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The exceptional debuts of multi-award-winning British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus, The White Review Short Story Prize winner Julia Armfield, British-Brazilian novelist Yara Rodrigues Fowler, and writer and Creative Writing teacher Kim Sherwood have been shortlisted for the 2019 Sunday Times / University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Young Writer of the Year Award. It is the first year the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ, home to the acclaimed ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Writing Programme, acts as the title sponsor of the prize, following two years as its associate partner.

A previously unknown component of our cells that delivers proteins like a bike courier in heavy traffic could shed light on the mechanisms that allow cells to spread in diseases such as cancer.

Minerva Nottingham, a new collaboration between the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and Minerva Business Angels, part of the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Science Park, has held its inaugural pitching event at NTU. The new group aims to raise the profile of opportunities both for growth companies and potential investors in Nottingham and the wider D2N2 LEP area.

Using asteroseismology, a team including an astronomer from the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ, revised the parameters for two red-giant stars known to host exoplanets, and for one of them found that the planet should not exist in its current location based on current theories.

Three new exciting opportunities for engineering and manufacturing experts are being advertised at WMG, University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ, including Regius Professor of Manufacturing – which was last held by the late founder of WMG Professor Lord Bhattacharyya.

The stories of families and individuals affected by genetically-inherited conditions are to be told in a new installation based of University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ research that invites members of the public to explore their own ‘genetic baggage’.