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Staff, students, visitors and members of the local community have attended a celebratory health and wellbeing event marking the official opening of Brunswick Park at the heart of The University of Manchester’s campus. ...

The University of Manchester will be part of a new £6 million cybersecurity hub in collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), Lancaster University and the University of Salford ...

Two members of staff at The University of Manchester have been recognised for their outstanding impact on student outcomes and the teaching profession by being named as National Teaching Fellows. ...

The University of Manchester has reached its highest-ever position in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). ...

The building where Nobel Prize-winner Ernest Rutherford discovered the structure of the atom in 1911 has been placed in the country’s top ten sites for ‘power, protest and progress’ by Historic England. ...

The University of Manchester’s Board of Governors has approved a proposal to seek a corporate partner to develop its North Campus site in Manchester city centre into a world-class innovation district over the next 20 years. ...

The University has signed up to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), becoming the first English Russell Group University to join the organisation. ...

The ‘Bee inspired’ University sculpture, part of the free public art trail ‘Bee in the City’, has been installed in our John Owens quad. ...

Three Manchester academics have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy. ...

Physics graduate plans to cycle 16,500km to raise money for a charity who have supported his younger sister ...

The Royal Society is awarding Professor Danielle George the prestigious Michael Faraday Prize. ...

An ‘outstanding’ engineering graduate’s exceptional academic success has been rewarded with a double-award win and a sought-after internship at one of the world’s biggest companies. ...

A new service has been launched by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at The University of Manchester, which will help the UK to cash in on the potential of graphene, by providing the ‘missing link’ for i...

Stretford and Urmston MP Kate Green visited the University of Manchester this weekend to celebrate the achievement of local pupils who have successfully completed The Scholars Programme – a prestigious national scheme which gives school pupils an opp...

The University of Manchester has contributed to a new report which examines how data involving applicants’ backgrounds and personal circumstances can be used to help them gain a place and realise their potential. ...

Professor Graham Lord, a leading clinical academic and the Director of one of the country’s major biomedical research centres is to join The University of Manchester as Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health. ...

The University of Manchester hospitality and events team has scooped the Sustainable Business Award at the UK’s most prestigious hospitality and catering awards, the Cateys, organised by The Caterer. ...

The University of Manchester has secured a National Lottery grant of £785,000 for ’NHS at 70: The Story of Our Lives’. The project will create the first shared social history of the National Health Service. ...

Social responsibility was the highlight of the night at the recent CUBO Awards (Colleges & University Business Officers). The University of Manchester’s Directorate for the Student Experience successfully won three awards for projects that not only s...

The University of Manchester’s recently completed £60m Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) has agreed the first in a series of industrial partnerships to accelerate the commercialisation of graphene in Manchester. ...

Seventy years ago today (Thursday 21st, June) a landmark development in the history of computing took place at The University of Manchester. ...

Hundreds of children from primary schools across Greater Manchester came together for the Great Science Share 2018 ...

The University of Manchester has risen five places in the latest QS World University Rankings - to a position of 29th. ...

The University of Manchester is set to open its doors to local people once again, as its annual Community Festival takes place on Saturday 16 June. ...

Today, (Monday 21 May), Prime Minister Theresa May visited The University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank to deliver a major speech on science technology and to confirm funding for a spectacular new gallery at the world-famous site. ...

The Greater Manchester Looked After Children’s Forum has been recognised for its work by winning a NEON Widening Access Partnership Award at the Palace of Westminster. ...

Jodrell Bank is to receive a total of £16.1million for a transformational £20.5m project. £12.1m of the total is thanks to National Lottery players, with a further £4m coming from the Government. ...

Huge numbers of University of Manchester staff, students and alumni have registered for the SimplyHealth Great Manchester Run as part of a Purple Wave on May 20. ...

Manchester Museum, part of The University of Manchester has received a confirmed grant of £4,215,800 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a major capital project, it was announced today. ...

The University of Manchester has moved up to seventh place in an independent ranking of Europe’s most innovative universities. ...