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The annual Durham University Volunteering Awards recognise individuals, teams, colleges and projects across several categories. [325] Durham University Charity Kommittee (or DUCK) is the university's student rag week [326] and the fundraising arm of the Durham Students Union. Originally a week-long event, DUCK now has events raising money for ...
In July 2012, Durham University Council endorsed a "residential accommodation strategy" for 2012–2020, setting predicted growth in student numbers at Queen's Campus to 2,500 by 2015/16 and 3,400 by 2019/20, and a target of 50–70% of students housed in University accommodation. With 900 beds in Stockton for 2012/13, meeting the accommodation ...
There are a variety of research institutes, centres, and facilities: Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC), the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, the Centre for Advanced Instrumentation (CfAI), the Centre for Materials Physics, the Centre for Particle Theory, the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy (CEA), Durham X-Ray Centre (XRDuR), Joint Quantum Centre (JQC), and the GJ ...
The Durham University Solar Car was established in 2002. In 2023, the car completed the 3,000-kilometre (1,900-mile) Bridgestone World Solar Challenge race in Australia, finishing 11th. [14] [15] The department's solar car is one of two in Britain (the other being Cambridge University Eco Racing) to be directly sponsored by Bridgestone. [16]
University College, the oldest of the 17 Durham Colleges. Durham operates a collegiate structure similar to that of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, in that all colleges at Durham, being constituent colleges of a "recognised body", are "listed bodies" [1] in the Education (Listed Bodies) (England) Order 2013 made under the Education Reform Act 1988.
Durham Students' Union, operating as Durham SU, is the students' union of Durham University in Durham, England.It is an organisation, originally set up as the Durham Colleges Students’ Representative Council in 1899 and renamed in 1969, with the intention of representing and providing welfare and services for the students of the University of Durham.
University College was formed upon the creation of University of Durham in 1832. It was the first college of the university, and is therefore known as the "foundation college", but the university was founded explicitly on the Oxbridge model; the intention was already for the university to develop along collegiate lines in the manner of Oxford and Cambridge, as it has.
Full seal of the university, featuring the coat of arms in the centre. The history of Durham University spans over 190 years since it was founded by Act of Parliament. King William IV granted royal assent to the Act on 4 July 1832, and granted the university a royal charter on 1 June 1837, incorporating it and confirming its constitution. [1]