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.
The Royal accolade was announced at St James's Palace on Thursday 24 November and is the fifth to be conferred on the University in 15 years.
The department, which has played an influential role in broadening the scope of archaeology, pioneered the Archaeology Data Service and is involved in ground-breaking work in digital archaeology. Its research spans from the origins of mankind to ‘the archaeology of the contemporary past’.
Its bio-archaeology has achieved innovations in DNA and biomolecular dating while the Department has also promoted British archaeological methods abroad, investigating early farmers and first towns in East Africa, and recovering evidence for early settlements on the coastal shelf of the Red Sea.
This has seen the department built on its reputation as the UK’s leading centre for medieval archaeology to acquire international standing in the study of prehistoric and later historical archaeology, archaeological computing, bio-archaeology, architectural conservation, heritage management and landscape research.
As one of the most diverse archaeology departments in the UK, York’s is among the largest undergraduate recruiters in the discipline and students regularly rate it the top archaeology department in the country.
The Head of Archaeology at York, Professor Julian Richards, said: “This award is a wonderful tribute to the hard work and level of excellence achieved by all staff and students in the Department, in teaching and research.
“Successive graduate cohorts have placed us at the top of the polls in the National Student Survey. Colleagues have won record levels of research grants and we have brought substantial European research funding to York. The work of the Archaeology Data Service has had a major impact on archaeology nationally, and is now being emulated overseas.”
The University's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Brian Cantor, added: “Archaeology at York has an international reputation for its ground-breaking work across a broad spectrum of archaeological endeavour. From its role in the investigations at Sutton Hoo and the unique Mesolithic settlement at Star Carr in North Yorkshire to its cutting edge developments in bio-archaeology and establishment of the national Archaeology Data Service, it has been in the forefront of significant advances in the discipline.
“The Department plays a seminal role in the wider community, working with national organisations, museums, galleries, and sites to encourage public awareness of the human heritage. It is, in every sense, a centre of excellence.”
Queen's Anniversary Prizes, introduced following the 40th Anniversary of the Queen's reign in 1992, were awarded to the University of York most recently in 2005 for the pioneering work of the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products in Biology, in 2008 for the contribution made by the Centre for Health Economics for its help in shaping public health care, and again in 2009 for the Social Policy Research Unit’s role in supporting vulnerable people in society.
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