Systems, Disease Systems, Molecular Systems, Neuro Systems and Tissue Systems. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise the Faculty came 3rd in the UK on the basis of Grade Point Average for Biological Sciences with 107 staff submitted, and 2nd in the UK for Preclinical and Human Biological Sciences with 72 staff submitted.[46]
In the financial year ending 31 July 2011, the University of Manchester had a total income of £808.58 million (2009/10 – £787.9 million) and total expenditure of £754.51 million (2009/10 – £764.55 million).[1] Key sources of income included £247.28 million from tuition fees and education contracts (2009/10 – £227.75 million), £203.22 million from funding body grants (2009/10 – £209.02 million), £196.24 million from research grants and contracts (2009/10 – £194.6 million) and £14.84 million from endowment and investment income (2009/10 – £11.38 million).[1] During the 2010/11 financial year the University of Manchester had a capital expenditure of £57.42 million (2009/10 – £37.95 million).[1]
At year end the University of Manchester had endowments of £158.7 million (2009/10 – £144.37 million) and total net assets of £731.66 million (2009/10 – £677.12 million).[1]
Academic profile[edit]
The University of Manchester has the largest number of full-time students in the UK, unless the University of London's colleges are counted as a single university. It teaches more academic subjects than any other British university.
Well-known figures among the university's current academic staff include computer scientist Steve Furber, economist Richard Nelson,[47] novelist Jeanette Winterson[48] (who succeeded Colm Tóibín in 2012)[49] and biochemist Sir John Sulston, Nobel laureate of 2002.
The University of Manchester is a major centre for research and a member of the Russell Group of leading British research universities.[50] In the first national assessment of higher education research since the university's founding, the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the university was ranked third in terms of research power (after Cambridge and Oxford) and sixth for grade point average quality among multi-faculty institutions[51] (eighth when including specialist institutions)[8] Manchester has the fifth largest research income of any British university (after Oxford, Imperial, UCL and Cambridge).[52] (these five universities have been informally referred to as the "golden diamond" of research-intensive UK institutions).[53] Manchester has a strong record in terms of securing funding from the three main UK research councils, EPSRC, MRC and BBSRC, being ranked fifth,[54] seventh[55] and first[56] respectively. In addition, the university is one of the richest in the UK in terms of income and interest from endowments: a recent estimate placed it third, surpassed only by Oxford and Cambridge.[57] Despite recent severe cuts in higher education Manchester remains at second place behind Oxford nationally in terms of total recurrent grants allocated by the HEFCE.[58]
Historically, Manchester has been linked with high scientific achievement: the university and its constituent former institutions combined had 25 Nobel Laureates among their students and staff, the third largest number of any single university in the United Kingdom (after Oxford and Cambridge) and the ninth largest of any university in Europe. Furthermore, according to an academic poll two of the top ten discoveries by university academics and researchers were made at the university (namely the first working computer and the contraceptive pill).[59] The university currently employs four Nobel Prize winners amongst its staff, more than any other in the UK.[60] The Langworthy Professorship, an endowed chair at the University's School of Physics and Astronomy, has been historically given to a long line of academic luminaries, including Ernest Rutherford (1907–19), Lawrence Bragg (1919–37), Patrick Blackett (1937–53) and more recently Konstantin Novoselov, all of whom have won the Nobel Prize. In 2013 Manchester was given the Regius Professorship in Physics, the only one of its kind in the UK; the current holder is Andre Geim.
University of Manchester Library[edit]
The University of Manchester Library is the largest non-legal deposit library in the UK and the third-largest academic library after those of Oxford and Cambridge.[61] It has the largest collection of electronic resources of any library in the UK.[61]
The John Rylands Library, founded in memory of John Rylands by his wife Enriqueta Augustina Rylands as an independent institution, is situated in a Victorian Gothic building on Deansgate, in the city centre. It houses an important collection of historic books and other printed materials, manuscripts, including archives and papyri. The papyri are in ancient languages and include the oldest extant New Testament document, Rylands Library Papyrus P52, commonly known as the St John Fragment. In April 2007 the Deansgate site reopened to readers and the public after major improvements and renovations, including the construction of the pitched roof originally intended and a new wing.
