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

Manchester Town Hall will become the city’s largest laboratory on Sunday 19 June as scientists from across the city join forces for Manchester Day’s Brain Box attraction.

The University has won a national prize for The Works, our ground-breaking employment and skills initiative.

The University’s School Governor Initiative (UMSGI), which supports staff to take up school governor positions in local schools and colleges, has been honoured with the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK

Congratulations to the School of Physics and Astronomy who have achieved a Silver Athena Swan Award.

A professor from the University of has been presented with an Ohtli award, which is the highest recognition that a citizen of Mexico living overseas can receive from the country.

An innovative ‘revolving motorcycle project’ set up by an academic at the University is changing the lives of young people in Tanzania.

A huge well done to the 1,114 staff and students who completed the Great Manchester Run as part of the first ever University Purple Wave – and generated thousands of pounds for charity.

This month sees changes at the top of the Global Development Institute, as Uma Kothari’s term as managing director comes to an end.

We are delighted to announce two new Vice Deans for Social Responsibility, who will be joining Professor Ken McPhail, the Associate Dean for Social Responsibility in the Faculty of Humanities.

The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust began an Arts Council funded, Bangladeshi women’s project: ‘Kotha and Kantha’, in April 2016.

The Greater Manchester Walking Festival runs across the region from 1-31st May and this year has featured over 200 free guided walks in Manchester and the surrounding districts.

In November, the University will launch the biggest environmental sustainability initiative in the higher education sector -10,000 Actions.

The annual Volunteer of the Year Awards took place in the Whitworth Hall on 11th May, attended by over 170 guests.

Multilingual Manchester is preparing to deliver a new project on ‘Multilingual Communities’, to be launched in October.

The University has awarded Francesca Gains (Politics and policy@manchester) and Kevin Ward (Geography and cities@manchester) an ESRC (Economic and Social Ressearch Council) Impact Accelerator Award to establish a hub for the University’s impact work on Devo Manc and the Northern Powerhouse.

A new Unit has been launched to ensure devolution and economic growth bring real benefits to disadvantaged people and places across Greater Manchester.

An initiative to increase the policy impact of our research has scooped External Relations Programme of the Year in the Educate North Awards.

Manchester gets the science bug

On 28 April the University held it’s 4th annual School Governor Conference at Chancellors Conference Centre.

The annual Making a Difference Awards took place on Wednesday 11 May in the University’s Whitworth Hall.

An open evening to find out more about the urban governance for social innovation project.

On 23 and 24 April the University of Manchester took over intu Trafford Centre for the first ever #scienceX in honour of Manchester’s European City of Science title for 2016.

With less than two weeks to go until the Making a Difference Awards ceremony shortlisted entrants and colleagues across the University are starting to anticipate the outcomes.

From May – September, Manchester Museum will be staging a major programme of exhibitions and events on the theme of climate change.