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• RVC postgraduates attend inaugural food systems event

  

  RVC postgraduate students were among those attending the inaugural Innovative Food Systems Teaching and Learning (IFSTAL) summer school

   14 Jul 2016

  Royal Veterinary College (RVC) postgraduate students were among those attending the inaugural …

• Bloomsbury Research Symposium

  

  The Bloomsbury Colleges Consortium brings together Bloomsbury Colleges of the University of London comprising Birkbeck, Institute of Education (IOE), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Royal Veterinary College (RVC), and SOAS.   …

   18 Jul 2016

  The Bloomsbury Colleges Consortium brings together Bloomsbury Colleges of the University of London …

• VEEPH at APHA

  

  Members of RVC's VEEPH group visit APHA Weybridge

   19 Jul 2016

  Members of VEEPH visited APHA Weybridge on 6th July for a research workshop and networking meetings. …

• Testing the locomotor superiority hypothesis for early dinosaurs

  

  Professor John Hutchinson has been awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator grant called "Testing the locomotor superiority hypothesis for early dinosaurs". This project seeks to unify evolutionary and biomechanical research by achieving a “functional …

   13 Jun 2016

  Professor John Hutchinson has been awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator grant called "Testing the …

• Dragonflies and damselflies

  

  This week, Dr Richard Bomphrey and his colleagues from Japan, Sweden and the USA have published a comprehensive account of how dragonflies and damselflies take to the air. These incredible animals, from the order Odonata, have changed little since …

   19 Aug 2016

  This week, Dr Richard Bomphrey and his colleagues from Japan, Sweden and the USA have published a …

• How bats fly

  

  Dr Tatjana Hubel and her colleagues from Brown University and Winston Salem State University in the USA have published their work about the flight performance of insectivorous bats in a special flight edition of Philosophical Transactions of the …

   19 Aug 2016

  Dr Tatjana Hubel and her colleagues from Brown University and Winston Salem State University in the …

• Pairing and sharing in V formation flight

  

  New publication reveals how birds can't 'cheat' in V formation flight by spending all their time at the back. Research published in Nature last year by the RVC Structure and Motion Lab showed that when birds are flying in a V formation, energy …

   03 Feb 2015

• Do owls have superpowers?

  

  Dr Jim Usherwood features on the BBC Two wildlife series Natural World, exploring "Super Powered Owls". Dr Usherwood, a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the RVC, investigates the mechanics of terrestrial and aerial locomotion. He appears …

   13 Mar 2015

• There's an elephant in the camp!

  

  A current PhD student in the RVC's Structure and Motion Lab discusses her experiences and the highlights of collecting data in the field

   13 Apr 2015

• Professor R. McNeill Alexander receives honorary degree

  

  The Royal Veterinary College has awarded Professor R. McNeill Alexander an honorary degree for his contributions to biomechanics at the at the 2015 graduation ceremony.  Unfortunately, Professor Alexander could not attend the ceremony to collect …

   23 Jul 2015