Prometheus Underground: Robotics team solves Network Rail cave puzzle
Discover how a Manchester robotics team drew inspiration from a Hollywood blockbuster to help Network Rail survey the caves and mines around its lines.
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Meet our alumni: an interview with Verity Fitch
We caught up with Verity Fitch, Exploration Geologist for De Grey Mining, to find out more about her student experience at UoM Earth and Environmental Sciences as well as striking gold with graduate job opportunities.
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Manchester joins “game-changing” tidal energy project
The Univeristy has joined a tidal energy project, known as TIGER (Tidal Stream Industry Energiser Project) which will demonstrate that tidal stream energy (TSE) is a maturing industry, capable of achieving an accelerated cost reduction pathway.
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Sound of the Underground: making music from particle physics
How do you turn physics into music? Composer Nora Marazaite tells us about her piece High Energy Music, inspired by the research of UoM particle physicist Gediminas Sarpis.
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The fascinating history – and future – of FIRS Environmental Research Station
From a shooting range for Joseph Whitworth, to a world-leading plant research station, The FIRS has an interesting history. Find out more!
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Blended learning from a student’s perspective
Hear from Darius, a fourth year student, who tells us more about what blended learning is and his experience of this type of teaching and learning over the past year.
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In pictures 3: In black and white, science and engineering at Manchester
We’ve selected the most striking black-and-white images to best document our science and engineering heritage. Come and take a look!
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MACE’s Callum Kidd becomes first person in UK to win prestigious award
We are delighted to announce that Callum Kidd, Discipline Head of Education for Engineering and Project Management within the Department of MACE, has become the first person within the UK to receive a teaching excellence award from the Project Management Institute.
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Ghost town: Is Manchester haunted (and can science explain it)?
Could the Faculty of Science and Engineering – and the city of Manchester itself – be haunted? This Halloween we lift the (coffin) lid and take a look.
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FIRS Environmental Research Centre gets £2m makeover
The Environmental Research Centre has built a revolutionary new greenhouse that will transform the way plants are grown. Find out more.