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2023
27
March
2023
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09:00
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New research by an expert at The University of Manchester has found that a major aspect of the traditional ‘Manc’ accent is still going strong in northern parts of the city, but is disappearing from people’s speech elsewhere. ...
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23
March
2023
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16:30
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Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) has been named as one of the top five architecture schools in the QS World Subject Rankings 2023.
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23
March
2023
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14:20
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The latest #BeeWell survey demonstrates that while the wellbeing of young people across Greater Manchester has remained stable over the past two years, girls and LGBTQ+ young people have again reported significantly lower levels of wellbeing....
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21
March
2023
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10:00
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Budding writers have been challenged to craft a Twitter micropoem on the theme of the ‘science around us’ by Creative Manchester, which has launched its annual Micropoetry Competition to mark World Poetry Day....
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21
March
2023
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09:22
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National Grid and The University of Manchester are working together to develop a new drone-mountable system that will allow live inspections of overhead transmission line insulators using electric field (e-field) sensor technology....
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20
March
2023
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13:58
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The University of Manchester has retained its position as the most targeted university by the UK’s top 100 recruiters, according to a report compiled by High Fliers Research.
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17
March
2023
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17:25
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The University of Manchester is at the heart of four new projects that have received a share of millions of pounds awarded to the Greater Manchester Innovation Accelerator, to turn cutting-edge technologies into businesses in Greater Manchester – in ...
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16
March
2023
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16:20
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A student from The University of Manchester is looking to provide relief for people in Malawi, by raising money for two charities working to deliver aid to those in need after a cyclone hit the country....
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16
March
2023
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09:32
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Imaging researchers have taken a major step towards their ultimate goal of identifying cancers that are starved of oxygen so that altered treatment can be used to target them more effectively.
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16
March
2023
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01:53
Europe/London
Greater Manchester Researchers have shown for the first time that malfunctioning behaviour of a type of immune cell is linked to specific symptoms of long- COVID.
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15
March
2023
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14:07
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The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt has today announced a new prize for artificial intelligence named after The University of Manchester’s invention of the first stored program computer in 1948.
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10
March
2023
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14:07
Europe/London
An academic from The University of Manchester has won an award at the FDM Everywoman in Technology Awards, which celebrate the tech industry’s most exceptional talent in order to inspire the next generation from the UK and beyond. ...
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08
March
2023
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15:36
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Thousands of dogs and tens of thousands of fanciers will be at Crufts Dog Show in Birmingham this week. Charles Cruft, who founded the show in 1886, was a great fan of St. Bernards and made them the logo of his early shows....
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07
March
2023
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12:05
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As part of a sector-leading £9m fund of financial support for students The University of Manchester is providing payments to 10,000 students to further help with the cost of living crisis.
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07
March
2023
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11:56
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New research has found that the support given to older people who may lack the mental capacity to manage their money varies greatly, which is concerning given the rising number of people with dementia and the increasing sophistication of financial sc...
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06
March
2023
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07:00
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In the most comprehensive analysis of ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 health outcomes to date, a major new global study has found that ethnic minority groups experienced higher rates of severe illness and death during the pandemic because of their gr...
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02
March
2023
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13:44
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The government’s main funder of health research has announced the appointment of 6 women from the University of Manchester as new Senior Investigators- in time for International women’s day next week....
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01
March
2023
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11:30
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Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell’s term as President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Manchester completes in summer 2024 and the search for her successor will begin shortly.
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24
February
2023
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07:55
Europe/London
Researchers will tell an international conference today (24/02/23) that an investigational gene therapy for Sanfilippo syndrome - which leads to a form of childhood dementia - has shown promising early results in a proof-of-concept study....
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23
February
2023
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14:45
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UK environment secretary Thérèse Coffey has demanded that water companies share plans for how they will reduce sewage discharges into rivers. They could start by coming clean on how much sewage is being dumped. If we don’t know how much sewage is act...
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23
February
2023
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11:07
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New research from experts based at The University of Manchester and Edinburgh Napier University has found evidence which suggests that MPs who are heavily embedded in corporate networks outside Westminster may be too busy to effectively perform their...
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22
February
2023
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16:00
Europe/London
A study using fruit flies, led by researchers at The Universities of Manchester and Leicester, supported by the National Physical Laboratory, has suggested that the animal world’s ability to sense a magnetic field may be more widespread than previous...
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22
February
2023
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15:07
Europe/London
People living in urban areas report significantly worse hay fever symptoms according to the first study to compare pollution levels with the severity and duration of real-time symptoms.
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20
February
2023
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09:00
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Manchester has been rated ‘Excellent’ in all categories by UNESCO after submitting its first report since becoming a City of Literature – a unique achievement among the prestigious group of global cities....
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16
February
2023
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08:00
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An almost metre-long footprint made by a giant, meat-eating theropod dinosaur from the Jurassic Period represents the largest of its kind ever found in Yorkshire.
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16
February
2023
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00:01
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More than 100 financially disadvantaged Black British students are to have their university tuition fees fully funded by a new scholarship programme.
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13
February
2023
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09:54
Europe/London
A world-first genetic test to establish if a newborn baby is vulnerable to deafness if treated with a commonly used antibiotic, has been conditionally recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for use within the NHS....
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09
February
2023
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14:42
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A rescue team from frontline medical response charity UK-Med is on its way to the parts of Turkey and Syria devastated by last week’s earthquake to lead the UK's initial medical assessment team....
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08
February
2023
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18:23
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Researchers at The University of Manchester have released some brief and simple advice for parents and caregivers of children and young people affected by the earthquakes in Syria, Turkey and neighbouring countries....
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02
February
2023
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13:41
Europe/London
A new online exhibition has been launched which features the views of the former residents of Robin Hood Gardens, the London estate which was both lauded as a masterpiece of modernist social housing and condemned as a ‘concrete monstrosity’ before it...
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