Manchester Museum[edit]
The Manchester Museum holds nearly 4.25 million[62] items sourced from many parts of the world. The collections include butterflies and carvings from India, birds and bark-cloth from the Pacific, live frogs and ancient pottery from America, fossils and native art from Australia, mammals and ancient Egyptian craftsmanship from Africa, plants, coins and minerals from Europe, art from past civilisations of the Mediterranean, and beetles, armour and archery from Asia. In November 2004, the museum acquired a cast of a fossilised Tyrannosaurus rex called "Stan".
The museum's first collections were assembled in 1821 by the Manchester Society of Natural History, and subsequently expanded by the addition of the collections of Manchester Geological Society. Due to the society's financial difficulties and on the advice of evolutionary biologist Thomas Huxley, Owens College accepted responsibility for the collections in 1867. The college commissioned Alfred Waterhouse, architect of London's Natural History Museum, to design a museum on a site in Oxford Road to house the collections for the benefit of students and the public. The Manchester Museum was opened to the public in 1888.[63]
Whitworth Art Gallery[edit]
The Whitworth Art Gallery houses collections of internationally famous British watercolours, textiles and wallpapers, modern and historic prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture. It contains 31,000 items in its collection. A programme of temporary exhibitions runs throughout the year and the Mezzanine Court displays sculpture. The gallery was founded by Robert Darbishire with a donation from Sir Joseph Whitworth in 1889, as The Whitworth Institute and Park. In 1959 the gallery became part of the Victoria University of Manchester.[64] In October 1995 the Mezzanine Court in the centre of the building was opened. It was designed to display sculptures and won a RIBA regional award.[citation needed]
Rankings and reputation[edit]
ARWU[65] (2013, national) |
5 | |
ARWU[65] (2013, world) |
40 | |
QS[66] (2013/14, national) |
8 | |
QS[66] (2013/14, world) |
33 | |
THE[67] (2013/14, national) |
8 | |
THE[67] (2013/14, world) |
58 | |
Complete[68] (2014, national) |
25 | |
The Guardian[69] (2014, national) |
31 | |
Times/Sunday Times[70] (2014, national) |
26 |
According to The Sunday Times, "Manchester has a formidable reputation spanning most disciplines, but most notably in the life sciences, engineering, humanities, economics, sociology and the social sciences".[9] The 2013 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings have placed Manchester as the 9th most reputable university in Europe (47th globally).[71]
The 2009 THE - QS World University Rankings found Manchester overall 26th in the world. It was also ranked by the same report 5th internationally by employer reviews (along with MIT and Stanford and ahead of Yale and Cornell) by receiving a maximum 100% rating which the university has retained since 2008.[72][73] The separate 2011 QS World University Rankings[74] found that Manchester had slipped to 29th overall in the world (in 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and QS World University Rankings parted ways to produce separate rankings). In 2014 The Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked Manchester 49th in the world, and 12th in Europe.[75] In an employability survey published by the New York Times in October 2011, where CEOs and chairmans were asked to select the top universities which they recruited from, Manchester placed 88th in the world and 11th nationally.[76] The Global Employability University Ranking conducted by THES places Manchester at 27th world-wide and 10th in Europe ahead of academic powerhouses such as Cornell, UPenn and LSE.[77]
The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2011 published by the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranked Manchester 5th in the UK, 6th in Europe and 38th in the world.[78] According to the ARWU rankings for 2009 the university is 9th in Europe for natural sciences[79] and 4th in engineering.[80] Similarly the HEEACT 2009 rankings for scientific performance place Manchester 5th in Europe for engineering,[81] 8th for natural sciences[82] and 3rd for social sciences.[83] And finally THES ranks Manchester 6th in Europe for technology,[84] 10th for life sciences[85] and 7th for social sciences.[86] More recently a survey by the Times Higher Education Supplement has shown that Manchester is placed 6th in Europe in the area of Psychology & Psychiatry.[87] According to a further ranking by SCImago Research Group Manchester is ranked 5th in Europe amongst higher education institutions in terms of sheer research output for 2011.[88] In terms of research impact a further ranking places Manchester 6th in Europe.[89] Manchester is also one of only seven universities in Europe which are rated Excellent in all seven main academic departments (Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, Economics and Political Science) by the 2010 Centre for Higher Education's Development's Excellence Rankings.[90] The Manchester Business School is currently ranked 29th worldwide (4th nationally) by the Financial Times.[91] The latest THES rankings place Manchester 11th in Europe with respect to research volume, income and reputation[92] and 7th in the UK.
