The Guardian Podcast with Professor Ravi Silva

19 October 2011

Professor Ravi Silva, Director of the Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey, tells Alok Jha about his Clifford Patterson Lecture at the Royal Society, in which he heralds the dawn of a new carbon age - "the fifth industrial revolution".

Zdenek Kalal wins ICT Pioneer Technology competition

24 March 2011

Congratulations to Zdenek Kalal, studying in the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing who won the ICT Pioneer Technology Everywhere competition.

New Ion Beam Centre Website Launched

28 February 2011

The new website for the the Ion Beam Centre is now live. 

We invite you to visit the site and learn more about the centre.

Astronaut to land at the University

8 December 2010

Astronauts and space may be the stuff of dreams for many a young boy or girl, but at the University of Surrey it is an important part of what we do. Learning more about the space travel experience and catching up with one of our students is all part of it.
Former Surrey Space Centre PhD student, Dr Andreas Mogensen, is an astronaut at the European Space Agency (ESA).

Still Number One in the UK for graduate employment

16 July 2010

University of Surrey graduates are the most employable in the UK, according to recent data published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). HESA has just completed its latest survey into the career paths taken by graduates when they leave their universities and colleges, the assessment known as Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education. It discovered that 96.9% of Surrey students were found to be in employment six months after they graduated - an impressive achievement given the current economic climate.

Scientists have created the world’s smallest chemistry set

2 July 2010

Researchers at the University of Surrey have created an extremely small test tube laboratory using nanotubes which are hollow cylinders made of carbon atoms with a diameter about 10,000 times smaller than a human hair. The work allows experts to use an environment totally free of contaminants to carry out experiments.

Surrey Space Centre highlighted by the European Parliament

28 June 2010

The successful links between industry and the University' of Surrey's space research have been highlighted in a video made for the European Parliament.

The report shows the unique work being carried out between research students at the Surrey Space Centre and SSTL, the UK's innovative small satellite manufacturer which was the most valuable spin-out company from a British university.

Scientist wins prestigious award from the Royal Society

11 June 2010

A brighter future for physics education

27 May 2010

On 17th May physicists from all across the South East of England were brought together for a regional conference exploring the strengths of their departments and their research, to celebrate the remarkable collaborative achievements from the last 18 months of effort. The message is clear; collaboration brings strength, a sense of purpose and leads to something greater than the sum of its parts. SEPnet, the South East Physics network is a collaboration between universities (University of Kent, Queen Mary, University of London, Royal Holloway, University of London, University of Southampton, University of Surrey, University of Sussex), making best use of local resources such as the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and ISIS.

Aim to halve energy with ‘greener’ mobile network

14 May 2010

Researchers at the University of Surrey have joined forces with experts across Europe to halve the energy consumption of 4th generation mobile wireless communications networks. The consortium hopes to achieve this massive reduction in the energy used to power networks within the next two-and-a-half years. It will mean a huge drop in the electricity needed to power the communications systems related to a new generation of communication.