Press releases

Technical staff with teaching responsibilities working in higher education and research can now benefit from an accredited teaching qualification, the Postgraduate Certificate Higher Education Global, to enhance their skills and careers.

A collaborative innovation project involving the University of Nottingham, which aims to create a portable facility that can convert waste into chemicals to be used to build medical devices, has been awarded €1.5 million as part of an international competition.

The live soundtrack to a brain-controlled film with 15 billion versions has been released for the first time.

Scientists have received funding to begin pre-clinical trials for a Zika virus DNA vaccine that can be manufactured within weeks and safely be deployed globally in future epidemics.

A UK-based team of Scientists, led by experts from the University of Nottingham and Imperial College London, have completed construction of a synthetic chromosome as part of a major international project to build the world’s first synthetic yeast genome.

Nottingham’s hugely popular Being Human Festival returns to the city this week with an exciting line-up of free events that will include cheese tastings, history walks and Viking poetry performances.

A scientist who led the development of new blood test technology to detect Mycobacteria in blood has had her research recognised with an award from the Microbiology Society.

The University of Nottingham has secured £1.1 million in funding from the Medical Research Council to undertake human trials for the world’s first optical fibre sensor-equipped endotracheal tube (iTraXS).

The University of Nottingham has secured £8mn in philanthropic funding from leading algorithmic trading company XTX Markets to establish the Observatory for Mathematical Education, in a new collaboration between the Schools of Education and Mathematical Sciences.

This month marks the 50th anniversary of Sir Peter Mansfield publishing his first research paper which led to the development of magnetic resonance imaging MRI – an invention that has revolutionised medicine, and that the University of Nottingham continues to advance.