Dr Tom Reynolds from the Department has received the 2005 BA Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award Lecture, which he will present at the BA Festival of Science in Dublin this September. The awards are presented by the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA).

Dr Reynolds has received the award for his talk 'The future of civil aviation - the approach of the silent aircraft', which looks at the issues surrounding noise pollution by aircraft and how it can be reduced.

'The Silent Aircraft Initiative is a Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) programme to develop concept designs and procedures for ultra-low-noise commercial aircraft', says Dr Reynolds.

More information can be found at: http://www.sciencelive.org/component/option,com_mediadb/task,view/idstr,CUSP-BAFOS05-09_Tom_Reynolds_Lecture/Itemid,82

The Silent Aircraft Initiative is run jointly between the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For further details visit http://silentaircraft.org and http://www.cambridge-mit.org