World-renowned diabetes researcher Professor Andrew Hattersley has been named as one of ‘The Nation’s Lifesavers’ in the Made@Uni campaign.
The award recognises his research into causes, diagnosis and treatment of diabetes which has improved the lives of people with diabetes across the world.
Professor Hattersley, of the University of Exeter Medical School, said: “It’s an honour to be included in the list for Universities UK’s National Lifesavers campaign. This award is testament to the whole Exeter diabetes research team whose work over the past 25 years has improved...
Experts will work to discover if commercial fishing is harming endangered African penguins by making it harder to forage for food in the ocean.
Dr Richard Sherley from the University of Exeter will use GPS tracking and other technology to follow penguins in South Africa to record how deep they have to dive and how far they have to travel to find fish.
Penguins eat sardines and anchovies, which are also fished commercially, and the study will help researchers better understand the cost of this to penguin populations. The study could lead to solutions for more sustainable...
Hundreds of Devon teenagers and students witnessed the incredible courage of concentration camp survivor Mala Tribich during an event organised to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
Historians and other experts took part in the now annual conference, held at the University of Exeter and organised for the third time by final year history student Barnabas Balint.
Around 200 participants listened to Mrs Tribich speak and also took part in seminars where they learned more about the Holocaust and were able to discuss its impact.
Influential film critic Mark Kermode has been appointed as an Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter.
Dr Kermode will join the University’s film studies department – ranked as among the best in the world, to collaborate with academics on teaching programmes and research.
Dr Kermode, who wrote his PhD thesis on horror fiction, is chief film critic for the Observer, contributes to the magazine Sight & Sound, and has co-presented the award-winning BBC Radio 5 Live show Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review since 2001. He recently wrote and presented the BBC Four...
Victorian families were able to enjoy their own version of Netflix by utilising an early form of ‘pay-per-view’ entertainment to while away winter evenings, new research has found.
Nineteenth-century households were able to have access to hundreds of images of far and exotic lands, comic scenes and classic novels, all from the comfort of their homes after magic lanterns and stereoscopes became available to hire.
While magic lanterns existed from the early 1600s, they were an expensive item which only the most affluent could hope to own.
A £1.3 million refurbishment programme is underway on part of the University of Exeter’s North Cloisters building, following the appointment of construction and infrastructure company Morgan Sindall. Cross Keys, part of the North Cloisters building on the St. Luke’s campus, is set to receive a major upgrade to create additional open plan space and seating, increasing its capacity from 150 to 250 people. Refurbishment works will comprise the ground and first floor level areas, creating flexible study and social spaces for all campus users and a newly developed catering outlet. The facility...
Two researchers at the University of Exeter have pedalled a whopping 460 km from London to Paris, raising thousands of pounds for Alzheimer’s Society in a gruelling four-day challenge.
Drs Mark Tarrant and David Llewellyn have exceeded their £1,550 fundraising target for the Society, raising over £2,000 so far to boost the Society’s ground-breaking dementia research. Donations can still be made on their JustGiving page.
Throughout the journey the dedicated duo battled sweltering heat, with temperatures soaring to almost 40 degrees. The pair fought through several punctures...
A young Romanian couple who met while studying together in Exeter have married and graduated from Medical School on the same day.
Both originally from Romania, Nicoleta Craucuic and Alex Tirb honoured the city that brought them together by signing the marriage register in Exeter today, July 17 – in the morning of their graduation this afternoon.
The couple met over 1,600 miles away from home, while studying Medical Imaging at the University of Exeter Medical School. They have now been together for over three years.
But it wasn’t all plain sailing for the pair, as...
The University of Exeter has retained the prestigious Green Flag Awards for its beautiful eco-friendly campuses for 2018-19.
For the eighth year running, judges have renewed the Green Flag status of the University’s Streatham Campus in Exeter. The judges described the grounds as “delightful and a credit to all who contribute to its upkeep and management”.
They also commended the site as excellent, saying “it has been carefully and successfully enlarged to accommodate demand without altering its character or diminishing its beauty”.
