Our Executive Director, Communications & External Relations, Lucian J Hudson, has been awarded the Freedom of the City of London.

What if energy storage could be built directly into the materials that make up everyday products? Our Engineering, Chemistry and Anthropology departments are part of a major new project exploring materials that can combine energy storage and structural performance.

Scientists from our top-rated Biosciences Department have outlined possible new approaches to protecting crops from devastating diseases by finding common weaknesses in the proteins used by pathogens to attack plants.

Researchers in our Centre for Advanced Instrumentation are helping to develop a pioneering laser power system that could keep high-altitude aircraft operating continuously.

Durham University Business School is celebrating a double recognition from the British Academy of Management (BAM) with two of our academics receiving Fellowships.

Dr Daniel P. Jones from our Institute for Medical Humanities and Department of Sociology has been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Early-Career Award to transform understandings of Tourette Syndrome.

Durham University Business School's MBA has risen 20 places to joint-70th in the world in the QS Global MBA and Business Masters Rankings 2027.

Researchers from our Computer Science department have developed a new drone navigation system that allows autonomous aircraft to fly faster and more safely through complex environments, with potential applications in search and rescue, infrastructure inspection and environmental monitoring.

Magnitude Biosciences, a Durham University spinout, has secured £1.3 million in investment to grow its approach to drug discovery and expand work with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

An international team of researchers, including Professor David Oswald from our Department of Computer Science, has discovered a security vulnerability that could put sensitive data stored in cloud computing systems at risk.

New research from our Department of Psychology has revealed that children are far more likely than adults to judge a person's emotions by what they hear rather than what they see.

Students at Durham benefit from outstanding entrepreneurial support to help them turn their great ideas into successful businesses. The quality of the support available at Durham has been recognised in the National Enterprise Educator Awards, where we won the Enterprise for Good award, and the Times Higher Education Awards, where we have been shortlisted for Outstanding Entrepreneurial University of the Year.