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A nursery toothbrushing programme has produced a saving to the cost of children's dental treatment of just under £6million.

Glasgow Global Security Network Security and an Independent Scotland lecture series Dr Phillips O'Brien staff profile World-renowned speakers at the 'Global Security and the Future of Scotland Intern

An educational policy centre that will focus on breaking the link between low educational achievement and poverty is to be launched at the University of Glasgow.

Pizza is widely regarded as a fully-paid up member of the junk food gang - maybe even the leader - at least the versions found on supermarket shelves or delivered to your door by scooter.

The UK's largest research centre on ethnicity, The Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), jointly based at the University of Manchester and the University of Glasgow, and funded by the Economic and S

With less than a year to go before the Independence Referendum, Professor Murray Pittock, Vice Principal and Head of the College of Arts at the University of Glasgow, has authored and will present an analysis of the origins of Scottish nationalism in a landmark series of broadcasts for BBC Radio 4.

A new trans-Atlantic collaboration, 'Clean Water for All', will bring leading water engineers from the United States and the UK together to tackle problems of providing clean, sustainable water supplies.

Researchers at the University of Glasgow are beginning to look closely at data from the recently published Programme of International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).

Despite the financial pressure of the 'bedroom tax', social housing tenants are resistant to downsizing in Scotland.

CENSIS, the world leading sensor and imaging systems centre which is based at the University of Glasgow has appointed David Clark as interim Chief Executive Officer.

Over £5 million has been awarded to an eleven strong consortium, led by the University of Glasgow, to develop and evaluate a European wide programme to help male football fans become more active, less sedentary and improve their diets in a sustainable way.

A new Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) to support postgraduate studentships and training in the arts and humanities in Scotland has secured funding of £14.2 million.

Three research projects based at Glasgow have received major grants from the European Research Council (ERC) totaling more than €6 million (£5 million).

‌ This project is a unique partnership between Glasgow City Council, Glasgow Life, the University of Glasgow and the National Library of Scotland which will transform this historic building into

Archives are our cultural and scientific memory. For example, the Wellcome Library's Codebreakers website explores the race to crack our genetic code, and showcases the real lives of the scientists involved.

Researchers from five Scottish universities are using ultrasound and MRI technology to build a three dimensional visualisation of tongues in action during speech.

Academics at the University of Glasgow have received £2 million from the Arts and Humanities Research Council's (AHRC) Translating Cultures programme.

Scientists leading a pioneering study that aims to use stem cells to create a limitless supply of blood are hoping to start trials by 2016.

Vaccinating cattle against the E. coli O157 bacterium could cut the number of human cases of the disease by 85%, according to scientists.

Elegant and beautiful paintings by one of Britain's finest portraitists are at the heart of a new exhibition opening at the Hunterian Art Gallery today.

Sir Alex Ferguson, a veteran of countless battles on the football pitch turned his attention to the fight against cancer on a visit to the University of Glasgow today.

Preventive angioplasty in heart attack patients cuts the risk of death and other serious complications, according to research by cardiologists. The 'PRAMI study' involved 465 patients recruited between 2008 and 2013 and was conducted at specialist heart centres across the UK, including the London Chest, Norfolk and Norwich, Newcastle and Glasgow's Golden Jubilee.

UK commercial baby food don't meet infants' dietary weaning needs, because they are predominantly sweet foods that provide little extra nutritional goodness over breast milk, indicates research published online in Archives of Disease in Childhood.

Two projects at the University of Glasgow have been shortlisted for prestigious Times Higher Education Awards 2013.

A new translation of Tintin will make the adventures of the plucky Belgian detective and faithful dog, Snowy, available in Scots for the very first time.

As Edinburgh Zoo and Scotland awaits the birth of a cub - or two - to Tian Tian hopefully any new arrivals will happily suckle on their mother in order to receive the essential nutrients and antibodies they need to help them grow.

Scientists at the University of Glasgow's Institute for Gravitational Research (IGR) have successfully reached another important milestone and look firmly on course for a launch in 2015.

Europe's young people are facing a bleak future with a fragmented and precarious labour market that is only just beginning to be appreciated in the West, according to a paper to be presented this Thursday to the European Sociological Association's conference in Turin.

The skeletal remains of the biggest fish ever to have swum the seas have revealed just how massive the prehistoric creature could grow. The Leedsichthys was a huge bony, plankton-eating fish that lived in the Middle Jurassic period around 165 million years ago. A number of skeletal remains of the creature have been uncovered over the years but haven't preserved well, meaning no-one was really sure just how large the fish could grow.

Researchers at the University of Glasgow are using a new technique known as interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) to predict natural disasters around the world and manage their impact.

Voting should be compulsory for your first election, according to a new report co-authored by a University of Glasgow academic and to be published by the think tank IPPR next month.

A new online self-management programme to help those suffering from bipolar disorder has just been made freely available to the public.

More than a third of men and almost one in ten women in Scotland are likely to have at least one criminal conviction, according to a new report published by academics at the University of Glasgow. Sunday Herald: One third of Scots men are offenders The figure emerged in the context of a review of the operation of and possible alternatives to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, Paul McGuinness, Sarah Armstrong and Fergus McNeill of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at Glasgow University.

A new research project examining how search engines contribute to voter knowledge in elections has been launched by the Adam Smith Research Foundation. Social scientists have long noted that informed citizens are critical to sustaining democracy, while authoritarian regimes are marked by their control of information flow.