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Investing in the next generation of environmental researchers

We’re sharing in an investment of almost £30m to train the next generation of researchers to tackle the world’s environmental challenges.
Photograph looking up at a tree canopy from the ground.

Students hit the catwalk for some fashionable fundraising

Our South College students took to the catwalk to raise over £9,000 for a Durham hospice.
Students wearing fashionable clothes

New model could calculate probability of intelligent life in our Universe and beyond

A team of astrophysicists, led by our Institute for Computational Cosmology, have developed a new model that could estimate how likely it is for intelligent life to emerge in our Universe and beyond.
The NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a triple-star star system

Our Chancellor reflects on US election results with University community

Our Chancellor, Dr Fiona Hill, met with staff, students and friends of the University as they came together to discuss the US election results and their wider significance, both domestically and for foreign policy in the US, the UK, and Europe.
A group of people posing for the camera

Declassified spy images help locate ancient battle site

Archaeologists from Durham University and University of Al-Qadisiyah in Iraq have pinpointed the location of a famous early Islamic battle using declassified spy satellite images.
Black and white close-up spy satellite imagery of al-Qadisiyyah taken in 1974 and used in this research study. Credit US Geological Survey

Earth’s ice at risk of irreversible loss

The world’s snow and ice regions are at risk of irreversible loss and damage.
A snowy, rocky foreground with a white glacier, blue sea and blue sky.

Durham Energy Institute celebrates 15 years of innovation and collaboration

Durham Energy Institute (DEI) hosted its annual Energy Day this November focusing on the future of home energy solutions.
An image of Simone Abram presenting to a room of delegates

COP29: Meet our delegates

Durham is home to world-leading research that helps to address the challenges of an ever-changing and complex world – and inspires the next generation of problem-solvers.
Five headshots of our COP29 delegates.

New discoveries in stem cell research made by international research collaboration

An international team of researchers, including Dr Peter Etchells from our Department of Biosciences, have published new research which brings to light new discoveries in the development and understanding of stem cells.
Arabidopsis, which is a small weed, against a black bakcground

Chancellor’s journey from the coal house to the White House inspires pupils

Our Chancellor Dr Fiona Hill drew on her North East England roots to inspire County Durham pupils to achieve the extraordinary.
Fiona Hill smiling stood with pupils at North Durham Academy

Oldest engravings of fishing discovered in Ice Age art

New research has revealed 15,800-year-old engravings of catching fish in traps.
The engraving shows a fish is fusiform in shape, showing the head, dorsal, and ventral sections, with a partially visible forked tail.

$4.15m (£3.2m) donation from Dr Neil Hunt to inspire future tech leaders

New sustainability-focused scholarships will be established and student entrepreneurship enhanced thanks to a US $4.15 (£3.2) million donation from tech pioneer, former Netflix executive and Durham alumnus Dr Neil Hunt.
Neil Hunt and Julie Raymond