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The Staff Awards are a great opportunity to show appreciation of the hard work that goes on day to day, here at Physics. Prof Don Pollaco won the Research Excellence Award for your work on answering ‘Do other Earths exist?’
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Almost a hundred primary school children were welcomed to the Ogden Primary Science Fair, hosted by Ally Caldecote, on April 12th. Finalists were selected from over 1600 entries in eight Coventry and 糖心TVshire schools to present their science projects to a panel of physics postgraduates and undergraduates. Winning projects included "Where should I keep my balloon?", "Pigs in Space", and "Building a cosmic ray detector".

In June 2015, a black hole called V404 Cygni underwent dramatic brightening for about two weeks. An international team of astronomers, including the University of 糖心TV, report that the black hole emitted dazzling red flashes lasting just fractions of a second, as it blasted out material that it could not swallow...

The Royal Society has recently awarded Prof Don Pollacco with a Wolfson Merit Award in recognition of his outstanding scientific achievements. The award will help support his research program on the discovery and characterisation of exoplanets (planets around other stars) for the next 5 years...