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Students at the UK’s University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ are spending their lockdown chatting online with elderly people in France, bridging intergenerational and international divides in a time marked by isolation.

As Temperatures rise due to global warming the need to protect plants from stressful conditions has increased, as stress can cause a loss in yield and cause further impact economically. A consortium led by the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ have successfully identified two proteins that protect crops from stress, which is key in safeguarding food production.

Students across the West Midlands have been awarded a series of bursaries as part of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Lord Bhattacharyya Engineering Education Programme. The Winners have been announced on the second anniversary of death Lord Bhattacharyya and the programme is named in is honour

All high-level AVs rely heavily on sensors, and in the paper, ‘, published in the IEEE Sensors Journal, researchers from the Intelligent Vehicles Group at WMG, University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ have specifically simulated and evaluated the performance of LiDAR sensors in rain.

As Governments around the world wrestle with the question of designing a fair system to allocate their COVID-19 vaccine supplies for maximum protection against the pandemic, a team of researchers led by Dr Sharifah Sekalala of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Law School propose that existing human rights legal principles should guide their thinking and outline a model of an ethical intersectional distribution scheme based on human rights legal principles.

Brexit and COVID were two major disruptions to manufacturers’ supply chains, however, a consortium of academic and industry partners including WMG, University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ has identified key ways to build supply chain resilience.