31st January 2022
Episode 6: Weekly Round-Up, 31 January 2022. Join Fraser McFarlane and the News team as they discuss this week’s biggest stories both on and off campus. From this month’s front page on Union funding, to study drug use in university, and even a mention of the latest in the Boris Johnson scandal, tune in to ...
30th January 2022
Episode 5: Weekly Round-Up, 24 January 2022. Join Fraser McFarlane as he talks to News Editor Luke Chafer about this week’s top stories from on campus and across the UK. Luke discusses staff exploitation, Glasgow’s lacking presence in the Stonewall Equality Index, UK politics and, of course, #PartyGate. Click here to listen....
30th January 2022
Professor Ashley and his team at Stanford University set the record of sequencing a human genome in five hours and two minutes. University of Glasgow graduate Professor Euan Ashley is part of a team of scientists at Stanford University in California who have set the first Guinness World Record for the fastest DNA sequencing technique. ...
23rd January 2022
Professor Phillips believes the pardon should also include miners who did not formally strike but took part in “spontaneous demonstrations”. The Holyrood bill to retroactively pardon miners convicted of offences during the 1984-1985 miners’ strike should extend past strikers to also cover those involved in “spontaneous demonstrations” during the long-running Thatcher-era ...
19th December 2021
The 21-year-old victim was assaulted around 3.55am on Saturday 18 December. Police have launched an appeal for witnesses after a 21-year-old woman was assaulted on Kelvin Way at around 3.55am on the morning of Saturday 18 December. The victim suffered minor injuries after being approached from behind by the attacker. The suspect is described by ...
18th December 2021
Shehzar Doja’s poem on climate change was read out by Fiona Hyslop MSP. In a speech given to the Scottish parliament on 25 November, a poem written by University of Glasgow doctor of fine arts student, Shehzar Doja – titled “No fresh soil left to plant” – was read out. Linlithgow MSP Fiona Hyslop was ...
18th December 2021
The University won Knowledge Exchange/Transfer Initiative of the Year for establishing the UK’s biggest coronavirus testing centre. The University of Glasgow was announced the winner of the Knowledge Exchange/Transfer Initiative of the Year for its Lighthouse Laboratory, the biggest coronavirus testing centre in the UK. The Lighthouse Laboratory was created in the University’s clinical i...
7th December 2021
The “Fibre before the Fibre” project aims to bridge the educational inequalities caused by lack of access to the internet highlighted by the pandemic. A new collaborative initiative seeks to bridge the digital divide in access to online educational resources exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. The “Fibre before the Fibre Project” is a ...
7th December 2021
The new company, established just last year, has won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Colin Campbell Mitchell Award. University of Glasgow spinout Vector Photonics has been awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Colin Campbell Mitchell Award in a ceremony at the Academy’s Enterprise Showcase on 16 November. Named in honour of one of Scotland’s most ...
7th December 2021
Launched in collaboration with alcohol awareness week, the campaign aims to help students struggling with their relationship to drugs and alcohol. The University of Glasgow Student Representative Council (SRC) is developing a harm reduction campaign centred around drug and alcohol use. The harm reduction campaign was launched in collaboration with alcohol awareness week, which was ...
