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Pope Francis has appointed Father John Keenan, Catholic Chaplain to the University of Glasgow, as Bishop of Paisley.

Drinking fruit juice is potentially just as bad for you as drinking sugar-sweetened drinks because of its high sugar content, two medical researchers from the University of Glasgow have warned.

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Dr Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah: Research Profile School of Social and Political Sciences College of Social Sciences The University of Glasgow has received

Researchers from the University of Glasgow have been awarded grants to fund three major research projects to help analyse and evaluate 'big data'.

A University of Glasgow professor has been named as one of the most influential biomedical researchers in the world. Professor John McMurray, of the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, is included in a list of 400 highly-influential scientists based on citations by other academics. The list, published in the European Journal of Clinical Investigations, was compiled by researchers in the US who are using it in a survey to ascertain what features of scientific papers define 'major impact'.

Mention fungal infections to most people and conditions like Athlete's Foot might spring to mind - irksome but harmless.

Knife Crime Interventions: 'what works?' PDF Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research Education based interventions are more effective than any other initiative in tackling the scourge of knife crime.

Accepted wisdom has always been that people who retire early live longer. But is that really the case? One strand of research, by longevity analysts Club Vita, suggests the opposite.

The Atlas of Palliative Care at the End of Life Professor David Clark The Executive Board of the World Health Organisation is to receive the first ever report on the global need for palliative care.

2014 is such an exciting year for Glasgow with the Commonwealth Games and Homecoming at the top of the city's event calendar.

The Govan Stones Archaeology at University of Glasgow Prof Stephen Driscoll A half-tonne early-medieval gravestone has left Scotland for the first time in its 1,100 year history, moving to London for the opening of a new exhibition at the British Museum.

Scottish space research has been given a major boost with the announcement of £4m in support for projects on solar flares and the exploration of Mars.

Robert Burns at the University Centre for Robert Burns Studies Celtic Connections Festival Experts on Robert Burns gathered in Glasgow for the University of Glasgow's Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference 2014 featuring Burns research centred on the theme of 'Homecoming'.

The Lancet : A gender-sensitised weight loss and healthy living programme for overweight and obese men delivered by Scottish Premier League football clubs (FFIT): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial BMC Public Health: Do weight management programmes delivered at professional football clubs attract and engage high risk men?

Visitors to the 21st Celtic Connections festival will have the chance to hold the world in their hands at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall from today (Thursday 16 January).

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Support for high-growth firms by the UK and Scottish Governments is substantially misconceived and could be holding back economic growth, according to new research to be published this week.

A new £10 million innovation hub, which will bring together Scotland's universities with industry partners was launched in Glasgow by Fergus Ewing, MSP, Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism.

An exhibition of the works of James McNeill Whistler is about to embark on a tour of the US and Japan after a successful debut in the UK closes this Sunday (12 January).

Entrepreneurs looking for risk capital to fund growth will need to get to grips with the rise of the angel group, according to the latest research by leading academics into business angel activity.

Fresh analysis of forensic and other historical data by University of Glasgow scientists has cast new light on the fate of Captain Sir John Franklin's Royal Navy expedition to find the Northwest Passage nearly 170 years ago. The disappearance of the "Franklin expedition", which set off in 1845, made international headlines and led to the biggest search and rescue mission in history.

The University of Glasgow has been awarded £1.7m to support wind-tunnel research, it was announced today (Thursday 9 January).

Analysis of traffic on the social media site Twitter which includes #indyref shows the Yes campaign has more followers and a wider network of active tweeters spreading their campaign message than Better Together.

Computer scientists at the University of Glasgow have started work on three new projects which aim to unlock the potential of cutting-edge computer processors and could contribute to applications including more accurate weather predictions and improved robot explorers.

Iain Docherty, Professor of Public Policy and Governance (Management): research profile The Transport Debate (Policy Press) Decades of neglect in the UK's rail network cannot be instantly rectified by short term Government investments and price promises, transport experts have said.

A Glasgow scientist has been awarded a grant worth almost £200,000 by the charity Breast Cancer Campaign to discover if a protein found in breast cells plays a key part in the development of one of the most aggressive types of breast cancer. Dr Torsten Stein, based at the Institute of Cancer Sciences at the University of Glasgow, recently discovered that the protein Annexin A8, which he had previously found is produced in the often aggressive 'basal-like' form of breast cancer, is also found in some normal breast cells that are thought to be the cells of origin for these cancers.

The world's first International Max-Planck Partnership was launched by five Scottish universities on 19 December.

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Scotland's economy will benefit from independence over the uncertainty that would face the country within the UK, Finance Secretary John Swinney will say later today.

During the last ice age Scotland, like much of northern Europe, was covered with ice. The weight of this huge compacted ice sheet pushed the Earth's crust down, causing the land levels to sink. Over the 14,000 years since the ice sheet melted, Scotland has been rising an average rate of 1-2mm per year.

Prof Gerry Carruthers Editing Burns for 21st Century Centre for Robert Burns Studies In the week of the launch of the Independence White Paper, a new study will consider what impact the Union of the Kingdoms of Scotland and England had on Scottish literature over the course of the last 300 years. The project will look at literature from Scotland and England dating from before 1707 right through to the present day in an attempt to define how the idea of a United Kingdom has influenced literary culture.

Scottish scientists will be at the heart of a completely new type of space mission that will detect the ripples in space time caused by some of the most violent events in the Universe. The Science Programme Committee of the European Space Agency (ESA) announced today that one of their next two Large (L-class) missions will be to probe the 'Gravitational Universe' by establishing a gravitational wave observatory in space.

Deprived areas in Scotland are seeing larger cuts to budgets - of around £90 per head - compared to affluent ones, according to a new report.

The University of Glasgow has agreed an ambitious new research collaboration with AstraZeneca, a global biopharmaceutical business, in the area of immunology and inflammation medicine. The goal of the three-year collaboration is to identify new pathways by which inflammation can promote diseases and ultimately create better medicines for patients.

If your trousers or skirts seem to be getting tighter you are not alone: almost 40% of men and women are now becoming obese in old age.

The University of Glasgow's Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health has been awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education.

Scientists are working on new diagnostic techniques that use ultrasound to detect and manage a range of infectious diseases in humans and animals.

The University of Glasgow, in partnership with the University of Warwick has won a grant to research the wide-ranging impacts of the Home Office 'Go Home' immigration campaign.

The University of Glasgow has been granted over £1.3 million in India-UK Collaboration funding for research into Farmed Animal Health and Disease.