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Students from Project Sunride stood in front of their rocket - Desert Winds

Chasing a UK liquid launch: University of Sheffield’s bid shows the promise of the student rocketry scene

In the UK’s thriving rocketry community, student teams have become complex engineering outfits that prepare graduates with hands-on skills. Project Sunride features in Ingenia examining its bid to launch their first liquid-fuelled rocket in the UK.

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University of Sheffield students tackle overlooked women’s health crisis

Urgent and overlooked challenges in women’s healthcare are being tackled by the next generation of innovators at the University of Sheffield, through a new initiative accelerating solutions to some of the most under-addressed areas of global health
Margaret Colling, a retired Librarian, holding her phone up at a bus stop with the Let's Talk AI campaign webtoon in the background.
Margaret Colling, a retired librarian and grandmother of three from Morecambe, is the voice of a new campaign launched by the University of Sheffield to help people better understand AI.

UK’s first community-designed AI awareness campaign launched by University of Sheffield researchers

A new AI awareness campaign designed to address people’s fears and questions about the technology, has been launched by researchers from the University of Sheffield.
A glowing digital representation of a DNA double helix structure, composed of particles and light effects, symbolizing genetics, biotechnology, and molecular science.

DNA shape explains crucial gene-therapy challenges, study finds

A mystery surrounding why powerful gene-editing technology that has driven major advances in medicine over the past decade can sometimes make mistakes, has been solved with the help of scientists from the University of Sheffield.
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Engineering to play a key role in how the UK recovers from the pandemic.

Retiring Vice President Professor Mike Hounslow reflects on his tenure in the faculty and how over the past decade and more, we've become one of the biggest and best engineering universities in the country.

| The Sheffield Telegraph
Dr Brant Walkley

Cement industry must be regulated to eliminate its carbon emissions

Dr Brant Walkley from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering discusses with Sky News how his research is influencing the cement industry to reach net zero.

| Sky News
Professor Serena Corr

Professor Corr wins the 2021 ISIS Science Impact Award

The winner of the ISIS Science Impact Award is Professor Serena Corr for her work applying muon spin relaxation spectroscopy to investigating ion diffusion in battery materials.
An engineer looking at a tablet next to a production line inside a factory

University of Sheffield takes central role in new digital manufacturing research centres, with the aim of boosting UK manufacturing productivity

The University of Sheffield is to play a key role in the UK’s new Manufacturing Made Smarter research centres announced today (27 July 2021).
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Free access to robotics resources urgently needed to prepare UK’s workforce for 2030

Everyone in the UK should be given free access to high-end robotics resources in order to close the skills gap and ensure everyone has the skills needed to be part of the workforce in 2030, a new report has called for.