More than 100 pupils who promote sport within their schools have received special recognition at an event held by Plymouth University.
Young ambassadors for the Plymouth Schools Sports Partnership (PSSP) met athletic role models from the University and furthered their skills in promoting sporting opportunities at the celebration event last week.
Plymouth University is holding an open evening on Wednesday 9 March to showcase its wide range of postgraduate courses.
From finance to fine art and business to biology, academic and professional support staff from the University will be answering questions and giving guidance about the programmes and opportunities available.
Finance experts will also be on hand to explain how...
Future fluctuations in oil prices could be forecast using a combination of previous statistics and complex computer algorithms, according to new research.
Academics from the Gulf University for Science and Technology and Plymouth University used a range of programmed models to accurately predict previous rises and falls in the commodity’s value over a period from January 1986 to June...
A scientist who has fronted documentaries on everything from volcanoes to fracking, the geology of Africa and our use of oil has received a prestigious accolade.
Iain Stewart, Professor of Geoscience Communication and Director of the Sustainable Earth Institute at Plymouth University, has been presented with the Senior Public Engagement Prize by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE)....
Two leading proponents of the use of rewilding as a means to enhance conservation and ecosystem restoration are coming to Plymouth University.
Author and broadcaster George Monbiot and Alan Watson Featherstone, founder and director of charity Trees for Life, will be the keynote speakers at an event on Friday 15 January.
Hosted by the Network of Wellbeing and the University’s...
The Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization – the United Nations agency concerned with maritime safety and security and the prevention of marine pollution from ships – has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Plymouth University.
Koji Sekimizu received an Honorary Doctorate of Business at a special ceremony held at the University’s Marine Station teaching and...
A Plymouth University lecturer has constructed a unique, portable digital instrument that he hopes ‘will enable everyone to have access to music-making’.
Dr Mike Blow, a sonic artist and lecturer in Interactive Media, has designed and manufactured a device called the Hornet, a small digital box which creates a variety of synthesiser sounds in response to the user’s hand motion....
A new waterfront teaching, research and diving facility at Plymouth University has been formally opened by Prince Albert II of Monaco at a special ceremony yesterday (Thursday 29 October).
The Marine Station, located on the city’s waterfront at Coxside, between the National Marine Aquarium and Queen Anne’s Battery, is a first in UK higher education in being the only facility of its...
From Marine Science and Media to English and Economics, prospective students are invited to see the hundreds of courses on offer at Plymouth University’s undergraduate Open Days.
Due to the previous year’s overwhelming popularity, an extra date has been added for 2015 – with events taking place on Saturday 10 October and Saturday 14 November at the University’s main campus in the City...
A team from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust has received funding of £136,000 from the Health Partnership Scheme to develop a training programme to help the Sierra Leonean Health Service to fight future outbreaks of viral haemorrhagic fever.
Based from the Masanga Hospital in Sierra Leone, the work is the latest...
