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Gribbles

Seafarers' scourge provides hope for biofuel future

For centuries, seafarers were plagued by wood-eating gribble that destroyed their ships, and these creatures continue to wreak damage on wooden piers and docks in coastal communities.

Mothers and daughters throw light on social changes in UK and HK

York alumni cross swords in political debate at Westminster

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Featured research

Landscape and urbanisation in the United States

Art historian Professor David Peters Corbett is investigating city, landscape, and American painting between 1850 and 1930 at the Smithsonian American Art Musuem.

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View across the lake towards Derwent College and Heslington Hall

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Life at the University of York - the undergraduate perspective

Life at the University of York - the undergraduate perspective

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Awards and partnerships

The Queen's Anniversary Prizes logoQueen's Anniversary Prizes

The University has been awarded four Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Further and Higher Education.

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Campus development plans