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Bringing digital healthcare to an ageing population – University to launch regional technology network
The University is launching the South West Interdisciplinary Technology Consortium for Health and care (SWITCH) on Monday 8 July.
Evolution of life in the ocean changed 170 million years ago
Research led by academics from the University of Plymouth suggests the ocean as we understand it today was shaped by a global evolutionary regime shift around 170 million years ago.
Plymouth becomes the UK’s first Fab City
The University of Plymouth, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth City Council and the Real Ideas Organisations have agreed to commit efforts and resources towards producing all the energy, food and products they consume
Mantle cell lymphoma patients living longer thanks to specialist clinic
Plymouth patients are shown to be living, on average, twice as long as the general population in new work by University researchers Professor Simon Rule and Dr Rory McCulloch - clinicians in the Haematology team at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
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Toxic substances found in the glass and decoration of alcoholic beverage bottles
Researchers at the University of Plymouth analysed both the glass and enamelled decorations on a variety of clear and coloured bottles readily available in shops and supermarkets
OfS funding extension awarded to University of Plymouth-led outreach partnership
Next Steps South West (NSSW), the University-led consortium of fourteen higher education (HE) providers has received £5.5m to continue for another two years.
Psychiatry profession ‘must make itself more appealing to state educated non-whites’, new study suggests
Figures show doctors are more likely to apply for psychiatry training if they are older, white and privately educated with below average performance at medical school.
Using art to foster our love of the coastline
Rosie Sherwood, artist in residence at the University of Plymouth’s Marine Institute, launches her new exhibition An Ever Moving Now at the Marine Station
Research aims to enhance understanding of changes in polar sea ice
Professor Simon Belt from the University of Plymouth is jointly coordinating a study to develop the first ever proxy for reconstructing past changes to transmitted light through sea ice
Cutting-edge design for visually impaired people puts graduate through to 2019 Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards semi-finals
An alumni business trying to make life easier for visually impaired people has been chosen as a semi-finalist in a national competition.
Kirstie’s Celebrity Craft Masters – University Associate Professor named as judge on C4’s hit new show
And along came Polly. No not the Hollywood film, but an altogether different Polly is hitting the mainstream in Channel 4’s new Kirstie’s Celebrity Craft Masters, due to air from Monday 1 July at 5pm.
Stresses from past earthquakes explain location of seismic events
A study published in Nature Communications and led by Dr Zoë Mildon, Lecturer in Earth Sciences at the University of Plymouth, could go some way to explaining both historical and modern series of earthquakes