In this busy time of the year, and many new students arriving in Bristol, the FRG helped out at BISC, a local charity that helps to welcome international students. As in previous years, a team led by “Chef Charl” cooked Welcome Meals for international students. Sadly Angel and Dicker had left by the time this photo was taken:
We broke the record set last year, and prepared and served more than 140 meals on Tuesday evening! Well done!
The first of the new Faul Research Group members have arrived! Esther (from Keele, MRes) and Liam (from Warwick, PhD jointly with Ian Manners) have arrived over the weekend, and are now settling in! Welcome to Bristol!
After a short 4-week stay, Lexy, and undergraduate from Bristol who received an EPSRC bursary to work in the FRG labs, had her last day on Friday. We enjoyed lunch in BISC‘s garden and said our goodbyes….
… and hopefully she is thinking of us staying behind in Bristol while she is on holiday!
Marion, a French student on summer placement from Lyon, spent 6 weeks in the FRG. Sadly it was her last day on Friday … we all had the chance to say goodbye in the lab…
and then in Brown’s …
Hopefully we will see Marion back in Bristol in the near future!
With the sun shining and time for a break from the lab, the Hall and Faul groups headed out to South Wales to Rhossili Bay for a day of swimming, beach games, bbq’ing and fun!
Some photos from the top of the cliffs …
and down on the beach …
Yaozu recently had his birthday … which was a great reason to have more chocolate cake! 
Congrats Yaozu!
Today was the launch of our new, once-a-month, freestyle group meeting! We headed to Boston Tea Party on Park Street for our inaugural meeting!
Good to be out of the office on such a nice day! Thanks also to Yaozu who remembered to take a photo!
Bai kindly provided pizza, so we could celebrate Piotr’s birthday and the start to the world cup in style!
Thanks Bai, and happy birthday Piotr!
After a bit of a dry spell, we are entering into birthday season again, kicked off with Yumeng’s birthday!
Happy birthday Yumeng!
An Akagi group poster session was organised on the day that Charl visited. This was a great opportunity to discuss science, and see some of the beautiful results from the students in the group!
Everyone had a great time, especially as we went for a lovely dinner afterwards! We now look forward to hosting some colleagues from Kyoto in Bristol!
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