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Guests at the 2025 Heritage Circle Lunch.

Highlights from Sheffield’s 15th Heritage Circle: Celebrating innovation and generosity

It was an honour to host the 15th Heritage Circle Lunch on Friday 7 November - a celebratory occasion to show our gratitude and appreciation for those who've generously pledged to leave a gift to the University in their Will.
Winner: RE:NEW

Building material reuse platform wins first Emerge alumni business prize

The top award in Sheffield's Emerge: Be enterprising Alumni Business Showdown goes to Re:New, a platform designed to drive increased reuse of construction materials throughout the built environment.
A picture of Eric Pattison

Legacy gift to fund new digital scholarship and learning suite at Western Bank Library

Eric Pattison's incredibly generous gift to the University will transform the range of digital Library resources and services available to Sheffield students and researchers.
A collage of images of the 2025 honorary graduates - Urooj Mumtaz Khan, Ian McMillan, Lucy Prebble, Wanda Bernard

Introducing Sheffield's brilliant Honorary Graduates for July 2025

During next week's graduation celebrations, the University will recognise another outstanding cohort of individuals who've had a major impact in their field and beyond, and shown lasting commitment to Sheffield's values.

A year in the life as Vice-Chancellor

After completing his first year in post, our Vice-Chancellor looks back on his first year in post, what is coming up in the next year, and how alumni are helping shape the future of the University of Sheffield.

Highlights from 2019 at the University of Sheffield

As we come to the end of the year, and the end of the decade, join us in looking back at some of the highlights from the year at Sheffield.
Sir Hans Kornberg

In memory of Professor Sir Hans Kornberg (1928-2019)

The University regrets to report the death of Professor Sir Hans Kornberg FRS, one of our most distinguished Chemistry and Biochemistry alumni.

Department of Music scholarships made possible by the bequest of a Sheffield alumna

A generous bequest by an alumna of the University of Sheffield has provided the opportunity for several undergraduate and postgraduate music students to be awarded a scholarship of up to £10,000.
Sheffield Half Marathon 2019

Thank you to our scholarships fundraisers

A massive thank-you to all our fundraisers this year for their fundraising efforts for Scholarships at the University of Sheffield.