A group of volunteers are carving out a reputation for growing some of the best pumpkins in Devon, just in time for Halloween.
Members of the Exeter Community Garden have recently harvested their sun ripened pumpkins, having sown the seeds for their successful crop in the summer.
The Community Garden attracts students, staff, alumni and local residents to work together and cultivate a variety of crops over the course of the year.
As well as pumpkins, the group has also grown nasturtiums and an orchard of traditional and heritage trees, nine raised vegetable beds, a...
The thousands of trees at the University of Exeter remove pollution equivalent to emissions from 798 family cars from the atmosphere every year, research shows.
New calculations show the 5,000 trees surveyed, from 328 species and six continents, capture 36 tonnes of carbon annually. They also stop 4,217 m³ a year of water – two Olympic swimming pools – from flooding local rivers and remove two tonnes of pollutants from the air.
The trees provide more than £20,422 of environmental benefits each year and take away from the environment the equivalent of nitrogen dioxide caused...
People of all ages will be given a fascinating insight into the future of pioneering space weather research, during a special series of interactive events, later this month.
Some of the world’s leading experts in the burgeoning field of space weather will host a number of lively, fun, and interesting family and school events, hosted by the University of Exeter alongside the Met Office and the Norman Lockyer Observatory.
The events are part of the high-profile international symposium, entitled Space Weather of the Heliosphere: Processes and Forecasts, at the Northcott...
Exeter’s world-leading diabetes experts have been awarded more than £800,000 to develop a test that can identify babies with neonatal diabetes in the first few days of their lives.
The research is a collaboration between the University of Exeter Medical School and the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust. The funding, from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) will help prevent babies with neonatal diabetes from developing life-threatening complications and related conditions, by getting them on the right treatment pathway as early as possible.
Helping people recover from extreme stress or psychological trauma will be the focus of a public event at the University of Exeter on Saturday (20 May).
People who have suffered extreme stress or psychological trauma, or who have seen relatives go through this, are among those invited to the event.
It is open to anyone with an interest in these areas, including charity and healthcare workers, policy experts and people who want to join community support networks.
The event will be jointly hosted by the university and charity stressCare UK, and they aim to create a “...
Experts from the University of Exeter and the Met Office will bring their research out of the laboratory and into city watering holes, as the world's largest festival of public science talks arrives in Exeter. next week
Pub goers will hear talks on everything from how science can future-proof seafood production to online social identity detection when 30 local researchers take to the stage as Exeter joins more than 100 cities around the world who will be taking part in a global festival from the 15th-17th May.
Tickets are now on sale at www.pintofscience.co.uk/events/exeter...
A yachtsman who helped recreate an epic voyage for a new Channel 4 documentary will give a talk at the University of Exeter later this month.
Exeter-born Conrad Humphreys stars in Mutiny, in which a team re-live Captain Bligh’s voyage of survival after the mutiny on the Bounty.
The programme follows nine men as they attempt a 4,000-mile trip on a tiny wooden boat using traditional navigation equipment and surviving off the same meagre rations as Bligh’s crew.
Humphreys will speak about leadership, camaraderie, courage and humility on the high seas.
Three outstanding academics at the University of Exeter have been recognised with prestigious awards in the Queen’s New Year’s honours list.
The University’s Provost, Professor Janice Kay, has been awarded a CBE for services to higher education. Professor Mike Depledge of the University of Exeter Medical School has been awarded a CBE for services to environment and human health after he set up a pioneering research centre in the field. Dr Vicki Goodwin, a Senior Research Fellow at the Medical School, has been awarded an MBE for services to physiotherapy.
Julian Quick, 28, lives with a rare form of bone cancer and has helped create a suite of memes that show people how (not) to ‘speak cancer’, after finding that people are sometimes unsure of how to speak frankly to him about his condition. Julian, a keen sportsman from Weymouth, was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma when he was 26. A University of Exeter sports science graduate and captain of his local rugby team, his cancer was diagnosed in 2014 after having an MRI scan for shoulder pain he suspected was due to a rugby injury. But it turned out to be a tumour. Julian has since been...
The taps have been turned on at an exciting rainwater collection project, managed by an engineering graduate from Exeter University, in the area of Sainte Luce in South East Madagascar.
The project, named Project Tatirano (meaning to ‘collect rainwater in Malagasy), has been running a pilot scheme for the last 12 months at a local school in Sainte Luce, aiming to provide clean drinking water for both the children at the school and those villagers who live nearby.
Harry Chaplin who studied Civil and Environmental Engineering at Exeter, was the brains behind the project....
