Durham Film Festival is back for 2024 with events across the city next week, offering entertainment for all and a platform for student filmmakers.

Professor Elena Lurie-Luke is our Entrepreneur in Residency in Life Sciences and was one of the first people appointed as a Professor-in-Practice at Durham. She is an expert in Biosciences research and innovation, with a keen interest in translating research into commercial success.

Update - we have now received details of the funeral arrangements. The funeral will take place at 12 noon on Friday 28 June, St Cuthbert’s Church, Satley, DL13 4HU.

With May being National Clean Air Month, we spoke to Professor Brian Castellani from our Department of Sociology and the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing about his work on the impact of air pollution on our health.

Durham University has selected UPP to be the Preferred Bidder to develop, in a partnership, a detailed scheme proposition for the refurbishment of the College of St Hild and St Bede on its historic Riverside location and the development of new college accommodation at the Leazes Road site.

Our scientists are involved in a major international space mission that has released five unprecedented new images of the Universe.

Durham students and graduates achieve great things – benefiting the world, and our locality. Our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Karen O'Brien, explores our contribution locally and globally.

International students are critical to the success of our University and to creating a vibrant and diverse global academic community that benefits everybody.

Congratulations to particle physicist Dr Stefan Schacht who has been awarded a prestigious Ernest Rutherford Fellowship to investigate the most basic building blocks of our Universe.

A series of three new exhibitions curated by MA Museum and Artefact Studies students are opening across Durham University Museums from 23 May.

Our scientists have provided essential support to a national spectrometry infrastructure project that has received multi-million-pound funding from the UK government.

Dr Jack Symes has been recognised as one of the UK’s most promising arts and humanities early career researchers.