Danielle George, Professor of Microwave Communication Engineering at the University, has been presented with the 2016 Rooke Award by the Royal Academy of Engineering for her efforts to promote the subject to the public.

The University recently facilitated a workshop bringing together three activists from South Africa with Manchester community groups to share experiences, tactics and ideas relating to inequalities experienced by individuals irrespective of their location in the world.

In May we held our annual Making a Difference Awards.

This summer, the Environmental Sustainability team at the University have been lucky enough to be joined by MSc student, Yan Guo, who is researching biodiversity across the campus.

The 10th Annual Cycle Event (ACE), in partnership with Corridor MCR Travel, outside Manchester Metropolitan University was for the another fantastic hit.

Tuesday 7 June saw the annual Sustainability Roundtable event at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Tuesday 7 June saw the annual Sustainability Roundtable event at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service

During July 2016 the city of Manchester will be hosting the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF), a conference which attracts delegates from all over the world including people who have great influence in their spheres; from business leaders and policy makers to cutting edge scientists.

Gulwali Passarlay, a student in the School of Social Sciences at the University, is part of a high-profile #IAmARefugee campaign organised by the Joint Council For The Welfare Of Immigrants (JCWI).

Multilingual Manchester is one of two projects to receive an Honorable Mention, among a shortlist of projects ranked as top five in the world, for this year’s MacJannet Prize.

The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre hosted a showcase of BME community group heritage projects for the Manchester Histories Festival on 7 June.

On 20 May staff and students from the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences showcased their incredible variety of conversations with the public through their public engagement activities, using a diverse range of methods.

Manchester Medical School students Jess Azmy and Umair Gondal have delivered and developed an innovative workshop as University Widening Participation Fellows (WP Fellows) to encourage pre-GCSE students from state schools across Greater Manchester to consider medicine.

Our Cultural Explorers Programme, aims to provide access to four of the University’s cultural institutions for all 9 year olds from the primary schools located in the local areas of Ardwick, Hulme, Moss Side, Rusholme and Longsight.

The Art of Devolution: Culture and the North conference

The Public Programmes team at The Nowgen Centre have launched #DesignforMSK, a new project that aims to raise awareness of musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions in young people.

A team of staff and students from the University’s Dalton Nuclear Institute and its Dalton Cumbrian Facility are cycling 143 miles from Cumbria to Manchester on 7&8 July to celebrate the life and achievements of John Dalton and raise money for the Stroke Association.

The School-University Partnership Initiative (SUPI) is a four year catalyst scheme which has been running with support from the University of Manchester and Research Councils UK since 2013.

Children from 20 schools across Greater Manchester have joined forces with engineers from Siemens, music experts from the Hallé Orchestra and academics from The University of Manchester to create musical robots for the University’s ‘robot orchestra’ project.

On Friday 20 May, more than a dozen teams from across the University took part in Business in the Community’s (BiTC) Give & Gain Day, the global day of employee volunteering.

Give It Don’t Bin It is an annual campaign that encourages all Manchester students leaving the city in the summer to donate their unwanted items to charity and recycle as much as they can.

The Manchester Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research (MCCIR) and Salford Research and Development at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust have been working with St Ambrose Barlow RC High School to bring art to the world of inflammation science and research.

Manchester Town City Hall was packed full of thousands of visitors when they dropped in on The Brain Box event on Sunday 19 June, as part of Manchester Day.

Monday 20 June saw the opening of the Ramadan Tent Project on the University campus.