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Introducing President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Koen Lamberts
A message from our new President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Koen Lamberts, about his thoughts on Sheffield having taken up the position last month.
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Patients in Yorkshire set to benefit from revolutionary medical imaging thanks to £2 million fundraising appeal
Patients in Yorkshire are set to benefit from the region’s first MRI-PET scanner, which will accelerate pioneering research into a number of life-changing diseases, thanks to thousands of generous donations.
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Advanced engineering research centres join McLaren and Boeing opening new facilities
Three new engineering research centres were opened at our Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre recently, joining new facilities for McLaren and Boeing which were recently completed.
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Celebrating 100 years of University Sport
This academic year, 2018/19, represents 100 years of University Sport (currently BUCS) and the University of Sheffield was one of the original ten founding members from across the UK.
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Building connections with help from our alumni in the North
On Wednesday 21st November 2018 we ran our debut Northern City Connections event, taking 30 current Arts & Humanities students from widening participation backgrounds to visit local alumni businesses and network with alumni working across the region.
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Exhibition sheds new light on European peace protests of 1980s
An exhibition which shines new light on peace protests that swept across Southern Europe in response to the nuclear arms race of the late 1970s and 1980s has been launched by a historian from the University of Sheffield.
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Students create innovative assistive technology to help people with disabilities overcome everyday challenges
Students from the University of Sheffield have collaborated with individuals with disabilities to help them overcome everyday challenges using assistive technology.
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Extreme weather is turning the Arctic brown and could impact on climate change
Increased dieback of Arctic plants is halving the ability of Arctic heathlands to take up carbon dioxide, further exacerbating the problem of global warming.
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Campus bucket collections raise over £1,800
Thank you to everyone who has dropped in any loose change into one of our Sheffield Scanner fundraising buckets around the campus.
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Great North Run for SITraN
We’re extremely grateful to Sally Hall, a friend of the University, who ran the Great North Run in memory of her Mum and in support of MND research at SITraN.
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Commemorating Lieutenant Basil Perrin Hicks
In September 1915 at the Battle of Loos, France, during WWI, Lieutenant Basil Perrin Hicks was killed serving as part of the 8th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Lieutenant Hicks was the younger son of the University of Sheffield’s founding Vice-Chancellor, Professor William Mitchinson Hicks FRS, and his wife Ellen Perrin.
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Donations from alumni and friends helping student activities become accessible to all
For the first time, your gifts have given individual students the support they need to take part in clubs, societies and volunteering.
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Alumni donations help students fight climate change
This year, donations from alumni and friends of the University have given Geography students first-hand experience of using an advanced ‘differential Global Navigation Satellite System’ or dGNSS.
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Remembering Sir S.Y. Chung
The University regrets to report the death of one of our most distinguished alumni, The Hon Sir Sze-yuen Chung, who died on 14 November at the age of 101.
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Grateful alumnus funds postgraduate scholarships
Four postgraduate students are the grateful recipients of scholarships funded thanks to the generosity of the late Mr Donald Gartside (1935-2016).