Would you do this a day before your final exams?!!

Richard Hepworth (a final year chemistry student) is competing in the World University Cycling Championships on Monday evening (19 May). This is just hours after sitting one of his crucial final year exams.

After competing in the men’s road race on Sunday 25 May, he will rush back to Manchester to sit another exam the next day (Monday 26 May). Wow! However it is thought that he is well taken care off at the university. The staff at the School of Chemistry has been very supportive of his cycling, arranging secure places for him to store his high-tech training bike (worth several thousand pounds). They have also made shower facilities available for him, so he can jump off his bike after training, pull on a white coat and head straight for the labs. Impressive!

Do you think you can manage this sort of tight schedule?

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The university is the first in Britain to have an American Studies programme, and it is celebrating its sixtieth anniversary this week with a concert by the acclaimed Harlem born Jazz singer Sandi Russell. The programme was created at The University of Manchester in the academic year of 1947 to 48 – along with the first ever British professorial chair in American Studies.

The concert will launch an International Conference on the American South at the University from May 22 to 24. It is the first of a series of international meetings based around the theme of Understanding the South, Understanding America organized jointly by the Universities of Manchester and Florida

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Published as part of the university’s news on April 18, 2008, researchers have used the world’s thinnest material to create the world’s smallest transistor, one atom thick and ten atoms wide. Read more…

Wow! That is really something.