Press releases

A cross-faculty group made up of students and staff at the University of Nottingham has received Advance HE’s Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE).

The University of Nottingham has welcomed people from across the county to its inaugural Community Open Day at the new Castle Meadow Campus (CMC), providing a unique opportunity to learn more about the site’s vision from those at the heart of the project.

Astronaut costumes, air rockets and a gravity demonstration using a BMX bike were all part of an interactive event celebrating the legacy of the Apollo moon landing, and the role engineers played in its success.

A working scaled replica of the Rolls-Royce Thrust Measuring Rig (TMR), better known as the “Flying Bedstead” has been built by engineering students at the University of Nottingham.

The University of Nottingham has collaborated with water management company Angel Guard for the first time to create a polymer that could save thousands of lives.

A short film, which documents the design, construction, and opening of a South African pre-school completely created by University of Nottingham students, has been viewed for the first time. 

The University of Nottingham’s Aerospace Unlocking Potential (UP) programme has come to an end, after supporting more than 270 small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the Midlands over the past three years.

Two University of Nottingham researchers are celebrating national success after receiving awards from the Royal Society of Chemistry in recognition of their research achievements.

Cutting-edge technology used to search for signs of life on Mars is poised to revolutionise disease detection and monitoring, via research supported by the EPSRC InLightenUs project involving the Universities of Nottingham, Southampton, and Edinburgh.

A novel study undertaken by the University of Nottingham has found that, in the absence of someone in the driving seat, pedestrians trust certain visual prompts more than others when deciding whether to cross in front of an autonomous car.