University Of Liverpool
University Of Liverpool
Following a Royal Charter and Act of Parliament in 1903, it became an independent university with the right to confer its own degrees called the University of Liverpool. The next few years saw major developments at the university, including Sir synapse and William Blair-Bell's work in the treatment of cancer. In the to Chadwick and Sir major contributions to the development of the 1943 to 1966 Professor of Bacteriology, was involved in the eradication .In 1994 the university was a founding member of the Russell Group, a collaboration of twenty leading research-intensive universities, as well as a founding member of the Group in 2004. In the 21st century physicists, engineers and technicians from the University of Liverpool were involved in the construction of the on two of the four detectors in the The university has produced nine Nobel Prize winners, from the fields of science laureates include the physician James Chadwick, chemist Sir Robert Robinson, chemist Khorana, physiologist Rodney Porter, economist Ronald and physicist Joseph Sir Ronald Ross was also the first British Nobel laureate in 1902. The University is also associated with Professors Ronald Finn and Sir Cyril Clarke who jointly won the Clinical Medical Research Award in 1980 and Sir David who won the Special Achievement Award in Medical Science in 2010. These Awards are popularly known as America's .Over the 2013/2014 academic year, members of staff took part in numerous strikes as a result of rises after staff were offered a pay rise of 1% equated to a 13% pay cut since 2008. The strikes were supported by both the university's Guild of Students and the National Union of Students.Some students at the university supported the strike, occupying buildings on campus.The university is mainly based around a single urban campus approximately five minutes walk from Liverpool City, at the top of and Mount Pleasant. Occupying 100 acres, it contains 192 non-residential buildings that house 69 lecture 114 teaching areas and state-of-the-art research facilities.The main site is divided into three faculties: Health and Life Sciences; Humanities and Social Sciences; and Science and Engineering. The Veterinary Teaching Hospital and Botanical Gardens are based on the Peninsula. There was formerly a marine biology research station at Port Erin on the Isle of Man until it closed in 2006.Fifty-one residential buildings, on or near the campus, provide 3,385 rooms for students, on a catered or self-catering basis. The of the campus remains the University's original red brick building, the Victoria Building. Opened in 1892, it has recently been restored as the Victoria Gallery and Museum, complete with cafe and activities for school visits Victoria Gallery and Museum, University of Liverpool.In 2011 the university made a commitment to invest into the 'Student Experience', will reportedly be spent on Student Accommodation. Announced so far have been two large On-Campus halls of residences (the first of which, Vine Court, opened September 2012, new Veterinary Science facilities, and a refurbishment of the Liverpool Guild of Students. New Central Teaching Laboratories for physics, earth sciences, chemistry and archaeology were opened in autumn 2012.In 2013, the University of Liverpool opened a satellite campus in Square in London, offering a range of professionally masters