Tag: Awards

  • Gro for GooD “Smart Handpumps” wins Oxford University Vice-Chancellor’s Award
    Gro for GooD “Smart Handpumps” wins Oxford University Vice-Chancellor’s Award

    From: www.ox.ac.uk/research/vice-chancellors-innovation-awards The Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation Awards seek to recognise and celebrate exceptional research-led innovations and products at all University levels that are having societal or economic impact. The initiative attracted a total of 78 entries, from which four winners were chosen and a further 13 projects highly commended across four categories: team work, building capacity,…

  • Awards for UPGro researchers

    During the first day of the 43rd IAH Congress in Montpellier, France the 2016 Awards of the International Association of Hydrogeologists were announced: “At the Annual General Meeting in the evening, the new Applied Hydrogeology Award was presented to Dr Richard Carter (pictured) in recognition of his life time research in applied hydrogeology in Africa and…

  • Prof. Richard Carter scoops IAH Award
    Prof. Richard Carter scoops IAH Award

    We are delighted that Professor Carter, a member of the UPGro Knowledge Broker team and Hidden Crisis project, received the first ever “Applied Hydrogeology Award” from the International Association of Hydrogeologists: ‘for “a groundwater professional who has made an outstanding contribution to the application of hydrogeology, preferably in developing countries or in support of international…