College of Science & Engineering

College news and events

• 20 Nov

  International collaboration unveils Philippine river management recommendations

  Since 2020, UofG & University of the Philippines experts have led PAMANA (Philippine Mining at the National to Catchment Scale: From Legacy Impacts to Sustainable Futures project). The outcomes are based on the 1st comprehensive national-scale study of rivers in the Philippines, undertaken by the team over the course of 3 years. Their findings point the way to how the Philippines can take a more robust approach to managing mining activities & protecting its rivers.
• 15 Nov

  University of Glasgow hosts royal visit to celebrate Lord Kelvin bicentenary

  The University of Glasgow has welcomed Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal to campus to learn more about Lord Kelvin during the bicentennial year of his birth. The Princess Royal visited the Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre on Tuesday 12 November to hear about Kelvin’s life and work, and how ongoing research projects are continuing to build on his world-changing achievements.
• 15 Nov

  UKRI funding for UofG led research to help achieve the UK's net zero target

  University of Glasgow led research that promises to bring about fresh thinking on land use change to help achieve the UK’s net zero target has received funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Rapid Engagement with Stressed Peatland Environments and Communities in Transformation (RESPECT) is an innovative project that will produce data, methods, landholder tools and proposals for governance reforms to change agricultural practices on peatland, and reduce emissions from land use.
• 15 Nov

  New PhD training programme will provide next-gen computing skills

  Researchers from the University of Glasgow are leading a new initiative to train the next generation of Earth and environmental scientists to harness the power of exascale computing. The Exascale computing for Earth, Environmental, and Sustainability Solutions consortium, or ExaGEO, will share in more than £500m in new funding announced today by UK Research and Innovation which will support two new schemes called doctoral landscape awards and doctoral focal awards.
• 08 Nov

  ‘Radar stethoscope’ could improve contactless health monitoring technology

  UofG researchers led the development of the new system which uses radar to track patients’ heart sounds like a doctor uses a stethoscope. It improves significantly on previous methods of measuring heart rate using radar waves, which take readings from measurements of patients’ chest movements. In a new paper published in IEEE Journal of Biomedical & Health Informatics, the team demonstrate how they used advanced signal processing techniques to isolate and measure the heart sounds of volunteers
• 05 Nov

  Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy welcomes Chris Stark

  The University of Glasgow has welcomed a key net-zero decisionmaker from the UK Government to a strategy workshop which aimed to help shape the University’s future approach to research and collaboration in the field of sustainable energy. Chris Stark, the UK Government’s Head of Mission Control for Clean Power 2030, attended the Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy’s initial internal workshop on Friday 1 November.
• 05 Nov

  New drug could help fight against treatment-resistant malaria

  The breakthrough development is the first to adapt an approach from cancer treatments to tackle malaria. It works by permanently disabling a protein that Plasmodium falciparum, one of the mosquito-borne parasites which spreads malaria, uses to duplicate itself inside the human body. Chemists and bioscientists from UofG led the development of the new drug. In a paper published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, they outline how the treatment could be more effective than current medication.