A professorship in disaster management and emergency response is one of eight new interdisciplinary chairs being created by the University of Glamorgan. The university is organising an international...
Climate-change scientists have won a silver medal for their debut garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show with a design that modelled possible futures for UK gardeners. The University of East Anglia...
A 500-strong collection of historical medical texts, dating to the earliest days of printing and containing works by the founding fathers of medicine and surgery, has been made available to the...
The UK's first masters course in educational assessment for teachers and examiners will be offered at Bath Spa University from this autumn. The universities of Durham, Leeds and Warwick will follow...
The Ikos hedge fund has paired up with Cranfield School of Management to launch a scholarship programme designed to boost the Cypriot economy. The Ikos scholarship, covering tuition fees and living...
A music and dramatic arts school is launching a new doctor of music degree. The Guildhall School of Music and Drama's DMus in composition will make the resources of the school available to doctoral...
An interactive computer model of the human body that could revolutionise healthcare is to be created at the University of Bedfordshire after the European Commission awarded the institution £2 million...
Online worlds developed for children can help them to develop social and creative skills, a conference has heard. As part of a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the BBC,...
A scheme to develop a new generation of entrepreneurs has won £1 million in funding. Strathclyde Entrepreneurial Network at the University of Strathclyde, which supports students and graduates in...
A specialist centre is to provide the ambulance service with improved access to training and academic expertise. The Centre for Paramedic Science, run by Kingston University and St George's,...
An orthopaedic surgeon has performed a groundbreaking operation on a chimpanzee in Cameroon to correct a deformity to its arm. The three-year-old female lives in a chimpanzee reserve but was unable...
A podiatry lecturer is encouraging her students to collect used shoes and donate them to people who are homeless. Evelyn Weir of Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh has been providing volunteer...
How we wash our laundry is to come under investigation by the Mackintosh Environmental Architecture Research Unit at Glasgow School of Art, backed by funding of more than £520,000 from the...
Scientists will use robots to explore the growth of undersea volcanoes. Academics from Durham University will lead a team of 12 scientists - including researchers from the National Oceanography...
A Midlands university has updated its logo - by replacing the design's existing red colour for a new, "deeper" red. The change by De Montfort University has been made following research carried out...