Durham University spin-out Low Carbon Materials (LCM) has been named the BE100 SCALE winner at the Blue Earth Summit 2025, recognising its pioneering work in carbon-negative materials and global sustainability impact.

Two Durham graduates have taken part in the BBC’s The Celebrity Traitors, the latest instalment of the award-winning reality series filmed in the Scottish Highlands.

Collingwood's Mark Hillery Music Studios hosted the only university event as part of the official fringe for the Mercury Prize Awards. The event was a sold-out workshop on songwriting and production held on Sunday 12 October.

Durham graduate and Team GB rower Lauren Irwin recently returned to her college to open a new student rowing facility.

Congratulations to alumni George Bourne and Lauren Irwin on their medals at the World Rowing Championships, held at Shanghai’s Dianshan Lake from the 21–28 September.

Congratulations to Claudia Moloney-MacDonald (Economics, Josephine Butler College, 2018), who celebrated victory with the Red Roses women’s rugby squad on Saturday 27 September.

We’re hosting a new exhibition marking the centenary of China’s prestigious Palace Museum.

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration has been awarded the 2026 Lancelot M. Berkeley–New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy.

A student team from Durham competed in the 55th series of seminal BBC Two quiz show University Challenge.

On 27 September 2025, our new undergraduate and postgraduate students will arrive in Stephenson College on a very significant day – it marks 200 years exactly since the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825.

Alumna Stevie Martin (English Literature, St John’s College, 2006-2010) will be returning to Durham to perform her comedy show ‘Clout’ at the Gala Theatre on 23 October.

We have been named the UK’s University of the Year 2026 by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide.