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The University of Sussex is a public research university located in Falmer, East Sussex, England.It lies mostly within the city boundaries of Brighton and Hove.Its large campus site is surrounded by the South Downs National Park, and provides convenient access to central Brighton 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi) away.
Sussex University, built on open land near Stanmer as the first new university of the post-war era, was designed by Sir Basil Spence; Falmer House, the main building on the campus, received a Grade I listing in 1993 and is the most recently built Grade I building in the city.
While working at the University of Sussex, Harold Kroto won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Richard Smalley and Robert Curl from Rice University in the US for the discovery of fullerenes. [131] David Mumford is a mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry and then for research into vision and pattern theory.
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The first competitive game played at the stadium was the 2010–11 season final of the Sussex Senior Cup between Brighton and Eastbourne Borough on 16 July 2011. [5] The first league game was against Doncaster Rovers , who were also the opponents in the last game played at Brighton's former stadium, the Goldstone Ground , 14 years earlier.
The Science Policy Research Unit is located within the University of Sussex Business School in Brighton, United Kingdom. SPRU's current [as of?] director is Professor Jeremy Hall, formerly director of the Centre for Social Innovation Management at Surrey Business School and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management.
A route has existed for centuries between Brighton and Lewes, the county town of East Sussex (and historically of Sussex as a whole), which is 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (12.1 km) to the northeast. The historic route to Lewes ran in a more easterly direction on a drove road across the South Downs ; it still exists as footpaths and byways .
University of Sussex, Brighton; University of Winchester, Winchester; By total HEFCE funding, the biggest university is the Open University, followed by Oxford University. [40] The Open and Oxford each receive around three times as much funding as any other university in the region, and Oxford receives the largest research grant in England (as ...