Press Releases

Let them eat Easter eggs! »

26 March 2013

Should you let your children indulge in Easter Eggs or not? That is the question on health-conscious parents’ lips at this time of year.

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Hilton Park Lane manager named as Alumni Award winner »

25 March 2013

University of Surrey honours graduate Michael Shepherd, general manager of the London Hilton on Park Lane and veteran hotelier.

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British public divided on merits of drone strikes, says new study »

25 March 2013

Fifty-five per cent of the British public would support the UK Government assisting in a drone missile strike to kill a known terrorist overseas, but support drops substantially if innocent casualties are likely, according to a new study.

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Surrey music academic in collaboration with Andrew Lloyd Webber »

20 March 2013

Professor Steve Goss, from University of Surrey's School of Arts, has been collaborating with composer Andrew Lloyd Webber on a guitar arrangement of material from Lloyd Webber’s new musical, Stephen Ward.  The piece will be unveiled during ITV’s star-studded tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber and performed by award-winning guitarist Miloš Karadaglic. It will be the first time that any of the music from the show is heard in public.

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A revolutionary ‘nuclear battery’ a step closer »

20 March 2013

Experts in nuclear physics at the University of Surrey have helped develop research towards a ‘nuclear battery’, which could revolutionise the concept of portable power by packing in up to a million times more energy compared to a conventional battery.

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Experts look to plants and animals to discover the future of computers »

18 March 2013

Living organisms have an innate ability to adjust to new situations, make complex decisions, and even to heal themselves when damaged.
By contrast, man-made technological systems struggle to cope with the unexpected.

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Quantum Information Processing: A Step Closer »

14 March 2013

Researchers from Yale, Surrey, and Paris have made an important breakthrough towards ‘quantum information processing’, which promises to lead to massive information technology advances in the future.

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Head of Banking at Santander speaks to Surrey students »

14 March 2013

Steve Pateman, Executive Director and Head of Banking at Santander UK, gave a lecture to members of the university community about the current threats the UK economy faces and also the future of UK banking.

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More than eight out of 10 women with gestational diabetes missing out on crucial postnatal care »

13 March 2013

Just 13 per cent of women who have had gestational diabetes receive the right care after giving birth, leaving them at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, a lifelong condition, research reveals.

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Licence deal brings breakthrough prostate cancer test closer to clinical use »

13 March 2013

The University of Surrey has signed a world-wide non-exclusive agreement with international diagnostic specialist Zeus Scientific to develop and market its breakthrough urine biomarker, EN2. This signals a significant step forward in the battle against prostate cancer which kills nearly 11,000 men in the UK every year.

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