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Dr Martin Smith on Mastermind
Lecturer in Forensic Archaeology, Dr Martin Smith appeared on Episode 16 of Mastermind. He came second on the night, answering 14 questions on his specialist subject Motorhead, and 13 general knowledge questions . After the two rounds he was joint first, narrowly missing out on the top spot because his closest competitor had passed on [...]
Forensics on The One Show
On 15 Feb Simon Bozeman, reporter from The One Show came to BU with his team (a camera man/producer and assistant) for an exclusive tour of the new Crime Scene Training Facility and of course to make a report using the setting. Using the news hook of the Forensic Science Service (FSS) closing, Simon [...]
‘The earliest Englishman was nothing more than a cheap fraud’
In the centenary year of the discovery of the hoax, Dr Miles Russell, Senior Lecturer in prehistoric and Roman Archaeology has spoken to the Observer about the Piltdown Man. Between 1908 and 1912 human skull fragments, an ape-like jaw and flints were found close to the Sussex village of Piltdown. The discovery was, at the [...]
Archaeology Group Meeting
The Archaeology Group meeting scheduled for Wednesday 1 February will take the form of a seminar presentation by Vincent Ard; all academic staff, researchers, and research students across the School of Applied Sciences are cordially invited. Vincent Ard is a Post-Doc researcher who is with us throughout 2012; he is funded by the prestigious French [...]
Applied Geography Students are Victorious!
After three rounds competing against eighteen 3rd year student teams from across the Applied Sciences portfolio plus one School Academic team – the winners of the 2011 Applied Sciences School Challenge are Ruzina Begum, Rhys Edwards, Oli Pitkin and Tom Huntley from Applied Geography. Congratulations! Well done to our other two semi-finalists from Applied Biology [...]
BU Archaeology Society
Tom Cloherty, President – BU Archaeology Society wrote: Just to give you a run down of what has been going on so far and what is coming up in the near future. Last Tuesday we ran a successful talk on The Swash Channel Wreck by Dave Parham which was very good, so thank you goes [...]
Marine Wildlife in Boscombe
Whilst the Bournemouth public and council are in a constant debate over the worthiness of Boscombes very first artificial surf reef, marine explorations have been diving into the depth of its biodiversity developments. Today and Yesterday Marine Biology students from Bournemouth University’s School of Applied Sciences are hosting a ‘Marine Wildlife in Boscombe’ event in [...]
