A Nobel Peace Prize winner and ‘world’s banker to the poor’ will urge young people to use business for social and community benefit at a unique summit at the University of Salford this month.

The University of Salford is holding its second annual International Nurses’ Day Conference on Tuesday 14 May to bring together leaders and experts in the nursing profession.

A University of Salford study with charity the George House Trust has highlighted the North West’s growing population of older people with HIV and the lack of services for older HIV-positive gay men.

Some of the latest technological innovations developed by local SMEs and the University of Salford’s Energy Hub are set to be exhibited at this year’s GreenBuild Expo (8-9 May).

Salford has been ranked in the top 101-150 bracket for its civil and structural engineering courses in a survey of almost 3,000 universities around the world.

The University of Salford is to study households in Greater Manchester which are part of the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (DECC) core cities programme. The study will provide scientific data on the effectiveness of measures such as insulation, new boilers and glazing, providing information in support of the Green Deal policy initiative.

Top comedian Jason Manford was at the University of Salford yesterday (Monday 29 April) to coach performance students and Britain’s Got Talent star Jack Carroll in the art of stand-up routines.

The University of Salford’s archaeology department is looking for volunteers to help them excavate a historic hall in Rochdale that has origins stretching back to 1414.

University of Salford graduate and renowned nutritional biochemist, Jeannette Jackson, has teamed up with top celebrities to launch StarBites, a recipe e-book created for children’s cancer charity KidsCan.

The University of Salford has appointed Stephen Talboys as Director of Estates to lead its property services and campus redevelopment projects.

One of the Army’s most senior commanders will give the inside story on the role played by the forces in averting a major security shortfall at London 2012 in a special public talk at the University of Salford this week.

The University of Salford is to conduct theoretical work on third generation solar cells, which will use to revolutionary semi-conductor nanostructures in order to significantly increase the electricity produced by sunlight – from around 10% efficiency to 31% or more.

The University of Salford has officially opened its Solar Research Plant which will produce small batches of new solar panels to help develop the North West clean energy sector

The University of Salford is to launch a playwriting Masters degree which, for the first time in the UK, will be run in formal partnership with some of the country’s leading theatres.

Clean energy businesses in the North West are set to receive a major boost next week as the University of Salford opens a new £400k research facility for solar power.