News Centre

26/06/2009

Renowned author Phillip Sands who exposed how high ranking members of the Bush administration were involved in authorizing torture and subsequently attempted to cover their tracks, in his book Torture Team will be among a number of headline speakers at an international criminology conference this week in Cardiff.

18/06/2009

Boys and young men who offend or act anti-socially run a higher risk of death or disability in middle age, a Cardiff University study has shown.

12/06/2009

Re-thinking the National Grid, electric vehicles and biomass heating are among the issues in a major new sustainable energy research programme led by Cardiff University.

08/06/2009

A unique new course offering students the chance to gain translation skills and help meet the growing need for professional language translators has been officially launched.

27/05/2009

Cardiff University’s Centre for Lifelong Learning has hosted its first virtual awards ceremony as a finale to a training programme run for Legal & General (L&G). The video conference option allowed delegates to attend who would normally have had to miss such an event. Delegates, who completed the ‘Specialist Medical Modules’ training, received certificates at Cardiff University and the Swindon and Hove L&G offices.

21/05/2009

A collaborative research project by Cardiff University and the University of Bristol into learning and memory has been given a significant boost with a Programme Grant award of £1.57 million from the Wellcome Trust.

19/05/2009

Studying the way a person’s brain ‘sings’ could improve our understanding of conditions such as epilepsy and schizophrenia and help develop better treatments, scientists at Cardiff University have discovered.

18/05/2009

Improving communications skills and the use of a simple blood test could help cut the growing number of inappropriate prescriptions of antibiotics, a joint Cardiff University trial has discovered.

15/05/2009

Professor Graham Hutchings from Cardiff University’s School of Chemistry has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), one of the highest honours in the academic world.

13/05/2009

Television celebrity Kerry Katona is one of the latest bipolar sufferers to volunteer for the world’s largest study into the disorder, run from Cardiff University.