According to the High Fliers Research Limited's survey, University of Manchester students are being targeted by more top recruiters for graduate vacancies than any other UK university students for three consecutive years (2007–2009).[93][94] Furthermore the university has been ranked joint 20th in the world for 2009 according to the Professional Ranking of World Universities.[95] Its main compilation criterion is the number of Chief Executive Officers (or number 1 executive equivalent) which are among the "500 leading worldwide companies" as measured by revenue who studied in each university. The ranking places the University only behind Oxford nationally. Manchester is ranked 5th among British universities according to a popularity ranking which is based on the degree of traffic that a university's website attracts.[96] Also a further report places Manchester within the top 20 universities outside the US.[97] Manchester was also given a prestigious award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts by the Times Higher Education Awards 2010.[98]
At a recent ranking undertaken by the Guardian, Manchester is placed 5th in the UK in international reputation behind the usual four: Oxbridge, UCL and Imperial.[99] Furthermore, according to the latest QS World University Rankings, Manchester is ranked 4th in Europe strictly in terms of both academic and employer reputation.[100] However, while as a rule world rankings (such as the ARWU, THES and HEEACT[101]) typically place the university within the top 10 in Europe, national studies are less complimentary; The Times 'Good University Guide 2011'[102] ranked Manchester 30th out of 113 Universities in the UK, 'The Complete University Guide 2012' in association with The Independent placed it at 29th out of 116 universities[103] whilst 'The Guardian University Guide 2012' ranked Manchester at 41st out of 119 universities in the UK.[104] This apparent paradox is mainly a reflection of the different ranking methodologies employed by each listing: global rankings focus on research and international prestige, whereas national rankings are largely based on teaching and the student experience.
Manchester University Press[edit]
Manchester University Press is the university's academic publishing house. It publishes academic monographs, textbooks and journals, most of which are works from authors based elsewhere in the international academic community, and is the third-largest university press in England after Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.
Student life[edit]
Students' Union[edit]
The University of Manchester Students' Union is the representative body of students at the university and the UK's largest students' union. It was formed out of the merger between UMIST Students' Association and University of Manchester Union when the parent organisations UMIST and the Victoria University of Manchester merged on 1 October 2004.
Unlike many other students' unions in the UK, it does not have a president, but is run by an 8 member executive team who share joint responsibility.
The University of Manchester operates sports clubs via the Athletics Union while student societies are operated by the Students' Union.
The university has more than 80 health and fitness classes while over 3,000 students are members of the 44 various Athletic Union clubs. The sports societies vary widely in their level and scope. Many more popular sports operate several university teams and departmental teams which compete in leagues against other teams within the university. Teams include: lacrosse, korfball, dodgeball, hockey, rugby league, rugby union, football, basketball, netball and cricket. The Manchester Aquatics Centre, the swimming pool used for the Manchester Commonwealth Games is on the campus.
The university competes annually in 28 different sports against Leeds and Liverpool universities in the Christie Cup, which Manchester has won for seven consecutive years.[106] The university has achieved success in the BUCS (British University & College Sports) competitions, with its men's water polo 1st team winning the national championships (2009, 2010, 2011) under the tutelage of coach Andy Howard.[107] It was positioned in eighth place in the overall BUCS rankings for 2009/10[108] The Christie Cup is an inter-university competition between Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester in numerous sports since 1886. After the Oxford and Cambridge rivalry, the Christie's Championships is the oldest Inter–University competition on the sporting calendar: the cup was a benefaction of Richard Copley Christie.
Every year elite sportsmen and sportswomen are selected for membership of the XXI Club, a society formed in 1932 to promote sporting excellence at the university. Most members have gained a Full Maroon for representing the university and many have excelled at a British Universities or National level.
