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Lancaster University shares in £1.8m for research into food security

Lancaster University shares in £1.8m for research into food security

Lancaster University and four other institutions have been awarded approximately £1.8m for research into food security as part of a new Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) scheme. Read more comments

New forum to forge innovation between universities and industry

New forum to forge innovation between universities and industry

The Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts has launched an Industry innovation Forum (IIF) to promote competitive advantage and economic growth. Read more comments

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Digital Learning Prize for Lancaster Student

Digital Learning Prize for Lancaster Student

Richard Mills, a postgraduate student in the Mathematics and Statistics Department, has won a prize of $20,000 from the US Macarthur Foundation in the Digital Media and Learning Research Doctoral Student competition.

Tue 21 February 2012

Festival brings the tropics to town

Festival brings the tropics to town

Researchers from Lancaster University are bringing a flavour of the tropics to town this month.

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Tue 21 February 2012

LEC research reveals true cost of a burger

LEC research reveals true cost of a burger

The UK could considerably reduce its carbon footprint if more of us switched to a vegetarian diet, according to new research by Lancaster University.

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Tue 7 February 2012

Lancaster University announces Anuj Bidve Memorial Scholarship

Lancaster University has announced the annual Anuj Bidve Memorial Scholarship in honour of its postgraduate student who was killed in Salford on Boxing Day 2011.

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Mon 6 February 2012

Grasslands soils offer some insurance against climate change

Grasslands soils offer some insurance against climate change

The earth beneath our feet plays an important role in carbon storage - a key factor in climate change - and new research published in Nature Climate Change this week shows that in times of drought some types of soil perform better than others.

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Mon 30 January 2012

Touch Screen Democracy For The Twitter Generation

Touch Screen Democracy For The Twitter Generation

Researchers at Lancaster University have been using touch screen technology to help give teenagers more of a say in community life.

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Thu 26 January 2012

Events

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Breathe Easier: Resolving critical air-quality problems with passive directional sampling'

Dr Maria Angeles Solera Garcia, Lancaster Environment Centre

Friday 24 February 2012, 1500-1600
LEC Training Room 2

Ensuring Water Resource Security: Assessing Water-Related Business Risks

Ensuring Water Resource Security: Assessing Water-Related Business Risks

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 0930-1600
LEC Training Rooms 1 And 2

Catchment Change Network hosts NERC Water Security Knowledge Exchange Programme (WSKEP) workshop. Lead presentations for the workshop and facilitated discussion include:

Going Beyond Dangerous Climate Change: Exploring the void between rhetoric and reality in reducing carbon emissions

Professor Kevin Anderson, University of Manchester

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 1430-1530
Marcus Merriman Lecture Theatre

Unprecedented growth in recent emissions demands a radical departure from the mitigation proposals suggested by many policy makers and scientific reports. This presentation strips away the rhetoric of such proposals to reveal a profound challenge to science and society. It argues that our abject failure to reduce emissions leaves the global community with stark choices. To continue the delusion that emission can be controlled through rhetoric, financial fine-tuning and piecemeal...

After Cancun: The Impossibility of Carbon Trading

Professor David Campbell, University of Leeds

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 1600-1700
Cavendish Colloquium Room

Lancaster Law School & Lancaster Environment Centre