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Celebrating Graduation in Manchester

On 22 November Professors Clare Warren, Mark Brandon and Richard Holliman, and Dr Barbara Kunz travelled to Manchester for an OU Graduation...

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Moon Night

Wednesday 30 November, 5:00pm - 9:00pm Re-emerging as a live, face-to-face event, Moon Night will give you an insight into the university's...

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New book ‘Deciphering Earth’s History: the Practice of Stratigraphy’

We are delighted to announce the publication of a new book Deciphering Earth's History: the Practice of Stratigraphy. The book is a practical...

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New BBC Ideas videos

A brand-new collection of BBC ideas videos, featuring six of which are co-produced by The Open University, will be launched on Thursday 3...

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Asteroids: Sometimes good, sometimes bad – always amazing

Asteroids often get a bad press. Not surprising really as scientists think that a 10 km wide space rock that hit Earth 66 million years ago was...

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Civilisations beyond our galaxy

How many civilisations might there be in our Galaxy, and how could we find out? To celebrate the 90th birthday (28th May 2020) of Frank Drake,...

5 Big Questions About the Universe

5 Big Questions About the Universe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DAvWnWKDeI Last year, the BBC broadcast “The Universe” TV series, which several SPS Astronomy staff were...

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22nd February: Andy Lane’s Farewell lecture

Professor Andy Lane retires from The Open University at the end of February 2022 after nearly 40 years of service. To mark his retirement, Andy...

Lighting it Up: The Physics of Imaging Space

Lighting it Up: The Physics of Imaging Space

https://youtu.be/Kr036HaTkrE The School of Physical Sciences (SPS) Outreach and Public Engagement (OPE) team have spent the last year working...

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Moon Night is back 7-9th December 2020

Monday 7 December marks the 48th anniversary of the Apollo 17 launch. The Open University STEM Faculty is hosting a series of events as part of...

12th Oct: sixth of 50th birthday celebrations of systems teaching at the OU

12th Oct: sixth of 50th birthday celebrations of systems teaching at the OU

Gene Bellinger will present a webinar on Systems thinking: trial and learning  scheduled for 12th October at 12 noon (UK time).  Gene’s...

7th December: eighth of 50th birthday celebrations of systems teaching at the OU

7th December: eighth of 50th birthday celebrations of systems teaching at the OU

Professor Ray Ison will present the last in our series of webinar events celebrating 50 years of systems thinking teaching at OU, scheduled...