Press release

UCL is to build a new second campus on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, to form part of a wider Education and Cultural Quarter following the government's announcement of £141m in support of the project.

Thanks to the renewal of the cooperation agreement between the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna and the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (ICAR), the fourth excavation campaign in Tol-e Ajori’s site, near Persepolis, has been carried out.

This week Aalto University hosted the OECD ‘What works’ Conference. The theme of the event was entrepreneurship and higher education. Over the course of two days of seminars, lectures, and workshops, experts in the field shared their experiences and ideas about best practice in an inspirational atmosphere.

At the beginning of 2015, Chalmers will start its first mooc – massive open online course – free of charge and accessible to anyone with a computer. The course will be on the super-material graphene, which has not been the subject for a mooc previously.

Aeon Scientific, a biomedical engineering company, impressed the judges with its robot-controlled surgical system, which can be used to treat cardiac arrhythmia quickly and safely.

Dr Roberto Trotta has been named as a Global Thinker by the international politics magazine, Foreign Policy, for his book 'The Edge of the Sky.

Professor Graham Davies, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy & Therapeutics at King’s College London, was presented with the 2014 United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association (UKCPA) Lifetime Achievement Award on Friday 20 November in Nottingham.

Critical infrastructure systems are the backbone of society and ever growing in complexity and interconnectedness. A new research programme kicked off at the Singapore-ETH Centre strives to increase their robustness and resilience.

Three university centres in Barcelona have been chosen to work for six months on a CERN initiative. CERN is the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.