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  • Shortlist of 12 announced for Woon Art Prize

    A dozen of the UK’s most promising artists have been shortlisted for the prestigious Woon Foundation Art and Sculpture Prize – with the host venue for this year announced as BALTIC39.
    This year’s competition, co-hosted by Northumbria University, Newcastle, will take place on 2 July with the winners receiving a total of £40,000 in prizes.
    The prize, sponsored by Northumbria Law alumnus and k

  • Business start-up success for international graduate

    An international graduate who set up his own business with the help of Northumbria University has hailed the University as providing ‘the best support I could ever have wished for’.
    Sadhu Kanakarajan, who graduated from Northumbria in 2013 with a MSc Business Information Systems management degree, is the first ever graduate to be sponsored by the University via UKBA’s Tier 1 entrepreneur visa s

  • Paralympic champion named as Chancellor

    We are pleased to announce the appointment of Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson as the new Chancellor of Northumbria University, Newcastle. Baroness Grey-Thompson takes up her duties on 27 July 2015.

    The 11-times Gold Medal winner was appointed Chancellor by the Board of Governors earlier this year, and succeeds Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, wh

  • Dealing with learning disabilities

    Northumbria University is working in partnership with MENCAP between Monday 15 – Friday 19 June to raise awareness amongst students and staff of how people can be affected by learning disabilities.

  • Cutting-edge drones put to the temperature test

    Northumbria University’s state-of-the-art environmental chamber has been used to test how drones respond under extreme temperature conditions for a leading UK drone supplier.

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