New specialist research roles, funded through the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, are helping find more effective treatments for children’s cancer in the North East.

published on: 26 July 2017

A love of medicine runs through the veins of Louisa Murray’s family as she becomes the third generation of doctors to qualify at Newcastle University.

published on: 26 July 2017

An octagonal bath and fish mosaic are under the spotlight as new archaeological investigations into a fourth century Roman Villa get underway in Lufton, Somerset.

published on: 21 July 2017

Response and advice regarding the unofficial website that is fraudulently using the Newcastle University brand.

published on: 21 July 2017

Review urges action to ensure young scientists enter nutrition research

published on: 21 July 2017

Patients who took part in research into bowel health more than a decade ago have reunited for a follow-up study to help experts gain a better understanding into the risks of bowel cancer.

published on: 20 July 2017

Changing fortunes of North Shields in the spotlight.

published on: 20 July 2017

It is double delight for twins Diana and Steph Luke as they both graduate from Newcastle University with top degrees.

published on: 18 July 2017

UK Armed Forces personnel moving back into civilian life and having difficulties with alcohol could be helped by the use of online tools, a new study has revealed.

published on: 18 July 2017

Writing for The Conversation, Professor Richard Davies discusses the Lusi volcano in Indonesia, which has been erupting for 10 years – and scientists are still undecided what caused it.

published on: 18 July 2017

Writing for The Conversation, Professor Geoff Payne discusses the relationship between upward and downward social mobility.

published on: 18 July 2017

Information about the temporary closure of the campus Prayer Space.

published on: 17 July 2017

Gyms, walking groups, gardening, cooking clubs and volunteering have all been shown to work in improving the health and well-being reported by a group of people with long-term conditions.

published on: 17 July 2017

Experts in ageing have been awarded £2 million from the Department of Health to focus on dementia care and prevention on a global scale.

published on: 14 July 2017

A best-selling children’s author, the former Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University, a pioneering entomologist and an influential computer scientist are to receive honorary degrees this week.

published on: 14 July 2017

World-leading computer scientist Professor Vicki Hanson has been awarded an honorary degree from Newcastle University.

published on: 14 July 2017

In light of the Lions' recent rugby success, Newcastle University experts warn steps need to be taken to ensure children’s safety when they play the sport.

published on: 13 July 2017

Leading Newcastle University researcher, Professor Thomas von Zglinicki, has received Britain’s highest award for services to gerontology.

published on: 12 July 2017

A start-up drug delivery project at Newcastle University has been given a boost to help turn the idea into a business.

published on: 11 July 2017

Chi Onwurah MP joined the #WeAreInternational campaign Parliamentary reception to highlight the economic, social and cultural benefits that international students bring to UK towns and cities.

published on: 11 July 2017

Former students of Newcastle University who were present when Dr Martin Luther King Jr. visited the city in 1967 to accept an honorary degree have shared their memories of that momentous day.

published on: 11 July 2017

Universities and industry unite in £92 million UK railway research partnership.

published on: 10 July 2017

Sixty years after graduating, 13 medical students have reunited at the University.

published on: 7 July 2017

Two national centres of excellence have opened at Newcastle University’s Cockle Park farm, heralding a new era of agricultural research at Newcastle.

published on: 7 July 2017

Joy Labinjo has won the £20,000 Woon Prize and will now take up a 12-month fellowship in the Woon Tai Jee studio at BALTIC 39 in Newcastle.

published on: 5 July 2017

Newcastle University’s men’s coxed four won the Henley Royal Regatta and set a new record in the final.

published on: 5 July 2017

Newcastle University’s Professor of Marine Governance has been named the Government’s new Chief Scientific Adviser for the Marine Management Organisation (MMO).

published on: 4 July 2017

Newcastle University researchers are set to showcase their latest work on reducing the impact of flooding exactly five years on from the flash floods that hit the city.

published on: 3 July 2017

Better bacteria-busting techniques could make oil extraction greener and cheaper.

published on: 3 July 2017

Researchers are working hard to use satellite data to accurately map the movement of the earth before a landslide in a bid to develop a life-saving early warning system.

published on: 3 July 2017