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Words and music festival

University prepares to host second Music Week

A performance by jazz saxophonist Steve Buckley is among the highlights of the second University of Plymouth Music Week, presented by Peninsula Arts

Students and staff from the Plymouth Law Clinic in London for the awards ceremony

Student legal service earns national pro bono accolade

The Plymouth Law Clinic, based at the University of Plymouth, has won the Best Contribution by a Law School category at the annual LawWorks and Attorney General Student Pro Bono Awards

Emily Stevenson with a Marathon wrapper found on a beach in Cornwall. The chocolate bars haven't been sold in the UK since 1990

Project helps to guard beaches against the scourge of plastic pollution

University of Plymouth Marine Biology student Emily Stevenson is hoping to use her organisation Beach Guardian to clean up Cornwall's beaches and educate people about the threat of marine litter

Royal Navy frigate Plymouth Sound 1801

Research tells tale of 1797 Plymouth Channel squadron mutiny

The story of the mutiny of the Plymouth Channel squadron in 1797

University of Plymouth FLUX 2018 winners

2018 University of Plymouth FLUX Champions crowned

Six teams battled it out in the final of the University of Plymouth FLUX competition, with one of the UK’s Top 100 Undergraduate Employers, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, setting a real-life challenge to test students.

Football pitch at night - image courtesy of Getty Images

UPSU takes Varsity crown for sixth consecutive year

University of Plymouth Students’ Union (UPSU) has claimed the Varsity Championship for the 6th year in a row, defeating Plymouth Marjon University 23-17.

Jessica Jackson, swimming for Plymouth Leander, sporting excellence scholar SES

Commonwealth Games beckons for University swimmers

Four top swimmers from the University of Plymouth are heading to Australia’s Gold Coast to compete in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. 

Felicity Allman

‘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.

Imogen Napper

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

Celebrating the Holi festival 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

YSEIDC winners

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

Turn your life around TYLA dental itnervention

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.