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

More than 60 volunteers toughed out the coldest March in over 50 years to find out what life was like at a Bolton industrial works during the 18th Century.

The University of Salford has been working with East Lancashire Moneyline (ELM) - a not-for-profit industrial and provident society that provides access to credit, savings and financial advice – to enable people on low incomes to secure affordable loans.

The University is supporting social enterprise, Girls Out Loud, which is coming to Harrop Fold School in Little Hulton to roll-out its Big Sister mentoring programme and asking local women to get involved.

A blind taste test of people attending a Manchester Science Festival event at the University of Salford has found that only 15% could identify cod served up from a fish and chip van.

The University of Salford has signed a partnership agreement with the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service which, it is hoped, will lead to the development of projects such as, ground breaking virtual reality incident training and the provision of health and well being services for firefighters.

What have fish and chips, flight simulators and Oscar Pistorius’ prosthetic legs all got in common? They were all on show at the University of Salford’s campus on 31 October as part of Manchester Science Festival (27 October – 4 November).

A postgraduate student from the University of Salford is contributing to research into the over 100 languages that are now being spoken in Manchester – making it one of the most diverse cities in Europe.

The University of Salford is to work with the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities on a project which will find new ways to trace and communicate with the owners of 930 empty homes across the region.

More famous for trying to wipe out humanity (in science fiction at least), robots can in fact improve our quality of life considerably, according to a University of Salford researcher who’s been taking them on visits to old people’s homes.

The University of Salford has teamed up with former Olympic athlete and Commonwealth Games medallist, Diane Modahl, to coach local children in swimming and water polo skills.

The University of Salford is looking for volunteers to help them excavate the historic centre of Radcliffe as part of Greater Manchester’s biggest ever archaeological project.

Archaeologists from the University of Salford have acted as supervisors to a group of volunteers involved in the excavation of one of Tameside’s most historic sites.

A researcher at the University of Salford is looking for people to share their memories of Worsley New Hall, the Victorian mansion built for the Earls of Ellesmere and demolished after the Second World War at the end of the 1940s.