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Group of students cheering on stage celebrating Emerge Awards Showcase 26

The elite award showcase rewarding the founders of the future

Congratulations to James, John, Sujaya and William who won with their pitches to regional investors and business leaders at The Emerge: Be enterprising Awards Showcase this month.
Photo Sheffield Innovation Circle Group members

ARIA Funding Launches New Innovator Circle in Sheffield

Dr Charles Grellois, Lecturer in Verification at the School of Computer Science, has secured £20,000 in funding from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA).

targetjobs UG of the Year Awards 2026

Faculty of Engineering students shortlisted for the targetjobs Undergraduate of the Year Awards

We're thrilled to share that Computer Science student Jasper Sion and Civil & Structural Engineering student Hollie Wilson were shortlisted for the Engineer of the Year and Female Undergraduate of the Year Awards respectively -a fantastic achievement
Glass beaker containing bio bitumen

Harnessing nature’s power: collaborative effort explores algae for lower-carbon road construction

Researchers in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering are part of a team developing a new method that uses algae as a biomass source material to produce ‘bio-bitumen’.
X-ray themed model of blue heart

‘Digital twin’ heart modelling project will monitor patients virtually

Sheffield academics from the Faculties of Engineering and Health are part of a team of interdisciplinary researchers who will create and test the first ‘digital twin’ heart models for a group of chronically ill NHS patients
DNA Molecule

Sheffield spinout company grows to lead on next generation biomedicines and bioprocesses

SynGenSys, a fast-growing biotechnology company spun out of the ±¬ÁÏTV, has announced the appointment of Dr. Andy Racher as its Commercial Operations Director.
Photograph of Mobile Power customer in Sierra Leone

Longer-life smart MOPO batteries bringing renewable energy to Africa

Longer-life MOPO Batteries that can help communities off-grid or with unstable power networks in Africa access clean and affordable energy, are being developed with the help of engineers from the ±¬ÁÏTV.