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Congratulations to our Manchester Global MBA graduates!

Many congratulations to our Manchester Global MBA graduates! In a difficult year, our students proved their strength and smarts by graduating with flying colours, which is no easy feat. To celebrate t...

Nov. 17

Manchester professor makes disability power list

A Professor of Social Work from The University of Manchester has been recognised as one of the UK’s most influential disabled people. Professor Alys Young says she’s delighted to have mad...

Oct. 17

Climate change impact through 50,000 Actions and Living Lab nominated for an Earthshot prize

Over 40,000 staff and students at The University of Manchester have been nominated for The Earthshot Prize for their practical action on climate change. This year, The Earthshot Prize is breaking rec...

Sep. 23

Neuroscientists hit upon potential way to tune the brain into learning mode

A study by University of Manchester neuroscientists into the effect of surprise on our memory has inadvertently discovered a method which might help us to perform better in exams. In the study, publi...

Aug. 25

'Tales From The future' - a new way forward for beer brewing

Tales From The Future’, a beer made in a recent collaboration between researchers at The University of Manchester and Cloudwater Brew Co., will launch at the end of August 2022. The beer is uni...

Aug. 18

Engineering enzymes to help solve the planet's plastic problem

Researchers from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) have developed a new enzyme engineering platform to improve plastic degrading enzymes through directed evolution. To illustrate the ut...

Aug. 11

Manchester researchers make ‘significant advance’ in 2D material science with diversely behaving layers in a single bulk material

Scientists from The University of Manchester have developed a novel yet simple method for producing vertical stacks of alternating superconductor and insulator layers of tantalum disulphide (TaS2). Th...

Aug. 02

‘Fossil Fishing at the Farm’ – Jurassic marine world unearthed in a farmer’s field

The discovery of an exceptional prehistoric site containing the remains of animals that lived in a tropical sea has been made in a farmer’s field in Gloucestershire. Discovered beneath a field ...

Jul. 29

Graphene scientists capture first images of atoms ‘swimming’ in liquid

Graphene scientists from The University of Manchester have created a novel ‘nano-petri dish’ using two-dimensional (2D) materials to create a new method of observing how atoms move in liqu...

Jul. 27

Alliance MBS awarded five-year extension on AACSB accreditation

Alliance Manchester Business School has this week received a further five years of accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). This means AMBS continues to s...

Jul. 12