News tagged with: news
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![Longships lighthouse in Cornwall]()
Project assesses the long-term resilience of lighthouses in face of offshore storms
STORMLAMP, led by the University of Plymouth in conjunction with the University of Exeter and UCL, and industrial partners HR Wallingford, AECOM, WS Atkins and the Environment Agency, is using a combination of numerical modelling and field tests
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Dame Darcey Bussell takes to the stage at the University of Plymouth
Dame Darcey Bussell took to the stage at the University for a special interview that covered her inspirations, her career, and her work since she retired as a ballerina
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University Health Showcase to inspire next generation of NHS
A Paralympian, a naval hero and the largest collection of health courses in the South West are the highlights of the Health Showcase at the University of Plymouth.
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![An avalanche of electron, positron and photon production in an intense laser pulse. Improving theoretical models of such processes is part of the new research programme. Image credit: A Gonoskov]()
University scientists welcome Nobel Prize award in laser physics
Researchers in laser physics at the University of Plymouth have welcomed the announcement that colleagues in their field have been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics
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![University student Jake Cronk with Brian
Coaker (left), President of the Whitworth Society, and IMechE president Tony Roche (right)]()
Student earns prestigious scholarship to support F1 dream
Jake Cronk, who is in the final year of an MEng Mechanical Engineering course at the University of Plymouth, has earned a Whitworth Scholasrship from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)
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![David Moles and the Peninsula dental team]()
New publication of national go-to dental handbook
A team from the University of Plymouth Peninsula Dental School has published the second edition of Standards in Dentistry – a flagship publication of the Faculty of General Dental Practice (FGDP(UK)).
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![University of Plymouth Peninsula Medical School Widening Participation team - Dr Louise Alldridge, Dr Helen Watson, Julie Monk and Dr Kerry Gilbert]()
New foundation course to increase doctor numbers and diversity for the future
Budding doctors from disadvantaged backgrounds have the chance kick-start their career thanks to a new six-year programme at the University of Plymouth.
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Scientists show polar ‘polynya’ supported marine life during last Ice Age
In new research published in Nature Communications, scientists from the University of Plymouth and Norway showed that 20,000 years ago, winter Arctic sea ice covered more than twice the area that it does today
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Speaker calls for new Environment Act to protect nation’s nature
Tony Juniper CBE, Executive Director for Advocacy and Campaigns at WWF-UK and President of the Wildlife Trusts, will be speaking at an event at the University of Plymouth on Friday 05 October
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![Denis Wilkins finishes Land's End to John O'Groats cycle]()
Denis makes it home – successful charity cycle for life-saving medical research
Seventy-six year-old Denis Wilkins, Chair of Peninsula Medical Foundation, cycled from Land's End to John O'Groats in aid of PMF and its work fundraising for life-saving medical research at the University of Plymouth
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Environmentalist to call for global planetary authority at Sustainable Earth Institute event
Angus Forbes, a former banker-turned-environmentalist and public speaker, is to deliver his Nessun Dorma talk and call for a global authority to control the Earth's biosphere.
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![Dr Linda Solbrig, lead researcher, Trisha Bradbury, who lost nearly two stone through the trial, and Professor Jackie Andrade, who co-created Functional Imagery Training]()
Weight loss can be boosted fivefold thanks to novel mental imagery technique, research shows
A study has shown how overweight people lost an average of five times more weight using Functional Imagery Training (FIT), a brief individual motivational intervention teaching self-motivating skills with mental imagery, compared with just talking therapy
