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UCL given HR Excellence in Research Award by the European Commission

UCL Festival of Volunteering

Archbishop Tutu returns to King’s
King's alumnus and this year's Templeton Prize winner Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu returned to King's last night for the Templeton Prize Forum.

Katherine Granger CBE to umpire Glasgow V Edinburgh University Boat Race
Olympic gold medallist Katherine Grainger CBE has confirmed she will be back in Scotland this Saturday as starter and umpire for the 136 th Glasgow-Edinburgh University Boat Race.

Imperial physicists share in prize for masterminding Higgs boson detector
Two Imperial physicists have been praised as particle detector masterminds, following last year's discovery of a Higgs boson at CERN.

Grant Museum wins Cultural Pros Award at Museums + Heritage Awards

Political pranksters win a BAFTA

Emeritus chemistry professors awarded honorary degrees

Innovation rains supreme as entrepreneur reinvents the umbrella
An entrepreneur whose Eureka moment came at last year's wet and windy Grand National has reinvented the umbrella with the help of WMG at the University of Warwick.

Cricket book hits Beyond a Boundary
One of the most celebrated and influential sports books of modern times is to be the focus of a major conference that will take place at the University of Glasgow.

Sussex-led project leads to award for Newhaven youth group

Conversations with Cornel West
Don't miss the chance to hear the controversial commentator Cornel West in dialogue with other great minds on politics, philosophy and literature, touching in particular on issues of race and identity.   Our future is greater than our past.

Imperial wins women in science award

Sussex achieves first milestone award for improving prospects of female scientists

Cultural Olympiad reinforces Britain’s reputation as a world leader in culture
An evaluation of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad by the University of Liverpool has found that it reinforced Britain's reputation abroad as a world leader in culture.

Exclusive behind-the-scenes tours at Imperial Festival

Michael Palin at Brazil Institute
Broadcaster and travel writer Michael Palin spoke at King's Brazil Institute last night following his recent BBC documentary series profiling Brazilian culture and the country's rise as a global power.

Can you guess what happened last?
We can often predict what people are going to do. But is it possible to guess what it was that made them do it?

TEDxCERN simulcast at UCL

Director of Sussex Innovation Centre receives Queen’s Award

Plymouth University scientist works with Oscar winner for environmental film
An internationally renowned scientist from Plymouth University has worked with multi award-winning actor Jeremy Irons on a major documentary about marine pollution.

Sussex political expert assesses Thatcher’s legacy
Sussex political expert assesses Thatcher's legacy Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher “was brilliant at winning things, but she wasn't brilliant at winning people over”, argued

From Austen to French cinema: UCL celebrates the arts

Better support needed for dads as well as mums after difficult births
Severe and life-threatening complications in pregnancy can have a big impact on fathers as well as mothers.

Casino Royale School of Mines team crowned Pub Quiz champs

Encouraging enterprise and making ideas happen

Old Bailey Proceedings Online celebrates tenth anniversary with audience of millions
The Old Bailey Online celebrates its tenth birthday this month (15 April 2013) after attracting over 34 million page views since it went live in 2003.

Graphene is theme for Festival’s science communicator

University features at Brighton festivals

Ground-breaking frontier science explored at Imperial Fringe
The fifth Imperial Fringe takes place on Thursday 21 March, looking at the important work in synthetic biology happening at the College.

Experts debate the future of Europe at Sussex Salon
Experts debate the future of Europe at Sussex Salon As banks in Cyprus closed to prevent mass withdrawals of cash, a panel of experts from the Sussex European Institute (SEI) discussed the future of Europe at the latest in the Sussex Salon series of debates.

Cognitive science researcher to get award for lifetime’s work

IERA event at UCL

Professor Tony Binns wins the ’Distinguished New Zealand Geographer’ medal

EU and European careers event

Nottingham professor wins the Rolls-Royce best patent award
Professor Dragos Axinte from The University of Nottingham, together with colleagues at Rolls-Royce, has received the prestigious Rolls-Royce Best Patent Award in recognition of a new technology that has been developed for the aerospace business.

Gero Miesenböck wins 2013 Brain Prize for optogenetics
Gero Miesenböck has been awarded The Brain Prize 2013 for his pioneering role in developing 'optogenetics', a revolutionary technique which uses light to control sets of nerve cells in order to reveal much about the brain.

IERA event at UCL on 9 March

Delayed stenting can help some heart attack patients
Delaying putting a stent in patients who have suffered a ‘high risk' heart attack could aid their recovery, new research has shown.

Future world leaders exercise powers of persuasion

£1.2m to research new treatments for Osteoarthritis
A team of academics from the University of Glasgow has been awarded a £1.2 million programme grant from Arthritis Research UK to bring together for the first time experts in bone, matrix, molecular and systems biology in a concerted effort to better understand osteoarthritis.

Queen and Imperial College London honoured with a music heritage award

Are we ready to meet ET?
Once only science fiction, astronomers are now finding hundreds of planetary systems beyond our own. Given recent discoveries through space exploration, it is entirely feasible that we may soon discover the existence of extra-terrestrial life forms on other planets.

