Research - Durham University

Latest research news
- Brain frontal lobes not sole centre of human intelligence
  
  Human intelligence cannot be explained by the size of the brain’s frontal lobes, say researchers.
- Museum find proves exotic ‘big cat’ prowled British countryside a century ago
  
  The rediscovery of a mystery animal in a museum’s underground storeroom proves that a non-native ‘big cat’ prowled the British countryside at the turn of the last century.
- New fracking research led by Durham University finds it is “not significant” in causing earthquakes
  
  A new study of hundreds of thousands of hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) operations has found that the process has only caused earth tremors that could be felt on the surface in three cases.
- Durham University and IBM to sign Memorandum of Understanding to further develop research and recruitment collaboration
  
  Durham University deepened its relationship with IBM to further shared research, teaching and recruitment aims by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the multinational corporation on Thursday May 2. It is one of only fourteen strategic partnerships between IBM and UK universities.

Research is at the core of Durham University. It shapes and inspires the disciplinary structure of our departments, several of which lead the UK - and even the world - in their fields. Research leads the content and development of our teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and creates new cross-disciplinary programmes through our centres and institutes. In partnership with policy-makers, industry, healthcare and education, Durham's cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural research shapes local, national and international agendas.

Links to recent research highlights and to the Research Office and other units and schemes that support our research can be found on this page.

Forthcoming research seminars

Photon 12

3-6 September, 2012, Durham.

Photon12 is the largest optics conference in the UK. It is an umbrella conference series embracing a number of important and interconnected topics. Sessions of particular interest to BSI members may be: Biophotonics; Optical environmental sensing; Optics and microfluidics and Advances in imaging. For more information please visit the conference website.

Invited and plenary speakers include:

Professor Pavone (University of Florence) Topics: Biophotonics on single molecule biophysics, microscopy imaging-spectroscopy techniques, biomedical imaging and laser manipulation of bio-samples.

Professor P Dawson (Manchester) Topic: Green Photonics.

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