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15 April 2024
Welcome back! This edition is all about playing an active role at university and taking advantage of the opportunities available to you. Read on for a range of exciting opportunities and people to follow to make the most of your time at Sussex this Summer term.
Plus
- Get involved with Sustainable Sussex Fortnight (15-29 April 2024).
- April marks autism awareness month. Blogger Tugce Erten has spoken with fellow autistic students to learn more about their experience at Sussex.
- A new Sussexsport app has launched – find it on the App Store or Google Play.
- Find out about the Police and Crime Commissioner elections coming up on 2 May, and register to vote by tomorrow, Tuesday 16 April.
- Be in with a chance to win a pair of tickets to a Brighton Festival event! Read more and enter the competition before 25 April.
- Between Monday 15 April and Sunday 28 April, Beryl BTN pedal only bikes will be free to hire to all registered Beryl members in Brighton & Hove from midnight to 10am each day. To join the scheme, register through the Beryl website or download the Beryl app.
More events
- Book your place for the Spring Careers Fair (Thursday 25 April) to meet a range of organisations offering graduate roles, as well as volunteering, placements and further study opportunities.
- Two Sussex Universe talks are happening tomorrow, 16 April at 6pm in Fulton A lecture theatre. Book your free seat for Professor Konstantin Blyuss (“Mathematics of life: from epidemics to sex”) and Professor Yuliya Kyrychko (“Time-delayed systems: challenges and opportunities”). Each 30-minute talk will be followed by time for questions.
- Book now for a Poetry and Resilience Workshop (Wednesday 24 April) with award-winning poet and Sussex alumna Jenny Mitchell, as part of the Wicked Problems series.
Did you know?
Yesterday (14 April) was World Quantum Day. To celebrate, we asked Professor Winfried Hensinger to explain what quantum is in just one minute. Check out what he replied on Instagram.
The Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies is one of the University's Centres of Excellence. This academic year we also launched the UK's first undergraduate Quantum Technology degree, where students carry out research from day one.