We are delighted to make and footballer, , our youngest ever recipient of an honorary degree.
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Today Marcus received his honorary doctorate at Old Trafford. Marcus is the youngest recipient of an honorary degree in the history of the University.
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In 2018, Laura Nuttall discovered she had Glioblastoma Multiforme - an aggressive and incurable form of brain cancer.
Yesterday, she celebrated her graduation at The University of Manchester with her family. Congratulations Laura, what an achievement!
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Marcus will receive his honorary degree in August for his remarkable campaign against child poverty and his outstanding sporting achievements. Congratulations, #UoMGraduation.
(THREAD) The has responded to international demand for #humanitarian studies, growing to one of the most significant institutions for humanitarian teaching and research worldwide. This year it is celebrating 10 years.
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The prestigious award is for 's ongoing charity work and well-publicised campaign against child poverty off the field, as well as his outstanding sporting achievements on the pitch.
💜 80 years after completing her degree, Catherine has finally received her certificate at her 101st birthday party
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Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell presented with the award and spoke at length about what an incredible role model he is.
No Marcus, thank you! 💜 Your work will not only help countless young people across our own city, but across the entire country.
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Fantastic news! Alan Turing, former Director of the Computing Laboratory at the University, will be the next face on the £50 note #Turing50 #ThinkScience
💜 Manchester has rocketed up the list of the best cities in the world.
According to The Economist, the city now ranks higher than London for stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure
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📢 We’ve been ranked 1st in the world for social and environmental impact to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals #SDGs
#THEglobalimpact #THEunirankings
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In 2017, academics at developed the first Human Development Report for Greater Manchester – a report on how #humandev enlarges the choices of citizens.
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After receiving his honorary doctorate from the University for his campaigning against child poverty, spoke to .
🗣️ “You’ve got to decide, are you going to eat or are you going to be warm in the house?”
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The University of Manchester has been ranked 3rd out of more than 500 universities around the world in the #THEglobalimpact rankings based on our societal impact against the 's Sustainable Development Goals. #GlobalGoals #SDGs
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An award of £16.1million has been granted to ’s Discovery Centre. This will see the creation of a new gallery, which will celebrate its world-leading place in the history of astronomy: manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/
It's #WorldPenguinDay which gives us an excellent excuse to look back at the time our @UoMAlumni Benedict Cumberbatch couldn't pronounce penguin.
#OnThisDay 60 years ago our 's Lovell Telescope was first put into powered operation. Happy Birthday!
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From #poverty to #socialjustice, living conditions to #equality in the workplace, #globaldev to #sustainability, we seek to understand our world and change it for the better.
#HDR2019 #BeyondInequality
Woah, woah, some beg to differ!
Find out more about how the atom was split: manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/
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"Americans harnessed electricity, split the atom, and gave the world the telephone and the internet. We settled the Wild West, won two World Wars, landed American Astronauts on the Moon—and one day soon, we will plant our flag on Mars!"
— President @realDonaldTrump
We’re proud to be ranked by QS in the 2021 QS World University Rankings – a testament to our outstanding academic standards! #QSWUR
🗣️We caught up with to talk about how he felt about becoming an honorary graduate, his MBA , helping the homeless with , his wife , , and a whole host of other things
Staff & students gathered in the Old Quad to observe the minute silence this morning. #WeStandTogether
Photo: adamrwoof on Instagram
Manchester scientists have identified parts that activate an immune response and could act as targets for vaccine development.
#Covid19 #Coronavirus #WeAreTogether
#OnThisDay in 1979, lecturer and Britain's first black professor Sir W. Arthur Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Testing 1, 2, 3...
Join us and tomorrow (Monday, 18 May) at 12 noon as we introduce you to some of our amazing researchers. #LockdownLectures #ScienceAtHome
Professor , Director explains how #industrial #biotechnology research is improving the #sustainability of the fuel we buy, the skincare we use and the medicines we take
Students living in University accommodation who have not returned since the national lockdown announcement on 5 January, will not pay any rent until the end of the current restrictions, or the date that they return to their accommodation in Manchester.
We will end investments in fossil fuel reserve and extraction companies by 2022, and decarbonise all investments by 2038
Our student, Syahmi, has taken some lovely shots of campus! Do keep sending us your photos, we love to see them.
The University of Manchester has retained 5th place for research power - the quality and scale of research and impact - in the UK government’s Research Excellence Framework 2021.
manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/
#REFResults
We still can't get over how beautiful campus looks under a blanket of snow. Great shot from student, Chang Yuchun.
Professor is a historian and broadcaster, who joined the University in 2019 as a Professor of Public History. Watch his Lockdown Lecture from 12pm tomorrow.
