Leading experts on ageing from across the world will visit Newcastle for an annual conference focusing on how people are ageing in changing times.

published on: 29 June 2015

New research hopes to close the debate on whether a major mud volcano disaster in Indonesia was triggered by an earthquake or had man-made origins.

published on: 29 June 2015

The voluntary work carried out by Newcastle University Students’ Union (NUSU) to improve the environment and help the community has been given £135,000.

published on: 26 June 2015

Scientists document for the first time the DNA damage which can occur to skin across the full range of ultraviolet radiation from the sun.  

published on: 26 June 2015

Female scientists from Newcastle University will be teaming up with Soapbox Science to transform Newcastle City Centre into a hub for science and discovery.

published on: 25 June 2015

New insight into glacier behaviour will improve our ability to predict future sea-level rise in a warming climate.

published on: 25 June 2015

Newcastle and the North East will be on show this weekend as visitors from across the UK and Europe flock to Newcastle University’s summer Undergraduate Open Days.

published on: 24 June 2015

Volunteers are needed for a new project to research the lost stories of the region’s University staff and students who gave their lives during the First World War.

published on: 22 June 2015

Newcastle University has won two awards in the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2015, including the top award.

published on: 19 June 2015

Architecture students at Newcastle University have designed and built The Warm Room, a contemporary timber structure at Kielder campsite in Northumberland for visitors to enjoy as part of their stargazing experience.

published on: 18 June 2015

Will it be lucky for number 7, a high five for 5, or will 8 be great?

published on: 18 June 2015

Students from the University’s International Centre for Music Studies (ICMuS) will be the first acts to perform at the first ever Holy Island festival, later this month.

published on: 18 June 2015

Newcastle University agreed this week to set up an advisory group to consider all aspects of the debate around investments in fossil fuels.

published on: 17 June 2015

New interactive documentary explores the secret life of our Red Squirrel through the eyes of the public

published on: 17 June 2015

Professor Vicki Bruce has been announced as Dame Commander of the British Empire, for services to Higher Education and Psychology, in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

published on: 15 June 2015

Thousands of ‘citizen scientists’ to be trained to monitor and protect marine life around the UK’s coastline

published on: 15 June 2015

A new evolutionary theory explains how critically small populations of early humans survived, despite an increased chance of hereditary disabilities being passed to offspring.

published on: 12 June 2015

A leading scientist who has pioneered the stroke robot technology at the heart of a major clinical trial in the NHS by Newcastle University researchers, has visited staff and patients in the North East.

published on: 12 June 2015

Flint, shells and sand found in the mud in the Tyne show it originated not from the North East but from the Thames, brought to Newcastle in ships’ ballast.

published on: 10 June 2015

A world-renowned blood cancers expert has been given a prestigious award in recognition of his outstanding contribution in helping patients with the life-threatening conditions.

published on: 8 June 2015

Thousands of samples at the UK’s ‘algae bank’ will need to be re-labelled as a ground-breaking new screening tool has revealed greater diversity  than was previously  known within the collection.

published on: 7 June 2015

Newcastle University has been given Principal Partner Status by technology giant Siemens in recognition of the ongoing collaboration between the two organisations.

published on: 5 June 2015

Newcastle University has announced a £1.5m investment to further expand its world-leading School of Marine Science and Technology.

published on: 3 June 2015

Newcastle University’s Professor of Intelligent Transport Systems, Phil Blythe, has today been named as the Government’s new Chief Scientific Advisor for the Department for Transport.

published on: 1 June 2015