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Support for ‘coma’ families wins innovation award

18 June 2015

Research into how best to support families of loved ones with severe brain injuries has been recognised with a Cardiff University innovation award.

Business award

‘Superbug’ wet wipe project wins innovation award

18 June 2015

A partnership which developed clinical wet wipes to tackle hospital 'superbug' infections has won a Business Innovation Prize at Cardiff University's Innovation and Impact Awards 2015, sponsored by leading law firm Geldards and IP Group.

setting up lights in lab

Cardiff researchers showcase pioneering lightning facility

11 June 2015

A Cardiff University lab will throw open its doors tonight to show how a pioneering team are developing ground-breaking lightning research.

Innovation awards on table

Cardiff awards celebrate innovations that shape society

1 June 2015

Innovation and Impact Awards 2015

Professor Diana Huffaker

Cardiff appoints US compound semiconductor expert

26 May 2015

A US expert in Compound Semiconductors (CS) is to lead a new Cardiff University CS research laboratory.

Speakers at Clinical Innovation event

Clinical innovation

14 May 2015

Emperor's New Clothes or the Way Forward? The opportunities and challenges of clinical innovation.

Dr Daniel Mitchard & Jennifer Gardy in the Morgan-Botti Lightning Laboratory

Cardiff’s Lightning Lab stars on Canada’s top science show

13 May 2015

A Cardiff University scientist will star on one of Canada's top science TV shows to explain what happens when inflight aircraft are struck by lightning.

Surgeons in scrubs around operating table

Cardiff spin-out secures £2.1m to develop Ultravision

30 March 2015

Cardiff spin-out secures £2.1m to develop Ultravision.

Model of the University campus

£17m ‘green light’ for UK’s first Compound Semiconductor Research Foundation

25 March 2015

A £17.3m award that will put Cardiff University at the cutting edge of semiconductor technology has been announced by UK Government.

Mark Shorrock from Tidal Lagoon Power with logo projection across face

Tidal lagoon ‘made in the UK, assembled in Wales’

20 March 2015

Every major part of Swansea Tidal Lagoon project will be made in the UK and assembled in Wales.