News and features

As part of our spring focus on digital technologies in Connect: Business we speak to Tatenda Furusa (MSc Business and Management, 2017).

As well as business advice, student and alumni entrepreneurs can receive mentoring, desk hire and networking opportunities, giving them the business tools they need to thrive.

We spoke to MedSoc Support’s Ellie Reid and Jahnavi Kavala to find out how, thanks to funding from Cascade, they supported one another during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Moving from Nigeria aged 11 and gaining residency status here in the UK, Dolapo Olanubi had dreamt of attending university.

When Dr Cormac O’Shea applied for a Cascade grant to buy and house a flock of hens, nobody quite eggs-pected what a fantastic impact it would have.

Thanks to your donations to Cascade, University of Nottingham students are experiencing a global view of education and making a difference to others along the way.

Like many of our gifted sports stars, History student and University of Nottingham men’s rugby player, James Cherry, has boundless energy and talent. James explains how your donations towards sport are helping him to go the extra mile.

In exciting news for the university, this new city centre site will soon become the first addition to our campus footprint in Nottingham since the opening of the Jubilee Campus in 1999.

Hot on the heels of COP26 we've been speaking to alumni who are doing great things to help tackle climate change or improve sustainability in their chosen field.

With such media attention and expectation, as the dust settles on the COP26 climate conference perhaps the most difficult question is to define its success or otherwise.

With COP26 underway and the world's eyes focused on Glasgow, a term you'll start hearing a lot more about is 'climate finance'.

If you've always wanted to be a better strategist we've asked Duncan to compile his top five tips that can help you on your way.

Alumnus John Holmes MBE (Mining Engineering, 1968) is something of a Nottingham institution having joined BBC Radio Nottingham not long after graduating and subsequently spending nearly 50 years in local radio and BBC Radio 4.

We’re here to glean the top tips from a man who has seen it all, done it all, sold the t-shirt. Michael Skok (Production Management and Production Engineering, 1982) shares his insights, gained over 40 years as an entrepreneur.