Don't know if we're barking up the wrong tree here, but thought you'd all like to see who graduated today. Congrats, Milu
On this day in 1966, received the world's first photographs of the moon's surface. Find out more here: jodrellbank.net/the-luna-9-spa
Born #OnThisDay in 1913: Bernard Lovell (1913–2012), physicist, radio astronomer, and first Director of from 1945 to 1980.
🦕 Thanks to data collected from CT scans, and his team have been able to digitally reconstruct an entire ichthyosaur skull in 3D 🦖
A view from Oxford Road on a beautiful, sunny morning*
*Yes, they do happen sometimes.
Photo taken by Amy earlier this summer.
🥳 We're number one in the UK, number one in Europe and second in the world for social and environmental impact in this year's University Impact Rankings.
#THEimpact
A University statement on online reports about a student applicant.
We've had some snow over the last week, and this is one of our favourite student videos! ❄⛄
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💜 We are all incredibly proud of Marcus
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Ole on @MarcusRashford's honorary degree: "We're so proud of Marcus — what a great person he is.
"The work he's done shows he cares so much about others. Hopefully he can keep his personality for the rest of his life and keep being himself."
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Happy #InternationalDogDay, everyone!
🐕 This is Peanut, a trained autism assistance dog, and supports one of our Psychology students.
☂️ Campus in the rain still looks majestic! Thanks to theladytraveler on Instagram for this photo
Ramadan Mubarak to our staff, students and alumni #Ramadan
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We have moved up two places to reach our highest ever position in this year’s QS World University Rankings #QSWUR
Our President and Vice-Chancellor Nancy Rothwell has signed an open letter to politicians warning of the risks for research, staff and students if the UK leaves the EU without a deal on 29 March 2019.
Read more: man.ac.uk/U4IHxA
Today Manchester remembers the 22 people killed in the #ManchesterArena attack last year. will hold a civic memorial service at the city's Cathedral today between 2pm–3pm. Staff and students will be able to observe a minute's silence on campus at 2.30pm.
Are you sitting an exam in Whitworth Hall today? In 1921, Albert Einstein delivered his first UK lecture in there!
Though the seasons change
Our love remains...
for the Beyer Building
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We just wanted a simple photo of some of our graduation guests, but they had places to be! #UoMGraduation
🐶🐶 Look who's enjoying Brunswick Park! Peanut is a trained autism assistance dog, and supports one of our Psychology students
Eid Mubarak from all at The University of Manchester
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We are working towards developing a test for #COVID19 that could be used at home like a domestic pregnancy test
70 years ago today the world's first storable programmable computer was built right here! Happy Birthday to #TheBaby #ThrowbackThursday
Following the tragic events at Manchester Arena on Monday evening, we are showing solidarity with the rest of the city. #WeLoveMCR
Three years ago, we said goodbye to the Precinct Bridge. Many of our current students won't remember a time when this bridge was here!
Working with , we have agreed to give all students in University halls of residences a reduction for semester 1 totalling 30%. This will be provided irrespective of whether students stay in halls over the holiday period or not.
You may have noticed lots of bee sculptures being placed around Manchester this month. The bee outside of Oxford Road Train Station was designed and created by our student Kelly Stanford #BeeInTheCity
Join some of the nation’s foremost scientists, thinkers, historians and social commentators for some informal lectures from the comfort of your own home #LockdownLectures
, Happy Birthday Chancellor!
If we could see you today we would be waking, and making, and baking a birthday cake for you #MakingADifference
Our statement on the incident at Manchester Arena. manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/
"It was a real privilege and an amazing experience to meet HRH The Duchess of Sussex and share the work we are doing at Manchester to drive forward gender equality." New University Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion after yesterday's event
We don't mean to exaggerate, but today might be the loveliest day ever
President and Vice-Chancellor, Nancy Rothwell, sincerely apologises for the concern and distress caused by the erecting of a fence around our Fallowfield Halls of Residence.
The fences are being taken down from Friday morning. (1/4)
We're ranked in the top 30 universities in the world (QS World University Rankings, 2018) man.ac.uk/tU3cNn #ALevelResults2018
We are helping to coordinate a growing, national effort to accelerate clinical trials in intensive and critical care patients linked to #Covid19
#Coronavirus #UniSupport
Congratulations to all of today's new Manchester students! Let it be known that here, you belong.
🙌 We have been named the University of the Year for Graduate Employment by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide
@ManUniCareers
🎉 35 in the world!
Watch OBE perform his poem marking the end of his seven years as our Chancellor and welcoming his new chapter within the University.
Just as Manchester was at the heart of the first Industrial Revolution, The University of Manchester is now leading the way towards a bio-industrial revolution.
Hear more from Nigel Scrutton, Director : manchester.ac.uk/research/beaco
We're getting closer to the festive break! Thanks to for sharing this incredible photo of the Old Quad last night through the fog.
💜 Sir William Arthur Lewis was an economist, Nobel Prize winner and Britain’s first black professor.
Today, celebrate our former professor.
