Last night our University Challenge team were victorious in the Grand Final, winning by 35 points (155 points to 120) against Bristol University. Opponents, Bristol, were in their first University Challenge final and kept the pressure on right up until the end.

A new exhibition opening soon at our Oriental Museum depicts the horrors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombing.  

In May we celebrated our long-standing partnership with the Maharaja Sayajirao University (MS University) of Baroda.

Professor Stephen Gorard from our School of Education explains what the poverty attainment gap is and how we can reduce it.

We’re proud to welcome Professor Jolyon Mitchell as the new Principal of St John’s College.

The agility and capability of Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to adopt digital technologies to enhance and promote an effective circular economy could pave the way for effectively combatting plastic pollution.

Dr Philip Goff from our Department of Philosophy explains the difference between artificial intelligence (AI) and consciousness.

Our physicists are part of an international team that has successfully used a first-of-its-kind technique to measure the expansion of the Universe.

New research reveals that talking to babies and toddlers helps shape their developing brain.

Firms that have CEOs with a sense of working in the name of their enduring family are much more likely to be internationally focused.

Fourteen of our 16 college bars have secured national safety accreditation.

We've met with the City of Durham MP, Durham County Council, City of Durham Parish Council, Durham Students’ Union, letting agents, independent landlords and representatives of Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) providers to discuss student accommodation.

A partnership between ourselves and four other universities has won a national award for helping care-experienced students into higher education.

Professor Robin Coningham is UNESCO's Chair on Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage, the Chair of Early Medieval Archaeology and is Associate Director (World Heritage) in Durham's Institute of Mediaeval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) and Co-Director of Durham's MA International Cultural Heritage Management programme. Here Robin discusses the role of archaeology in urban infrastructure, climate change, disaster and risk, as part of Durham’s Global Lecture Series

Dr Elizabeth Chloe Romanis from our Law School and Dr Jordan Parsons from Keele University explain that telemedicine has made abortion more accessible and that this should extend to under-18s.

On the United Nations World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, which is on May 21, Professor Rachel Kendal from our Anthropology Department and Dr Sheina Lew-Levy from our Psychology Department explore the cultural diversity of indigenous hunter-gatherer communities. They discuss the communities’ right to safeguard their ancestral knowledge, the importance of that knowledge for UN global sustainable development goals, and the threat that current formal education poses.

Orbit member and environmental gel innovator Intelligent Gels in partnership with Durham University, Northumbrian Water and technology innovation catalyst CPI is one of 16 initiatives being awarded a share of £40 million in Ofwat’s latest innovation competition – the Water Breakthrough Challenge.

Our Vice-Chancellor Professor Karen O'Brien explores how we can all contribute to our community's success.

Our researchers are involved in an innovative project across four different subject areas to help North East pupils improve their communication skills.