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Urine test to identify heart disease
Researchers from the University of Glasgow have developed a urine test which could be used to identify people with heart disease
Games get better
New technology to improve the lifelike quality of computer games is being developed at the University of Glasgow.
Switched on to new technology
University of Glasgow researchers are developing new technology that could replace the household light-bulb within three years.
Animal architecture
Professor Mike Hansell reveals the ways in which different animals achieve their building feats in his new book on animal architecture.
LIGO sheds light on cosmic event
Analysis by the international LIGO Scientific Collaboration has excluded one previously leading explanation for the origin of an intense gamma ray burst occurring last winter.
University research hailed as one of the breakthroughs of the year
Research carried out at the University of Glasgow has been named as one of the scientific breakthroughs of 2007.
Launch of the Wolfson Chair in Bioengineering
Professor Jon Cooper has been named as the first Wolfson Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Glasgow.
Palestinian refugees are living in “slum conditions”
Palestinian refugees in unofficial camps are living in slum conditions redolent of UK housing from 100 years ago
Leverhulme funding for ‘Managed Democracy’ study
Professor of International Politics, Stephen White has been awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Foundation for a study on ‘Managed Democracy’.
Telecoms giant invests in University of Glasgow students
Orascom are to fund six business scholarships at the University of Glasgow
The Holocaust and the punishment of atrocity
The annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture will this year investigate how the Nuremberg trials led to major changes in the prosecution of war crimes and genocide.
Guardian Unlimited editor to discuss The On-Line Citizen
The editor of Guardian Unlimited, one of world’s leading newspaper websites, is to discuss The On-Line Citizen at a lecture at the University of Glasgow.
Glasgow collaborates in ground-breaking new microscope
World leading electron microscope facility, SuperSTEM, a collaboration of leading scientists from three universities including Glasgow, has unveiled a ground breaking new microscope.
Tackling depression through sleep therapy
Researchers at the University of Glasgow are looking at ways of treating depression by improving a person’s sleep.
The mathematics of luck, risk and coincidence
Are you lucky or just obeying the laws of chance? Author and physicist Simon Singh looks at the mathematics of luck, risk and coincidence in the Kelvin Lecture on 30 January
University welcomes Church of Scotland Moderator and Archbishop Conti
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, The Most Reverend Shelagh Kesting, and the Most Reverend Archbishop Mario Conti will visit the University of Glasgow Chapel
University of Glasgow posts strong financial results
The University of Glasgow is in the black once again as the financial results for the year 2006/07 are published
Trying Childhoods exhibition at Scottish Parliament
The Centre for Drug Misuse Research at the University of Glasgow is hosting a special viewing of the Trying Childhoods exhibition at The Scottish Parliament.
Award for Scottish football's top doctor
The doctor to Scotland’s national football team has been acknowledged for his services to sport and medicine.
First Minister to deliver Cardinal Winning Education Lecture
The First Minister is to deliver the Cardinal Winning Education Lecture at the University of Glasgow this weekend.
Free public lecture by novelist Ian Rankin
Bestselling crime-writer Ian Rankin is to discuss his literary career and published works during a talk at the University of Glasgow.
Nominations for Rector announced
Four nominees - Aamer Anwar, Patrick Harvie MSP, Charles Kennedy MP, and Hardeep Singh Kohli - are standing for Rector of the University of Glasgow.
Music professor wins second international award
Professor John Butt from the Department of Music has won his second major international award for the Dunedin Consort’s recording of Handel’s Messiah