Durham graduate and Team GB rower Lauren Irwin recently returned to her college to open a new student rowing facility.

October welcomed a major milestone in a global telescope collaboration involving astronomers from our Department of Physics.

We are a global university and proudly part of North East England. That is the message our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Karen O’Brien, took to the Times Higher Education’s World Academic Summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, recently.

A leading Member of Parliament (MP) will discuss how to solve the ‘crisis’ in how mainstream schools cater for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) when she speaks on campus in October.

Scientists at from our Biosciences Department working with colleagues from the University of Liverpool, have discovered that shop-bought wildflower seeds may be putting Britain’s native plants at risk.

Dr Katharine Cheston, from our Institute for Medical Humanities and Department of Sociology, is working with the charity Action for ME to better understand what it is like to live with ME and long Covid.

The UK must significantly increase water availability to meet its decarbonisation goals, according to new research led by our Department of Engineering and involving our Department of Earth Sciences.

How did the North East region transform from one with innovative firms to one with assembly line factories to eventually become a destination for call centres and Amazon distribution centres?

Dr William Crozier, Duns Scotus Assistant Professor in Franciscan Studies, in our Department of Theology and Religion, discusses the challenges facing the new Archbishop of Canterbury.

Archaeologists have revealed new insights into how the world’s first farming villagers formed communities, moved across the land and responded to outsiders. 

Each year, alongside their programme, Durham MBA (Full-time) students are paired with a mentor to help them navigate the demands of study and prepare for their transition into the workplace. Students are then invited to nominate their mentor for the annual Mentor of the Year award, recognising outstanding support and contribution.

Congratulations to Claudia Moloney-MacDonald (Economics, Josephine Butler College, 2018), who celebrated victory with the Red Roses women’s rugby squad on Saturday 27 September.

A student team from Durham competed in the 55th series of seminal BBC Two quiz show University Challenge.

Professor Justin Willis, in our Department of History, joins fellow researchers in looking at the life of prominent Kenyan politician Raila Amollo Odinga following his death. They say Odinga’s “absence will generate a political vacuum that other leaders will struggle to fill”.

Dr Johny Daniel, Associate Professor in our School of Education, explores what the UK government could do to ensure that children with special educational needs receive the support they need in mainstream schools.

Professor Jonathan Darling, from our Department of Geography, says that after the Epping Forest case, the UK Government needs to be bold and build asylum housing that works.

The new academic year is upon us, and we’re ready and raring to go with some events you won’t want to miss out on.

Our former Chancellor, opera singer Sir Thomas Allen, has been awarded the Gramophone Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his extraordinary contribution to the world of classical music.

Our University Library and Collections have loaned literary items to the National Portrait Gallery (NPG). The books are travelling with the Writers Revealed touring exhibition to Busan, South Korea and Shanghai, China.