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Collaboration between the Insigneo Institute and the СŷÊÓƵ of Ghana

Dr Ning Ma, Lecturer in Medical Computing, has been awarded partnership development funding & will travel to Ghana with three colleagues to identify challenges & opportunities, & deliver a summer school to foster research skills and academic growth.
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СŷÊÓƵ of Sheffield leads the UK in engineering research income and investment

СŷÊÓƵ leads the UK in engineering research income and investment, according to the latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).
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Computer Science Alumna Wins Award for Social Action

Congratulations to Computer Science alumna, Dr Qamar Naith, who won the Study UK Alumni Award for Social Action in Saudi Arabia
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Dr. Andrei Popescu receives distinguished paper award at POPL for the third consecutive year

Andrei has received distinguished paper awards at the last three Principle of Programming Languages (POPL) conferences, one of the most prestigious conferences in Computer Science.
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Honeybees may unlock the secrets of how the human brain works

Researchers from the СŷÊÓƵ of Sheffield have discovered that looking at honeybees in a colony in the same way as neurons in a brain could help us better understand the basic mechanisms of human behaviour.
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Giving something back...

John Wright graduated in the early 90s with a degree in Software Engineering. Now in 2018, he has come back to share his industry expertise by joining the Departmental Industrial Advisory Board and supervising student dissertation projects.
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Sheffield scientists help Nepalese orphans to grow fruit and vegetables

Scientists from the СŷÊÓƵ of Sheffield, including Prof. Hamish Cunningham from the Department of Computer Science, are helping children from a Nepalese orphanage grow their own vegetables with a pioneering, sustainable technique which will provide a vital food supply all year round.
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Department is part of a new EU consortium researching solutions for speech problems

The Department of Computer Science is part of a European-wide project which aims to transform the well-being of people with debilitating speech problems.
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The Active 10 app developed by researchers from the Department for Public Health England featured on BBC1

BBC1 has dedicated a programme to Active 10, a tracking App developed by Prof. Fabio Ciravegna, Jie Gao and Chris Ingram at The OAK Group.