LONDON, England, June 9 -- Imperial College-London issued the following news: * * * AMD and Imperial to collaborate on AI-enabled scientific discovery and sovereign AI By David Silverman Imperial College London and AMD, one of the world's largest semiconductor companies, plan to collaborate to advance AI-enabled scientific discovery, sovereign AI infrastructure and next-generation high-performance computing (HPC) systems in the United Kingdom. Bringing together AMD's expertise in accelerated computing and open software with Imperial's worl more PR

SINGAPORE, June 9 -- Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School issued the following news: * * * DASH 2026 opens a new horizon for cross-Pacific collaboration What began as a meeting of minds between Singapore and Durham, North Carolina, has set the stage for a new chapter of collaboration across Duke University, Duke-NUS Medical School and the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (AMC). Held from 2 to 4 June, the inaugural DASH summit launched the Durham and Singapore Horizon, a cross-Pacific initiative designed to build sustained research an more PR

BEDFORD PARK, Australia, June 9 -- Flinders University posted the following news: * * * King's Birthday Honour for the 'Mozart of Math' * One of the world's leading mathematicians and a Fields Medallist, Professor Terence Tao AC has received Australia's highest civilian award in the 2026 King's Birthday Honours. Recognised for his service to maths sciences, the global maths community, and to tertiary education and academia, Professor Tao is one of five people nationally to receive the top honour, the Companion of the Order of Australia (A more PR

HONG KONG, June 9 -- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University issued the following news release: * * * Legendary hotelier Horst Schulze inducted into School of Hotel and Tourism Management Gallery of Honour * The School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is delighted to announce that Mr Horst SCHULZE, Founding member of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company and Founder of The Capella Hotel Group was inducted into the SHTM Gallery of Honour on 5 June 2026, the same evening he was bestowed the esteemed more PR

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England, June 9 -- Northumbria University issued the following news release: * * * National Lottery funding will increase educational opportunities for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller families * Northumbria University has been awarded PS245,061 by The National Lottery Community Fund to establish the first North East and Cumbria Centre for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities. The project will provide safe, trusted spaces in which members of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities from across the North East and Cumbria  more PR

COVENTRY, England, June 9 -- The University of Warwick issued the following news release: * * * New Warwick spinout helps turn research into real-world environmental impact * A new social enterprise spinout from the University of Warwick, EcoTransform, has launched [9 June 2026], offering a pioneering consultancy that helps organisations design environmental policies that work for both nature and communities. EcoTransform closes the gap between sector-leading research and real-world policy design, working with organisations to understand  more PR

SINGAPORE, June 10 -- The National University of Singapore issued the following news release: * * * NUS receives major gift from Wen Giving to advance healthy longevity in Health District @ Queenstown * The National University of Singapore (NUS) has received a major gift from Mrs Wai Mei Wen and Mr Chiu Chi Wen of Wen Giving in support of the Health District @ Queenstown (HD@QT), a multi-stakeholder initiative focused on cultivating lasting health and social solutions in Singapore. The gift, Wen Giving's first contribution to NUS, will su more PR

LONDON, England, June 9 (TNSjou) -- Queen Mary University of London issued the following news: * * * Children's motivation and attitudes towards learning play a key role in academic success, study finds New study reveals how motivation and curiosity help turn genetic potential into school achievement. - A major new study led by researchers at Queen Mary University of London has revealed that non-cognitive skills -- such as motivation, curiosity, academic interest, and self-belief -- play a key role in translating children's genetic disposi more PR

BRISBANE, Australia, June 9 (TNSjou) -- The Queensland University of Technology issued the following news: * * * Brushing your teeth daily could prevent hospital-acquired pneumonia A simple improvement in oral care for hospitalised patients reduced the risk of non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia by 60 percent, a trial of 8870 patients in three Australian hospitals has found. * Patients with non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia are eight times more likely to die in hospital than patients without it. * Toothbrush and toothpast more PR

BIRMINGHAM, England, June 9 (TNSxrep) -- The University of Nottingham issued the following news release: * * * New study reveals employment plays crucial role in preventing survivors of modern slavery being caught in cycles of exploitation * New research released today in the House of Lords, by Sophie Hayes Foundation, the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham, and King's College London - funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)/Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre - evidences the role access to e more PR

GLASGOW, Scotland, June 9 -- The University of Glasgow posted the following news: * * * Triple film award for survivor's story documentary * A documentary short film, Why We Dance, has secured three film awards for its portrayal of a survivor of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Directed by Scotland-based filmmaker Marc Ellison, the film tells the story of Jerome Irankunda, a young survivor of the genocide as he shared his experiences with graphic artist Michel Kichka. The film emerges from the 'Survivor-Centred Visual Narrat more PR

LIVERPOOL, England, June 9 -- The University of Liverpool issued the following news release: * * * University awarded cPS6M to train next generation of engineers * The University of Liverpool has been awarded nearly PS6M to train over 190 additional engineering students over the next five academic years and invest in new, state-of-the-art teaching facilities. The funding was announced today (Tuesday, 9 June) by the Ministry of Defence and Department for Education as part of an PS80M funding package to boost defence-related and technical s more PR

MONTREAL, Quebec, June 9 (TNSjou) -- The University of Montreal issued the following news: * * * Bridging the generation gap, financially Having well-off grandparents can make it easier for students to afford to go to university--and even compensate for having low-income parents. By Beatrice St-Cyr-Leroux It has long been understood that parents' income plays a major role in children's access to higher education. But a new study suggests that grandparents' income matters, too. By analyzing multigenerational tax data, researchers at Unive more PR

BIRMINGHAM, England, June 9 -- The University of Nottingham issued the following news release: * * * University of Nottingham launches UK's highest pressure Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing Facility * The University of Nottingham has launched the UK's highest pressure Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing facility, a national facility featuring the latest technology to support advanced manufacturing research. Cold spray is an advanced manufacturing process that builds or repairs metal components by accelerating fine metal powders at very hig more PR

GREATER MANCHESTER, England, June 9 -- The University of Salford issued the following news: * * * Research challenges rhetorics around young people disengaging with learning Young people are not disengaged from learning - they are often disengaged from educational environments that fail to recognise their strengths, according to new research. That is one of the key messages emerging from 'Bridging Worlds: Blending Organic and Co-created Digital Environments to Support Neurodivergent Young People in Mainstream Education', a new report based  more PR