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University of Plymouth appoints Executive Dean to build on its ‘First Choice for Health’ position

Professor Sube Banerjee MBE has been appointed as inaugural Executive Dean of the new Faculty of Health: Medicine, Dentistry and Human Sciences
2 July 2019
Bringing digital healthcare to an ageing population – University to launch regional technology network

The University is launching the South West Interdisciplinary Technology Consortium for Health and care (SWITCH) on Monday 8 July.
2 July 2019
Evolution of life in the ocean changed 170 million years ago

Research led by academics from the University of Plymouth suggests the ocean as we understand it today was shaped by a global evolutionary regime shift around 170 million years ago.
1 July 2019
Plymouth becomes the UK’s first Fab City

The University of Plymouth, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth City Council and the Real Ideas Organisations have agreed to commit efforts and resources towards producing all the energy, food and products they consume
1 July 2019
Mantle cell lymphoma patients living longer thanks to specialist clinic

Plymouth patients are shown to be living, on average, twice as long as the general population in new work by University researchers Professor Simon Rule and Dr Rory McCulloch - clinicians in the Haematology team at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
1 July 2019
Toxic substances found in the glass and decoration of alcoholic beverage bottles

Researchers at the University of Plymouth analysed both the glass and enamelled decorations on a variety of clear and coloured bottles readily available in shops and supermarkets
28 June 2019
OfS funding extension awarded to University of Plymouth-led outreach partnership

Next Steps South West (NSSW), the University-led consortium of fourteen higher education (HE) providers has received £5.5m to continue for another two years.
27 June 2019
Psychiatry profession ‘must make itself more appealing to state educated non-whites’, new study suggests

Figures show doctors are more likely to apply for psychiatry training if they are older, white and privately educated with below average performance at medical school.
27 June 2019
Using art to foster our love of the coastline

Rosie Sherwood, artist in residence at the University of Plymouth’s Marine Institute, launches her new exhibition An Ever Moving Now at the Marine Station
26 June 2019
Research aims to enhance understanding of changes in polar sea ice

Professor Simon Belt from the University of Plymouth is jointly coordinating a study to develop the first ever proxy for reconstructing past changes to transmitted light through sea ice
25 June 2019
Cutting-edge design for visually impaired people puts graduate through to 2019 Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards semi-finals

An alumni business trying to make life easier for visually impaired people has been chosen as a semi-finalist in a national competition.
24 June 2019
Kirstie’s Celebrity Craft Masters – University Associate Professor named as judge on C4’s hit new show

And along came Polly. No not the Hollywood film, but an altogether different Polly is hitting the mainstream in Channel 4’s new Kirstie’s Celebrity Craft Masters, due to air from Monday 1 July at 5pm.
21 June 2019