A scientist who has worked with runners including Eliud Kipchoge and Paula Radcliffe is preparing for his own endurance challenge – running his first sub-three-hour marathon at the age of 50.
Professor Andrew Jones , of the University of Exeter, has spent his career researching endurance exercise and advising top coaches and athletes.
His input helped the likes of Kipchoge and Radcliffe smash world records and break barriers many thought were impossible.
Asked how he – or any runner – could apply lessons from elite sport to their own training, Professor Jones...
A cheap and readily available steroid which was part of a nationwide COVID-19 trial that included patients in Exeter has been found to reduce the risk of dying in patients admitted to hospital with the virus.
The University of Exeter and the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E) were collectively among 175 NHS hospitals signed up to the RECOVERY trial, coordinated nationally by Oxford University and delivered by the National Institute for Health Research, Clinical Research Network.
Established in March this year, the randomised clinical trial is...
The experience of family carers during the COVID-19 pandemic will be explored in a series of weekly interviews conducted over the next 3 months.
The “Caring through Coronavirus” study will seek to understand how family carers are coping during the pandemic and explore whether changes in policy, legislation, and health and social care provision are impacting their wellbeing and caring responsibilities. Nearly nine million Britons provide unpaid care for family members and friends with long-term illnesses and disabilities, including those most vulnerable to the virus. Many carers...
A University of Exeter student is already making a big impact in the film industry as the UK’s youngest feature film director, with an acclaimed film critic labelling him as “the next Steven Spielberg.”
At 18 years-old, second year history student, Elliott Hasler, is currently the UK’s youngest feature film director.
Elliott was just 16 when he released his first feature film, which he completed over three years whilst studying for his GCSEs.
As he heads into his second year of his history degree at the University of Exeter, Elliott is currently working on his...
Two physicists from the University of Exeter have received prestigious national awards in recognition of their long-standing, pioneering research.
Professor Bill Barnes and Professor Gilles Chabrier have received notable prizes from the Institute of Physics, announced today.
Professor Barnes has been named as the 2019 winner of the Thomas Young Medal, while Professor Chabrier has been awarded the Fred Hoyle Medal.
The awards are designed to recognise, celebrate and reflect the impact and applications of physics in everyday life, the breadth of the discipline in...
A mite that spreads a dangerous virus among honeybees also plays an indirect role in infecting wild bumblebees, new research shows.
The Varroa destructor mite lives on honeybees and can spread deformed wing virus (DWV) throughout the hive.
The mite has emerged as a parasite of Western honeybees, after switching from its original host, the Asian honeybee at the beginning of the last century. It has since spread globally through the man-made movement of infested honeybee hives and has turned into a viral vector.
The invasive mite does not live on bumblebees, but...
Nobel Prize winner and influential African businesswoman Ouided Bouchamaoui spoke about her extraordinary role bringing democracy to Tunisia during a visit to the University of Exeter.
Madame Bouchamaoui is a member of the Tunisian Dialogue Quartet, a group awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015 following the events of the Jasmine Revolution in the country in 2011.
Prior to this Madame Bouchamaoui enjoyed a prominent career in business, leading the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade, and Handicrafts.
During her visit to the University of Exeter Madame...
Footlights is Exeter University’s largest Musical Theatre society, now in its 32nd year. Each year, we strive to create show-stopping student productions to a professional standard. Following four consecutive sell-out shows at Exeter’s Northcott Theatre (West Side Story; Evita; The Phantom of the Opera; The Producers; Singin’ In The Rain), we are now looking forward to our 2018 Northcott production of the legendary Oklahoma!
Footlights proudly presents OKLAHOMA! - an illustrious classic propelled by love, community and integrity. One of Rogers and Hammerstein’s most beautiful but...
Footlights, the University of Exeter’s biggest musical theatre society that brought you The Phantom of the Opera (2016), The Producers (2017) and Singin’ in the Rain (2018) are proud to present OKLAHOMA! – an illustrious classic propelled by love, community and integrity.
Based on Lynn Riggs’ Green Grow the Lilacs, this harmonically rich and wildly symphonic blend of ballet, ballad and barn dance is a musical that takes an unblinking look at a community trapped in the American economic and social underclass.
At the turn of the century in Oklahoma Territory, the spirited...
The University of Exeter Medical School celebrated a major milestone on July 17, when its first Medical students graduated.
The cohort of 88 students has now completed the five year Medicine programme, and marked their outstanding achievement before moving on to the next phase of their training within the NHS.
Medicine graduate Luke Tester said: “I’m ready to graduate today. It’s been a culmination of five years of hard work. It’s been a team journey between students, peers and staff and today is a celebration for all of us.”
