The pupils were given the chance to analyse real data from the Minerva neutrino detector - a neutrino scattering project based at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the USA. A particular ...

Professor Joe Elliott, Principal of Collingwood College, launches new book, The Dyslexia Debate Revisited Collingwood’s Principal, Professor Joe Elliott, is launching a new book entitled The Dyslexia ...

On English Language Day (Tuesday 23 April), Professor Neil Cartlidge from our English department explains how the language we use today was heavily influenced by medieval culture. My research is on ...

Our astronomers have looked back more than ten billion years in time to find that the Universe’s early galaxies developed much faster than scientists previously thought. Researchers in our Centre for ...

The Oriental Museum is hosting a free community event on Saturday 18 May, from 12 - 4pm, to celebrate Buddha’s Birthday. Also known as Vesak, Buddha’s Birthday is celebrated around the world and ...

Our new ‘Things To Do’ Guide listing free, family-friendly events, activities and exhibitions taking place across University visitor attractions this Spring and Summer season is now available. The new ...

Our first ever Sir Harry Evans Global Fellow is part of a team of Reuters journalists to win a prestigious award for exposing wrongdoing in Elon Musk’s business empire. Texan reporter Waylon ...

UK Shadow Secretary of State for Education Bridget Phillipson has praised our work to widen access to university during a visit to campus. Ms Phillipson, who is the opposition Labour Party’s education ...

North East England is about to get its first elected mayor. Here at Durham University, we’ve been part of the region for nearly 200 years. Our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Karen O'Brien, explores our ...

As part of Durham's duty of care to our students and staff, we ask applicants who have accepted their offer with us to declare if they have any 'relevant' unspent criminal convictions. This page ...

On International Dance Day (Monday, 29 April) Dr Megan Girdwood from our Department of English explains how her research concentrates on late nineteenth and twentieth-century modernism, with a ...

In a new study, our pioneering scientists think they have solved a mystery about exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) that are getting closer and closer to the stars they orbit around. These ...