On 11 and 12 of July Professor Sir Harold Kroto FRS, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1996), has visited UCLan and officially launched UCLan’s new Institute of Nanotechnology and Bioengineering. He unveiled the official plaque for the Institute after delivering  a fascinating public lecture.

Professor Kroro attended several presentations by young researchers of the Institute and gave a couple of short presentations on promoting new ways of student presentations using the most modern development such lectures on  the Internet. At the end of his visit he attended UCLan graduation ceremony and received UCLan Honorary Fellowship.