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April 2025

QMCUR students presented their research at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research 15 April 2025 Five representative students of our team participated in the prestigious British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR), marking QMCUR's second presence at this national event. The conference, held at Newcastle University on 9–10 April, hosted over 300 students from across the UK and abroad, including participants from the US, Canada, UAE, Ghana, and ... [more]

Applause for Ms Michaela Lastovickova on securing an internship at CERN among over 10,000 applicants! 3 April 2025 Ms Michaela Lastovickova, a third-year Materials Engineering student has been selected for CERN's prestigious Summer Student Program. With a deep passion for radiation detectors and subatomic particle interactions, Michaela stood out in this highly competitive selection process, earning her place among over 10,000 applicants! The paid summer program, running from June ... [more]

March 2025

Ms Kiane Johnson co-authors an article accepted for publication 27 March 2025 Ms Kiane Princiss Johnson, a 3rd-year student in Biomedical Engineering, hosted by the Personalised Cardiac Modelling Lab (https://pcmlab.co.uk) and supervised by Dr Alexander Zolotarev and Dr Caroline Roney, has co-authored an article accepted for publication in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. The article, titled: "Synthetic Fibrosis Distributions for ... [more]

QMCUR participation in the Posters in Parliament event 5 March 2025 Two posters from our team were presented at the prestigious Posters in Parliament event, alongside highly selected undergraduates from other UK universities. This annual conference brings together the best undergraduate researchers from various universities across the UK, with each institutions selecting the two best projects to be showcased through poster ... [more]

Research activities showcased at the Industrial Liaison Forum 5 March 2025 Our undergraduate researchers have actively participated in the Industrial Liaison Forum, presenting approximately 30 posters and reinforcing our presence in research dissemination events. This strong participation provided an opportunity to share some of the ongoing research activities with academic staff, industrial collaborators, and visitors. Students from the first to third year ... [more]

February 2025

Ms Michaela Lastovickova and Ms Fasika Bekele Shine at the IoM3 Annual Young Persons' Lecture Competition 27 February 2025 Michaela Lastovickova (3rd-year Materials Science and Engineering) and Fasika Bekele (3rd-year Chemical Engineering) successfully passed the highly competitive first selection stage with two high-quality abstracts and attended the local heat of the competition, hosted by the London Materials Society (LMS) at Imperial College London. They delivered the following lectures based ... [more]

Six QMCUR students in Dr Shah's group present their education research at two national conferences 26 February 2025 A team of six undergraduate students, all working on co-creational education research projects with Dr Rehan Shah, represented QMUL at two national student conferences, namely the evasys Student Engagement Conference and the London Student Sustainability Conference, both held at the University of Westminster on Wed 26 Feb 2025. The diverse range of ... [more]

Yash Vaghela wins the Student Enhanced Engagement and Development (SEED) Award 24 February 2025 Yash Vaghela (Second-Year student in Mechanical Engineering) has been awarded the Student Enhanced Engagement and Development (SEED) Award from the Queen Mary Academy for his significant contributions as a student research assistant on a co-creational mathematics and engineering education project supervised by Dr Rehan Shah. Yash was one of three ... [more]