A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.
Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting York on Maundy Thursday, 5th April, as part of the 800th anniversary of York’s Charter for the traditional “Royal Maundy” ceremony.
A flood caused by a heating system “failure” forced the university IT services to shut down many essential systems on Sunday night, causing problems for many students on the eve of their exams and assignment due-dates.
York Council has set the university a renewable energy target of ten percent for the new campus site. Last month, a planning committee rejected proposals for Heslington East because it did not think this target would be met.
The university has responded with plans to locate a biomass boiler on the Heslington East site. The boiler would use woodchip from local sustainable sources to generate hot water.
The university’s Director of Facilities Management, Keith Lilley, explained: "We are adopting renewable energy from biomass heating it offers the greatest opportunity to reduce carbon emissions."
Lilley noted that solar energy and ground source heat pumps had also been considered. However, biomass heating was chosen because it will leader to greater levels of carbon reduction.
Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Estates and Strategic Projects, Elizabeth Heaps, added: "Renewable energy is an important part of our strategy but efficient use of energy in the university as a whole is critically important. All buildings on Heslington East will meet rigorous design standards, delivering high energy efficiency and low energy use."
The university also announced plans to develop a ‘one campus’ energy strategy to meet its future needs. This plan will start with a £3 million utilities corridor between Heslington East and the current campus.
Cool beans 
Interesting to see what that 'utilities corridor' is and whether it is worth that much money!
comment deleted by a moderator Not really. It really WOULD be interesting to see if they can justify £3million on a giant pipe - especially when I can see no justification for other than to save energy expenditure, as it were.
"Anonymous" comments on Jason Rose again. Even more worthless crap.
£3 million pounds to build what is probably a man size underground walkway a non-trivial distance (I would guess going from the boiler house in the science park), and then pay for gas/water/electricity/comms pipes to be put in it probably isn't all that unreasonable.
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