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2018
23
April
2018

EXPERT COMMENT: Mayor’s Green Summit – one month on

Dr Carly McLachlan is the Director of Tyndall Manchester, an interdisciplinary climate change and energy research centre based at The University of Manchester, and was on the Steering Committee for the Green Summit. It’s been a month since the May...
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13
April
2018

Five ways the shipping industry can reduce its carbon emissions

A shipping industry summit is looking into how it can reduce its share of global greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement. But a lack of low carbon technologies is not the problem. The International Maritime Organization’s (IM...
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science
12
April
2018

Student develops gaming technology for environmental and scientific research

A PhD student at The University of Manchester has developed a new method and software for using computer game technology for complex scientific and engineering simulations.   ...
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09
April
2018

Shipping industry needs an alternative to fossil fuels, but which one?

The shipping industry needs to move to renewable and alternative fuels but there is no widely available fuel to manage climate change and local pollutants according to a recent study. ...
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26
March
2018

Students create 3D Printed robot prosthetic limb for amputees

Students at The University of Manchester have designed and built a 3D printed, low-cost robotic prosthetic hand that could provide a much cheaper alternative for amputees. ...
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15
March
2018

Hope from chaos: could political upheaval lead to a new green epoch?

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) published its first major report 28 years ago. This watershed document described the ominous implications of escalating emissions and the scale of the challenge in reversing this seemingly ...
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science
01
March
2018

Jumping spiders and flying bees: The rise of bio inspired microrobots

Jumping robot spiders and swarms of robotic bees sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers at The University of Manchester are already working on such projects and aiming to lead the world in micro robotics.   ...
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2017
23
November
2017

Balfour Beatty formally awarded £287 million Manchester Engineering Campus Development project

The University of Manchester has today announced that the £287 million contract to construct the Manchester Engineering Campus Development (MECD) has been formally awarded to Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group ...
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04
September
2017

Scholarship student becomes Rwanda’s youngest ever government minister

At 30, new Rwandan Minster for Transport, Jean de Dieu ‘Jado’ Uwihanganye is the youngest ever minister in the country and a hugely successful project manager, but none of this would have been possible without the backing of a unique scholarship from...
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02
August
2017

£7.5m grant to ensure next generation dams promote sustainable development

An international consortium of researchers led by The University of Manchester will spend four years working to improve the economic, social and environmental impact of dams, after it was awarded a £7.5 million grant by Research Councils UK, as part ...
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24
April
2017

The Manchester graduate changing lives in Tanzania

Manchester graduate Ray Kileo, who was able to undertake his studies thanks to a scholarship, is transforming Tanzanian capital city Dar es Salaam after returning there to work on its transport system. ...
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21
March
2017

Bioenergy gets graphic with new illustrated guide to the subject

A new graphic novel which addresses the big questions around bioenergy and climate change is being launched by The University of Manchester ahead of a major conference this week. ...
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03
March
2017

How low can you go? New project to bring satellites nearer to Earth

The University of Manchester is leading a multi-million pound project to develop satellites which will orbit much closer to the Earth – making them smaller, cheaper, helping to dodge space debris and improving the quality of images they can send back...
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02
March
2017

NASA rover technology to be used in project to map nuclear sites comprehensively

University of Manchester scientists are leading a team which is to comprehensively map some of the world’s most radioactive sites using sensing technology mounted on an advanced robotic vehicle. ...
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2016
08
November
2016

Leon’s story: Engineering a healthier future for Rwanda

Rwanda is a very hilly country and people and health centres might be geographically separated from specialist advice and hospitals. That’s why the country is increasingly using telehealth services to connect health workers with the knowledge they ne...
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2015
23
October
2015

China’s President Xi Jinping visits the National Graphene Institute

President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China visited the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at The University of Manchester today (October 23), on the final day of the President’s UK state visit. ...
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