Forty eight students have been awarded a £10,000 scholarship each to study Master’s degrees at Newcastle University as a part of a new fund designed to remove barriers to postgraduate study for under-represented groups.

published on: 28 November 2014

Author Tan Twan Eng will discuss his second novel, The Garden of Evening Mists, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2012, at an event taking place at Newcastle University this week.

published on: 26 November 2014

Newcastle University has announced the launch of the John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre to support its world-leading research in the field.

published on: 25 November 2014

A world-leading centre of excellence for hyperbaric testing will be built on the north bank of the River Tyne by Newcastle based engineering group British Engines and Newcastle University.

published on: 25 November 2014

A collection of five poems exploring the theme of love and loss has won a new national poetry competition set up by Newcastle University.

published on: 24 November 2014

Increased recruitment from the region’s biggest employers has created more graduate employment opportunities in the North East, according to the latest survey from The Complete University Guide.

published on: 24 November 2014

Newcastle University has been selected as one of the nine leading academic centres for primary care research in England and invited to join the National Institute for Health Research School for Primary Care Research (NIHR SPCR).

published on: 20 November 2014

Universal free school meals should be offered to all children in their first years of secondary school, according to one of the leading nutrition experts in the UK.

published on: 20 November 2014

Hundreds of students celebrated degree success at a graduation ceremony held by Newcastle University at its Singapore campus.

published on: 19 November 2014

Digital technologies are being used to provide early warning signs of stress and disease in pigs as part of a pioneering new research project involving experts from Newcastle University.

published on: 19 November 2014

The poorest people in society have eight fewer teeth by their seventies than the richest, one of the biggest studies of its type ever undertaken has revealed.

published on: 18 November 2014

Innovative models for community-led housing development are increasingly being used across the North East to fill the gap in affordable housing and create stronger communities, research by a student at Newcastle University has shown.

published on: 18 November 2014

A brand new scanner, purchased thanks to ex-Newcastle United star Charlie Crowe, has been unveiled at Newcastle University’s Campus for Ageing and Vitality.

published on: 18 November 2014

Newcastle University has, in partnership with the University of Cambridge, been awarded £3.8 million from the National Institute for Health Research to establish a Blood and Transplant Research Unit which will open in October 2015.

published on: 17 November 2014

A Newcastle University student has completed the coldest marathon on earth – and says training in the North East last January was the best preparation he could have had.

published on: 13 November 2014

Future industry leaders from all over the world can now gain an MBA from Newcastle University Business School while working in their home country thanks to a new, online-based MBA programme.

published on: 13 November 2014

Besides powering our cities, one Northumberland-based power station is fuelling sustainable prawn farming thanks to the business creativity of Newcastle University graduates.

published on: 6 November 2014

Prof Adam Sharr’s research into a dramatic idea to flatten Whitehall and replace it with a concrete megastructure has received an award from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

published on: 6 November 2014

Budding programmers from across the country will flock to Newcastle this weekend for the biggest public hackathon ever held in the North East.

published on: 5 November 2014

Researchers from Newcastle University are encouraging anyone who believes themselves to be unmusical to come along to a series of free workshops being organised as part of a project to explore what it means to be human.

published on: 5 November 2014

A state-of-the-art shore station that will provide research support and a unique teaching base for the next generation of marine scientists and engineers has been launched by Newcastle University.

published on: 5 November 2014

Prof Sugata Mitra explains why chaos theory can help us build a new model for primary education ahead of Newcastle University’s launch of SOLE Central this week.

published on: 5 November 2014

The stories behind the names on a Newcastle University First World War memorial are being brought to life in a special project.

published on: 4 November 2014

A flaw in Visa’s contactless credit cards means they will approve unlimited cash transactions without a PIN when the amount is requested in a foreign currency.

published on: 1 November 2014