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News archive: Quality press releases 2019

28 October 2019

The University of York is to provide a year’s free accommodation to a limited number of students who have been in care and are currently studying at the institution.

10 October 2019

The Department of Psychology has been awarded a Gold Athena SWAN Award recognising the extraordinary work undertaken in the Department to improve gender equality.

2 October 2019

The University of York has been awarded gold in the Cycle Friendly Employer scheme.

9 July 2019

We're redeveloping the medical school and the investment will include a complete redesign of the existing medical school building.

4 July 2019

The University of York has increased Overall Satisfaction from 84.6% to 88.6% in the National Student Survey (NSS), placing it top of the Russell Group universities included in the survey.

24 June 2019

The University of York’s departments of Chemistry and Biology have been officially awarded their Athena SWAN Gold awards for a further four years at a ceremony today.

7 June 2019

A University of York academic has been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

3 May 2019

The double award-winning York Festival of Ideas returns from 4-16 June 2019 with a programme of over 200 mostly-free events on the theme of “World of Wonder”.

17 April 2019

Professor Lucy Carpenter, of York’s Department of Chemistry, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.

15 April 2019

The story of Queen Victoria’s relationship with India by a University of York professor has been shortlisted for a prestigious prize celebrating the best new historical non-fiction books in the UK.

11 January 2019

The Leverhulme Trust Board has announced it will fund up to £10 million over the next 10 years to establish a new centre for research on biodiversity change at the University of York.

10 January 2019

The University of York has been awarded government funding to launch England’s first modern foreign languages (MFL) centre for excellence.

9 January 2019

The University of York generates £1.8 billion for the UK economy according to an independent report by London Economics.