• President Higgins studied for three years at Manchester University and has strong links with England.

    BBC: Irish President Michael D Higgins visiting London

  • Charlie Wildman, a historian at Manchester University, says the hardships of the times spurred an outburst of creativity.

    ECONOMIST: Depression architecture

  • Peter Gooderham, a law lecturer at Manchester University, said staff needed more assurances.

    BBC: NHS 'needs to do more to encourage whistle-blowing'

  • Edmund Amann, senior lecturer in social sciences at Manchester University, told CNN that Brazil's economy is experiencing a consumer-borrowing model of growth.

    CNN: Brazil's middle-class boom -- but are they tempting a bust?

  • And Manchester University and others will fight back in the graphene patents contest.

    BBC: Can UK science navigate around the Valley of Death?

  • But the work has begun: the Human Serum Metabolome Project at Manchester University is collecting samples from over 5, 000 people.

    ECONOMIST: Metabolomics

  • London based universities Imperial, UCL and LSE improved their positions as did Edinburgh University while Manchester University made it to 47th place.

    BBC: East Asia universities 'gain ground in world rankings'

  • Dr David Drucker at Manchester University has identified a "cot death gene".

    BBC: Cot death mothers: The witch hunt

  • Formed at Manchester University their brand of progressive rock was somewhat darker than many of their contemporaries, prompting comparison with King Crimson.

    BBC: Magazine

  • Prof Nicolson co-authored the research with Dr Angela Fawcett, and the intervention was planned and monitored by Dr Rea reason of Manchester University.

    BBC: News | Education | Catching up with reading

  • But cheap, plentiful fuel (both indigenous and imported) may lead to an increase in overall energy use, worries Kevin Anderson of Manchester University.

    ECONOMIST: Shale gas will not solve Britain��s energy problems

  • "I chose to read geology at Manchester University and make my career in Antarctica, rather than go into the family business, " he said.

    BBC: Antarctic career lands Tudor Morgan Queen's Polar Medal

  • Astronomers are increasingly listening into stars and other space sounds, according to Dr Tim O'Brien, of Manchester University's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.

    BBC: Team records 'music' from stars

  • Whatever people think about Disney, it's probably what they're also thinking about American society and its values, said Manchester University sociologist Robert Pettit.

    CNN: To Disney or not to Disney?

  • Mr Butcher had been working at a factory in Wisbech and was due to start a course in human rights at Manchester University that autumn.

    BBC: Wisbech death inspires anti-dangerous driving campaign

  • According to analysts at Manchester University, "the evidence supports a clear association between deprivation and the likelihood of being involved in the criminally riotous behaviour".

    BBC: England riots: The feast of fools?

  • The plaque at Manchester University was erected by the university itself.

    BBC: 7 questions on blue plaques

  • According to researchers at Manchester University, music fans are stimulating part of the inner ear known as the sacculus, which responds to the beat in music.

    FORBES: This brain goes to 11

  • He had vision, willpower and the unstinting support of Manchester University (where academics and administrators acted with a freedom that their successors nowadays can only dream of).

    ECONOMIST: Bernard Lovell | The

  • "Attitudes to suicidal behaviour have changed over time and at different times in different places, " says Prof Nav Kapur, head of research at Manchester University's Centre for Suicide Prevention.

    BBC: When suicide was illegal

  • Comedian Dave Gorman was on track for a career as a mathematician: an A grade at "A level", an "S" level and a place on a maths degree course at Manchester University.

    BBC: Celebrity Christmas Special

  • Jodrell Bank, which remains part of Manchester University, spends much of its time looking for quasars and pulsars, large stars that have collapsed in on themselves and become hugely dense rotating neutron stars.

    BBC: Aye to the telescope

  • "There are similar waters in South Africa with almost identical chemistry that are tens of millions of years old, and they contain microbes that have adapted to that environment, " explained Prof Chris Ballentine from Manchester University.

    BBC: Deep Canadian mine yields ancient water

  • Two groups of researchers, one led by Andre Geim at Manchester University and the other by Ron Fearing at the University of California, Berkeley, have independently developed ways to copy the gecko's ability to cling to walls.

    ECONOMIST: REPORTS

  • Preliminary work a few years ago, by Robin Baker and Mark Bellis of Manchester University in England, suggests that as many as 10% of children may not have been fathered by the man who believes he is the father.

    ECONOMIST: A survey of the human genome

  • Professor Charles Hoare, Fellow of the Royal Society, has been awarded a knighthood for services to education and computer science, while Professor Martin Harris, CBE, Vice-chancellor of Manchester University, has received a knighthood for his services to higher education.

    BBC: Head wins honour for saving school

  • Ever since his student years at Manchester University in the 1950s (a working-class boy, he paid his way through school with a variety of jobs, including a stint as a nightclub bouncer), Foster loved utilitarian buildings: barns, factories, windmills.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

  • Four coachloads of students from the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University were on board the Spirit of France ferry on 1 April.

    BBC: Spirit of France

  • Get this: the initial research by University of Manchester and Indiana University academics said the emotions tracked on Twitter would predict market movements up to six days in advance with 87.6% accuracy.

    FORBES: Hedge Fund Uses Your Tweets To Predict Market Movement

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