News from 2013

Work starts on leading engineering school's new home

Engineering students and employers set to benefit from new investment
From Ruskin to Reality with app

A Lancaster University based businessman is helping to bring the former home of writer, artist and philosopher John Ruskin into the 21st century with a new mobile ‘app’.
Lancaster University Pre-School Centre awarded Ofsted Outstanding

Lancaster University Pre-School Centre has again been assessed as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted.
Student mentors lead by example

Lancaster University's Target Uni mentoring programme has been singled out as an example of best practice in the UK.
Local contractor scores towering opportunity

Lancaster-based company and Chamber of Commerce member Askam Construction has been awarded a contract by Lancaster University in excess of £3million to refurbish one of its distinctive and original buildings - Bowland Tower.
Power line study aims to improve bird safety

A research project which aims to safeguard tens of thousands of swans and geese started this week with the installation of more than 150 special ‘bird diverters’ in Lancashire.
University stages a real beauty!

The delicate exquisiteness of frost flowers, a captivating aurora seen through a fish eye lens and the fascinating flow of lava will feature in an amazing new exhibition designed to enthrall all.
The truth behind why we are reluctant to walk or cycle

Why do most people today feel either unwilling or unable to travel by foot or bike? This is the key question which Lancaster University Emeritus Professor Colin Pooley aims to answer in his ground-breaking new book ‘Promoting Walking and Cycling’.
Scientists awarded £9 million for study in health inequalities

Researchers at Lancaster University are an integral part of a regional consortia awarded £9 million, part of a £124 million programme, to tackle some of the nation’s pressing health problems.
Plants can change greenhouse gas emissions after warming

Different moorland plants, particularly heather and cotton grass, can strongly influence climate warming effects on greenhouse gas emissions, researchers from Lancaster University, The University of Manchester and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology have discovered.