Want to know more about how we interact with our local community? Our monthly Community Newsletter explores the news, events, and research both at Durham University and in the city itself.
In the newsletter we celebrate a new partnership with the four other universities in North East England.
Consisting of ourselves, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside universities, the Universities for North East England (UNEE) will work to make higher education more accessible, create more opportunities for businesses to work with the sector, and expand on university collaborations.
We also highlight a new offering at our Oriental Museum, an audio guide for visitors with visual impairments. Developed in collaboration with the charity Blind Life in Durham, the guide is a huge step in making the museum more accessible to all.
Meanwhile, we were commended for our commitment to biodiversity, and our first female professor has been memorialised with a plaque outside her Durham home.
There’s plenty of events to enjoy in and around the University and Durham City this month and we spotlight some of these in the newsletter.
They include our Energy Institute’s Energy Day 2024. Attendees will speak with experts in the field and learn all about how to make their homes more energy efficient.
Also, our Oriental Museum and our Botanic Garden will host Christmas crafting workshops as we look ahead to winter.
Our staff continue to conduct impactful research. We’re a key partner of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope, which just released five unprecedented images of the Universe — a huge mosaic of more than 200,000 megapixels, containing 14 million galaxies.
Researchers from our Computer Science department used innovative robotic technology to make significant advances in understanding honeybee behaviour.
And our Chemistry Department has developed a new drug that could be a game-changer for those with motor neurone disease.
To read more about all these stories, you can access November’s newsletter via the link below.
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