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Dr Nina Hatch, from the school of Physics & Astronomy, researches the lives of the most massive galaxies in the universe. As well as this, she searches far back in the universe's history for the galaxies that have eventually come to be part of the gravitationally bound clusters of galaxies we observe in the local universe.

Today Nina joins Hena and Carl (Jr.) in the studio for a chat about her research and the science outreach projects Nina is involved with. These important projects, such as the astronomy department's portable inflatable planetarium (The Inflativerse) spread awareness of both physics and astronomy and plant that seed in both the old and young that could eventually lead to a career in the field.

• Galaxy Types
• Telescopes
• The Inflativerse!
• Science in the News

Galaxy Types

Another year and another victory in the pool sees University of Nottingham (UoN) continue their amazing winning streak at Swimming Varsity. This competition historically has always been a one sided affair; not much changed on Wednesday as UoN beat Trent 138-80, winning all but one event at the sports center.

The only Trent victory came in the 100m women’s Breaststroke, with an impressive time of 1.16m.

The highlight of the competition was the Medley Skins event. In only its 3rd year, the event has become a massive hit with the spectators. The choice of stroke for each of the 8 rounds were picked random and with the last placed finisher in each round eliminated the event is a test of endurance and versatility. Alice Morgan (UoN) and Ian MacMillan (UoN) were the winners of the men and women’s event.

The standout competitors of the day were Ian MacMillan (UoN) in the 100m Butterfly, Chloe Robbins (UoN) in the Individual Medley/ Freestyle and Amy Root (Trent) in the Breaststroke.

Sam Jackson, President of the UoN Swim Team, spoke of his delight in the performance of the team, especially with their busy schedule competing in the BUCS finals.

Victory in the pool leaves the current scores of the Charity Varsity series as 4-2 to UoN.

On February 18th the Capital FM Arena hosted the blue-ribbon event of the Varsity Series: Varsity Ice Hockey. Representative sides for the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University, drawn from the Nottingham Universities Mavericks joint team, faced off in front of a full-capacity crowd for the biggest event of the Varsity calendar.

Last night The Den played host to the Students' Union Elections 2013, where the results of the week long voting period were announced to a sharply dressed crowd of candidates, their teams and the student media organisations.

This year was a record breaking year with over 10,000 votes cast!

Without further ado, the new SU exec in order of elected:

• Sports Officer: Tom Hicks
• Activities Officer: Will Knapp
• Education Officer: Dasha Karzunina
• Community Officer: Dave 'DMC' Cordell
• Equal Ops & Welfare Officer: Mike Dore
• President: Ellie McWilliam

URN secured the first interview with Ellie McWilliam, our first female Students' Union president in 15 years, a position so tightly contested that only 30 votes separated her from Will Clempner in the final round of counting:

To hear more from the night head to the SU election page of our website.

Beeston Hockey Club was host to the tightest game of the Varsity Series so far, in which the Uni & Trent Men's Hockey 1sts had to be separated by penalty flicks, having drawn the game 2-2. But fortune smiled on the Uni boys as they triumphed on penalties 6-5.