Title: LJMU receives Royal accolade for developing the world`s largest robotic telescope
Post by: Orstio on December 03, 2005, 06:08:03 PM
http://www.everything-science.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=166&Itemid=2 (http://www.everything-science.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=166&Itemid=2) Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) has been awarded one of the UK’s most prestigious educational awards for its astronomical excellence and public engagement in science.
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The biennial Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Further and Higher Education recognise and reward the outstanding contribution that universities and colleges in the United Kingdom make to the intellectual, economic, cultural and social life of the nation.
LJMU’s winning entry relates to the development of the world’s largest and most sophisticated ground-based robotic telescopes, which are opening up new areas of research for professional astronomers. The Unive. . .
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