In this blog, Dr Dan Horton (Lecturer in Veterinary Virology, School Research Director and Programme Leader for MSc Vet Microbiology) writes about his visit to Columbia University, supported by Santander Universities UK Zoonotic and epizootic viruses continue to threaten both public health, and economic stability; however, our ability to predict and mitigate these risks remains limited. […]
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From July 2nd 2017 till July 18th 2017 I was a summer student at Aarhus Summer School in Denmark studying Creativity and Innovation. Admittedly I was incredibly nervous prior to this experience but I can honestly say it was amazing and more rewarding than I ever could have imagined. The first day was spent becoming familiar with […]
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The Brazilian Business & Culture Summer School is an intensive programme hosted by USP – a leading institution in Latin America – in their Ribeirão Preto campus, 300km from the metropolis of São Paulo. I had the wonderful opportunity to attend this well organised programme over the summer along with other students from Surrey and […]
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In 2016, myself and my coursemate Hayley received a scholarship from Santander to visit the veterinary faculty of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. At first, I was quite apprehensive about travelling without my family to a hemisphere I had never visited to a country I knew very little about. However, I decided that this […]
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Having spent the second year of my BEng in Medical Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore was an experience that allowed me to develop myself academically and personally in different ways. Singapore is a melting pot of many Asian cultures and a country in which western modern lifestyles meet ancient Chinese traditions. NTU […]
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I received the Santander Staff Mobility Award to initiate a collaboration between the University of Surrey and the University of Cologne. During my visit, I presented an overview of my research to the research group of Dr Paul Higgins (Figure 1). This was an opportunity to showcase my own research and allow the group to […]
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