University news

National Centre for Resilience to be located at University’s Dumfries campus

Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:00:00 GMT

The National Centre for Resilience – a dedicated new facility that will enhance Scotland’s resilience capability to combat natural hazards – is to be located in the University’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies on the Crichton campus in Dumfries.

Smoking bans have helped cut childhood smoking uptake by a fifth

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:03:00 GMT

New research suggests smoking bans across the UK have reduced the uptake of smoking by teenagers by roughly a fifth.

Identification of four Pancreatic Cancer subtypes offers new treatment insight

Thu, 25 Feb 2016 06:50:00 GMT

Researchers at the University of Glasgow have made a breakthrough reclassification of Pancreatic Cancer, offering new opportunities to treat the disease.

University of Glasgow blown away by Ministerial wind tunnel visit

Wed, 24 Feb 2016 12:16:00 GMT

The Scottish Government’s Minister for Business, Energy and Tourism, Fergus Ewing MSP, has officially opened the University of Glasgow’s upgraded wind tunnel facilities.

Fiscal Aspects of the Scotland Bill - Getting it Right

Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:49:00 GMT

A major lecture on the Fiscal Framework of the Scotland Bill will be delivered by the Principal of the University of Glasgow, Professor Anton Muscatelli this evening, Wednesday 24 February.

40m high treetop camera traps capture rare Amazonian rainforest wildlife

Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:05:00 GMT

Camera traps, set high in the Peruvian rainforest, have captured incredible canopy footage of rare and secretive animals living in the Amazon.

MVLS awarded more than £1m of funding from MRC

Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:01:00 GMT

Leading academics from the University of Glasgow's College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences have been awarded more than £1m of funding from the Medical Research Council UK.

Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einstein's prediction

Thu, 11 Feb 2016 12:05:00 GMT

LIGO opens new window on the universe with observation of gravitational waves from colliding black holes. University of Glasgow plays key role in historic first detection.

HRH The Duke of York brings Pitch@Palace Tour to the University of Glasgow

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:54:00 GMT

HRH The Duke of York was welcomed to the University of Glasgow by The Principal as part of his Pitch@Palace initiative.

Parents over peers: new study shines light on teenage drinking and parental influence

Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:30:00 GMT

A study of adolescents’ drinking habits between the ages of 11 to 17 has found that the heaviest consumers of alcohol were teenagers who were under the lowest levels of parental control, and who were also the most secretive about their drinking.

Students urged to apply for new ScottishPower Foundation Masters Scholarships

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:26:00 GMT

The ScottishPower Foundation has today announced 14 new post-graduate scholarship grants for the 2016/17 academic year.

New grant for research into Zika virus

Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:59:00 GMT

Researchers at the MRC Centre for Virus Research at the University of Glasgow will be working with a team at the Research Center Aggeu Magalhães at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Pernambuco, Brazil after receiving a joint award of around £300,000 to fund research into the Zika virus.

Proportion of home deaths falls in South-West Scotland

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 00:01:00 GMT

Researchers based in South-West Scotland have studied the place of death of nearly 20,000 people in a bid to find out whether this pattern changed over time.

First Minister announces £4m ‘Precision Medicine Ecosystem’

Mon, 08 Feb 2016 09:57:00 GMT

The University of Glasgow is set to become a key player in a Scottish “global centre of excellence” in precision medicine, tackling diseases such as cancer and multiple sclerosis, thanks to a £4 million government investment.

Glass cones shine new light on radially polarised beams

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 10:00:00 GMT

Physicists at the University of Glasgow have developed a new and inexpensive way to make radially polarised white light, which could help scientific advances in astronomy and microscopy.

Kelvin Hall transformation on target

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 08:00:00 GMT

The redevelopment of one of Glasgow’s most famous landmarks is taking shape and well on target for completion in the summer.Kelvin Hall is being transformed into one of the biggest museum and academic research centres in the UK, and will also house a public sporting and museums facility as well as becoming home to the National Library of Scotland’s Scottish Screen Archive.

Glasgow postgraduate puts the learning into “Learning Cities”

Fri, 05 Feb 2016 15:00:00 GMT

Sherwan Taha, a graduate of the School of Education, is putting his learning into practice in his home city of Duhok in Iraqi Kurdistan as he seeks to turn it into the kind of “Learning City” he learned about in class.

Researchers discover new way to screen for cancer-killing drugs

Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:20:00 GMT

A technique called “mito-priming” is the latest method to be developed by researchers in the fight against cancer.