GLASGOW, 04-Apr-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games has improved the environment and economic activity in Scotland’s largest city. However there has been little impact on the number of people who are physically active or the rates of participation in … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Sports, United Kingdom
Tagged Glasgow, Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, health, physical activity, University of Glasgow, wellbeing
GLASGOW, 05-Feb-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — A new joint venture company which brings together the University of Glasgow and Portage Pharmaceuticals is aiming to develop more effectively-targeted drugs to treat chronic conditions including cancer. Portage Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of the British Virgin … Read the full press release
GLASGOW, 05-Feb-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — The design team for the University of Glasgow’s new College of Arts building has been appointed, it was announced today (5 February 2018). A team led by Hawkins\Brown Architects has been selected as the winner after a rigorous … Read the full press release
GLASGOW, 13-Dec-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Conservation and fisheries management strategies should take into account seabed landscape in order to maintain fish conservation. A new study led by the University of Glasgow in collaboration with the University of Strathclyde and Marine … Read the full press release
SWINDON, 17-Oct-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — The first detection of both gravitational waves and light from the same event was made possible by bringing together some of the world’s most brilliant minds with some of the most advanced technology in existence, working across … Read the full press release
GLASGOW, 27-Jun-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — A University of Glasgow cancer research centre is to receive a €3m EU grant to begin clinical trials on Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) and other blood cancers. The Paul O’Gorman Leukaemia Research Centre is to receive … Read the full press release
GLASGOW, 27-Jun-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Scientists and veterinarians from the University of Glasgow have successfully saved the leg of a two-year-old Munsterlander dog named Eva from amputation using medical technology funded by Sir Bobby Charlton’s landmine charity, Find A Better Way. … Read the full press release
GLASGOW, 13-Jun-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — Researchers have found a direct window into the brain systems involved in making every day decisions based on preference. The study, led by a team of neuroscientists at the University of Glasgow’s Institute of Neuroscience and … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Science, United Kingdom
Tagged Andrea Pisauro, Brain Systems, neuroscience, Psychology, University of Glasgow
GLASGOW, 20-Mar-2017 — /EuropaWire/ — University of Glasgow academic Dr Alistair Fraser has today been named as a New Generation Thinker by the BBC. Dr Fraser, a criminologist at the University of Glasgow, whose expertise focuses on youth culture and street … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, United Kingdom
Tagged BBC, Dr Alistair Fraser, New Generation Thinker, Robyn Read, University of Glasgow
GLASGOW, 06-Sep-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — The University of Glasgow has picked up five nominations in the prestigious Times Higher Education awards. The annual awards, organised by the Times Higher Education magazine and sometimes referred to as the ‘Oscars of higher education’, … Read the full press release
GLASGOW, 27-Jul-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — The University of Glasgow has signed a partnership agreement with one of the most important state-owned enterprise companies in China to develop an international optoelectronics industry base in the Lingang area of Shanghai. A Memorandum of … Read the full press release
GLASGOW, 02-Jun-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Scientists have shown the weird world of quantum mechanics operating in the molecule of life, DNA. The research, which was carried out by academics from the University of Glasgow and is published today in Nature Communications, … Read the full press release
GLASGOW, 02-Jun-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — A group of world-leading universities has held an inaugural meeting in Brussels to found the Guild of European Research Intensive Universities. The Guild brings together universities that have demonstrable excellence in teaching, research and policy formation … Read the full press release
Posted in Belgium, Education, Science, Society, United Kingdom
Tagged Europe’s most intractable scientific and social challenges, Guild of European Research Intensive Universities, Professor Anton Muscatelli, Professor Jan Palmowski, Professor Ole Petter Ottersen, Professor Stanislaw Kistryn, University of Glasgow, University of Oslo
GLASGOW, 08-Apr-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — Scots author William McIlvanney has been honoured with a posthumous honorary degree – a Doctor of Literature (DLitt) – at a memorial service in the University’s Bute Hall. His daughter, Dr Siobhan McIlvanney, received the … Read the full press release
GLASGOW, 23-11-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Historical documents and artefacts charting the history of Erskine Hospital, some of which lay hidden in a derelict room for years, have been recovered and are being formally catalogued for the first time. Much of … Read the full press release
GLASGOW, 29-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The University of Glasgow’s Professor Douglas Paul has been announced as one of a series of leading researchers who will share in a £12 million investment from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Investment, Science, United Kingdom
Tagged EPSRC, Jo Johnson, Professor Douglas Paul, Professor Philip Nelson, University of Glasgow
GLASGOW, 29-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The world’s oldest surviving transmission recording made by television pioneer John Logie Baird has been saved by the University of Glasgow. The phonovision shellac disc, dating back to 20 September 1927, is the world’s oldest surviving … Read the full press release
GLASGOW, 24-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Fear of weight gain is one reason smokers give for not kicking the habit, but new research suggests heavy smokers are more likely to develop pot bellies. Scientists at the University of Glasgow found that … Read the full press release
GLASGOW, 24-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The repeated emergence of the Bluetongue virus (BTV) amongst European livestock in recent decades has been shaped by its ability to re-assort its genes, a study has found. The virus infects ruminant animals such as … Read the full press release
GLASGOW, 6-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Intensive fishing prompts much concern and debate over sustainability of fish stocks, but could it also be driving evolutionary changes that render fish of the future less catchable? There are many examples of an evolutionary … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Science, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged commercial trawling, Dr Shaun Killen, fish evading capture, University of Glasgow
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