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• The University of Hertfordshire is the UK’s leading business-facing University and an exemplar in the sector. It is innovative and enterprising and challenges individuals and organisations to excel. • The University of Hertfordshire is one of the region’s largest employers with over 2,425 staff and a turnover of more than £234 million. With a student community of over 25,100 including more than 2,900 international students from over 120 different countries, the University has a global network of over 175,000 alumni. For more information, please visit www.herts.ac.uk • The University of Hertfordshire was awarded the Times Higher Education ‘Entrepreneurial University of the Year 2010’.

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It has been wonderful to see the impact that KASPAR has had and I commend the University for taking this research so far.

Jane Asher, President of the National Autistic Society and Patron of TRACKS Autism

Parents and teachers have been surprised by the results they have witnessed – some seeing their child interact, mimic or make eye contact for the first time in their school.

Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

By exploiting a unique magnetic property of asbestos, we developed a new detection method which can provide on-site, real-time identification of the dangerous asbestos fibres.

Professor Paul Kaye at the University of Hertfordshire’s School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics

The team hopes that, over time, the new detector will help to reduce the 100,000 annual death toll that the World Health Organisation attributes to occupational exposure to airborne asbestos.

Professor Paul Kaye at the University of Hertfordshire’s School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics

All the children were highly susceptible to gesture and spoke about extra information fraudulently planted by the interviewer

Dr Liz Kirk, University of Hertfordshire

This has serious implications for forensic interview of child witnesses, particularly where they may have witnessed a traumatic event which they may have to confront again during questioning. Interviewers need to think very carefully not just about what they say, but how they say it.

Dr Liz Kirk, University of Hertfordshire

We need to ...develop strategies for deploying crop resistance for rapeseed which can then be applied to a wide range of crop systems.

Dr Henrik Stotz, Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire’s School of Life and Medical Sciences

We are investigating potential new drugs to block a protein called S100P which has been shown to be involved in the growth and spread of pancreatic cancer, as well as some other common cancers

Dr Sharon Rossiter, principal investigator and medicinal chemist at the University of Hertfordshire’s Department of Pharmacy

This new technique will help to understand the role that supermassive black holes played during the formation of galaxies.

Marc Sarzi, University of Hertfordshire’s Centre for Astrophysics Research

Many people with dementia have additional long-term health problems which, if not managed well, can make a person’s dementia worse or lead to unplanned hospital admissions.

Dr Frances Bunn, University of Hertfordshire

The behavioural symptoms often experienced by people with dementia can put them at risk, affect their quality of life and also be very stressful for those providing care and support.

Dr Daksha Trivedi, University of Hertfordshire

Tau Ceti is one of our nearest cosmic neighbours and so bright that we may be able to study the atmospheres of these planets in the not too distant future.

James Jenkins, Universidad de Chile and Visiting Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire

We pioneered new data modelling techniques ...which increased our ability to find low mass planets.

Mikko Tuomi, from the University of Hertfordshire

Older people taking part in our study said that services are most effective for them when there is continuity of care through a specific professional.

Professor Claire Goodman

More importantly, with a key professional to speak to about their healthcare, the older person and their family can be more involved in reviews and decisions.

Professor Claire Goodman

Over the last decade in the UK, a wide range of programmes have been made available to healthcare workers and educators to reduce violence and associated triggers.

Professor Fiona Brooks

The longer orbit of the new planet means that its climate and atmosphere may be just right to support life.

Hugh Jones, University of Hertfordshire

We pioneered new data analysis techniques....to reveal three new super-Earth planets around the star known as HD 40307, making it into a six-planet system.

Mikko Tuomi, University of Hertfordshire

...there is no reason why such a planet could not sustain an Earth-like climate,

Guillem Anglada-Escude, University of Goettingen

The needs of people with dementia and their carers are complex and varied which makes diagnosing and supporting this group particularly challenging

Dr Frances Bunn

The standard of the submissions has been extremely high and their content is quite breath-taking. Gaining a Primary Science Quality Award is a significant achievement for a school.

Jane Turner, Associate Director Science Learning Centre East of England and PSQM project leader

Using modern DNA techniques to detect and quantify the pathogen in potatoes enables us to better understand the spread of potato late blight.

Professor Bruce Fitt

Unlike mental decline associated with normal aging, something about Alzheimer’s specifically disadvantages women.

Professor Keith Laws

These research grants provide a fantastic opportunity for enthusiastic and capable students.

Dr Kirk

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British-built telescopes create Milky Way image of a billion stars

Thu, Mar 29, 2012 02:01 CET

More than one billion stars across the Milky Way can be seen together in detail for the first time in a near-infrared image. Scientists created the colour picture by combining images from two sky surveys conducted by University of Hertfordshire researchers using British-built telescopes. The United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii covered the northern part of the Milky Way and the VISTA telescope in Chile covered the southern part.Many structures of our Milky Way spiral galaxy, such as star clusters and gas and dust clouds where new stars are forming, can be seen in the image.

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