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Around 90 Loughborough athletes set for Gold Coast Commonwealth Games

Around 90 Loughborough University students, alumni and campus-based athletes are set to compete at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, which are being held on the Gold Coast in Australia from 4th to 15th April.

4 April 2018

Inspirational deaf student is made Snowdon Trust ambassador

Paul Ntulila, a Master’s student at Loughborough University London, has been made an ambassador of the Snowdon Trust.

5 April 2018
Swimmer James Wilby winning gold for the 200m breaststroke at the 2018 Commonwealth Games

Swimmer James Wilby claims Loughborough's first Commonwealth Games gold

Loughborough University student James Wilby has won Gold for Team England at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, after a stunning late charge in the men's 200m breaststroke final saw him claim victory in a personal best time of 2:08.05.

5 April 2018
Pictured are litter pickers.

Staff, students and members of the community invited to take part in ‘plogging’ event

We all know exercise can be far from fun, but one fitness craze that’s heading to the University promises not to be complete ‘rubbish’!

5 April 2018
Pictured are people shaking hands.

Santander meets university community it has helped support at beneficiary event

Santander representatives visited the University last month to meet the students, academics and entrepreneurs it has provided support to.

6 April 2018
Sarah Vasey celebrates winning gold in the 50m breastroke

Sarah Vasey wins Loughborough's second Commonwealth Games gold

Loughborough University student Sarah Vasey has won Gold for Team England in the women’s 50m breaststroke on her Commonwealth Games debut.

6 April 2018
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First day of athletics brings Breen gold

Day four of the 2018 Commonwealth Games saw Paralympian and World Champion Olivia Breen win gold in the women’s T38 Long Jump with a new Games Record.

8 April 2018
Pictured is Evan Ifekoya, A Score, A Groove, a Phantom, Performance Whitstable Biennale 2016, photo by Bernard G Mills.

Arts event to discuss relationship between black people, music and movement

Artists and academics are to come together at an innovative LU Arts event to explore the relationships between black people, music and movement.

9 April 2018
Wales' Hollie Arnold

Hollie Arnold sets new world record to win Commonwealth Gold

Loughborough-based athlete Hollie Arnold has set a new world record of 44.43m in the F46 Javelin to win gold for Wales at the 2018 Gold Coast Games.

9 April 2018
photo of Professor Elizabeth Peel

Professor Peel to lead Doctoral College

Professor Elizabeth Peel, from the School of Social, Political and Geographical Sciences, has been appointed as Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (Associate PVC) for the Doctoral College.

10 April 2018
A man checks his fitness tracker in the gym

It’s not your fitness tracker that is wrong – it’s you

An international study has revealed that people, regardless of where they live and their age, poorly guess how physically active they actually are.

11 April 2018

Researchers head for Arctic to install dust traps

Arctic researchers are due to spend two-weeks in Greenland installing equipment which will help them understand the impact of dust originating from high latitude, cold regions.

12 April 2018
Pictured is Hazelrigg and the fountain.

Loughborough shortlisted for five national leadership and management awards

Loughborough University has been shortlisted for five Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards.

12 April 2018
Sophie Hahn celebrates winning Gold

Sophie Hahn sets new Commonwealth Games record to win Gold

Loughborough-based athlete Sophie Hahn set a new Commonwealth Games record to claim gold for England in the women's T38 100m final.

12 April 2018
Uproot, the Overton Poetry Prize 2017 winner

Winner of Overton Poetry Prize 2017 to launch chapbook

The winning 2017 Overton Poetry Prize collection, which explores aspects of identity and migration, is to be published later this month.

13 April 2018
Front of STEMLab and West Park Teaching Hub buildings on campus

British Council India 70th Anniversary scholars to study at Loughborough

Loughborough University is set to welcome two students who have secured a prestigious British Council scholarship.

13 April 2018
happy woman with her arms in the air

Loughborough students nominated for most influential woman at university

Nine inspiring women who are current students at Loughborough have been nominated in The Tab’s ‘Top 100 most influential women at university’.

13 April 2018
England celebrate winning gold in the 4x100m relay

Second Super Saturday sees Loughborough take six medals

On the tenth day of the 2018 Commonwealth Games, an incredible six medals were won by Loughborough athletes.

14 April 2018

Tenth place finish for Loughborough in Gold Coast 2018 Games medal table

If Loughborough University were a country it would have been tenth in the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games medal table – ahead of Jamaica and Kenya.

16 April 2018

Community groups invited to bid for University funding through the Special Projects Fund

Loughborough University is welcoming bids from community groups across Charnwood for its annual Special Projects Fund.

16 April 2018
Healthy and obese

There is no such thing as ‘healthy obesity’ – we need to stop using the term

The on-going debate over whether ‘health obesity’ exists is diverting attention away from effective medical research as academics continue to use the confusing classification.

16 April 2018
Pictured is Mobu.

Alumnus bags deal with Firebox.com after success on Channel 4 show

Loughborough alumnus Simon Lyons has bagged a deal with online retailer Firebox.com after appearing on Channel 4 last night (Monday) with his innovative product Mobu: The World’s Most Versatile Cable Clip.

17 April 2018
Professor Claudia Eberlein

Theoretical physicist appointed as Dean of Loughborough University’s School of Science

The theoretical physicist Professor Claudia Eberlein has been appointed as Dean of Loughborough University’s School of Science.

17 April 2018
Mark Evans poster for IDASA IDEA jury

University Designer invited to judge international Design Excellence Awards

Dr Mark Evans has been invited by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) to join the jury for the 2018 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA).

18 April 2018
Pictured is Captain Desmond Penrose with a DH82a Tiger Moth.

Former test pilot takes to the air to mark 70 years since first solo flight

Ex-RAF test pilot Captain Desmond Penrose marked the 70th anniversary of his first solo flight at the weekend by getting behind the controls of a 1930s biplane.

18 April 2018
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