The Faculty are delighted to announce this year's Faculty Thesis and PostDoc Prizes have been launched. For more details, please visit the prizes webpage.

A study led by University of Warwick Professor Jianfeng Feng has found that regularly sleeping too little is associated with depression and brain loss in emotion areas, while sleeping too long is associated with cognitive decline and degenerative diseases.

Sleeping the right amount is crucial for long term health. 7 hours has recently been proposed as the average amount of sleep to aim for as an adult, yet some people regularly get too little, while others get more than they need.

£2M UKRI NetworkPlus bid “Mathematical Innovators in the Digital Space” (MInDS) grant awarded.

In an invited review, Warwick PG and UG students Bayo and Webb, together with their EUTOPIA colleagues Çivitcioğlu and Honecker as well as Warwick academic Römer, summarize recent progress in applications of deep learning methods to phase and structure determination for model systems in physics. This is part of a special topic issue on "machine learning physics" by the Japanese Physical Society.

Warwick Chemistry spinout company, Medherant, charts a course towards testosterone TEPI patch for hypoactive sexual desire disorder in postmenopausal women.

A research collaboration between The University of Warwick, the Smithsonian Institution and Embrapa (Brazilian agricultural research), has shown that thousands of years of farming myths and cultural traditions have been key to the survival of the cassava crop (the source of tapioca).

Press release (7 March 2025)

According to the QS International Trade Rankings 2025Link opens in a new window, WMG, at the University of Warwick’s MSc in International Trade, Strategy and OperationsLink opens in a new window (ITSO) programme has been placed 4th in the world, and 2nd in the UK

Recognised for its cutting-edge curriculum and strong industry ties, the programme excels across six key criteria:

• Trade programme

• Graduate outcomes

• Industry engagement

• Innovative teaching

• Reputation

• Research

Professor Filip Rindler, a mathematician from The University of Warwick, has been announced as an honouree for the UK Physical Sciences & Engineering Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists.

A groundbreaking new project, GroW, aims to empower women with chronic health conditions by providing a personalised and adaptive digital health tool to support long-term health management. The project, spearheaded by DDM Health, in collaboration with Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick and Walsall Housing Group (whg) has been selected for funding through the SBRI Healthcare Women's Health competition.

Professor Dieter Wolke and the Warwick Lifecourse and Neonatal Group congratulate Dr Yanlin Zhou from the R2D2-MH project on the award of an MSCA fellowship working with Dr Beate St Pourcain at the Max Plank Institute of Psycholinguistics on a 2 year project investigating the Genomic and Environmental factors of Resilience to Early-life stress.