Would you like to know how health research is conducted and find out information of your current cardiovascular health? Professors at Exeter University require males (45-60 years) who do NOT regularly exercise to participate in important research investigating the health benefits of consuming the polyphenols found in cherries.
Participation will involve 2 x 6 week trials over a maximum of 6 months with 4 or 8 visits to the University laboratory. Assessments of your heart and blood vessel function, muscle function and metabolism and fitness levels will be performed before and after...
Following from the ‘Exeter Expect Success’ campaign in the London Underground, the posters are now coming home to Exeter, to help the city celebrate its successes.
Celebrating 2012's success the City of Exeter joined forces and mounted an inward investment campaign. 'Expect success: Invest in Exeter' brings together key business leaders who are passionate about living, working and running a business in Exeter.
2012 has seen the City's Museum, University and F.E College all win prestigious UK wide awards, citing them as top of the UK's offerings. These posters are now due to...
Comic Relief marked its 25th year of helping children in Africa and the UK yesterday. Businesses, clubs and schools all over Exeter got involved by doing ‘something funny for money’ in a bid to make this year’s Red Nose Day the best fundraiser yet.
Exeter College were hit by Comic Relief fever early on when they held a ‘bake off’ in their training kitchens between catering students and three of the Exeter Chiefs. Supported by the Rugby Players representative and with Sainsbury’s and Silver Spoon providing the ingredients, the team kick started the Comic Relief season on the 28th...
Ex- Dragons' Den panellist Doug Richard was on hand to give business advice to entrepreneurial University students on Friday. The event was held at the University’s Great Hall and was facilitated by Unite, their entrepreneur support unit.
During the workshop, which ran all-day from 9.30am until 5.30pm, Doug gave a series of talks which aimed to build up a ten-question-toolkit that students can use to help turn a brilliant idea into a success. To Richard, success is just about doing ‘a series of actions in a certain order’. He believes ‘entrepreneurship is learnable’ and wants to...
A surgical robot pulled in huge crowds when it went on display at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E).
Members of staff and hospital visitors had the opportunity to learn more about how the robot works and even try their hands at an operation – on tiny rubber sculptures, rather than patients.
The £2.5 million state-of-the-art robotic equipment is being used in the RD&E to carry out complex surgery for prostate cancer.
During robot-assisted surgery, the surgeon watches and guides the procedure on a high-definition computer screen with 3-D...
Since its move to Exeter, the Met Office's partnership with the University has made Exeter an international hub of expertise in weather and climate research.
Together the two organisations have developed collaborative ideas with a potential value of over £30 million.
Collaborative initiatives currently in development are worth over £17 million, of which over £12 million have successfully gained funding, and four professors are employed jointly.
Together our scientists are working to improve weather and climate prediction models and researching many key environmental...
Photographer Peter Stephens has created a large panoramic photograph of Exeter which enables you to zoom up close to features within the image. The photograph was taken from the top of the Barley Valley Nature Reserve on the west side of Exeter. You can zoom right up to buildings including Exeter Cathedral, the College and University, John Lewis, and the new waste to energy incinerator.
The image is a composite made up from a number of photographs taken with a telephoto lens and stitched together into one large panoramic image.
At the end of March 2013, the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) will move its operation from Haldon Forest Park to the Innovation Centre on the University of Exeter campus.
A University of Exeter team raised over £15,000 after cycling over 1,000 miles in just 10 days to raise money for local charity Hospiscare.
The team was made up of five University of Exeter staff and Paul Gibbins, partner of J&A Gibbins local catering butcher and supplier to the University.
The journey from Land’s End to John O’Groats, was in memory of Karen Foggett, a former University employee who worked in the Campus Services Retail team. Karen sadly passed away in April 2012, but was cared for by Hospiscare and their dedicated team of staff.
Syrian State media reported that there are casualties after an explosion at the main university in Aleppo.
"15 civilians killed and dozens injured by two explosions that shook the area in between the University Residence and the Architecture Building in the southern part of the Aleppo University. The cause of these explosions is yet unknown" said the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights.
Activists say that Syrian jets bombarded the University, however the Syrian government claims that the explosion was a "terrorist attack". (NewsPoint)
