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2007 News Archive

January

  • The tremendous fundraising efforts of Jane Tomlinson were recognised by the University of Hull on January 26th when she received an honorary degree.
  • The University of Hull is nationally acclaimed for the success of its graduates because our degree programmes are academically enlightening, as well as having a practical end-product
  • Hull is one of the UK’s finest teaching universities, often at the top of national teaching quality league tables. Our consistently high ratings assure you’re choosing a university committed to helping fulfil your potential.
  • Professor Bill Gillespie, the recent former Dean of HYMS received an OBE in the New Year Honours list.
  • ‘Mathematics and Beyond’ is a pioneering scheme enabling those who don’t possess the standard A level qualifications to train as a Maths teacher.
  • Distance learning is becoming an important complement to on-campus teaching. The Department of Politics and International Studies at Hull University has been running an innovative online MA degree, the MA in Legislative Studies Online
  • The University of Hull is pioneering an inventive approach towards modern languages in order to persuade school pupils to consider languages as a GCSE option.
  • 2007 is a year of double celebration for Ghana. Not only is it the bi-centenary of the abolition of slavery, it is also 50 years since the country achieved independence.
  • On 24 January 2007, Wharton Emiterus Professor Russell Ackoff – one of the world’s top management thinkers and author of more than 20 titles on Management Systems – will launch his latest book, ‘Management f-Laws: How organisations really work’
  • Funding of £580,000 from the European Social Fund and Hull University Business School, has been secured for EMPATHY Net-Works.
  • University of Hull’s Sports and Fitness Centre is pioneering an inclusive approach for the City’s residents.
  • Students at the University of Hull are among the happiest in the UK and their feedback on the quality of education and all-round experience we provide remains overwhelmingly positive.
  • Hull is a leader amongst emerging, research-led teaching elite in universities.
  • the Department of Politics and International Studies welcomed our very first MA in Legislative Studies Online (MALSO) graduates to the university.

February

  • The first female Vice President of the European Parliament, MEP Diana Wallis, visited the University of Hull’s Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) on 9 February.
  • Environmental technology specialists at the University of Hull are to be the Humber region’s co-ordinators for a major national “waste swap shop” scheme for businesses and community groups.
  • International students at the University of Hull who have been awarded scholarship and bursaries based on their entry qualifications are to be honoured at a Scholar’s Reception
  • John Prescott celebrates Ghana's 50 years independence and attends the Ghana Golden Homecoming held at the University of Hull’s WISE (Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation).
  • The University of Hull’s very own Dragon’s Den panel was open for business last week when it invited students and recent graduates of the University to pitch their entrepreneurial ideas in a bid to win a cash reward.
  • The Secretary of State for Education and Skills, the Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, pledged his ongoing support to lifelong learning at the launch of the Yorkshire & Humber East Lifelong Learning Network (YHELLN) which took place last night at The Deep in Hull.
  • Co-founders of Xing, Phil Benson and Simon Long, delighted pupils at Hull’s Fifth Avenue Primary School when they visited the after-school Keep Fit class.
  • A world expert on climate change and a lead writer of the report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel, Professor Peter Cox, visited Hull on Tuesday 6 February, to deliver the University of Hull’s Annual Venn Lecture
  • Students and recent graduates of the University of Hull are invited to pitch their business ideas to a Dragons’ Den style panel, in a bid to win a generous cash reward.


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August

  • The European Union Trade Commissioner, the Rt Hon Peter Mandelson, will be visiting the University of Hull to deliver a lecture on ‘Britain’s relationship with the European Union’.
  • As the results of The Times Good University Guide 2008 were revealed today, the University of Hull was pleased to have achieved another impressive performance.
  • Members of staff from the University of Hull are bound for World Cup glory following their inauguration to the national Ghanaian women’s football team, the Black Queens
  • Environmental sustainability is one of the key challenges facing businesses today. FTSE 100 companies are now producing sustainability reports in addition to their annual financial information
  • Academics at the Scarborough Campus of the University of Hull are bringing Second Life - the alternative reality - into the curriculum.
  • The reform of Criminal Law in England and Wales is in the hands of two Hull graduates
  • Scientists at the University of Hull are working on an improved treatment for a debilitating flesh-eating disease which is on the rise due to global warming
  • As part of the University of Hull’s widening participation agenda, Foundation Degrees, at the Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education, that have been validated by the University will now be taught on its Hull campus.
  • With graduates facing tough competition in the job market, work experience is becoming an increasingly important part of University life.
  • Phones at the University of Hull’s Clearing headquarters have been ringing off the hook this morning and operators expect to receive thousands of calls from anxious A-level students today.
  • The University of Hull has a clear message for students still waiting to find the course that will shape their future after they get their A-level grades – keep calm.

