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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 wide-angle shot of a large gathering of walkers at the start of the Big Walk 2025, holding up a Big Walk banner

Smiles for miles at the Big Walk 2025 - well done to everyone involved!

The famed Sheffield community fundraising event was a huge success once again. Over 400 walkers and volunteers covered thousands of miles between them, supporting life-changing neurological disease research at the University.
People walking down the street of red brick and modern buildings

Congratulations to alumni recognised in the King's Birthday Honours List 2025

As part of the official celebrations for the monarch's birthday, another impressive cohort of Sheffield graduates, honorary graduates and staff members have been recognised for outstanding service to the UK and the wider world.
Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel in interview with Brendan Stone

Law alumna Hilary Mantel, the first woman, and the first Briton, to win the Man Booker Prize twice, shared her memories of The University of Sheffield and the discovery of the ‘noise’ inside her head.
Rosemary Boucher, Donald Tomlin and Professor Sir Keith Burnett

Alumnus Mr Donald Tomlin receives the Professor Robert Boucher Distinguished Alumni Award

The Development and Alumni Relations Office were delighted to award alumnus Mr Donald Tomlin (1940, BSc Physics) the Professor Robert Boucher Distinguished Alumni Award at the annual Meeting of Court on Thursday 1 March.
Rosemary Boucher, Professor Sir Keith Burnett and Dave Wickett

Sheffield brewer receives first ever Distinguished Alumni Award

University of Sheffield alumnus and much loved local businessman Dave Wickett has received the first ever Professor Robert Boucher Distinguished Alumni Award.
Her Majesty The Queen with Professor Dame Pamela Shaw at the opening of SITraN in 2010

The Queen visits University to open Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience

Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, officially unveiled a new state-of-the-art £12 million research institute at the University of Sheffield on Thursday 18 November 2010, which is set to make Sheffield a world leader for research into motor neurone disease (MND).
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Sheffield students' charity bid for Christmas number one

Students from the University of Sheffield are aim to raise thousands of pounds for charity after gaining permission to re-record Band Aid's 1980s hit Do they know its Christmas?