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Olympic champion and celebrated author among 2025 University Honours
Posted on Wednesday 18 December 2024
Double Olympic triathlon champion, Alistair Brownlee; best selling author, Reni Eddo-Lodge; and MOBO award winning musician, Nitin Sawhney, are among six distinguished figures to receive honorary degrees from the University of York in January.
Greg Jenner appointed an Honorary Fellow in the Department of History
Posted on Wednesday 18 December 2024
The public historian, author and broadcaster Greg Jenner has been appointed as a Fellow of the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past (IPUP) in the University of York’s Department of History.
York to lead effort to provide solar energy in Africa
Posted on Wednesday 18 December 2024
Researchers at the University of York will lead a major project to provide clean, solar energy to rural communities in Africa.
University of York to lead research to transform adult social care following new £31m investment
Posted on Wednesday 18 December 2024
A University of York academic has been given oversight of a £31m research budget to help transform adult social care across the country.
York joins North Sea University Partnership
Posted on Tuesday 17 December 2024
The University of York has joined the North Sea University Partnership, a new consortium focused on aligning research priorities between the UK and Norway.
Pioneering virtual field trips are supporting higher education in Ukraine
Posted on Tuesday 17 December 2024
Virtual field trips are helping war-torn Ukraine and its universities continue to deliver essential field education that will be vital to support the country’s recovery from conflict and mitigate and adapt to the ongoing climate crisis, according to a new study.
Study finds the UK’s inland bathing sites are polluted with a ‘perfect storm’ of chemicals and antibiotic resistant genes
Posted on Monday 16 December 2024
The UK’s rivers are contaminated with a mixture of chemical pollutants and antibiotic resistant genes, which could be causing severe harm to people and aquatic species, according to the findings of a new study.
York hosts Universities of Sanctuary Conference
Posted on Friday 13 December 2024
The University of York is hosting the Universities of Sanctuary Conference 2024, focusing on how higher education can develop enduring and sustainable ways to promote sanctuary beyond moments of crisis.
More health lost than gained from NHS spending on new medicines
Posted on Thursday 12 December 2024
New medicines approved by the NHS spending watchdog NICE may have helped some patients, but their rollout has come at a heavy cost to the health of many others due to loss of funding in other areas of care, a new study reveals.
Huge citizen science project will tackle “cocktail of chemical and microbial contaminants” in region’s waterways
Posted on Thursday 12 December 2024
A University of York-led citizen science project will monitor and tackle the “toxic cocktail of chemicals” in the region’s rivers and lakes.
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