Our annual Making a Difference Awards took place on Tuesday 1 May in the University’s Whitworth Hall.

On the weekend of the 14 & 15 April, ScienceX returned to intu Trafford Centre.

Do residents in Manchester have to live surrounded by rubbish? Or can we change it? This is the big question being raised at A Rubbish Night at the Museum, an event taking place from 6-9pm on 19 April in The Study at Manchester Museum.

Welcome to our latest social responsibility newsletter.

For the first time the winner for the ‘Outstanding Contribution to Environmental Sustainability’ category of the Making a Difference Awards will be decided by a public vote as well as a judges votes.

The Sugar Group is a Moss Side support group for older African-Caribbean people with Type 2 diabetes, which addresses the heightened risk of diabetes for black and minority ethnic communities.

The University’s Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) is a leading research centre working to answer fundamental questions about ageing.

The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health welcomed science journalist, broadcaster and author, Angela Saini, to talk about the themes discussed in her latest book ‘Inferior – How Science Got Women Wrong – and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story’ and their impact on women today.

Our 10,000 Actions programme, the UK’s largest environmental sustainability initiative for staff in higher education, has been shortlisted in the Sustainability Project category of the Guardian University Awards.

Phase one of planting started at the end of March at a variety of locations across our campus, including to the west of Oxford Road, Dover Street and the Armitage Centre.

The University’s Environmental Sustainability Team has held its first resilience training programme for the University’s Sustainability Champions.

The University has scooped a Champions of Champions award for inspiring thousands of staff and students to opt for more sustainable journeys to work.

The Great Science Share for Schools has won the Charity of the Year award from Chemicals Northwest.

Workshop on Sustainable Collaboration

A group of dismissed employees are celebrating after ten law students from Manchester helped to win an employment case on their behalf.

Athletics legend Mo Farah has urged everyone from The University of Manchester to sign up for the Simply Health Great Manchester Run on 20 May.

As part of British Science Week, we welcomed nearly 1,000 school students from across the North West to take part in our week long Science Extravaganza event, showcasing the creative and ground-breaking research being carried out across the University.

In February it was announced that Rhys Archer, a PhD student in the School of Materials, had been shortlisted as a finalist for the first English Women’s Awards (North) for her services to science and technology for the Women of Science campaign that she has created.

On 28 February 70 guests from the local community visited the University’s Fallowfield campus for the Woolton Hall Tea Party.

ScienceX returns to intu Trafford Centre on 14-15 April for the third year running! This free weekend-long science and engineering festival, organised by the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University, is packed with amazing interactive activities to inspire and excite visitors.

Three ‘firsts’ have been achieved throughout February.

We recenty asked first year Politics and International Relations student Megan Ritchie to go along to some of our Student Voluneerting Week events and report back on what she found.

Everyone deserves access to dental treatment and care, but for many people in deprived areas accessing treatment isn’t easy.

February was the turn of the University of Manchester to host the monthly Corridor Manchester Travel Cycle Breakfasts.

As part of the University constant effort to tackle sustainability issues, this academic year we launched our reduce, reuse and recycle themed weeks, run in partnership with Manchester City Council and Manchester Student Homes.