In a year when the health of children’s teeth has been in the spotlight, child dental experts at Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry are urging parents to keep an eye on how much sugar and fizzy drinks their children consume, and when, over the Christmas period.
Dental disease is the main disease cause of children being admitted to hospital (after tonsillitis) with around...
A graduate who earned numerous accolades during his studies at Plymouth University has won an award from the Royal Television Society (RTS).
Alex Nicol, who graduated this summer with a first class BA (Hons) Media Arts degree, won the News category of the 2015 RTS Student Television Awards for Devon and Cornwall.
He impressed judges with a documentary film titled Wars on the...
A team of students, academics and technicians from Plymouth University are planning a renewed attempt on a land speed record in September 2016.
Mechanical and composites engineers and students had spent a year developing, building and testing an arm-powered vehicle ahead of the World Human Powered Speed Challenge in Battle Mountain, Nevada.
A team of seven from Devon Football Association has raised £2800 to support Brain Tumour Research, which has a Research Centre of Excellence at Plymouth University, by taking part in the Men’s Health Survival of the Fittest 10K assault course at Wembley.
They trained for six months for the event, which involved at least 50 obstacles to be tackled on the 10K course. Around 7,500 people...
Researchers and students at Plymouth University will have the chance to use an advanced autonomous wave-propelled surface vessel thanks to a new deal signed with a leading UK designer.
MOST (Autonomous Vessels) Ltd, based in West Sussex and Devon, are to provide one of their AutoNaut® craft after entering into a licence agreement with the University, through its Marine Institute....
A Plymouth University lecturer is delivering solar cookers to Zambia to empower communities and help them to cook as sustainably as possible.
Dr Karen Treasure, Associate Lecturer in International Relations, is travelling to the African country in January to help local people – many of whom survive on as little as £1 per day – to use the cookers and not to rely on trees from their...
An international team of physicists, including a Plymouth University academic, has published ground-breaking research on the decay of subatomic particles called kaons – which could change how scientists understand the formation of the universe.
Dr Nicolas Garron, a Research Fellow in the Centre of Mathematical Sciences, has helped to devise the first theoretical calculation of how the...
Jon Bennett, Associate Director of Undergraduate Dental Studies at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, has been made a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators.
This prestigious accolade is awarded to individuals who can demonstrate that they have been working in medical education long enough and hard enough to have achievements in their field, not just...
Campaigners seek the right for those with dementia in England to use the GPS tracking technology which allows their Scottish counterparts unprecedented safe freedom to roam
The debilitating effect of dementia on lifestyle is well-documented, not least relating to the ability and confidence of those with the condition to make their way around.
