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19/06/2025

The future of Design & Engineering is on display to the public at Bournemouth University

The general public will get the chance to view inspirational designs created by final year students in Engineering and Product Design at this year’s Festival of Design & Engineering (FODE).

20/05/2025

The Roman massacre that never happened according to a new study of an iconic archaeological site

A new study by archaeologists at BU has revealed that bodies recovered from a Dorset site previously attributed to the Roman Conquest of Britain, did not die in a single dramatic event.

08/05/2025

BU Graduate wins prestigious Pulitzer Prize for his investigative reporting

BU graduate, Drazen Jorgic has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his contribution to a series of investigative articles on the international trade in the drug, fentanyl.

14/04/2025

BU's Film and Television experts contribute to Parliamentary report

Experts from BU provided evidence for a report by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee calling for more support from.

03/04/2025

Students’ autonomous vehicles drive engineering success

Engineering students from Bournemouth University secured a double success at the Wessex Regional stage of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering’s Design Challenge.

25/03/2025

Digital Technology reassembles shattered medieval statue

Collaboration between museum experts, computer animators and archaeologists reconstructs statue of Medieval saint smashed during the Reformation

24/03/2025

3,700-year-old stone circle discovered in Derbyshire forest

BU archeologists were involved in the discovery of a Bronze Age ceremonial site which sheds new light on prehistoric Britain.

20/03/2025

Students' animated film to be screened in cinemas nationally

An award winning animated short made by Bournemouth University students is being shown in cinemas around the country.

07/03/2025

Oscar-award winning filmmaker Dr Paul Franklin visits BU

BU welcomed double-Oscar-award winning visual effects artist and filmmaker to BU's Talbot Campus on 28 February.

27/02/2025

Earliest evidence for humans in rainforests rewrites prehistory

Study finds evidence that people were living in a rainforest in modern day Cote D‘Ivoire around 150 thousand years ago.

26/02/2025

Bournemouth graduates behind the scenes at Oscar nominated films

More than forty graduates from Bournemouth University have contributed to films nominated for this year’s Academy Awards.

24/02/2025

Study uncovers earliest evidence of pre-historic transport

Scientists have found early evidence of transport technology used by the earliest known settlers in the USA, more than twenty thousand years ago.

11/02/2025

Student's gallery tells the story of local artists and life partners.

Singers and composers David Brynley and Norman Notley were lifelong partners in Corfe but little was known about their lives until now.

31/01/2025

BU TV Students help produce latest ‘Time Team’ episode

BU's television studio was the setting for the latest ‘Time Team’ episode which was recorded at the Poole Gateway Building on Monday 20 January 2025.

15/01/2025

Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women

A new study has found evidence that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain, with husbands moving to live with their wife’s community.

23/12/2024

BU Scientists make breakthrough in self-repairing plastic

A new study has made advances in the development of plastic that can fix itself after it has been cracked.

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