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Professor Judith Petts CBE, Professor Kevin Jones and Professor Deborah Greaves at the launch of the University's new School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics aims to expand University’s reputation for world-leading research and teaching

The University of Plymouth has launched a dedicated School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics with the aim of expanding its expertise in the field and offering new opportunities to students, academics and industry.

Accommodation

Students urged to beat clock for accommodation scholarships

Young people estranged from family or leaving care and planning to go to the University of Plymouth are being urged to apply for scholarships from the Unite Foundation

Professor Tony Belpaeme 

Taking science to the masses at the 2017 Port Eliot Festival

The University of Plymouth will be taking its world-leading appliance of science to the Port Eliot Festival this summer

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Flies the key to studying the causes of dementia

Plymouth University news: Researchers have studied proteins in the brains of fruit flies (similar to those in humans) to gain a better understanding of the causes of dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases

Poet Karen Hayes, who helped judge the competition and who runs poetry workshops at Memory Cafes

Winners of National Memory Day writing competition announced

Plymouth University news: The winners of the dementia writing competition which sits at the heart of National Memory Day, have been announced

2017 BETA programme

BETA Enterprise programme awards funding to student start-up

Thirteen groups of students have been awarded business start-up grants after impressing judges as part of the BETA Enterprise programme, run by the Futures Entrepreneurship Centre at the University of Plymouth

Biomedical Science student Melissa Tremlett, with Dr Philip Warburton.

Grant success for student investigating antibiotic resistance

Plymouth University news: The Microbiology Society has awarded a grant of £2,000 to a University of Plymouth biomedical sciences student

Forrest Worthington

Enabling Sailing

Plymouth University news: Student Forrest Worthington uses his final year project to modify a sailing dinghy to make it available to disabled children

Stills from the 'Coming Back to Me' film 

World’s first wiki poem devoted to dementia

Plymouth University news: With online contributions from a wide variety of people touched by dementia, "Coming Back to Me" is the world's first wiki poem devoted to dementua

Book cover image for Sustainable Stoke: Transitions to Sustainability in the Surfing World

Surfing book to be serialised to raise funds for charity

Sustainable Stoke – Transitions to Sustainability in the Surfing World, published by University of Plymouth Press, is to be broken down into a series of ebooks in an attempt to raise money for charity

Art Deco Band

Spirit of Roaring Twenties revived at festival events

The music of Noel Coward, a timeless cinema classic, and the boundless energy of the Charleston will be among the highlights as the spirit of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ comes alive in a festival at the University of Plymouth

Professor Bridie Kent – Head of
School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Plymouth; Tracy De Bernhardt Dunkin – Principal
and Chief Executive of WESC; and Maureen Biss – Deputy Chief
Executive Officer of WESC

Site confirmed for University of Plymouth’s new Exeter school of nursing

The University of Plymouth will be opening its new nurse education facility, The Exeter School of Nursing, on Topsham Road in September.