Scientists to be recognised at Suffrage Science event

On the hunt for the best new graphene ideas

Hear how maths can predict random global events

City layout key to predicting riots
In the future police will be able to predict the spread of riots, and how they impact on cities, thanks to a new computer model.  Developed by researchers at UCL, the model highlights the importan

A season of content made glorious by cultural partnerships

Vote for the Petrie in Museums at Night competition

Celebrating the life and legacy of David Livingstone - missonary, explorer and medical pioneer
The life and legacy of David Livingstone – the renowned Scottish explorer, missionary and scientist – will be celebrated at the University of Glasgow next week.

Make a date with discovery at Imperial’s Arts Experiment
Take part in a unique experiment and blur the lines between science and the arts at an Imperial Fringe event on Thursday in the Main Entrance on Exhibition Road from 17.00-2000 .

A chance to say thank you

‘Most wanted notice’ marking Machiavelli’s downfall found
Stephen Milner came across the 1513 proclamation which led to the downfall of Niccolò Machiavelli, known as the Italian Prince of Darkness, buried in the state archives in Florence.

Medical excellence recognised through Faculty of Medicine Fellowships

"The future of business is social," say entrepreneurs at campus careers event

Lenox is named Manchester Champion at city awards ceremony

Prestigious award to support regenerative medicine research
PA 37/13 A Nottingham professor has received a prestigious award from the Royal Society that will support his research into the development of a new generation of regenerative medicines.

Public artworks projected onto University Place tonight
The event launches a nationwide celebration of Your Paintings - a BBC website showing the entire UK national collection of over 210,000 oil paintings.

University teaching hospital named Britain’s best clinical research site
The team was made up of representatives from the National Institute for Health Research/Wellcome Trust Children's Clinical Research Facility (NIHR/WT CCRF) and the Medicines for Children Research Network, both based at the hospital.

New lab honours founding physicist

Diversity Month 2013 kicks off at UCL

Bartlett School of Planning centenary marked with postgraduate scholarships

Your starter for 10: Manchester returns in University Challenge
The University has been series champion three times in the last seven years, and they are the reigning champions from 2012.

Rising star honoured for commitment to University project

HR Excellence in Research
  Cardiff's commitment to improving the working conditions and career development for research staff has been recognised and reaffirmed.

UCL Special Collections celebrate inaugural George Orwell Day

Cross-arms could speed up connection of new electricity supplies
Insulated Cross-arms, manufactured and sold by University of Manchester spin-out company Arago Technology Ltd., have been installed on pylons in some of the most stark and remote areas of the UK to

University of Sussex winter graduation 2013

Centre of Excellence for rare bone disease opens

Recognised as an inclusive place to work
The University of Sheffield has been recognised as a fully inclusive community to work after rising 25 places in the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index 2013.

The Sainsbury Laboratory names a new Director
—Ottoline Leyser Leyser, formerly the Associate Director of the Laboratory and also a Professor of Plant Development at the Department of Plant Sciences, said: “This is a really exciting time to be a plant biologist.

Holocaust Memorial Day looks back to the beginnings of Hitler’s power
A dramatic story of survival and reflections on Hitler's 1933 appointment as Chancellor of Germany are on the programme for the University of Sussex's Holocaust Memorial Day on 30 January 2013 T

Museum of Zoology wins Heritage Lottery Fund support

Ship simulator used to replicate circumstances of Costa Concordia disaster
The events which led to the Costa Concordia disaster almost a year ago will be explored in a major new documentary partly filmed at Plymouth University.

New website to unite cystic fibrosis patients and researchers
PA 02/13 People with cystic fibrosis (CF) will be able to access the latest research findings about their condition, volunteer for clinical trials and influence the direction of future scientific studies through a new website being launched later this week.

UCL Electronic & Electrical Engineering win Department of the Year Award

Manufacturing specialist wins international collaboration award
A manufacturing lecturer from The University of Nottingham has been given an award by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), in recognition of his work in manufacturing and processing of materials research with two Japanese Universities.

University of Sussex Professor awarded Austrian honour for book about Holocaust hero

King’s builds strong links with India
King's College London continues to formulate strong links with India through a number of interesting activities and events, organised by the London University International Partnership (LUIP) .

Sarah Storey OBE receives honorary degree from The University of Manchester

Double delight for Girton Doctors
The College was delighted to celebrate these two fine achievements at a single ceremony." —Professor Susan J Smith, FBA Poulton entered Girton as an undergraduate in 1976.

Obituary: Professor Jonathan Harvey

Study India 2012

University to honour Sarah Storey

Former vice-chancellor recalls start of the sciences at Sussex

Celebrating supercomputing fifty years on
03 Dec 2012 Developed at The University of Manchester between 1956 and 1963, the Atlas computer was at the time the most powerful in the world.

Your chance to meet the stars
We are incredibly excited to be working with BBC Learning to put on a fantastic event for all the family in celebration of Stargazing Live 2013." —Carolin Crawford A free evening

No place like bone

Making a big leap towards Olympic success

Energy in the 21st century: can we ensure a bright future?
An energy expert from The University of Nottingham joined a distinguished panel to discuss one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century.

Sussex historian awarded prestigious prize