Department Of Animal & Plant Sciences.
Newsletter SPRING 2017
We hope everything is going well as you prepare and revise for your next exams. The deadline for making firm and insurance university choices is also coming up, if you haven’t made your decisions yet. If there’s anything else we can help you with between now and deadline day, feel free to get in touch. Our contact details are on the back. For now, we’d like to share some of the latest news from Animal and Plant Sciences here at the University of Sheffield. Dr Andrew Beckerman Director of Admissions
In the media The results of the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2017 have just come out and we’re proud to say that the University of Sheffield has been voted:
Our department has been generating column inches and filling TV schedules recently recently. One of our graduates, Emma Napper (above) has been interviewed by Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Wired about her work as a producer on the latest David Attenborough series, Plant Earth II. She’s one of several of our alumni who gone into careers making wildlife documentaries. We were also pleased to show the BBC’s Michael Portillo around our Alfred Denny Museum of Zoology, when he visited Sheffield for his Great British Railway Journeys series. Dr Nicola Hemmings, one of our University teachers, was filmed showing him around our ancient and unusal exhibits (right). Find links at www.facebook.com/SheffieldAPS
• The number one Russell Group university for student experience • Top three for student experience for the seventh year in a row • The number one students’ union for the ninth year in a row • Joint first place library services