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Group of students cheering on stage celebrating Emerge Awards Showcase 26

The elite award showcase rewarding the founders of the future

Congratulations to James, John, Sujaya and William who won with their pitches to regional investors and business leaders at The Emerge: Be enterprising Awards Showcase this month.
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UK-first aviation fuel testing centre delivers first results in push for greener flights

The University of Sheffield has announced a major milestone in the push for greener aviation, as it produces its first report from testing a new sustainable aviation fuel.
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ARIA Funding Launches New Innovator Circle in Sheffield

Dr Charles Grellois, Lecturer in Verification at the School of Computer Science, has secured £20,000 in funding from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA).

targetjobs UG of the Year Awards 2026

Faculty of Engineering students shortlisted for the targetjobs Undergraduate of the Year Awards

We're thrilled to share that Computer Science student Jasper Sion and Civil & Structural Engineering student Hollie Wilson were shortlisted for the Engineer of the Year and Female Undergraduate of the Year Awards respectively -a fantastic achievement
Dr Zoltan Kis

Vaccine development and mass-production set to be accelerated by new manufacturing unit

In a project led by Dr Zoltán Kis from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, researchers are developing new ways to rapidly develop and mass manufacture mRNA vaccines and therapeutics at low cost and high quality.

Professor Neil Hyatt

Leading academic appointed to Chief Scientist role at Radioactive Waste Management

Neil Hyatt, Professor of Radioactive Waste Management, will be leaving the University of Sheffield in the new year to take up the position of Chief Scientist at Radioactive Waste Management.
A close up of PP mesh material before and after being tested using the new method
PP mesh - the cause of the vaginal mesh scandal - before and after being tested using the new method. The test shows that the PP mesh starts to crack after being tested in conditions similar to inside the human body.

Repeat of vaginal mesh scandal could be prevented by new early warning system

A new way of testing biomaterials that could help to avoid a repeat of the vaginal mesh scandal, has been developed by researchers from the Department of Materials Science & Engineering.
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Researchers awarded funding for data collection project aiming to improve energy efficiency of housing in Glasgow

In collaboration with the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC), researchers from Sheffield’s Urban Flows Observatory have received funding from the UKRI-ESRC to develop means to monitor the environmental performance of the urban housing stock in Glasgow.
CIV Sam Clarke

Deaths from landmines are on the rise – and clearing them all will take decades

Nearly quarter of a century after most of the world signed a convention outlawing the use of antipersonnel landmines, the number of people being killed remains high. Dr Sam Clarke writes for The Conversation.

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