 

September

  • Increased diving activity means that environmental damage is becoming more of a problem, but research done by the Scarborough Campus at the University of Hull suggests that men are more to blame than women.
  • The European Union Trade Commissioner, the Rt Hon Peter Mandelson, visited the University of Hull on 7th September to deliver a lecture on ‘Britain's relationship with the European Union'
  • As a new school year starts this week, children up and down the country will be learning to read using traditional methods, following recommendations by a leading psychologist at the University of Hull.
  • Paralympian basketball player and TV celebrity, Ade Adepitan, was at the University of Hull this week to launch wheelchair basketball in the city.
  • Experts at the University of Hull have achieved a tidal power breakthrough that could revolutionise renewable energy use.
  • Bar supremos, the Bar Wizards whipped up a cocktail frenzy to open the newly refurbished student café bar, Calvino’s, at the Scarborough Campus of the University of Hull.
  • The University of Hull has emerged as a Top 10 UK University and the Top University in Yorkshire for Student Satisfaction. Eighty-nine percent of full-time first degree students at Hull were satisfied with their course
  • With environmental issues soaring high on the news agenda, the University of Hull held a special one day event focusing on business and the environment
  • Craig Vear, a renowned composer and musician, will be using the coastline as his source of creativity when he becomes the artist in residence at the Scarborough Campus at the University of Hull.
  • From Uri Geller to Derren Brown, mind-reading has been captivating the public for generations. But some of the most mysterious ‘mind-reading’ of all comes from the world of maths.
  • James Richardson, International Office Director, with a group of Scarborough campus international students
  • The University of Hull has pioneered a scheme to enable patients with serious heart problems to monitor their health at home.

 

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November

  • The Secretary of State for Health, the Rt Hon. Alan Johnson MP, reflected on his political career in the University of Hull's annual Whitehall lecture, ‘Westminster, Whitehall and Hull' on 9 November
  • Findings from an evaluation of Hull's pioneering free healthy school meals scheme were unveiled by experts today.
  • A new discovery made at the University of Hull could have implications for the way in which cosmetics are created.
  • Internationally-renowned classical Indian dancer and Kathakali artist, Kottakkal Sasidharan Nair, taught Hull pupils the art of performance today, as part of a national tour.
  • Findings from an evaluation of Hull's pioneering free healthy school meals scheme will be unveiled by experts at a forthcoming conference
  • As UK and US governments face pressure to consider information extracted under torture in their fight against terrorism, the Law School at the University of Hull is holding a two-day event to investigate issues in the terrorism and torture debate
  • A former CIA Officer - who investigated one of the most controversial espionage cases ever - gave an exclusive public talk at the University of Hull
  • Today was ‘Children in Need' Day and the University of Hull was a hive of activity
  • The Rt Hon. Sir Malcolm Rifkind came to the University of Hull to deliver the Annual Jean Monnet Lecture on ‘Britain and the European Union: A new strategy for a new future'.

 

December

  • Bronia Veitch, who narrowly escaped being deported to a concentration camp, told her remarkable tale of survival at the University of Hull
  • One-time US Army Chaplain and Captain, James Yee, who was wrongly accused and imprisoned for espionage in Guantánamo Bay, will be talking about his ordeal and campaigning for an official apology at a public lecture
  • Gordon Brown and Health Minister Alan Johnson endorsed Virtual Environment Radiotherapy Training, a pioneering development by the University of Hull and Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, in their Cancer Reform Strategy launched this week.
  • The world's first endoscopy training programme for people from a non-medical background has been successfully piloted by a partnership between the University of Hull and Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust.
  • A popular way to relax over the festive period is to turn the television on to watch re-runs of Mary Poppins, soap operas and comedy specials. But when one academic settles down to watch TV this Christmas, he will be doing so in the name of research
  • Construction work has started on a £2.4 million Enterprise Centre at the University of Hull - the first of its kind in the region.
  • Two eye-catching sculptures were positioned outside the new Logistics Institute at the University of Hull today
  • Patients could soon be receiving safer drug treatment thanks to an innovative medicine-dispensing device, created by the University of Hull and Belgravium Technologies


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