The Department of Classics is delighted to announce that it has, again, been successful in its bid for two UROP placements in 2012.

Reading’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP) is a scheme that allows second-year Undergraduates to carry out a paid six-weeks research project in close collaboration with an academic over the Summer vacation. These projects are an ideal preparation for students who consider an academic career beyond their first degree, and they are an excellent preparation for the third-year dissertation project. (For further information please refer to the UROP pages .)

The two projects this year will be:

• Creating a Digital Model of the Antikythera Mechanism (with Dr Matthew Nicholls)
• Investigating the ‘Sound of War in Caesar’s Gallic War’ (with Prof. Peter Kruschwitz).