http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/ Thu, 23 May 2013 21:37:03 +0000 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://assets.manchester.ac.uk/logos/university-1.png http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/ http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10088 Inspirational Manchester Business School student Christina Taylor has won the top prize in the Barclays School for Start-ups competition. The competition gives young social entrepreneurs access to an unprecedented package of business training and support. Wed, 22 May 2013 10:36:39 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10088 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10087 University of Manchester scientists have produced stunning new 3D images of a butterfly developing inside the chrysalis using high-tech imaging techniques. Wed, 22 May 2013 09:27:03 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10087 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10076 A three-year project to digitise the tens of thousands of documents produced by one of the most important and prolific Christian thinkers of the past 200 years has been launched. Wed, 22 May 2013 08:48:37 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10076 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10083 Shadow Health Secretary, Andy Burnham MP, believes the proposed Leveson model for press regulation should be used to regulate English football. Tue, 21 May 2013 13:54:40 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10083 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10082 A University of Manchester academic is urging the Government to think about additional ways of helping the fuel poor. Tue, 21 May 2013 13:21:41 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10082 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10067 A Professor of Education from The University of Manchester has been made Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Education Committee for its inquiry into School Partnerships and Cooperation. Fri, 17 May 2013 08:03:48 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10067 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10066 Two University of Manchester professors will host a public meeting where they will ponder the question: Will science save the world? Thu, 16 May 2013 13:43:20 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10066 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10045 A UK-Canadian team of scientists has discovered ancient pockets of water, which have been isolated deep underground for billions of years and contain abundant chemicals known to support life. Thu, 16 May 2013 18:32:33 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10045 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10034 Wonder material graphene, when combined with other graphene-like materials, paves the way for vast new areas of scientific discovery and previously unheard-of applications, University of Manchester researchers have revealed. Thu, 16 May 2013 10:04:17 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10034 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10043 The University of Manchester today celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of its greatest personal benefactor. Tue, 14 May 2013 14:21:36 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10043 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10044 A national collaboration of electronic engineers and computer scientists is aiming to develop the next generation of energy-efficient computing systems. Tue, 14 May 2013 13:07:21 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10044 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10041 The winners of the Venture Further 2013 business start-up competition have been announced at an awards dinner at the University of Manchester’s ’s Whitworth Art Gallery. Tue, 14 May 2013 08:45:38 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10041 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10039 A prestigious national award has payed tribute to the acclaimed academic research by a Professor of Law at The University of Manchester. Mon, 13 May 2013 13:48:14 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10039 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10033 Researchers at The University of Manchester are looking for volunteers from across the North West to take part in a new study to help people act on their good intentions to walk more. Mon, 13 May 2013 09:03:15 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10033 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10029 A team of University of Manchester students have scooped the University Society of the Year award from the National Association of College and University Entrepreneurs (NACUE). Fri, 10 May 2013 10:55:55 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10029 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10018 Ground breaking science by Chester Zoo, in partnership with The University of Manchester, has helped to achieve a rhino baby boom. Thu, 09 May 2013 15:03:40 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10018 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10000 A historian studying World War Two soldiers responsible for violent atrocities in the Far East, says they were partly radicalised by their own diaries. Thu, 09 May 2013 15:39:50 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10023 A senior lecturer in drama has been chosen by University of Manchester students as their favourite lecturer. Thu, 09 May 2013 13:58:25 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10023 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10015 The contribution of two University of Manchester professors to the advancement of medical science has been recognised with their election to the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Thu, 09 May 2013 10:27:26 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10015 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10016 A new study involving researchers at the universities of York and Manchester has revealed substantial areas of doubt and uncertainty about the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers. Thu, 09 May 2013 10:15:18 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10016 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10011 An estimated 4,837,000 asthmatics with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) could benefit substantially from antifungal treatment, say researchers from The University of Manchester and the University of Toronto. Wed, 08 May 2013 15:08:18 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=10011 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9999 The University of Manchester is delighted to announce the appointment of Gerry Pennell OBE as Director of IT. Wed, 08 May 2013 08:42:57 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9999 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9967 The University of Manchester has appointed Professor Melissa Denecke as Co-Director of the world-leading Dalton Nuclear Institute. Tue, 07 May 2013 10:49:08 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9967 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9988 The University of Manchester has teamed up with Manchester City Football Club to launch a new Learning Through Football programme. Tue, 07 May 2013 11:15:23 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9988 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9985 Less than a year after the decision to site the revolutionary Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in Southern Africa and Australia, the SKA Organisation has opened its new international headquarters. Tue, 07 May 2013 11:07:55 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9985 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9984 The University of Manchester has today announced the appointment of a world-leading academic, who is playing a pivotal role in nanomedicine - a growing field with potential to benefit patients suffering from neurodegenerative disease and cancer. Tue, 07 May 2013 09:02:06 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9984 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9975 University of Manchester scientists, writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, have shown that natural emissions and manmade pollutants can both have an unexpected cooling effect on the world’s climate by making clouds brighter. Mon, 06 May 2013 10:25:30 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9975 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9974 Final year student Jade Brodie has beaten off stiff competition to be crowned the Eureka! Library Innovation Challenge winner at The University of Manchester. Fri, 03 May 2013 15:29:48 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9974 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9982 Three University of Manchester scientists have been elected Fellows of The Royal Society, it was announced today (Friday). Fri, 03 May 2013 16:05:10 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9982 