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Warwick wins THE award

The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine was named winner of the Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts by the Times Higher Education (THE) at their annual awards ceremony on 24 November 2011.

The Hippocrates Prize, now in its third year, is an annual international award for a poem on a medical subject. Co-founded by Professor Donald Singer, Warwick Medical School, and Michael Hulse, English and Comparative Literary Studies, the prize has attracted more than 3,000 entries from 31 countries in the past two years.

Professor Singer said:

This Award is a tribute to the remarkable enthusiasm and generosity of staff at the University, our external supporters and partner organisations, and to the many members of the public, health professionals, poets and academics in the UK and internationally who have engaged in our evolving poetry and medicine initiative.”

Also honoured by the THE was the Realising Opportunities campaign - winner of the Widening Participation Initiative of the Year award. Realising Opportunities is a partnership of 12 universities, of which Warwick is one, promoting fair access to HE and encouraging social mobility. Judges commented :

...this is an innovative national partnership showing evidence of real impact and great potential."

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