Press releases

The traditional graduation mortar board was given a designer label makeover at the University of Nottingham today, as the university recognised Nottingham’s home-grown fashion designer Sir Paul Smith with an honorary degree.

The University of Nottingham scooped STEM Research Project of the Year at last night’s Times Higher Education Awards for prioneering research to develop a new non-invasive treatment for Tourette’s Syndrome.

More than 1,100 pregnant women have taken part in a rapid beside test to protect newborns from life-threatening illnesses.

The University of Nottingham has been awarded a prestigious Silver Engage Watermark by the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE). The watermark recognises the university’s commitment to involving the public in its work and the sharing of knowledge, teaching and research.

The University of Nottingham’s Department of Architecture and Built Environment has been selected to feature in The Future of Engineering – a new multimedia initiative presented by media and communications specialist St James’s House in association with the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).

Researchers at the University of Nottingham have developed a musical robot that can help musicians with disabilities to improvise and access instruments in a way that hasn’t previously been possible

The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) recently welcomed the British Ambassador to China, Dame Caroline Wilson DCMG, for her first campus visit since taking up post in 2020.

A group of leading experts, led by the University of Nottingham, has secured over £900K in funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to establish the Knowledge for Public Health (KNOW-PH) team.

The University of Nottingham’s commitment to sustainability has been recognised by an international league table, which has ranked it among the top 40 of the world’s ‘greenest’ universities.

A partnership, which paired researchers from the University of Nottingham with a UK tech company, has produced a highly advanced power converter to drive an electric motor that could revolutionise the manufacturing and renewable energy industries.