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News from 2014

  • Excellence awards for statisticians

    Two of our statisticians are to receive Royal Statistical Society prizes for their exemplary work.

  • Researchers unearth county colic risk

    A particular gastrointestinal disorder, which causes colic, or abdominal pain, in horses, is more prevalent in Lancashire compared with other nearby counties, according to research by our staff and colleagues at the University of Liverpool.

  • New journal on Pilot and Feasibility Studies launched

    Senior Lecturer Dr Gillian Lancaster is Editor-in-Chief of the new BioMed Central journal Pilot and Feasibility Studies.

  • Prizes for Masters and PhD students

    Congratulations to our Masters and PhD students who have won University, Faculty and departmental prizes.

  • New funding to probe impact of symmetry on rigidity of structures

    The EPSRC have awarded Dr Bernd Schulze of the Geometric Rigidity research group £98,000 to examine the rigidity of symmetrical structures.

  • Network will spark new IDEAS in drug development

    A new £2.7 million international training network project, led by a team at Lancaster University, will develop a generation of medical statisticians dedicated to achieving early stage drug development success.

  • 5th in the UK for Research Excellence

    Mathematics and Statistics at Lancaster has been ranked joint 5th in the UK, for overall research quality, in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF).

  • 50th Anniversary Special Lectures

    This year, as the University celebrates the 50th anniversary of its foundation in 1964, we organised two special anniversary lectures on Friday, 26 September.

  • Rigidity and Flexibility at the Fun Palace

    On Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th October, Lancaster Library became a Fun Palace - a "university of the streets" - and we were there.

  • Recognition of department's excellence in teaching

    Ranked 8th in the Times and Sunday Times University Guide 2015, and with 95% overall student satisfaction in the National Student Survey (NSS) 2014, our innovative and friendly department continues to build on its well-deserved reputation for top-quality teaching and world-class research.