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A wide-angle shot of a large gathering of walkers at the start of the Big Walk 2025, holding up a Big Walk banner

Smiles for miles at the Big Walk 2025 - well done to everyone involved!

The famed ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ community fundraising event was a huge success once again. Over 400 walkers and volunteers covered thousands of miles between them, supporting life-changing neurological disease research at the University.
People walking down the street of red brick and modern buildings

Congratulations to alumni recognised in the King's Birthday Honours List 2025

As part of the official celebrations for the monarch's birthday, another impressive cohort of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ graduates, honorary graduates and staff members have been recognised for outstanding service to the UK and the wider world.
Dr Malcolm Butler, VP and Director of Global Engagement, taking photo with ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ alumni.

Miles apart, yet always connected to ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ

As an international ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ graduate, you’re never far from a fellow ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵer. Leaving the Steel City doesn’t mean losing touch. Our global events will help you stay connected, grow your network, and keep up with the latest from your University.
Tim Adams presenting the 2024/25 ESPS Awards event

Congratulations to the Elite Sport Performance Scheme class of 2024/25

Talented student athletes received their awards through this year’s Elite Sport Performance Scheme, at a ceremony also attended by an international football coach and a gold medal-winning Olympian.
The ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Scanner delivered to its new facility

The Scanner Arrives - £2 million fundraising appeal brings revolutionary medical imaging to ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ

Just over a year after hitting an ambitious £2 million fundraising target, the University of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ took delivery of its new PET-MRI scanner yesterday (Sunday 2 February 2020).
PG student shaking hands with chancellor on stage

Getting to know our newest honorary graduates

During the winter graduations early in 2020, ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ awarded a series of honorary degrees to recognise and celebrate the career achievements of a number of our community.

The interior of the Engineering Heartspace taken from the top level looking down over the work space

Unveiling the new Engineering Heartspace

The new Engineering Heartspace is housed under an impressive curved glass roof, and links together the Grade II listed Sir Frederick Mappin Building and the 1885 Central Wing.
Digital anatomical heart

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ team to create a ‘digital twin’ of the human heart

A ‘digital twin’ of the human cardiovascular system will be developed for the first time by researchers at the University of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ.
Sir Arthur Hall's blue plaque unveiling with the Lord Mayor and members of the Aesculapian Society of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ

Blue plaque on campus celebrates remarkable figure in ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ’s history

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ is proud to commemorate the life of Sir Arthur Hall, a distinguished physician, visionary and popular professor and teacher, with a prestigious blue plaque on his former childhood home, which now forms part of the University estate.