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Postgraduate digital open event - 6 November

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High praise from students

Students participating in the National Student Survey (NSS) 2024 rated Lancaster University highly for teaching, academic support, and learning resources. Among other successes, Lancaster scored 91.5% for learning resources, 88.5% for teaching quality, and 89.9% for academic support.

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Harnessing the power of entrepreneurship to help change lives around the globe.

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University hits the right note at Lancaster Music Festival

Lancaster University is set to play a key role in this year’s Lancaster Music Festival (LMF) through a creative partnership that brings the campus and the community together.

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Bumper year for Lancaster University campus bees and new research apiary

Despite very wet and changeable weather, this summer has been a good year for Lancaster University’s campus honeybees.
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Lancaster Arts’ exciting and eclectic live performances and exhibitions for autumn

Lancaster Arts has launched its thrilling season of live events, featuring both classical and genre-blending concerts, powerful and moving exhibitions, and an amazing theatre line-up of fun, cutting-edge performances. 
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Vast ‘stranded assets’ if world continues investing in polluting industries

Continued investment in carbon-intensive industries will drastically increase the amount of “stranded assets” as the world moves to net-zero emissions, researchers warn.
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NA62 experiment at CERN reports first observation of ultra-rare process that could uncover new physics

Scientists at CERN, including researchers from Lancaster University, have reported the very first observation of an ultra-rare particle decay process, opening a new path to find physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics.
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Lecturer’s ‘pioneering reconstruction’ of dark era shortlisted for Wolfson History Prize

A Lancaster University lecturer is one of six authors shortlisted for the UK’s most prestigious history writing award, the Wolfson History Prize 2024.

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