Changing the world for 50 years
In just 50 years, York has powered its way to a position as one of the world's leading universities for excellence in research and teaching, and the application of knowledge to benefit society.
Preserving York Minster's Great East Window
Posted on Wednesday 11 December 2013
The Great East Window of York Minster is the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in Britain and has dazzled visitors for six centuries. Preservation work led by Sarah Brown, a scholar in the Department of History of Art, will ensure that it continues to dazzle for centuries more.
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Air pollution: a dark cloud on the horizon
Posted on Tuesday 30 July 2013
Scientists at the University of York are taking to the air to study the chemistry of air pollution that’s blowing in the wind.
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Economic expertise at the heart of the health service
Posted on Monday 1 July 2013
A healthy dose of economic insight backed by world class research has been administered by the University of York’s world-renowned Centre for Health Economics (CHE) for the last 30 years to help guide major spending and investment decisions across the National Health Service.
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The science of singing: York professor's musical journey in search of a natural voice
Posted on Wednesday 19 June 2013
As an accomplished musician and singer, Professor David Howard understands the ability of music and voice to inspire and engage. And as an engineer, he is fascinated by the mechanics of the processes that enable that to happen.
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Bestselling book highlights the growing gap between rich and poor
Posted on Monday 10 June 2013
It's not every day a book on social epidemiology makes it to the best seller lists, but The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always do Better, based on 30 years of research by two University of York academics, has proved a popular and inspirational text for everyone from prime ministers to the general public.
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Good vibrations: York's Javanese gamelan offers music for all
Posted on Friday 24 May 2013
It’s got its own room, a name and a birthday celebrated every year with music, fruit and flowers. It seems the University of York's much-loved Javanese gamelan is more than a musical instrument...
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York education team boosts interest in school science
Posted on Wednesday 15 May 2013
Science teaching in schools is being transformed with the help of the University of York Science Education Group (UYSEG) which chalked up its 30th anniversary in 2013. So what’s their formula for success?
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Science of the lambs: Heritage gene bank nurtures native sheep
Posted on Friday 26 April 2013
In early 2001, during the darkest days of the Foot and Mouth epidemic, Professor Dianna Bowles, former Director of the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products at the University of York and part-time sheep farmer, received an unexpected phone call from a farmer in Cumbria.
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Written in stone: University archaeologists go back in time to shape York Minster conservation project
Posted on Friday 26 April 2013
Experts in the Department of Archaeology are working with stonemasons at York Minster in a major restoration project on the building’s east front where ornate carvings and stone figures have been worn smooth by weather and pollution.
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Tackling waste with green chemistry
Posted on Thursday 28 March 2013
Within the next few years, our kitchen cabinets could be made from recycled straw, our liquid crystals displays transformed into wound dressings and our carpets glued with environmentally friendly waste starch, thanks to groundbreaking research underway at the University of York’s Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence.
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York students are top of the class for volunteering
Posted on Wednesday 6 March 2013
Teaching Polish to primary school children and playing the part of a homeless person in a drama class. These are just some of the testing classroom challenges tackled by hundreds of University of York students who help out in schools across the city every year as part of an award-winning volunteering programme.
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Counting the cost of poverty
Posted on Tuesday 5 March 2013
Internationally-renowned social policy expert Professor Jonathan Bradshaw has come a long way since his early days as one of a group of young postgraduate students running a benefits advice stall in York Market.
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Prostate cancer: Rooting out a killer
Posted on Wednesday 27 February 2013
Prostate cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in men. Professor Norman Maitland and his team are at the forefront of research into this deadly disease, potentially life-saving work that has the support of cancer charities - and generous local people. Here, he talks about the award-winning work underway at York to find effective treatments...
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Home sweet home for Stone Age hunter gatherers
Posted on Wednesday 20 February 2013
The discovery of the oldest house in Britain by a team from the University of York's Department of Archaeology has reshaped our understanding of the post-Ice Age hunter gatherers who lived on the site over 11,000 years ago.
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Protecting the Tanzanian rainforest
Posted on Wednesday 30 January 2013
Discoveries of new species and collaborations with a local zoo and Tanzanian communities have led to renewed efforts to conserve important rainforest in Tanzania.
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Tackling Leishmaniasis, the neglected tropical disease that kills thousands
Posted on Tuesday 29 January 2013
Around 40,000 people in some of the most poverty-stricken areas across the developing world die every year from a parasitic disease called leishmaniasis. Spread by sand flies, it can lead to distressing and disfiguring skin ulcers and scarring, or attack the liver and spleen, resulting in the visceral form of the disease that is often fatal.
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High Seas refuge for our troubled oceans
Posted on Tuesday 22 January 2013
A vast area in the middle of the storm-tossed North Atlantic, larger than the UK, now enjoys special protection from over fishing and exploitation, thanks to an award-winning University of York marine biologist, his students and an international team of experts.
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