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CSC launch Cardiff

Bid launched to create world’s first Compound Semiconductor cluster

27 November 2015

A partnership between industry and academia to create the world’s first Compound Semiconductor technology cluster has been launched in Wales

IQE plc Headquarters Building exterior Cardiff, UK

World’s first Compound Semiconductor cluster launches in Westminster

18 November 2015

Partnership between industry and academia formally launched

innovation award for gold catalyst

Global innovation award for gold catalyst

9 November 2015

Cardiff Catalysis Institute picks up global award for developing a pioneering new catalyst to manufacture vinyl chloride

University of the year

Cardiff wins ‘University of the Year’

5 November 2015

Cardiff University scooped four prizes – including University of the Year – at last night’s Business and Education Partnerships Awards

Cubric scanner 7T

Wales’s most powerful MRI scanner arrives

2 November 2015

New £6M scanner to detect disease inside the brain

A close up photo of the top corner of the Hadyn Ellis Building

National recognition for research building

20 October 2015

Hadyn Ellis Building is runner up for its innovative design in national awards.

Cardiff named ‘Excellence Centre’ in Precision Medicine Catapult

16 October 2015

Cardiff has been named a ‘Centre of Excellence’ in a network of hubs to develop precision medicine across the UK

National Software Academy

University launches ‘National Software Academy’

12 October 2015

New software engineering degree programme will equip graduates with “on the job” experience required by employers.

Professor Jonathan Shepherd

Innovative surgeon appointed trustee of new teaching body

29 September 2015

University innovator Professor Jonathan Shepherd is one of 13 founding trustees of the new College of Teaching

Dr Jennifer Edwards

Cardiff scientist shortlisted for Women of the Future Awards

25 September 2015

A leading University researcher has been shortlisted for the 2015 Women of the Future Awards