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Lifetime achievement: Professor Martin Severs

Professor praised for saving lives

A University of Portsmouth professor has been given a lifetime achievement award in recognition of his efforts to help save lives and alleviate suffering worldwide. Professor Martin Severs, Associate Clinical Dean in the…

Gioia Pescetto, Dean of Portsmouth Business School; Keith Warburton, from SannamS4; and Joe Docherty, Director of the International Office sign the agreement to extend the University’s outreach and recruitment across India

University deepens commitment to India

The University of Portsmouth has signed an agreement establishing, for the first time, a permanent presence in India to recruit new students. The venture is jointly funded by the International Office and Portsmouth…

How SDSS-III was able to measure the distant Universe

Astronomers study ‘roller coaster effect’ of dark energy

British astronomers working with colleagues around the world have mapped the universe for the first time as it was 11 billion years ago. Astronomers at the University of Portsmouth, the only UK institution…

Star trails from a long exposure image of the Blanco telescope in Chile. Credit: T. Abbott & CTIO/NOAO/AURA/NSF

Portsmouth cosmologists help hunt for answers

Scientists from Portsmouth are today joining cosmologists from around the world in Chile to mark the 50th anniversary of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory and the formal dedication of its Dark Energy Survey…

Beijing photo

Graduation joy for Chinese students

Chinese University of Portsmouth students have been celebrating their graduation success in a ceremony held in Beijing. The event, which attracted 50 graduates who had completed their degrees in the previous three years,…

Professor Ashraf Labib

Why failure can be the best thing to happen

Some of the world’s greatest disasters could have been avoided if those behind them had experienced more failure, according to research published this week. The sinking of the Titanic, the loss of the…

Portsmouth is in top 400 universities worldwide and best modern university in UK

Portsmouth top modern university in UK

The University of Portsmouth is among the top 400 universities in the world and the top modern university in the United Kingdom in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings published today. The…

Portsmouth students are among England's most satisfied

Portsmouth students rate University highly

  Student satisfaction at the University of Portsmouth has risen to 87 per cent, placing Portsmouth joint top of the post-92 universities and in the top 25 of English mainstream universities. The results…

Zoomed-in image from the Dark Energy Camera of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365, in the Fornax cluster of galaxies, which lies about 60 million light years from Earth. Credit: Dark Energy Survey Collaboration

Camera captures image from eight billion light years away

Light emitted from stars eight billion years ago at the furthest reaches of our universe has been captured and recorded for the first time by the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created. The…

Thermal imaging

Pioneering winter mission to Antarctica gets expert help

A respected adventurer hoping to be the first to cross Antarctica during winter has had expert help in choosing the right people to come with him and the right clothing to wear. Extreme…

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