University Challenge[edit]
In the eight years up to 2013 Manchester have won the BBC2 quiz programme University Challenge four times, drawing equal with Magdalen College, Oxford for the highest number of series wins.[109] Since merging as the University of Manchester, the university has consistently reached the latter stages of the competition, progressing to at least the semi-finals every year since 2005.[110]
In 2006, Manchester beat Trinity Hall, Cambridge, to record the university's first triumph in the competition. The year after, the university finished in second place after losing out to the University of Warwick in the final. In 2009, the team battled hard in the final against Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At the gong, the score was 275 - 190 to Corpus Christi College after an extraordinary performance from Gail Trimble. However, the title was eventually given to the University of Manchester after it was discovered that Corpus Christi team member Sam Kay had graduated eight months before the final was broadcast, so that the team was disqualified.
Manchester reached the semi-finals in the 2010 competition before being beaten by Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The university did not enter the 2011 series for an unknown reason. However, Manchester did enter a year later and won University Challenge 2012.[110] Manchester has since defended its title to win University Challenge 2013, beating University College London 190 -140.
Student housing[edit]
Before they merged, the two former universities had for some time been sharing their residential facilities.
Main campus[edit]
- Whitworth Park Halls of Residence
Whitworth Park Halls of Residence is owned by the University of Manchester and houses 1,085 students.[111] It is notable for its triangular shaped accommodation blocks which gave rise to the nickname of "Toblerones", after the chocolate bar. Their designer took inspiration from a hill created from excavated soil which had been left in 1962 from an archaeological dig led by John Gater. A consequence of the triangular design was a reduced cost for the construction company. A deal struck between the university and Manchester City Council meant the council would pay for the roofs of all student residential buildings in the area, Allan Pluen's team is believed to have saved thousands on the final cost of the halls. They were built in the mid-1970s.
The site of the halls was previously occupied by many small streets whose names have been preserved in the names of the halls. Grove House is an older building that has been used by the university for many different purposes over the last sixty years. Its first occupants in 1951 were the Appointments Board and the Manchester University Press.[112] The shops in Thorncliffe Place were part of the same plan and include banks and a convenience store. Notable people associated with the halls include Friedrich Engels, whose residence is commemorated by a blue plaque on Aberdeen House; the physicist Brian Cox; and Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International.[113]
- Sackville Street
The former UMIST Campus has five halls of residence near to Sackville Street building (Weston, Lambert, Fairfield, Chandos, and Wright Robinson), and several other halls within a 5-15 minute walk, such as the Grosvenor group of halls.
- Other accommodation
Moberly Tower has been demolished. Other residences include Vaughn House, once the home of the clergy serving the Church of the Holy Name, and George Kenyon Hall at University Place; Crawford House and Devonshire House adjacent to the Manchester Business School and Victoria Hall in Higher Cambridge Street.
Fallowfield and Victoria Park Campuses[edit]
The Fallowfield Campus, 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the Oxford Road Campus is the largest of the university's residential campuses. The Owens Park group of halls with a landmark tower is at its centre, while Oak House is another hall of residence. Woolton Hall is next to Oak House. Allen Hall is a traditional hall near Ashburne Hall (Sheavyn House being annexed to Ashburne). Richmond Park is a recent addition to the campus.
Victoria Park Campus comprises several halls of residence. Among these are St. Anselm Hall with Canterbury Court and Pankhurst Court, Dalton-Ellis Hall, Hulme Hall (including Burkhardt House), St Gabriel's Hall and Opal Gardens Hall. St. Anselm Hall is the only all-male hall in the United Kingdom.
Notable people[edit]
Many notable people have worked or studied at one or both of the two former institutions that now form the University of Manchester, including 25 Nobel prize laureates. Some of the best-known are John Dalton (founder of modern atomic theory), Ludwig Wittgenstein (considered one of the most significant philosophers of the 20th century, who studied for a doctorate in engineering), George E. Davis (founder of the discipline of Chemical Engineering), Bernard Lovell (a pioneer of radio astronomy), Alan Turing (one of the founders of computer science and artificial intelligence), the Norwegian novelist Martin Solibakke, Tom Kilburn and Frederic Calland Williams (who developed Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM) or "Baby", the world's first stored-program computer at Victoria University of Manchester in 1948), Irene Khan (former Secretary General of Amnesty International), physicist and television presenter Brian Cox, the author Anthony Burgess and Robert Bolt (two times Academy Award winner and three times Golden Globe winner for writing the screenplay for Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago).
