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University looks to play matchmaker between businesses and top researchers
Lancaster University is looking to match businesses and top academic researchers during a series of three day-long events.The Collaborative Impact events aim to match industry ideas to academic research to forge partnerships that lead to novel products and services.
Wed 05 March 2014
NASA captures 360 degree views of dancing lights of Saturn
"Glamorous" images of the dancing lights around Saturn have been captured in greater detail than ever before, thanks to two NASA spacecraft.
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Tue 11 February 2014
A brighter future for cancer diagnosis
Lancaster University is taking part in a UK research initiative which is bringing significant improvements in the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of three of the world's most common forms of cancer.
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Fri 07 February 2014
Lancaster students to present their work to SET for Britain judges
Congratulations to Dmytro Iatsenko and Gemma Lancaster - both 3rd year Physics PhD students supervised by Professors Stefanovska and McClintock (Nonlinear and Biomedical Physics Research Group).
Fri 07 February 2014
Springer Prize for Lancaster physics student's PhD thesis
Springer Publishing House has selected PhD thesis by Dr John Wallbank for a publication as a book, and awarded him a cash prize.
Tue 04 February 2014
Retirement of Alex Chilingarov
Lancaster's Physics Department recently wished Alex Chilingarov a fond farewell upon his retirement, following 19 years service as a member of the particle physics group.
Fri 17 January 2014
T2K breakthrough makes Discover Magazine's top 100 for 2013
Discover Magazine has selected a breakthrough in particle physics research involving Lancaster University physicists as one of its top 100 stories in science in 2013.
Tue 14 January 2014
Lancaster physicists accept IOP Juno award
Lancaster University's Physics department has joined a group of just six other UK Physics Departments to be awarded Juno Championship status.
Tue 07 January 2014
Physics World features Industrial Group Projects
Industrial Group Projects are the focus of the lead piece in the careers section of the December 2013 issue of Physics World, the monthly magazine of the Institute of Physics. Industrial Group Projects are open-ended laboratory-based project modules in which students work in small teams on a problem set by an industrial or other external organisation.
Sat 21 December 2013
Christmas Conference poster winners
Physics completed a clean sweep at the Science and Technology at Lancaster Christmas Conference, with all three graduate school poster competition winners coming from the department.
Fri 20 December 2013
Award for Nuffield Bursary student
Congratulations to Elizabeth Dobson, an A-level student at Lancaster Girls Grammar School, who has won a special award for her poster based upon her Nuffield Bursary work with the T2K Lancaster group, selecting neutral pions in simulated T2K data.
Tue 17 December 2013
Lancaster scientists helped Nobel Prize winning discovery
Lancaster University physicists have welcomed the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Peter Higgs and Francois Englert.
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Tue 08 October 2013