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Clatterbridge Cancer Centre - Liverpool THE team that created Clatterbridge Cancer centres new hospital in Liverpool has been shortlisted for a major national award. Clatterbridge Cancer Center - Liverpool, which opened in June in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, was a collaboration between The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, its estates subsidiary PropCare, architects BDP, contractor Laing O’Rourke, and infrastructure firm AECOM. They are finalists in the Bu...

AECOM joint venture secures nearly $800 million SCAPE Framework Contract LOS ANGELES--(Business Wire)--AECOM (NYSE:ACM), the world’s premier infrastructure consulting firm, announced today that, in association with its joint venture partners Pick Everard and Gleeds, it has secured two lots under the new SCAPE Consultancy framework in the United Kingdom. The joint venture, called Perfect Circle, has been appointed to deliver the Built Environment and Infrastructure Consultancy lots for Engla...

AECOM joint venture secures nearly $800 million SCAPE Framework Contract AECOM joint venture secures nearly $800 million SCAPE Framework Contract AECOM (NYSE:ACM), the worlds premier infrastructure consulting firm, announced today that, in association with its joint venture partners Pick Everard and Gleeds, it has secured two lots under the new SCAPE Consultancy framework in the United Kingdom. The joint venture, called Perfect Circle, has been appointed to deliver the Built Environment and In...

Andy Warhol Foundation grant to support book completion Sergio Delgado Moya, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded one of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writer Grants. Projects supported by the program address both general and specialized art audiences, from scholarly studies to critical reviews and magazine features. Moya will receive $50,000 to complete his book “An Archive of Violence: The Obscene Visuality of Sensationalism.” The book makes a case for s...

Project Haystack Organization Publishes Fall 2020 Issue of Connections Magazine Share Article The Project Haystack Organization (https://www.project-haystack.org), a collaborative community addressing the challenge of utilizing semantic modeling and tagging to streamline the interchange of data among different systems, devices, equipment and software applications, today announced the publication of the eighth issue of their Connections Magazine. The Project Haystack Connections Magazine Fall 20...

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It has now been confirmed that South Africa has entered a second wave of Covid-19, with an increase in the number of infections, daily. In the midst of the crisis caused by this  global pandemic, a wide range of solutions are required to mitigate the risk of exposure to the virus – from developing low-cost ventilators and Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs), as well as understanding how the virus is transmitted and the rate of infection. In light of this, a joint team from the University of...

14 December 2020 - Wits University Almost 10 000 students graduate from Wits in 2020. “You represent hope for a nation, you demonstrate that it is possible to overcome and to achieve, despite the odds. You provide hope for society. You have the ability to heal the divides of our fractured past so that we come together as a country and a collective humanity. You are on the frontlines of creating a global academy of commons, and producing world-class science, technology and innovation to solve ...

 E-Mail The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is establishing 20 new Collaborative Research Centres (CRC) to further support top-level research at universities. This was decided by the relevant Grants Committee, which met by video conference due to the coronavirus pandemic. The new CRCs will receive a total of approximately €254 million for an initial period of four years beginning 1 January 2021. This includes a 22 percent programme allowance for indirect pro...

THE RSPCA has awarded Winchester City Council’s Animal Welfare team a Gold Award for their work with stray dogs and the licensing of animal establishments. The team has been recognised for their continued efforts, having picked up a gold award for the third time in four years. The news comes despite the added pressure on the team in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and dog ownership increasing significantly during lockdown. The team, Dave Griffiths and Ross Shepherd, were recognised for...