You are a potential lifesaver
In 2015 I became the first ever Student Ambassador for the international charity DKMS, whose sole aim is to eradicate blood cancer. The following year, I embarked on the challenge…
Posts Tagged: Bradford
Long Train Running – Bradford engineer reflects on a long and diverse career
Now an International Author, Tony Boobier graduated in Civil and Structural Engineering in 1979, and reflects on a diverse, full and extremely interesting career.
Finding Yourself
On my first day at the University at Bradford, I remember the panic and nerves setting in before even reaching the institute. Although I’d initially applied for a physiotherapy course,…
50 Years’ Chemistry Reunion – Woohoo!!
What a great weekend! We finally made it after 50 years. The weekend started on Friday afternoon when we began assembling at Heaton Mount. Ron and Helen Armstrong, Ian and…
20-Year Pharmacy Reunion, Class of 1993-97
If someone had said to me on graduating in July 1997 that our first reunion would be twenty years later and I would be arranging it, I would have ridiculed…
A University is Born!
At noon on 18 October 1966, the Royal Signature of Queen Elizabeth II granted the Royal Charter by which the University of Bradford was founded. As a College of Advanced Technology, the…
Bradford UNESCO City of Film
Lights, Camera, Action! There’s a new face around campus, or rather a familiar face come back where he graduated in 2010 with a first class honours degree as a mature…
The destruction of an iconic mill is sad; but Bradford needs to look to a different future
The face of Bradford has been changed overnight by a huge fire, and the destruction of Drummonds Mill in Lumb Lane. For that great city’s inhabitants, and those of us…