A group of enterprising students from Alliance Manchester Business School have been busy organising and hosting ‘Rusholme SOUP’ events on behalf of local social enterprise Healthy Me, Healthy Communities.

Following the successful pilot of our international volunteering project in 2015, the Volunteering Team in Student Development and Community Engagement have been hard at work to set up Team Uganda for 2016, working with our international charity partner SALVE International.

The University hosted an important commission on Islam, participation and public life in February.

Children and adults alike will get a chance to check out what science we do, yet again this year, at our 6th annual Community Open Day.

Local students rise to financial skills challenge

The University’s Whitworth Hall recently hosted two successful ‘Health Sector Workplace Ethics Workshops’ as part of the second year of pilot activities for the University’s ‘Ethical Grand Challenges’ Signature Programme.

Centre for Primary Care (CPC) recently ‘stepped-up’ to a challenge to virtually climb Mount Everest (3,871 floors).

Manchester Bike Hire (MBH) is a trading name of Cycle Waggle Ltd that was started by two Manchester cyclists, Pavol Gajdos and Richard Armitage.

UMBUG is the University of Manchesters’ Bike User Group, if you are a staff member or postgraduate student who cycles, consider yourself a member of the UMBUG.

In the UK there are approximately 65,000 looked after children, the majority of whom will have experienced significant emotional trauma and disruption to both home and educational life.

Manchester Museum and the Faculty of Life Sciences are currently piloting a ‘student curator’ scheme for a cohort of life sciences students.

Manchester RAG is the fundraising arm of the Students’ Union.

A new app will plot Manchester’s multilingual landscape by asking smartphone users to snap the city’s streets, shops and signs.

As part of the International Women’s Day Celebrations, Alliance Manchester Business School hosted a conference that brought together a group of young women to get their creativity flowing.

The University’s Give As You Earn (GAYE) Scheme in conjunction with the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) enables University staff to donate to their favourite charity on a regular or one-off basis by automatic deductions from their monthly pay.

FoodInResidence catering team see off household names to win the top award.

Our Equity and Merit Scholarships aim to assist talented but economically disadvantaged students from some of the world’s poorest countries.

British allergy sufferers are to turn citizen scientists in a bid to decode the poorly understood world of seasonal allergies thanks to a free new app.

The Centre for Ageing Better joins MICRA as a member of the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub.

Congratulations to Professor Paul O’Brien, FRS, Professor of Inorganic Materials Chemistry, who has been awarded a CBE in the New Year’s Honours List, for services to science and engineering.

Autism is a lifelong developmental condition that affects how the autistic person makes sense of and interacts with other people and the world around them.

Silver award in the Apprentice Employer of The Year Awards

Tuesday 8 March signalled the long awaited arrival of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences’ very first sustainability festival called The Big Green Gathering.

A big thank you to all those who entered the Making a Difference Awards 2016.

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