Press office news tagged 'students'

‘Inspirational’ mental health nursing student shortlisted for national award

Second-year Felicity Allman has been nominated for the Most Inspirational Student Nurse of the Year prize at the Student Nursing Times Awards 2018.
26 March 2018
Student to swap labs for life on the ocean waves to gain greater understanding of microplastic pollution

University of Plymouth news: Imogen Napper, a PhD researcher at the University of Plymouth, is one of 24 women signed up to participate in eXXpedition North Pacific 2018, which will start in Hawaii on June 23 and finish in Seattle around five weeks later
26 March 2018
Holi festival 2018 in pictures

University of Plymouth: Drake's Place Gardens were a riot of colour as the Indian Student Network and friends from across the University celebrated Holi
23 March 2018
Student engineers’ space station wows judges to win international design competition

Ajen Limbu, Elliot Tam and Jack Orme, final year Civil Engineering course at the University of Plymouth, have won the undergraduate section of the Institution of Structural Engineers’ Young Structural Engineers International Design Competition
20 March 2018
Dental sessions helping to ‘turn lives around’

Students from Plymouth University Peninsula Dental School delivered a workshop at the TYLA (Turn Your Life Around) project at the Phoenix Centre in Honicknowle, Plymouth.
19 March 2018
Helping refugees understand the importance of oral health

Coinciding with World Oral Health Day (20 March), students from the Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry have delivered ‘Dental Champion’ training to volunteers at the British Red Cross in Plymouth.
19 March 2018
Students expand their horizons thanks to trust set up in memory of Nancy Astor

BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies students from the University of Plymouth’s Institute of Education have again benefitted from bursaries from the Nancy Langhorne Astor Scholarships Trust.
16 March 2018
National campaign on refugee family reunion supported by University of Plymouth and Red Cross partnership

A project in which university staff and students work with refugees and the British Red Cross has contributed to a campaign to make it easier for displaced people to be reunited with their families.
16 March 2018
Decreased oxygen levels could present hidden threat to marine species, study suggests

Scientists from the University of Plymouth have shown that creatures which develop in hypoxic (low oxygen) conditions in the marine environment could experience previously unseen hindered development, and become compromised as adults.
14 March 2018
Clocking up the hours for Student Volunteering Week

The University of Plymouth Students’ Union (UPSU) has participated in the 17th Student Volunteering Week, during which students and staff across the UK come together to celebrate the incredible impact student volunteers have in their local communities
7 March 2018
Scholarship to help Nepalese student reach more people following earthquake disaster

After helping more than 25,000 people in earthquake-damaged areas of his home country, Nepal, postgraduate student Dr Aban Gautam has received a scholarship from the David Nott Foundation to help further his work.
5 March 2018
Making a difference for refugees – meet the founder of the life-changing Plymouth programme START

On International Women’s Day 2018, 8 March, Avril Bellinger will share her story, and says success of any size can come from asking the simple question ‘What can I do to help?’
3 March 2018