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May 2005

Lancaster safest city to study

  • Nov 2009: Lancaster City Lancaster has been ranked first out of 21 university cities for safety according to a survey in a national newspaper. The Independent’s Complete University Guid ... see this storymore

Lancaster safest city to study

  • Oct 2009: Lancaster has been ranked first out of 21 university cities for safety according to a survey in a national newspaper. The Independent’s Complete University Guide lists the crime statistics which are ... see this storymore

Return Visit For Campus Architects

  • Nov 2009: L-R Mark Swindlehurst, Tony Skipper, Peter Hunter and Professor Gabriel Epstein Professor Gabriel Epstein and Peter Hunter, two of Lancaster University’s original architects, visited the ... see this storymore

‘More crop per drop’ - research awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize

  • Nov 2009: The development of water saving techniques for agriculture which have helped farmers in some of the driest regions of the world , has won  Lancaster University a Queen’s Anniversary ... see this storymore

Professor Cary Cooper announced as the new President of Relate

  • Nov 2009: Professor Cary Cooper Relate, the UK’s largest provider of relationship counselling, has appointed Professor Cary Cooper CBE, Professor of Organisational Psychology & Health and Pro V ... see this storymore

Voice Your View at Lancaster Library

  • Nov 2009: Imagine commenting on the latest changes at Lancaster library – only to have your words flash up on a large TV screen for other users to see. That’s the futuristic scenario at the library from Mond ... see this storymore

Hong Kong calling for Lancashire Eco Companies

  • Nov 2009:                A business delegation led by Lancaster University’s Environment Centre’s business team. North West&nbs ... see this storymore

Lancaster First for Graduate Jobs in the North

  • Nov 2009: Lancaster University’s Centre for Enterprise, Employability and Careers (CEEC). Lancaster University is ranked 1st in the North for graduate jobs and 13th nationally in the Sunday Times U ... see this storymore

Enterprising band members give business advice

  • Nov 2009: A band formed by Lancaster University graduates is to play at the launch of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009 at the Storey Creative Industries Centre in Lancaster. The enterprising members of the ... see this storymore

Sculpture donation marks 10 year partnership between Lancaster University and NWCRF

  • Nov 2009: L-R Professor Tony Gatrell and Charles Bray The 10 year relationship between the North West Cancer Research Fund (NWCRF) and Lancaster University has been  marked by the donation of ... see this storymore

Lancaster University opens new campus in India

  • Nov 2009: GD Education City in India Lancaster University has  formally launched a new campus in India which admitted its first cohort of 300 students in August this year. The GD Goenka Wo ... see this storymore

Lancaster plant science wins THE research of the year award

  • Nov 2009: Distinguished Professor Bill Davies with Dr Jiang Fan of Beijing Normal University The contribution of Lancaster University to one of the biggest challenges facing humankind  - feedi ... see this storymore

Weekend Drug Use Increases across the UK Night-time Economy

  • Nov 2009: New research shows that weekend use of drugs is more popular than ten years ago Weekend use of drugs such as ecstasy and cocaine is more popular than ten years ago whilst young adults are ... see this storymore

Women in Self-Employment

  • Nov 2009: Speaker Jane Kenyon Dozens of women who want to be their own boss have attended a business workshop at Lancaster University this week. Lancaster University Student Union Enterprise Uni ... see this storymore

75 percent of youths say they couldn’t live without the internet

  • Nov 2009: Young people have evolved to communicate in more advanced ways than older generations, living 'hybrid lives' where the internet plays a critical role, says a new report launched at the House of Comm ... see this storymore

Tropical crop research prompts air pollutant warning

  • Nov 2009: An “environmentally friendly” tropical crop could lead to hazardous increases in levels of the air pollutant ozone according to new research, led by Lancaster University (UK) and published in the US ... see this storymore

Vice-Chancellor celebrates success of Lancaster/Sunway graduates in Malaysia

  • Nov 2009: The Chancellor of Sunway University College, Malaysia Y.Bhg. Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Dr. Jeffrey Cheah AO, conferred degrees on  86 students who make up the first full cohort on the dual Lancaster/S ... see this storymore

£2 billion needed for science to help feed the world

  • Nov 2009: Professor Bill Davies The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, is calling for a £2 billion “Grand Challenge” research programme on global food security. A report publi ... see this storymore

Technology captures war memoriesPrinter: link to friendly page


Memories of wartime Cumbria are set to be preserved with the help of cutting-edge technology from Lancaster University.

This month The Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal will hold an exhibition called Evidence marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. Local people are invited to bring along their own recollections of the war as well as 1940s memorabilia from gas masks to ration books.

These personal accounts and objects will be preserved for posterity with the help of new technology being developed by computer scientists at InfoLab21.

Tales of rationing and every day life on the home front will be recorded in a big brother style video diary meanwhile an interactive installation will allow visitors to create digital live art by arranging war time memorabilia. The installation is called the Kirlian Table and was developed by .:thePooch:. – a new media collective based in the North West.

First hand accounts of local wartime experiences along with images of the memorabilia and the art created by visitors will be preserved then projected onto large screens forming part of the exhibition.

Professor Nigel Davies of Lancaster University’s Computing Department who helped design some of the technology, said: “These technological elements bring an extra dimension to the exhibition. It is interactive and genuinely local rather than a touring national collection. The project will preserve Cumbrian memories and it gives people an opportunity to interact with new technology in an interesting environment. It also gives us some interesting information about how people interact with systems.”

The exhibition will run from 30th April to 15th May in the Malt Room at the Brewery Arts Centre and admission is free.
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