Fireworks, henna tattoos and delicious food are among the fun activities on offer at the University of Exeter’s annual Diwali celebrations this month.
Students have planned an exciting programme to mark the Hindu festival of light. It will take place at the Streatham campus in Exeter on Sunday, 30 October.
The event has been jointly organised by student members of the University’s Hindu and Asian Societies and staff from the University and Students’ Guild.
There will be food on sale and stalls selling bindi, bangles and incense sticks. Attendees can take part in...
Intrepid staff from the University of Exeter have pedal-powered their way to victory in a national competition designed to encourage people to cycle, whether that be for fun, exercise or to work.
The near 300-strong peloton from the University beat off competition from more than 2,000 organisations nationwide to secure the yellow jersey in this year’s National Cycle Challenge.
In total, staff from the Streatham and St Luke’s campuses covered more than 32,000 miles –well over the circumference of the Earth - over the course of September as part of the challenge.
The University of Exeter has climbed places to 11th in the National Student Survey rankings of student experience.
The University has been rated best in the South West, and has also retained second place within the 24 members of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive institutions, based on an average across all question category scores.
The overall score at Exeter was 85.9 per cent, reflecting the outstanding student experience offered at one of the world’s top 100 universities.
The ranking of 11th is based on the University of Exeter’s own analysis of...
Researchers from the University of Exeter have pioneered an innovative new technique to make flexible screens more effective and efficient.
A team of Engineers and Physicists from Exeter have discovered that GraphExeter – a material adapted from the ‘wonder material’ graphene - can substantially improve the effectiveness of large, flat, flexible lighting.
By using GraphExeter, the most transparent, lightweight and flexible material for conducting electricity, instead of pure graphene, the team have increased the brightness of flexible lights by up to almost 50 per cent....
Students at the University of Exeter are facing increased rent payments as on-campus accommodation prices soar ahead for the 2016/17 academic year.
The cheapest accommodation, Moberly House, is set to close in the summer for a new self-catered residence. Students fear this could be the end of affordable accommodation halls.
Phil Attwell, Director of Campus Services at the university said: “The building is in need of some investment… we would like to enhance the facilities on offer by providing high quality accommodation.”
Urban birds are less afraid of litter than their country cousins according to a new study co-authored by a University of Exeter academic.
The research, which highlights one way in which birds adjust to urban settings and published in the journal Animal Behaviour, shows that corvids - the family of birds which includes crows, ravens and magpies - are more likely to show fear in relation to unfamiliar objects than other birds.
However, if they and other bird species have previously encountered similar objects they are able to overcome some of their fear.
Scientists at the University of Exeter will be leading two major multi-million pound world-class research projects after winning funding to investigate climate change.
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has awarded two prestigious grants to multi-disciplinary teams of researchers headed by Professor Mat Collins, a Climate Modeller and Joint Met Office Chair in Climate Change and Professor Steve Hesselbo, Professor of Geology at the Camborne School of Mines, based at the Penryn Campus in Cornwall.
Geo-scientists, mathematicians, statisticians and geographers...
A University of Exeter Renewable Energy doctoral student focusing on wave energy has claimed first prize and £1200 at an international conference.
Anthony Gray, who is due to complete his EngD in Engineering with the Industrial Doctorate Centre in Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE) in which Exeter is a key partner, impressed the judges at the International Conference on Ocean Energy in Edinburgh with his poster on the operations and maintenance (O&M) of wave energy devices.
IDCORE is a partnership of the Universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde and Exeter, the Scottish...
A citizen science website game akin to “big brother for crickets” allows participants to take part in important hands-on research using insects to understand the ageing process.
Biologists at the University of Exeter have set up the online interactive project, to put a fun twist on an appeal for help from the public in analysing hundreds of thousands of hours of video footage.
People taking part in the Cricket Tales game, which involves watching snippets of video and labelling various cricket behaviours and experiences such as mating, fighting and being attacked by...
The University of Exeter Medical School has teamed up with World Extreme Medicine to launch the world’s first Masters programme to equip healthcare professionals to practice medicine in the world’s most remote and challenging environments.
The Extreme Medicine programme, endorsed by world-renowned explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, will upskill healthcare professionals providing them with skills to practice high-quality medicine in challenging environments including at altitude, in tropical or polar climates or in response to humanitarian crises. It will include hands-on scenarios to...
