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Film gives new insight into youngster’s asylum victory
(20 Nov 2009)
A documentary which gives new insight into the emotive story of a nine-year-old boy saved from deportation to an uncertain future in his native Congo is being screened next week.

First observations from telescope link up made
(20 Nov 2009)
A team of astronomers and engineers at an international astronomy project have made the first observations linking radio signals from two telescopes

New light shone on Africa's darkest hour
(20 Nov 2009)
A book published this month throws new light on one of colonial Africa's darkest hours, revealing casual attitudes to extreme violence and the use of psychology to cover up and excuse deliberate brutality.

Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC) opens for business
(20 Nov 2009)
The Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre (MAHSC) will be formally launched today following its official designation earlier this year with the publication of its strategy, ‘Partnership for the Patient: Bringing Benefit through Research, Education and Innovation’.

Research funding coup for University announced
(18 Nov 2009)
The University's Faculty of Humanities has bagged  two out of nine Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funding awards.

Architecture lecturers win prestigious award
(17 Nov 2009)
Architecture lecturers Drs Andrew Crompton and Frank Brown have been awarded one of town planning’s most prestigious awards.

Michael Mansfield launches legal advice clinic
(17 Nov 2009)
One of the country’s best known lawyers is to speak about his work and his new book to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the University’s first legal advice centre

Ticking Stellar Time Bomb Identified
(17 Nov 2009)
The European Southern Observatory's  Very Large Telescope has made the first time-lapse movie of an unusual shell of matter ejected by a “vampire star.”

Swine flu study will help understand needs of at-risk groups
(17 Nov 2009)
People with asthma and other respiratory conditions are to take part in a Government-funded study to explore their needs, behaviour and concerns in the wake of the swine-flu pandemic.

Students mobilise for Operation Impact
(12 Nov 2009)
Neighbourhoods across south Manchester have been spruced up after hundreds of University of Manchester students embarked on a huge volunteering project.

GSMA and the University of Manchester to establish M-Health Innovation Centre
(11 Nov 2009)
GSMA, which represents the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The University of Manchester to establish an m-Health Innovation Centre in Manchester, which will act as a UK focus for m-Health.

Scholars shed light on humanity's dark side
(11 Nov 2009)
The Director of a groundbreaking project dedicated to recording acts of mass violence is to speak about his work at The University of Manchester on Thursday afternoon.

Scientists call for ban on alcohol-industry sponsorship of sport
(10 Nov 2009)
The alcohol industry’s sponsorship of sport should be banned and replaced with a dedicated alcohol tax modelled on those employed by some countries for tobacco, say scientists.

School textbooks have political purpose, finds study
(10 Nov 2009)
The simple school textbook is used by states to mould loyal citizens, according to a new study.

Award for rising star of science
(09 Nov 2009)
A young scientist in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research at The University of Manchester has won a prestigious Society of Biology Science Communication Award.

University is up for the Cup
(09 Nov 2009)
The University is backing Manchester’s bid to be a host city for the world's greatest football tournament.

Ceramic dating technique features in new podcast series
(06 Nov 2009)
A University of Manchester researcher is the first to be featured in an exciting new series of podcasts from the Royal Society.

Moonwatching in Manchester
(02 Nov 2009)
Astronomers from The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics have been heading out into the streets of Manchester to show passers-by close-up views of the Moon and the planet Jupiter.

Architecture has both healed and inflamed Belfast's Troubles
(02 Nov 2009)
The stubborn persistence of sectarian attitudes in Belfast can be partially blamed on everyday urban features which would be uncontroversial in cities less blighted by conflict, a study has found.

Manchester lecturer is official Mozambique election observer
(01 Nov 2009)
A senior politics lecturer from The University of Manchester is in Mozambique as one of the 13 election observers at Mozambique’s National and Provincial Elections.

Take a walk with Turing this weekend
(30 Oct 2009)
There’s a chance to take a walk with two giants of Manchester science this weekend.

Wiser OWL learns to unravel doctor talk
(27 Oct 2009)
A new Internet language will enable computers to unravel the complex terminology used by experts such as doctors, engineers and life scientists, and understand what they really mean.

HPV vaccine makes girls more cautious about sex
(27 Oct 2009)
Nearly 80% of girls say that having the HPV vaccine makes them think twice about the risks of having sex, according to a University of Manchester study published in the British Journal of Cancer.

One tonne ‘Baby’ goes mobile
(27 Oct 2009)
It took a one-tonne computer the size of a room to run a simple mathematics program in 1948 – but now computer scientists have made it available on your mobile.

Science Festival Off To Electrifying Start
(26 Oct 2009)
The 2009 Manchester Science Festival has got off to an electrifying start.

Striking art meets science in new Manchester exhibition
(23 Oct 2009)
Art meets science to striking effect in a new exhibition at MOSI as part of Manchester Science Festival 2009

Tuesday wettest day of week suggests new analysis
(23 Oct 2009)
Tuesday is the wettest day of the week, suggests new analysis of rainfall data for Manchester.

Scientists and authors turn science fiction into science fact
(23 Oct 2009)
The founder of a literary movement which argues that science fiction should be more fact than fantasy, is to publish the results of a unique collaboration between writers and scientists.

Students mobilise for Operation Impact
(23 Oct 2009)
More than 200 students will take to the streets of south Manchester next week in a bid to clean up communities and make a difference.

Africa world's fastest growing mobile phone market
(23 Oct 2009)
Mobile phone subscriptions in Africa have defied the world economic crisis by growing faster than in any other region of the world since 2003, according to a United Nations report published yesterday.

Scientists celebrate 30 years of prestigious award
(22 Oct 2009)
Former winners of the Weizmann Prize for Biochemistry are gathering for a reunion at The University of Manchester to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the prestigious award.

Study of religion, belief, discrimination and equality launched
(21 Oct 2009)
Multi-culturalism, the 7/7 bombings, the ‘War on Terror’, laws against religious discrimination and migration from new European states have all made UK headlines during this decade.

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