A number of politicians are associated with the university, including the current Presidents of the Republic of Ireland, Belize, Iceland, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Somaliland region of Somalia, as well as several ministers in the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Canada and Singapore. Chaim Weizmann, a senior lecturer at the university, was also the first President of Israel. Additionally, a number of well-known actors have studied at the university, including Benedict Cumberbatch, who most notably portrays Sherlock Holmes in the famous TV Series Sherlock.
Nobel prize winners[edit]
Overall, there have been 25 Nobel Prizes awarded to staff and students past and present, with some of the most important discoveries of the modern age being made in Manchester.
- Ernest Rutherford (awarded Nobel prize in 1908), for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances.
- Arthur Harden (awarded Nobel prize in 1929), for investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes.
- Walter Haworth (awarded Nobel prize in 1937), for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C.
- George de Hevesy (awarded Nobel prize in 1943), for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes.
- Robert Robinson (awarded Nobel prize in 1947), for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids.
- Alexander Todd (awarded Nobel prize in 1957), for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes.
- Melvin Calvin (awarded Nobel prize in 1961), for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants.
- John Charles Polanyi (awarded Nobel prize in 1986), for his contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes.
- Michael Smith (awarded Nobel prize in 1993), for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies.
- Joseph John (J. J.) Thomson (awarded Nobel prize in 1906), in recognition of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases.
- William Lawrence Bragg (awarded Nobel prize in 1915), for his services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays.
- Niels Bohr (awarded Nobel prize in 1922), for his fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics.
- Charles Thomson Rees (C. T. R.) Wilson (awarded Nobel prize in 1927), for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour.
- James Chadwick (awarded Nobel prize in 1935), for the discovery of the neutron.
- Patrick M. Blackett (awarded Nobel prize in 1948), for developing cloud chamber and confirming/discovering positron.
- Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (awarded Nobel prize in 1951), for his pioneer work on the splitting of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles and also for his contribution to modern nuclear power.
- Hans Bethe (awarded Nobel prize in 1967), for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars.
- Nevill Francis Mott (awarded Nobel prize in 1977), for his fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.
- Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov (awarded Nobel prize in 2010), for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.[114]
Physiology and Medicine
- Archibald Vivian Hill (awarded Nobel prize in 1922), for his discovery relating to the production of heat in muscle. One of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research.
- Sir John Sulston (awarded Nobel prize in 2002), for his discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'. In 2007, Sulston was announced as Chair of the newly founded Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation (iSEI) at the University of Manchester.[115]
- John Hicks (awarded Nobel prize in 1972), for his pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory.
- Sir Arthur Lewis (awarded Nobel prize in 1979), for his pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries.
- Joseph E. Stiglitz (awarded Nobel prize in 2001), for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information. Currently, Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz heads the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI) at the University of Manchester.
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Unlike our last team, Rudy and I co-drafted this team. So for every bad pick, Rudy and I have someone to blame. Neither will take it personal. We managed to work Elijah Dukes onto this team, who's a total dwyck. This is a 20 team, 5×5, roto league and still is, so we have more arms than Bruce Willis. Get well soon, Guru! The team breaks down like this: Catcher, 1st Baseman, 2nd Baseman, 3rd Baseman, Shortstop, 3 Outfielders, Utility, 2 SPs, 2 RPs, 3 Ps and a 4 man bench. Anyway, here's a 2010 fantasy baseball team and some thoughts from the draft:
Round 1 – Ryan Braun – We skipped A-Rod and Utley. Our thought process went like this. With only one position player for each position, 3 outfielders and one utility man, we figured outfielders would make up the majority of the teams' Utility spots and might even end up in the bench spots. So you're looking at drafting about 100 outfielders vs.
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USC Upstate offers private music lessons (SMUS 111 and SMUS 311) in guitar, piano, jazz piano, voice, trumpet, saxophone, trombone and percussion. Students will receive 12 one-half hour lessons; four hours per week of practice time is suggested. Students enrolled in SMUS 111 or SMUS 311 will earn one credit hour. Lessons are scheduled with the instructor at a mutually agreed upon time.
Fees: The fee for applied music courses is equivalent to the current "per semester hour" fee. This will be charged in addition to all other fees, even for full-time students. The fee for applied lessons must be paid before lessons can begin.
