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.
EUROTAST, a new European-funded research network, will bring together a range of young researchers and academics from ten partner institutions in seven European countries to examine the history of the transatlantic slave trade, one of the most traumatic chapters in world history, and to explore its long-term effects.
Using a range of disciplines including history, archaeology, genetics and social anthropology, the network will address various pressing questions relating to the transatlantic slave trade, including the origins of the 12.5 million Africans carried into the Atlantic slave trade, and captives’ physical quality of life and the material legacy of the slave trade.
A unique feature of EUROTAST is that the research will be widely disseminated through school projects, museum exhibitions and media products, and students will be encouraged to document their research and their findings through podcasts and video diaries.
"The advance of new technologies in biomolecular archaeology has been breath-taking" said Professor Matthew Collins, of the University of York's Palaeo Centre. “We will be combining the latest techniques in genetic, proteomics and isotope geoscience to support the historical research undertaken in the project.”
De Paul Lane, of the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, commented: "The legacies of the slave trade are real and with us today. EUROTAST will challenge a new generation of to confront this legacy and come to terms with its past, present and future."
Funded through the Marie Curie Actions the €4.3 million project will run until 2015.
For more details, visit the Department of Archaeology’s news page.
I read the headline of this article and assumed that incriminating evidence of the university making money from human trafficking had been exposed.
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