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9953 Combining wonder material graphene with other stunning one-atom thick materials could create the next generation of solar cells and optoelectronic devices, scientists have revealed. Fri, 03 May 2013 09:08:52 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9953 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9972 Deaf students who are considering going to university have been given the opportunity to find out more about studying in Manchester at two Higher Education Awareness Days. Fri, 03 May 2013 08:44:45 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9972 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9966 The University of Manchester’s Dalton Nuclear Institute has appointed Mike Smith as its new research professor in the field of nuclear manufacture technology. Thu, 02 May 2013 09:58:01 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9966 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9963 The Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) and Photon Science Institute (PSI) have secured a Marie Curie training network grant worth €3.4 million to train the future generation of investigators. Thu, 02 May 2013 12:15:35 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9963 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9960 A political historian from The University of Manchester is bidding to solve the mystery of why the UK’s colleges of education suddenly disappeared in the 1970s. Thu, 02 May 2013 09:38:16 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9960 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9954 A remarkable collection of manuscripts going on public display for the first time is to graphically illustrate the West’s debt to the medieval medics of Islam. Thu, 02 May 2013 15:15:52 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9954 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9959 A full house will see eight student finalists battling it out to win a University Library prize of £1000 today. Thu, 02 May 2013 13:50:27 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9959 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9955 The biggest study of fetal growth and autism ever has reported that babies whose growth is at either extreme in the womb, either very small or very large, are at greater risk of developing autism. Thu, 02 May 2013 09:28:51 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9955 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9957 Meteorologists have gained a better understanding of how storms like the one that battered Britain in 1987 develop, making them easier to predict. Wed, 01 May 2013 15:52:22 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9957 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9951 The Punch and Judy politics image of Prime Minister’s Questions is not an accurate one, according to a University of Manchester linguist. Wed, 01 May 2013 08:19:16 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9951 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9941 Who young people hang out with, and what they have done in the past, is consistently more important than their recent offending in explaining why the police stop-and-search them. Wed, 01 May 2013 10:46:23 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9941 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9937 Manchester retained its University Challenge title on 29 April, beating University College, London 190 – 140 in the televised final. It is the fourth victory for The University of Manchester in just eight years. Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:38:50 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9937 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9956 The largest trial into the use of Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) in the UK in more than 30 years will look into how the use of the Class C drug ketamine might reduce the side effects of ECT for those being treated for severe depression. Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:43:47 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9956 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9945 The tenth edition of The University of Manchester’s online arts journal the Manchester Review is now live. Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:40:33 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9945 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9936 A new transistor capable of revolutionising technologies for medical imaging and security screening has been developed by graphene researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham. Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:16:29 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9936 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9930 Researchers have solved the riddle of how one of Africa’s greatest civilisations survived a catastrophic drought which wiped out other famous dynasties. Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:29:57 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9930 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9929 A subtle difference between matter and antimatter has been observed for the first time by the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:57:27 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9929 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9914 The private letters of the composer of some of the world’s most popular hymns have been published, providing a rare glimpse into the birth of Methodism. Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:10:34 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9914 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9921 A University of Manchester researcher has been crowned Postdoctoral winner of the Environment Agency's Pollution Challenge competition, wowing judges with his bold and innovative vision to tackle pollution. Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:15:38 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9921 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9918 Manchester will attempt to retain its University Challenge crown in the final of the TV quiz on BBC2 this Monday. Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:18:36 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9918 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9913 The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library has made it onto a list of Great British landmarks, published by Visit England. Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:23:02 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9913 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9911 Astronomers have released a new image of the outer atmosphere of Betelgeuse – one of the nearest red supergiants to Earth – revealing the detailed structure of the matter being thrown off the star. Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:57:39 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9911 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9904 One of the nation’s leading civil liberty campaigners Shami Chakrabarti is paying a visit to The University of Manchester’s School of Law today (25 April). Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:51:19 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9904 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9906 Scientists from the Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research (MCCIR) have discovered why a particular cancer drug is so effective at killing cells. Their findings could be used to aid the design of future cancer treatments. Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:26:28 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9906 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9903 Scientists have discovered further evidence for the existence of new molecules in the atmosphere that have the potential to off-set global warming by reacting with airborne pollutants. Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:42:26 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9903 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9893 A review of criminal investigations into medical error, conducted by a University of Manchester team, has shown how difficult it is to convict doctors and nurses for wilfully failing their patients. Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:23:38 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9893 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9887 Scientists from The University of Manchester have identified 14 new genes which could have important consequences for future treatments of childhood arthritis. Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:20:19 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9887 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9889 Professor of Creative Writing Jeanette Winterson at The University of Manchester is to take part in a public conversation with acclaimed novelist Kamila Shamsie today (22 April) Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:41:42 +0000 http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=9889