University Of Hull
University Of Hull
The University's Jones Library was the workplace of the poet Philip who served as its Head Librarian for over thirty years The Philip activities in remembrance of including the 25 festival which was organised during 2010 in partnership with the University. The Library was also the workplace of former poet laureate Andrew Motion. Lord Wilberforce was chancellor of the University from 1978 until 1994. Robert Armstrong was the chancellor from 1994 to 2006. Virginia was installed as the current chancellor in April 2006.Alumni of the University of Hull are especially prominent in the fields of politics, academia, journalism and drama. They include former MP and later Deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott former MP and Deputy Leader of the Party Lord and current deputy leader Tom Watson, politician and author Chris, social scientist Lord Anthony , poet Roger journalist John McCarthy and film director, playwright and screenwriter Albert, the Duke of York who later became king as George VI. The college was built on land donated by Hull City Council and by two local benefactors, Thomas and G F Grant. A year later the first 14 departments, in pure sciences and the arts, opened with 39 students. The college at that time consisted of one building, now named the Venn building after the mathematician John Venn, who was born in Hull. The building now houses the administrative of the university. Other early buildings include the Cohen Building, which originally housed the college library, and Staff House, built in 1948 as the Student's Union. Another early structure was the Chemistry Building, built in 1953. With the rapid expansion of student numbers which took place in the many many academic departments were housed in temporary buildings, colloquially known as 'huts,' which gave the campus the feel of an 'academic army camp many of the buildings on Hull's campus are of red brick it is not a redbrick university in the strictest sense of the term, as it was not founded as part of the civic university movement of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. with its origins in the , has been as a 'younger civic and it is placed between the 'r and the universities' founded in the The university's expansion in recent decades has seen the addition of a variety of building styles: from the traditional older buildings, through teaching blocks, to modern additions.The first principal of the college was Arthur E., the second was John H who also served as the university's first vice-chancellor when the college was granted university status.Th Jones Library, which houses more than a million volumes, was constructed in two phases: the first phase was fully completed in, with a tower block extension officially opened in 1970. During the and a considerable number of academic buildings were built, including the and Wilberforce Buildings The 'Martin Plan' of 1967, Sir Leslie Martin the university architect, envisaged a campus with its tallest buildings in the surrounded by buildings diminishing in height towards the perimeter. In the course of the most of the departments housed in temporary structures were moved into new purpose-built premises. However, Biochemistry was still partially located in a 'hut' to the rear of the Venn building into the earl This early phase of expansion through building ended in 1974, after this year there was to be no further academic building construction on the campus until 1996. However, student numbers doubled in this period, with the university becoming highly efficient in using there were two faculties, the 'Faculty of Applied Science & Technology' and the 'Faculty of Science & the Environment', before becoming the 'Faculty of Science' and later being renamed to the 'Faculty of Science and Engineering'.Notable sub-departments include the Hull Immersive Environment , the Institute for Est and Coastal Studies. The Chemistry department is noted for its research record, and the Computer Science department is noted for its Computer Science and Video Game development degrees.A new biomedical research facility will bring academics from biology and chemistry together and will include Positron Emission Tomography with two mini cyclotrons. Two new research groups will be based at the facility, called the building: one focusing on cardiovascular and metabolic research and the other on cancer.