Next Wednesday members of College staff and construction managers will meet in the Union Dining Hall to provide feedback on the progress of the construction of new halls of residence, in Acton.
Yoyo, the mobile payment app that launched last year, has managed to secure seed funding for $5m (nearly £3m), in what is considered to be one of the biggest funding deals in Europe so far this year.
Imperial College London has received a £40 million donation to build a state of the art biomedical engineering centre from a former student, Michael Uren and his Foundation.
This week College researchers began a new study investigating the possible effects mobile phones and other wireless devices may have on the mental development of children.
Physicists at Imperial College London are ready to turn light into matter within a year, according to new research published in the journal Nature Photonics.
Two Imperial teams have entered the Summer of Student Innovation competition. This is a competition to fund ideas that use technology that can improve research and education.
Oxford University’s Students Union (OUSU), not to be confused with the Oxford Union, a debating society, narrowly voted to disaffiliate from the National Union of Students (NUS) in a referendum that concluded on Wednesday.
This Tuesday Union Council was cancelled due to failing to achieve quoracy again. An email was sent around on Monday announcing the cancellation after an administrative member of staff received a large number of apologies of absence via email.
Yesterday, 8 College staff members received prizes at the Union’s annual Student Academic Choice Awards (SACAs).
This week the Complete University Guide (CUG) released their latest ranking table for Universities within the United Kingdom.
According to an American study from academics at the Universities of Washington and Maine, “students in classes with traditional lecturing [were] 1.5 times more likely to fail than were students in classes with active learning.”
This week five Imperial chemists were rewarded for their contributions to chemical sciences with prizes from the Royal Society of Chemistry.