PLEASE NOTE: Fees cannot be reduced or waived by full-time enrollment, tuition assistance or special status.STUDENTS WHO WITHDRAW FROM THIS COURSE WILL NOT RECEIVE A TUITION REIMBURSEMENT OR REFUND.
Students enroll in Applied Music by completing an enrollment form signed by the student, a member of the music faculty and the department Chair. Forms are available in HPAC 125.
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Dr. Tricia OneyDirector of Vocal StudiesHPAC 108Phone: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Surgical Wound Infections After Vascular Surgery: Prospective Multicenter Trial
This study has been completed.
North Karelia Central Hospital
Kuopio University Hospital
South Karelia central hospital
South Savo central hospital
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North Karelia Central Hospital
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: December 19, 2008
Last updated: NA
Last verified: December 2008
History: No changes posted
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The purpose of this multicentre prospective trial is to determine the incidence and risk factors for surgical wound infections. Also the investigators will evaluate consequences of wound infections to the patients, and extra costs caused by wound infections.
Condition | Intervention |
Surgical Wound Infection |
Other: observation |
Study Type: | Observational |
Study Design: | Observational Model: Cohort Time Perspective: Prospective |
Official Title: | Surgical Wound Infections After Vascular Surgery: Prospective Multicenter Trial |
Further study details as provided by North Karelia Central Hospital:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- wound infection incidence
Study Start Date: | June 2007 |
Study Completion Date: | June 2008 |
Primary Completion Date: | January 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Groups/Cohorts | Assigned Interventions |
1 | Other: observation |
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Sampling Method: | Non-Probability Sample |
Study Population
All patients who underwent non-emergency infrarenal aortic or lower limb arterial surgery between June 2007 and January 2008 were enrolled to this study.
Inclusion Criteria:
- non-emergency infrarenal aortic or lower limb arterial surgery
Exclusion Criteria:
- patient's refusal to participate
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Responsible Party: | MD Johanna Turtiainen, north karelia central hospital, clinic of surgery |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00812747 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | NKCH-Surg-002 |
Study First Received: | December 19, 2008 |
Last Updated: | December 19, 2008 |
Health Authority: | Finland: Ethics Committee |
Keywords provided by North Karelia Central Hospital:
surgical wound infection risk factor |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Surgical Wound Infection Wound Infection Infection |
Postoperative Complications Pathologic Processes Wounds and Injuries |
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The Augustinian Ruskin
The Failing Distance: The Autobiographical Impulse in John Ruskin
Ruskin knew Mr. Fellows's kind of critic; sometimes was that kind of critic (as in Modern Painters II)—the one who throws up depth on depth of scaffolding before the cathedral, then swings and scrambles like a monkey through all the pipework. But Ruskin's very receptiveness prevented him from imposing any one theory on art. He started fresh in front of every work, and was so bowled over by it that his earlier pronouncements seemed worthless. He studied his masters by copying them—and then wrote about what he could not copy: "Tintoret has shown me how to paint leaves. My word, he does leave them with a vengeance. I think you would like to see how he does the trunk, too, with two strokes; one for the light side and one for the dark side, all the way down; and then on go the leaves: never autumn swept them off as he sweeps them on."
This "flattenability" before the facts was always Ruskin's strength—first as an art critic, and then as a social critic. Not that he was impressionable in the shallow sense. It was after he had done all his homework that the real greatness stunned him. He could trace and trace, and come nearer each time—but in the lessening distance between his own copies and the original, he saw chasms opening.
I have had a draught of pictures today enough to drown me. I never was so utterly crushed to the earth before any human intellect as I was today—before Tintoret…. He took it so entirely out of me today that I could do nothing at last but lie on a bench and laugh.
He celebrated paintings as great victories, moments when men cracked the code of the universe—split something more basic than the atom. And he constantly remade himself in order to see new things—a fact reflected in the sequence of his various styles, from the crimson robes of early works like Seven Lamps, through the bright fighting armor of Unto This Last, to the involuntary motley of his last (Fors Clavigera) phase.
