Exeter’s all-male student a cappella group, Semi-toned, has won the BBC’s national TV singing competition The Choir, Gareth’s Best in Britain.
The University of Exeter students were celebrating last night, when they hit the right note for host Gareth Malone and a panel of expert judges with their renditions of Richard Blackwood’s Anthem of Praise and Señorita by Justin Timberlake.
Semi-toned member Ted Bartram who sang the solo said the experience was “humbling and uplifting”.
He said: “The lessons we learned whilst competing have genuinely improved us, both...
Events company Event Exeter has exciting plans to end the year after winning big at the 2016 Devon Tourism awards.
The company, which represents event venues at The University of Exeter, is now ready to host its Christmas parties for local businesses and residents.
Kate Durward-Akhurst, the Marketing Manager for Commercial Services at the University, said: “We will be welcoming back the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra to our Great Hall for their concert season and there is even another wedding before the year is out!”
Event Exeter won the Gold award for the Venue and...
The Prince of Wales has praised the work of University of Exeter experts to help support small family farms.
His Royal Highness has said he hopes recommendations by Professor Michael Winter and Professor Matt Lobley and their team, to help ensure a smooth succession between different generations of farmers, are taken up.
The Prince singled out their recent research in his regular birthday message to the countryside in Country Life magazine and said it was fascinating reading.
Their study was commissioned by The Prince’s Countryside Fund and published earlier this...
An exciting debut novel by a young writer, Trace This Scar marks a change from the tone of the first offering by Jessikah Hope Stenson.
Following on from her collection of short stories titled A Single Drop Of Perfect & Other Stories, released in February 2016, Trace This Scar is a psychological thriller with a strong crime focus.
Due for release 24th November, Trace This Scar tells the story of a woman named Daphne whose husband is sent to prison for a murder she knows he did not commit. Packed with lies and betrayals and the mystery surrounding the murder, Trace This...
The University of Exeter has been awarded £1.5 million by Wellcome to enable translation of findings from its world-leading research programmes into improvements in human health on a global scale.
The University has received the substantial grant from Wellcome’s Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) – the third time it has successfully applied for funds through the leading scheme.
The five-year award will be used to establish the Translational Research Exchange@ Exeter (TREE) – an innovative programme designed to build research links between biomedical and clinical...
The tumultuous region between two stars, where violent winds crash together at speeds of up to 10 million km per hour, has been revealed for the first time, thanks to state of the art infrared imaging techniques.
A team of international researchers, including Professor Stefan Kraus from the University of Exeter, have gained unique images of the chaotic region found between the two stars in the Eta Carinae binary system, found 7,500 light years from Earth.
Powerful stellar winds from the two stars – one of which is one of the largest and most luminous stars discovered and...
The University of Exeter is the top university in the southwest according to The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017.
The university, which was The Times and The Sunday Times University of the Year for 2012-13, ranks 9= in this year’s league table. The Southwest region is well represented in the wider top 20 with Bath ranking 12th in the UK and Bristol 19th.
The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017 is published over three days, beginning with a free 60-page supplement published this weekend in The Sunday Times (September 25). It provides...
Women’s Equality Party leader Sophie Walker is visiting the University of Exeter on Saturday 24 September as part of her nationwide tour asking ‘What do women want?’ The event is being jointly hosted by the Somerset, Exeter and North Devon branches.
“The Women’s Equality Party has launched a national conversation with women in communities across the country, asking them the simple question ‘What do you want?’,” says Fodo Higginson, leader of the Somerset branch. “We are at a pivotal moment in British politics, and Sophie is visiting the South West to show that WE are the only party...
The Government has announced plans to ban microbeads used in cosmetics and cleaning products by 2017.
Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom has announced that a consultation on how a ban would work will start later this year.
Tamara Galloway, Professor of Ecotoxicology at the University of Exeter, is one of the UK’s leading experts in marine pollution and her team studies the health effects of microplastics pollution.
She said: “This is a fantastic example of the Government responding swiftly to the overwhelming scientific evidence that microbeads are bad for the...
Results day is over and it’s time to show the students what is on offer in their new student location.
Exeter is a small yet prosperous City with growing number of students. It has a fun and friendly atmosphere with all its main attractions at walking distance, with many great restaurants and clubs a stone’s throw from the stunning University campus. It is a dreamy town for new students with The Quay offering good views along the River Exe with beautiful riverside venues and a little further afield is the pretty beach and Dartmoor National Park. With the academic year approaching,...
