News from 2017
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Director appointed to lead Lancaster’s Materials Science Institute
Lancaster University has appointed a director to lead its Materials Science Institute, which will be officially launched this summer.
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Online course tackles dyslexia in the language classroom
A free online course, organised by linguists at Lancaster University, looking at dyslexia and other learning differences, is back by popular demand.
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Art and science mix in the lab
Biomedical science students have voted for the best undergraduate artwork made from microbes.
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PhD competition winner plans to promote diversity
PhD student Craig O’Hare has won £500 for a science project as part of an X-Factor style competition among schoolchildren.
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Lancaster appoints international expert as new Chair in Digital Health
Lancaster University is strengthening its digital health research capability with the appointment of a global expert to a newly created role.
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Antarctic expedition aims to understand rising global sea levels
A Lancaster University environmental scientist is taking part in an Antarctic expedition which aims to look back in time to understand rising global sea levels.
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‘Fingerprint’ technique spots frog populations at risk from pollution
Researchers at Lancaster University have found a way to detect subtle early warning signs that reveal a frog population is at risk from pollution.
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Businesses must do more to take action on soil
Most businesses are unaware that their bottom lines depend on soil, let alone of the huge risks they face from its degradation, sustainability expert Dr Jessica Davies from Lancaster University writes in a comment piece in the latest edition of Nature (published Thursday 16 March 2017).
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Natural measures to prevent floods valuable but not ‘a silver bullet’, researchers say
Natural measures to manage flooding from rivers can play a valuable role in flood prevention, but a lack of monitoring means their true potential remains unclear, researchers say.
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Astronomers unveil the role of the cosmic web across cosmic time
Astronomers have sampled 40,000 distant galaxies to better understand how galaxies like our own Milky Way have formed and evolved across cosmic time.