Mr. Fellows does not have this art for being flattened. He is a builder, and his apparatus gets so intricate that he is at last imprisoned by it, clanking around inside its pipes with a rumble of mere plumbing. It takes some effort to crack his code—but the result can be roughly stated in parable form. Imagine a man bending down to a telescope, and startled by his own reflection cast off the glass of the eyepiece; he ducks his head closer to rid him of himself, and busily focuses a hazy distance into sharper and sharper focus, only to find he is looking at a distant and horribly distinct self. In a panic he straightens up and looks with the naked eye at the dim object far off; and then calmly describes what he can see of it, before falling into a dead …
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Give us your best guess as to when Randy gets his marching orders
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How much difference is there really between Wilson and Carlyle? Who would you rather face in the playoffs? How hard is it to get used to the idea of seeing playoff hockey?
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The second part in an ongoing series dispelling myths and misconceptions surrounding Randy Carlyle's coaching prowess.
An analysis of Carlyle's results in Anaheim vs. those of Ron Wilson in Toronto - along with an update on Carlyle's early returns with the Leafs
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Our elegy for Ron Wilson
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Implementing horizontally scrolling view with QML Flickable
This code snippet demonstrates how to use the Flickable QML element to implement a horizontally scrolling view.
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The view has 20 vertical lines to visualise the flicking. The background colour is changed when the view is moved.
The code snippet is meant to be run with qmlviewer.
- Qt 4.7 or higher is installed on your platform.
The contentWidth of Flickable is set as four times the width of background. The signal handlers onMovementStarted and onMovementEnded change the colour of background when the view is moved. The vertical lines are generated using the Row and Repeater QML elements.
import Qt 4.7
Rectangle {
id: background
width: 800; height: 480
Behavior on color { ColorAnimation { duration: 200 } }
color: "black"
Flickable {
id: flickable
anchors.fill: parent
contentWidth: flickable.width * 4; contentHeight: flickable.height
onMovementStarted: background.color = "#705050"
onMovementEnded: background.color = "black"
Row {
x: 50
spacing: flickable.contentWidth / repeater.model
Repeater {
id: repeater
model: 20
Rectangle {
width: 2; height: flickable.height; color: "white"
Text {
anchors.bottom: parent.bottom
x: -15; text: index + 1; color: "white"
The snippet demonstrated the using of the Flickable QML element. The application implemented a horizontally flicking view with vertical lines to visualise flicking. Also, the Flickable signal handlers onMovementStarted and onMovementEnded were used to change the background colour when the view was moved.


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More than half of those arrested at 'Blarney Blowout' riot were not UMass students
AMHERST - A crosschecking of the list of those arrested Saturday at the "Blarney Blowout" with the University of Massachusetts student directory reveals a curious thing: more than half of those arrested do not appear to be UMass students.
Courtney Stewart Wins MA's 2014 Poetry Out Loud Competition for Second Year in a Row
Springfield Central High School student Courtney Stewart was named Massachusetts's 2014 Poetry Out Loud Champion Sunday at Boston's Old South Meetinghouse, repeating his victory from 2013.
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Will Casinos in Mass. Cripple RI's Budget?
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Mass. veteran gets dog tag he lost 70 years ago
A dog tag a Massachusetts man lost as he stormed ashore at Anzio during the Allied invasion of Italy in 1944 has finally been returned, 70 years later.
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The chancellor of the University of Massachusetts' Amherst campus says student behavior at the pre-St.
A first for Nashoba: 2 selected for state junior music festival
Two students at Nashoba Valley Technical High School became the first ever from the school to be selected to perform in the Massachusetts Music Educators Association's Eastern District Junior Festival in March.
Perversity in Mass: Supreme Court rules 'upskirts' photos legal
A controversial new ruling from the Massachusetts high court on Wednesday has many people outraged - and calling for a change.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan had a mini-reunion at an airport
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Scores arrested at Massachusetts 'Blarney Blowout'
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Jack Tame: A little heat left in that old cold war
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'Upskirt' ban in Massachusetts signed into law
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Westfield Tea party member Fisher seeks Massachusetts primary spot for Governor
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Dozens arrested at Massachusetts 'Blarney Blowout'
Police detain a participant in the pre-St. Patrick's Day 'Blarney Blowout' near the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass.
Mass., Conn., RI senators highlight climate change
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Tea party member Fisher seeks Mass. primary spot
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Springfield's Union Station, Western Massachusetts projects...
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