Staff, press and visitors including Exeter’s Lord Mayor gathered on campus on 10 February for the unveiling of a bronze statue of Baroness Floella Benjamin OBE, former Chancellor. Vice Chancellor Sir Steve Smith began the ceremony, which Baroness Benjamin attended with her husband and two sisters. Thanking her for “being such a memorable and dedicated […]
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American football team shave heads to raise money for cancer
An Exeter student is to lead a mass head-shave amongst his friends for the charity supporting his mother’s fight with terminal cancer. First-year law student Tommy Parsons’ mother, Debra Parsons, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, before the disease spread to her liver. In order to raise money for the charity Penny Brohn, which […]
Councillors call on students to help end Exeter’s recycling nightmare
Students need to do more to improve Exeter’s recycling levels, local councillors have told Exeposé – adding that waste management in general is an ongoing problem with the city’s student population. Exeter students came under fire in early January after reports of “appalling mess” left along the city’s Howell Road. “This is purely down to […]
Exeter University scientist releases book about natural world
An academic at the University has recently published a book that investigates how animals and plants use trickery and ingenuity to deceive one other for evolutionary advancement. Dr Martin Stevens, Associate Professor in Sensory and Evolutionary Ecology at Exeter University, launched his new book Cheats and Deceits: How Animals and Plants Exploit and Mislead this week. […]
Exeter Uni sees decline in applications from financially disadvantaged students
E xeter University is among other Russell Group universities who have seen a drop in the number of students from poorer backgrounds, despite extensive efforts to bolster numbers. Exeter University has suffered the biggest fall, at 2.6 percentage points down compared with 2004/05. According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency, less financially disadvantaged students have […]
Exeter mathematician awarded research grant for wild animals study
£300,000 has been awarded to a mathematician at the University of Exeter in order for him to study the movement of wildebeest, reindeer and salmon. The US-based James S. McDonnell Foundation is providing Dr Colin Torney, a lecturer in the University’s College of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Dr Torney is one of two academics based […]
Attenborough joined by Exe biologist in new doc
A University of Exeter marine biologist has been chosen to accompany David Attenborough in his new interactive series on the Great Barrier Reef. Dr Steve Simpson, Senior Lecturer in Marine Biology and Global Change, joined Attenborough in the three-part BBC series taking viewers on a journey across the Great Barrier Reef on board a state-of-the-art research […]
Uni research explains Christmas weight gain
Research by the University of Exeter has concluded that it is an evolutionary impulse that causes us to eat more in winter-and starting your diet on New Years Day isn’t the best new years resolution. This joint study with Bristol University claims that in colder months, when natural supply of food is low and our […]
Exeter University scientists bTB study to help the British farming industry
A new study by scientists at the University of Exeter may help the British farming industry, which is struggling with the impacts of bovine Tuberculosis (bTB). The study recognises the “significant economic burden” of bTB and aims to “explore the potential for landscape management to contribute to bTB control.” Since 2002, half of British dairy […]
Exeter research reveals we’re not apathetic, just happy with the government
A lecturer at Exeter University has discovered an interesting link between apathy and happiness, after leading research into people’s perceptions of the UK’s political system. Dr Joanie Willett, a politics lecturer at Exeter’s Penryn campus, along with a team from from the Environment and Sustainability Institute, invited people from Penryn, Falmouth and Truro to sit […]