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Astronomers' facility time success
Posted on 19 July 2013
Keele astronomers have again been successful in winning substantial amounts of national and international facility time, of which the ground-based telescope time alone has a total nominal value of nearly £200,000.
Barry Smalley at International Workshop
Posted on 25 April 2013
Dr Barry Smalley was one of the invited lecturers at the Spring School of Spectroscopic Data Analyses in Wroclaw, Poland.
Professor Coel Hellier co-investigator on multi-million dollar survey
Posted on 08 April 2013
Professor Coel Hellier is a co-investigator on a major new grant for 4.83 million dollars awarded by the Qatar National Research Fund.
Keele Observatory live on Midlands Toady
Posted on 25 March 2013
Holly Lewis and a film crew travelled to Keele Observatory for a live comet seeking feature for BBC Midlands Today.
Inauguration of Observatory viewing platform
Posted on 30 November 2012
Following the generous donation of £13,000 by the Friends of Keele for an Observatory viewing platform to celebrate Keele University's 50th anniversary, members gathered on campus last weekend for its inauguration.
1.4 million Euro ERC starting grant for Keele Academic
Posted on 02 November 2012
Dr Raphael Hirschi, Astrophysics group, iEPSAM, has secured a prestigious 1.4 million Euro starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC) - the first awarded to a Keele academic.
Keele University Observatory celebrates its 50th anniversary
Posted on 15 May 2012
Keele University Observatory celebrates its 50th anniversary with a special programme of talks, followed by a 'sun and star party'.
A star is born - inaugural lecture
Posted on 03 April 2012
A leading astrophysicist at Keele will question whether we are alone in the Universe when he delivers the latest lecture in the University’s series of professorial Inaugural Lectures for 2011 – 2012.
Keele Astronomer on International panel of experts
Posted on 09 March 2012
Keele astronomer, Dr Joana Oliveira, has been invited as an international expert onto the panel selecting applications for facility time at the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
Keele astrophysicist in discovery of solid buckyballs in space
Posted on 23 February 2012
Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space - this new work was led by Professor Nye Evans of Keele University.
