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The Philip Treleaven Award, created by Conception X and named after Professor Philip Treleaven, recognises exceptional science founders who have built influential companies from their research.

Ofcom’s new guidance on protecting women and girls online cites UCL’s Gender + Tech Lab 28 times, recognising the Lab’s significant influence on UK efforts to reduce technology-facilitated abuse.

UCL Computer Science marked Islamophobia Awareness Month with a Lunch & Learn exploring how Islamophobia operates and its impact on sectors including higher education.

Dr Zhehua Mao represented the Hawkes Institute at the NVIDIA MedTech Meetup at OR-X Balgrist in Zurich, presenting a live demo of a real-time AI assistant for endoscopic transsphenoidal pituitary surgery

UCL has invested over £400,000 to develop robotics facilities across Bloomsbury and Here East, enabling research into low-carbon construction materials and innovative building practices.

Hawkes Senior Research Fellow Dr Yukun Zhou – a Wellcome Early-Career Award recipient – is using AI and eye imagery to develop early screening for an array of diseases

Prof Daniel Alexander and Prof Andre Altmann have been involved in a new project using artificial intelligence (AI) to transform routine eye checks into tools for detecting early signs of conditions such as heart disease and dementia

Prof Vanessa Diaz and Prof Stavroula Balabani secure two grants advancing thrombosis and TBAD research

Students in UCL’s Industry Exchange Network (IXN) have developed AI-powered, gesture-based games with UCL spinout MotionInput Games to make gaming more accessible for autistic learners.

UCL marked Black History Month with From Past to Progress, celebrating Black achievement through talks on the Harlem Renaissance, decolonising education, and representation in science.

Outstanding staff, students and PGTAs were awarded prizes at the annual CEE-FES Education Awards.

A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can help visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by Hawkes Institute researchers, in a major step forward for neuroscience and neuroimaging.

Ilham Wicaksono (MSc Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development) has won a prize in OpenAI’s global hackathon on red-teaming its newly released open-source model, GPT-OSS-20.